klardotsh

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by klardotsh 1y ago
Yes. My Pebble Steel got over a week of battery in 2015, had physical, tactile buttons that worked even wearing thick winter gloves, and had an always-on-no-matter-what screen that was clearly readable in full sunlight. Every smartwatch tha
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by klardotsh 1y ago
I'm guessing distances in NZ are shorter, or you're only planning to use that vehicle in the urban city core. Here in the US, 50km range barely gets me to the ferry terminal to get into Seattle, and that's assuming 50km is at
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by klardotsh 1y ago
My 2017 i3 REX is just fine. It needs new tires before winter hits, an alignment (it gets knocked way out really easily, especially if you've ever taken it on a less than perfect road. Washington State has many such roads), and I sho
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by klardotsh 1y ago
Sure! Maybe I'll finally get a v0.99 or a v1.0 together one of these days.
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by klardotsh 1y ago
Well, sure, age is part of it. I would hope languages coming out 40-50 years after their predecessors (in the case of Rust following C/C++) would have improved upon those predecessors and learned from the ideas of computer science in t
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by klardotsh 1y ago
Self-plug for a tongue-in-cheek license I wrote to say exactly that, for exactly this reason :) https://codeberg.org/klardotsh/fork-off-public-license Fully agreed. FOSS maintainers don't owe you anything. You can
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by klardotsh 1y ago
No, it’s not. At all. At the overwhelming majority of companies I’ve worked for or heard of, even 400-500 lines fully shipped in a week, slightly less than your figure here, would be top quartile of output - but further, it isn’t necessaril
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by klardotsh 1y ago
Agreed until/unless you end up at one of those bleeding-edge AI-mandate companies (Microsoft is in the news this week as one of them) that will simply PIP you for being a luddite if you aren't meeting AI usage metrics.
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by klardotsh 1y ago
That described Dutch system also sounds relatively easy compared to the US model, which requires 2/3 votes in each chamber of Congress (meaning the people-based one and the land-based one), *then* 3/4 of the states (so another lan
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by klardotsh 1y ago
Maybe it was at some point in the past? I have friends who currently live there and it does not sound cheap. Again - not Seattle bad, maybe not even Bellingham bad, but still not "124 is quite a bit" levels (from the sounds of i
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by klardotsh 1y ago
And it's $124k on the west coast, specifically western Oregon. Coastal PNW is notoriously expensive to live in - sure, Corvallis isn't Seattle, but it's not cheap, either. Folks like to balk at numbers when it comes to public
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by klardotsh 2y ago
> We're calling 400MB RAM usage ultra-lightweight now? OpenBox needs 7MB of RAM, and there are WMs that are even lighter on memory requirements. How much is your X server process using? Because a Wayland compositor has to be both th
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by klardotsh 2y ago
I could have word for word written almost exactly this blog post, that's how dead-on-accurate I find it, and how similar OP and I's experiences are (down to when and why we originally switched to Sway - mixed DPI long before Wayla
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by klardotsh 2y ago
Okay, I'll retract my remarks when the new formation of the FTC actually goes after a tech giant. And frankly, I have doubt any DOJ filings of this type won't get repealed by force from above in short order. This is a case that wa
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by klardotsh 2y ago
Except for anyone whose employer requires them to use Google services, since Google Apps (or whatever they call it these days) is a hugely popular offering for central company email/contacts/calendar/office suite. And frankly
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by klardotsh 2y ago
Well, this country (the US) decided in November to go the exact opposite direction of having a government capable of, let alone willing to, pursuing litigation like this, so I hope we enjoy this digital feudalism only expanding, never reced
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by klardotsh 2y ago
You don't hear about it much because it won. The developers mostly moved over to Wayland, it's the default in most places now, most (not all, sure) workflows Just Work, and often work well... dunno where you get the idea it failed
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by klardotsh 2y ago
This is because a bunch of us use the Fediverse (Mastodon, etc.) as a general purpose social media network and really don't care to have the entire timeline be doom and gloom about how bad the world currently is, but want to read the o
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by klardotsh 2y ago
Aside from some major examples, like most of the big tech companies funding the Linux kernel and maybe the Rust and/or Python Foundations in decent numbers, for the most part, corporations don't pay for open-source. That's wh
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by klardotsh 2y ago
Yeah, screw devs for making a industry-renowned product and wanting to be able to eat food or pay the rent for having made that thing, right?! The pricing on Sublime Text is a steal for what value a frequent user of it derives from it. And
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by klardotsh 2y ago
Maybe the left, as in those of us with relatively progreasive views, moved left. But as a result of that, no major party actually reflects outlr views. The Democratic party is not a progressive party, and spends almost all of its effort cou
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by klardotsh 2y ago
Yep, a Stylus stylesheet like this turns his site from unusable into pleasant: ``` main { width: 800px; margin: 0 auto; } ```
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by klardotsh 2y ago
Yes, but the Zig toolchain is not $YOUR_EXISTING_C_COMPILER_YOU_ALREADY_KNOW_AND_USE
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by klardotsh 2y ago
Python 3 broke almost literally every non-trivial Python file on earth, and was saved only by `2to3` and `six` being able to automate or library-ify away 75% or so of the changes. The remaining 25% was make-work for teams needing to avoid t
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by klardotsh 2y ago
Sometimes... one of the biggest problems with TUIs is that every terminal emulator is extremely opinionated about how it wants to render anything that isn't trivial ASCII, even in 2024. Sometimes you can select color emojis. Sometimes
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by klardotsh 2y ago
I'd personally have preferred another USB-C over this industrial connector style. I already carry around USB-C to Ethernet dongles and it's just a complete non-issue. This instead requires a bespoke dongle I don't own, and fr
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by klardotsh 2y ago
I was just thinking today about whether I'd enjoy a thumb joystick on this device, given that trackpads and I agree less and less these days (I have been on various trackballs for years on desktops to fend off RSI-like symptoms... rece
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by klardotsh 2y ago
Spoken like someone who has never lived on a boat before. Signed, someone who has lived on a boat before.
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by klardotsh 2y ago
The paperwork matters far more than the actual work. Having your Jira tickets (or whatever) up to date and highly granular, and organized into all the taxonomies of sprints/epics/etc, and of course actually communicating status wi
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by klardotsh 2y ago
Because layoffs are, rightfully, in the spotlight as distasteful, cruel, and usually not based in financial reality right now. They get severe negative press, because they're severe negative actions (while companies rake in record prof

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