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by jcarrano 3y ago
I will sit down with XFCE and X11 until the sharp edges have been filed and I will switch when wayland is mature. I'm really thankful for the people sacrificing their time to test all this stuff and experiencing the bugs. I, as much as
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by jcarrano 3y ago
Good points, but this is not something you can solve with a recipe. Investigate, talk to people and make sure you are solving actual problems and prioritizing the right tasks. This is an extremely crucial step that you must do first: famili
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by jcarrano 3y ago
My feeling (I've worked on EVSE's but not particularly Plug and Charge) is that standards end up being overly complex with too much potential for different implementations to disagree. Even something as simple as charging control
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by jcarrano 3y ago
Means that the X server directly communicates with the display driver to do the low-level rendering. Compare that with Xwayland, in which the server is an application talking to wayland or Xephyr which renders to a frame buffer in another X
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by jcarrano 3y ago
Excellent! 200 years ago escaping poverty was not possible, 100 years ago it took a couple generations and now a mere 20 years.
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by jcarrano 3y ago
Holding a fixed position on a double integrator system (like a hovering drone) in discrete time is a nice problem too.
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by jcarrano 3y ago
Just get any computer that you like and put any Linux distribution that you like on top, and you will get effectively infinite support with a proper OS and not a toy.
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by jcarrano 3y ago
Yes, and the next step is that the vendor will sue researchers for posting CVEs which they consider "bogus", accusing them of hurting their business. It's not so much as open source becomes a liability, but rather "well
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by jcarrano 3y ago
What's the problem with using JSON and providing a schema? It is not so "pretty" to write with braces, quotes and such, but not too hard either. I have been doing that at work for some time now. VSCode will even recognize the
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by jcarrano 3y ago
As I mentioned a couple days ago [1], this problem will get much worse in the EU with the upcoming CRA. Either the only software vendors left will be big ones with the capacity and leverage to counter these CVEs, or companies will turn to o
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by jcarrano 3y ago
Maybe we are at "peak green", i.e. the moment in time with the greatest amount of green policies. Then, from this point onward we should see a decline in green commitments. Setting aside whether "peak green" is or not a
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by jcarrano 3y ago
I recently read an post by the main curl developer about his troubles with a bogus CVE which was categorized as critical. The CRA's requires disclosing all vulnerabilities within 24h to a government agency. If your product uses any num
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by jcarrano 3y ago
While I laud your effort, having had to do such a chore myself[1] you are missing the point of bureaucracy. The whole point is to make work for bureaucrats, and the easier and more pointless it is, the better. There are also other issues re
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by jcarrano 3y ago
The part about typing it again by hand and printing it is very real!
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by jcarrano 3y ago
Totally nonsensical. Even from a basic energetic calculation it does not make sense. Assume: - Photosynthetic efficiency (sunlight to starch) 0.5% for typical crop plants [1] - Average daily sunlight of 5kWh/m2 [2] or 18MJ/m2. -
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by jcarrano 3y ago
Thanks for the info. I'm not into game dev and did not know that. That was a pretty nasty move and they should't be trusted anymore. The last part I do not agree: a license cannot be changed retroactively if there is no provision
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by jcarrano 3y ago
Curious there is no PoopRecord, considering how important that is.
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by jcarrano 3y ago
Did they make a commitment in the first place? It is up to the developers using the engine to make due diligence and inspect the terms of the contracts and licenses of the software they use. I would feel very uneasy if my product was based
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by jcarrano 3y ago
I didn't know about the lock. What happens when you delete an open file in NTFS? Is the data still accessible for programs that have the file open? If yes, then why the lock. If not, then that's a problem.
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by jcarrano 3y ago
Well, a big part of my job is trying not to move other people's cheeses. In other words, keeping the major version of the software I maintain at "1".
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by jcarrano 3y ago
Yes, quite different but roughly the same paradigms. I recently used an old HP-UX workstation with HP VUE and it felt very familiar and intuitive, not to mention the aesthetics were awesome.
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by jcarrano 3y ago
To me, even more impressive than displaying the website in a 1993 browser is the fact that you can even compile xmosaic for a modern linux OS with only minor tweaks. Reminds me of a couple recent HN thread about Wayland and X11, and GTK4. W
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by jcarrano 3y ago
I have excellent fine motor control in both hands. I can use knives, a mouse, scissors or solder with either hand, yet I have struggled- suffered!- with handwriting since forever.
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by jcarrano 3y ago
By far the best thing with XFCE is that it does not change, it merely improves. Other DEs and applications radically change the UI between releases. I have my XFCE desktop working as I want now and I don't want to change it or having t
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by jcarrano 3y ago
The future where every little thing is up to a direct vote through an app sounds dystopic to me. Setting aside the author's very clear ideological inclinations, the fact is the more things people have to agree on, the more conflicts wi
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by jcarrano 3y ago
I remember implementing a sliding overlapping 2d windowing by playing with the strides. I don't know how common is that trick but at the time it felt like magic.
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by jcarrano 3y ago
The guys at MS are smart enough to decompile assembly but still not enough to have a proper inode-based filesystem where you can delete files that are in use.
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by jcarrano 3y ago
I see people losing files in Windows all the time.
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by jcarrano 3y ago
I agree 150%. I often find myself, after finishing a "big" application, thinking "well, this must have been thousands of lines". Then I run sloccount or wc and I'm always surprised with how few lines of code I have.
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by jcarrano 3y ago
Better than being dependent on a soulless employer, while still having to take care of the family. Actually, being able to depend on someone you trust is the real liberation.

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