hallarempt

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by hallarempt 5y ago
Well, in the first place the Cinepaint maintainer, Robin Rowe, wasn't a developer. He kind of inherited the tarball with the 16 bit patches, then tried to drum up financial support, without being able to actually maintain the codebase.
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by hallarempt 5y ago
My dead ZX Spectrum 48k does hang on the wall, behind my desk. The rainbow colors are amazingly light-fast.
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by hallarempt 5y ago
Which is completely not relevant to what I tried to make clear. Yeah, Meson started out as "we do build systems better" and these days they compare themselves to CMake because Meson is not winning, but that's got nothing to d
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by hallarempt 5y ago
The only reason Meson exists is that the gnome developers really, really, really couldn't stomach using CMake because KDE ported to it in 2005, 2006. That made it so toxic to them that they simply had to come up with alternatives, all
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by hallarempt 5y ago
The second world war ended 75 years ago. There aren't that many people still alive who actually _fought directly_ in that war. Not even in notoriously long-lived Japan.
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by hallarempt 5y ago
Well, that's not going to happen :-). As long as Tyson Tan is prepared to create Kiki splash screens, we'll keep using them! You can start Krita with --no-splash if it really bothers you, though.
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by hallarempt 5y ago
The KDE Frameworks 5 libraries we use are functional, useful and have nothing to do with the KDE Plasma desktop. In any case, the word "bloat" is a sure sign the person who uses the word has no clue what they are talking about.
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by hallarempt 5y ago
We won't... We really like what we're doing, we like the artists we make Krita for and we've got so much more to do before we can beat Clip Studio (like fix our text shape!) that it'll keep us busy forever.
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by hallarempt 5y ago
That made me feel kinda nostalgic. It's been years since someone made that claim... Especially the bit about "other options". I only consider Photoshop, Corel Painter and Clip Studio as "competition" for us.
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by hallarempt 5y ago
It's a Qt QWidgets application with the canvas rendered using OpenGL.
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by hallarempt 5y ago
It's the same thing, though we had to fork it. The original architecture is two processes talking to each other over shared memory. But on macOS, the default limits for shared memory are really small, and we had no desire to implement
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by hallarempt 5y ago
We're making properly signed and notarized, dual-arch binaries for macOS. It's just Sierra and High Sierra, being older versions of macOS don't recognize Apple's new signing and notarizing... Apple changed their binary &
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by hallarempt 5y ago
Where?
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by hallarempt 5y ago
Yes, right? We've got pretty much all the tech for that, it only needs to be joined up and made accessible. Of course, it would be simple at first, but improveed on later. And of course, that library... That would be a source of _real_
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by hallarempt 5y ago
That's just the ending, geez...
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by hallarempt 5y ago
My wife and I used to buy a DVD in the second-hand books/new dvd's shop round the corner every Friday for a Friday-night movie viewing. He knew our tastes -- it must be sweet, funny with a happy ending and no adultery or rape -- b
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by hallarempt 5y ago
Gimp was made by 713 people. Krita (the project I maintain) by 574 people. But Gimp's count includes translators, Krita's doesn't. Source: https://www.openhub.net/p/_compare?project_0=Krita&project_1.
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by hallarempt 5y ago
No, it doesn't. End of discussion.
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by hallarempt 5y ago
a) I don't have a diesel generator b) I am not in California c) I have never experienced a blackout d) Yes, the oil companies did all of that.
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by hallarempt 5y ago
"Widows in the Middle Ages weren’t always the penniless, powerless figures we’ve made them out to be" How dumb... "We" have never made them out to be _that_...
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by hallarempt 5y ago
Like, knowingly turning the planet into an uninhabitable place, killing millions in the process, destroying huge tracts of property with impunity, knowing they were doing this _and hiding it_. If that isn't a crime, what is?
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by hallarempt 5y ago
Yeah, well, what Autodesk gobbles up, Autdesk turns into excrement...
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by hallarempt 5y ago
No, it just made us into damaged people more likely to damage other people.
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by hallarempt 5y ago
I was a four-year old forty-five years ago. I was walking to my pre-school and back, a couple of blocks and a pretty big and busy street across daily. The cars weren't a problem. Getting mobbed by primary school kids on my way back and
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by hallarempt 5y ago
I wooed my wife with my handwritten letters... Thirty years ago. Of course, these days, I'm also her wife, and my handwriting isn't so good anymore. But my Remarkable 2, after the latest software updates is remarkably good. Now I
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by hallarempt 5y ago
The Motif X11 version of WordPerfect for Linux was _so_ buggy and crashy. I wouldn't run it even for nostalgia's sake.
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by hallarempt 5y ago
a) s/yourself/you to/ b) a laughably small number of whales -- even though it's more than it was -- doesn't invalidate the premise of the article. The only reason there are a few more whales than there were is the b
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by hallarempt 5y ago
Pity it's not true.
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by hallarempt 5y ago
Check https://mainzerbeobachter.com/2021/05/25/loog-herodotos-over... (by the same person who manages livius.net) on how Herodotus sometimes isn't all that precise distinguishing between things he knew f
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by hallarempt 5y ago
"The author does not seem to understand that these are not mutually exclusive." Given that he teaches at Yale, he probably understands more than any of us in this comment thread.

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