loxias

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by loxias 5y ago
I can't wait to be in the vintage quantum computing club, where we build working replicas of the "quantum chandeliers" with more modern and stable parts, and tinker with them as functional room decoration. Related, the DEC PD
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by loxias 5y ago
Yeah, apparently in modern design "affordances" are a relic of the past. Everything has this problem. I upgraded to Android 12 and now I have no idea what's clickable, because my world consists of floating text, and I'
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by loxias 5y ago
> Let me get this straight. You plan to code for hours, and your biggest concern at this point in time is your editor takes 1 - 2 seconds more to start? NO. Mine isn't. I happily used emacs when it took a solid half a minute to
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by loxias 5y ago
> your cons list for VS Code is in part wildly outdated and in part flat out untrue. What's untrue about it? Not disagreeing with you, just am not in a position to test it myself (yet). I JUST managed to get VS Code installed, an
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by loxias 5y ago
> The thought of waiting for a "real" editor to launch when I just want to edit a tiny unstructured file is a sad one to me. Amen to that. That's why I use emacs. ;) Just timed it myself, started and ready to go in 120ms
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by loxias 5y ago
What's wrong with using the official/native emacs binaries on Windows? My knowledge is at least a decade out of date, but the official build: http://mirror.rit.edu/gnu/emacs/windows/emacs-27/e
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by loxias 5y ago
I'll take that bet! Keep in mind I said "when it came out". I don't know when that was, and maybe it's improved. A bit. That being said, the fact that VS Code isn't a native application, but something run a
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by loxias 5y ago
Yeah, the first machine I started using Emacs on was similarly spec'd, and it's only gotten faster since....
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by loxias 5y ago
(personal bias: i've been using emacs for about 20 years, though I don't know elisp and I have very mildly customized dotfiles) I want to process and respond to this question, but I can't get past: > It's slow (I hav
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by loxias 5y ago
Amazon is like this, and it's part of why I think I never worked out well. Too much process. Compounding the pain was the fact that my instinct would always be to whip up a proof-of-concept demo instead, for the next meeting. Managem
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by loxias 5y ago
You think that's magic, check out optical lattice clocks. Blows my mind every time I re-read about them and accept "yes, this actually works".
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by loxias 5y ago
Thank you. I was in the process of writing this exact comment but kept tripping over my own words and eventually gave up.
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by loxias 5y ago
Makes me miss OQO.
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by loxias 5y ago
To be clear, what I meant was "the fact that they're advertising whiz bang time synchronization, but then not using the correct protocol, makes me question the quality of the whole enterprise". Even on local networks, NTP can
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by loxias 5y ago
Two observations/questions, the first probably naive: * It's not that hard to get your own "world class" time server, for under a thousand. A Rb standard slaved to a GPSDO is gonna be so accurate and stable, and use
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by loxias 5y ago
Is it really true that once you pass the interview and orientation you get to choose the team you want to work on?
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by loxias 5y ago
That Junior Financial Engineer position looks exciting to me! I think I'd qualify for the Sr. one, in terms of C/C++, the math, and the Linux experience, but I'd never held a "financial" job before. Having to move
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by loxias 5y ago
Cool! Is it still like that, even today? Netflix is possibly my "reach" job, based specifically on what I've read about the culture. I'm about equally split talent wise between "mathy things" (signal processi
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by loxias 5y ago
Loyal customer for more than 13 years now! You've got a great product at a great price! I considered applying for a job once, a while ago... Have you always been in Philly? I thought I dismissed applying because of location, but I
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by loxias 5y ago
You didn't ask, but I think that: >Systemd is neither unnecessary nor stupid. And I am sure, if you really think about it, you know this yourself. It would not have been adopted so widely and quickly if it were. Was bad faith, naive
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by loxias 5y ago
You're right! I'm sorry! You said "scaled correctly" but I misinterpreted as "appear/behave correctly". Before this discussion I didn't have the concept of "scaling" my windows.. because t
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by loxias 5y ago
Thanks for this! I was thinking similarly, but you phrased it better than I could. My observation was "it used to suck, just like wireless, and suspend/resume, but now it doesn't." which matches perfectly with "so
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by loxias 5y ago
Hah! I actually did exactly that! (ran Android in a VM just for 2FA) until I realized I could do it from the command line easily with `oathtool`.
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by loxias 5y ago
> ... "correctly" ... You and I have an opposite definition of "correct" in this context, perhaps neither of us should use it! See enriquto's comment above, this is subjective . To us, we expect a window of si
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by loxias 5y ago
> I assume you prefer watching videos without tearing and those are really apparent with Xorg without a compositor. Of course! I hate tearing, just as much as the next guy. However I honestly haven't seen any tearing in video watc
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by loxias 5y ago
Thank you! No idea why your comment is so low. Most educational one here. I enjoyed reading that link -- a fact oriented list, directly answering my question, rather than an assumption that I want eye candy or resampled resolutions. Fixi
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by loxias 5y ago
> a middleman in the communication of applications and the compositor There's an implicit assumption here, that one is even using a compositing window manager. I'm guessing that you do, and that's cool -- you do you! B
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by loxias 5y ago
Xorg works just fine with Debian and Nvidia (source: me). Some longish (5-10) years ago it got so stable that I managed to stop thinking about it, because it Just Works. Even across upgrades. Your problem lies not with Linux, Xorg, or Nv
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by loxias 5y ago
> barely any current distros still ship X in their default installations. Bold statement. Citation needed? Debian does, and that's hardly a small percentage of market share. I guess if you include Android as a Linux distribution
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by loxias 5y ago
> Then what is your complaint? What complaint? Why do you think I'm complaining? I wanted to know what's so fundamentally wrong with X to warrant a massive developer effort to replace it. Based on the comments here, I have my

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