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by laumars 5y ago
That could literally happen at any company. Just because you have an idea, it doesn’t mean it’s commercially nor strategically viable.
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by laumars 5y ago
No, it exists because people depend on different use cases. There’s no such thing as a one size fits all. To suggest there is only demonstrates how little exposure you’ve have to the wider field of computing.
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by laumars 5y ago
Console manufacturers have often lost their case whenever game studios took them to caught over this though. Hence EA and Codemasters not using standard Megadrive / Genesis carts. So there is at least some hope that there is precedence
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by laumars 5y ago
We wouldn’t have Rust either because why develop a new programming language when we already have programming languages? I’m fact why even have Linux or macOS running atop x86 when we have perfectly good z80 micro computers running a BASIC i
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by laumars 5y ago
In fairness, projectm is literally built on 90s tech (Winamp’s milkdrop). For some reason around the early 00s peoples love for visualisations fell out of favour. Meanwhile clubs would still hire dedicated VJs and/or lighting guys so d
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by laumars 5y ago
The linked page lists more than that ;) What OS are you after? It officially supports Windows, macOS and Linux. But I do know of FreeBSD, iOS and Android ports too. There’s bound to be more ports out there as well.
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by laumars 5y ago
Works fine for me on Linux. I’ve had it running for hours on end without a crash. Some builds are more stable than others. I think I’ve found the SDL build to be the best. The ALSA one was fine bar a few specific plugins that needed disabli
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by laumars 5y ago
Which huge Twitter thread?
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by laumars 5y ago
What utter tosh. People have different preferences because people are different. If your point was apt then this submission wouldn’t exist because $SHELL wouldn’t be a configurable option in the first place.
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by laumars 5y ago
I’ve never seen those characters before. Have you got any more recommended references on that subject?
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by laumars 5y ago
Ok. That sounds a lot more sane then. Thank you for the clarification.
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by laumars 5y ago
Well I’m not suggesting the following is a better alt shell, but in murex you have something that’s a little bit akin to a Windows Registry in that all of the shell settings are navigable through a builtin called ‘config’ https:/&#x2F
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by laumars 5y ago
The difference as I understand it is your Fish equivalent of a $PS1 (and other Fish shell behaviours) have to be defined via that path. If I understand it correctly, it sounds a lot like git hooks but at a global scale rather than per repo.
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by laumars 5y ago
Yeah, but there aren’t magic function paths that you need to do basic things like setting the prompt. Don’t get me wrong, I think the PS1 variable sucks. But I’m not convinced Fish’s solution is much better.
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by laumars 5y ago
> Where do you put your function definitions? Inside ‘function’ blocks, like the language syntax defines for any other type of function. I can then throw those functions into any file I chose. Having special functions inside special fi
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by laumars 5y ago
I’m glad that works for you but that sounds like a horrible solution to me. Maybe better than Bash but magic named files are probably my least favourite feature in scripting languages.
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by laumars 5y ago
You’re conflating form and function with your example (“reeking” is not an adjective for form, and a pig sty is not even a functional office space to begin with). I have no issue with people wanting their work environment to be pretty but a
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by laumars 5y ago
“Rounded” is a common design element throughout the history of Apple — including iPhones and iPads. It also has zero baring on the function of the device so who cares if it’s a little more boxy or rounded? It’s supposed to be a “Pro” device
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by laumars 5y ago
> I have owned macbooks only since 2017 and found the older (2011 era) aesthetic design to be bulky and not too appealing. I own a 2020 model, which looks sharp and professional. There used to be a time when what people considered “pro
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by laumars 5y ago
This seems to happen every time a Twitter link is posted to HN: people go off on some wild speculations when actually the detail is already published elsewhere and is usually pretty mundane.
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by laumars 5y ago
I agree. I love the wider scope of Spotify’s mixes. If I wanted a narrow scope then I’d just have created the playlist myself like the old days (or just thrown an album on). The reason I use Spotify mixes is for a variety within an approxim
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by laumars 5y ago
You cannot blame that in Open source though, nor even Linux specifically. It was companies like Google, Yahoo! and Geocities that really set the expectation for free software with the average user and they were companies built around advert
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by laumars 5y ago
> Do you really think "old" Microsoft thought that far into the future for this back then? Yes. - they killed Netscape in the 90s because they realised owning the web browser market meant locking people into Windows - they ran
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by laumars 5y ago
It’s very easy to believe that when you’re one of the winners (as most who frequent this forum will be) but according to the 2020 US census there are 37.2 million people living in poverty in the US alone: https://www.census.gov&#
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by laumars 5y ago
It has also put hundreds of millions of people into poverty. Any system that rewards winners is going to see people lose. Now I’m not suggesting we should do away with capitalism either. Just that we shouldn’t fetish over it as the perfect
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by laumars 5y ago
> Windows audio has never made working with latency or routing sound between programs a goal. There are ways to do it, but isn't in the default. (I forget what it is called, but there is a common standard - starts with an A) ASIO
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by laumars 5y ago
I’ve used worse tools. I’ve also used better tools. I’ve had a pretty long career in IT and in that time I’ve learned that comparing ones tooling (or even just software in general) against the worst in the industry only leads one to repeate
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by laumars 5y ago
I’d love it if he were that experienced. Then he might actually be good for something :D
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by laumars 5y ago
Coincidentally only yesterday I got into an argument with a clueless manager about Teams being shitty. Man do I hate that guy. He is a thick as dogshit and about as capable at making a decision as one too. 5 minutes before that Teams conver
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by laumars 5y ago
Microsoft has never followed its own standards. They came out with the flat toolbar and 3D menu bar, neither of which were a published Windows API. Then when everyone started emulating that with their own, often poorly implemented, APIs Mic

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