loxias

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by loxias 5y ago
I've done a spot of embedded linux programming before and it is a royal PITA to do anything but the simplest graphics. I can easily see a role for Wayland for that. This is a great answer, thanks. Also, the comment about GUI isolatio
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by loxias 5y ago
Ah, I think I get it. You want to use a "point" abstraction, not a "pixel" abstraction, right? In your example, I imagine everything would work just fine, but images will be physically bigger on the 70 DPI monitor becau
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by loxias 5y ago
What's hidpi? I mean, pragmatically. I can guess that that acronym means "high dots per inch", but I don't follow. One of my desktops uses 2x 4k monitors, is that hidpi? X works fine... X also worked fine on an older
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by loxias 5y ago
> I know Ritalin works for a lot of folks, and I find it pretty fascinating that the same medication can affect different people in such drastically different ways. Same!! (Ritalin doesn't work on me either). On my "journey to
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by loxias 5y ago
I don't know about a tutorial, but I learned a lot from the xvfb and xvnc code.
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by loxias 5y ago
> replacemeant for Xorg WHY. What's the compelling reason for Wayland? How will it make my life better? As someone who's used Linux as their only computing environment for 20 years, I'm terrified of my Xorg being taken
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by loxias 5y ago
> Forgive me if I'm assuming your gender, but I see a lot of black-and-white thinking among male sysadmins/devops: it's good or it's bad, it's high quality or it's not. Male lifetime linux nerd here, who sta
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by loxias 5y ago
I'm on a very similar one, which also has a GoodRx coupon. In case you're not familiar with the details of psychopharmacology, or are lucky enough to have a more "normal" brain, it's quite common for one to spend a
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by loxias 5y ago
> every english speak must have a Californian accent. No they don't! And don't trust anyone who says otherwise. If you want to improve your English for the ears of native speakers, it's vocabulary, vocabulary, vocabulary,
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by loxias 5y ago
As a native English speaker, I find the SoCal Valley accent to be actively repulsive. If someone learning our language is irrationally determined to remove their natural (and in many cases quite attractive) accent, there's so many be
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by loxias 5y ago
Mosh isn't proof of concept. And it's not not maintained either. It's just "done" (in my opinion). Not all software needs to continually change. There is the concept of software that does one thing, and does it w
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by loxias 5y ago
You raise a good point, and I was incorrect. In my original comment I was thinking of any of us , not muggles. Come to think of it, I once even set it up at a job in 2009. We needed to digest huge amounts of flat files from clients with l
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by loxias 5y ago
True, true. The mention of J2EE did just made me shudder a bit. ;) But at least, then, I could write code, run it, make changes, and run it again! And see results! Quickly! My main objection to this "future world" is the vas
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by loxias 5y ago
I just saw that it did and yelled out with glee. Now I just gotta tie this to google translate, some earbuds, a hand control for my pocket, and software glue and confuse the HECK out of my (native Chinese speaking) partner.
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by loxias 5y ago
Thanks :) I'm embarrassed, I can't edit the comment anymore. Making it more amusing, I know I suck at spelling so I even googled "sensai" first, before posting, quickly saw that it didn't have the "did you m
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by loxias 5y ago
Because that's not how you use it. :) But you raise a decent point. I'll write a short script you could alias to cp in most cases, put it somewhere, and edit this comment in a day with a link.
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by loxias 5y ago
> I gather then that you're not a fan of SaaS. I'm neutral, I think? I don't quite see the point of it would be more accurate. I don't think I've used any SaaS in my personal life (other than streaming services
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by loxias 5y ago
Great observation. Perhaps the term "premature infrastructure architecture optimization".
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by loxias 5y ago
All of this is true, but I'd wager there's 10, at MOST, entities on the planet that are large enough to warrant this level of ... "architectural overkill". The other 99.99% of us don't need it. I CERTAINLY don&#x27
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by loxias 5y ago
I'm also a lazy person! Which is why tools like this are a PITA to me. The one exception is Docker. It's not a regular part of my workflow, because of how it makes things both harder to get started (making a working Dockerfile t
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by loxias 5y ago
And now, in 2021, Google has inflicted their "clarity" on the rest of the world. I miss jobs from the 2000s, the jobs where you were paid to write software for a living. You know, engineering! Given a task, or set of requirement
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by loxias 5y ago
high five It truly is the best, no? My pipelines look a bit different than yours (they usually have `lzop`/`zstd`, `cd`, and occasionally `pv`), but tar truly is the best file copy utility. I rarely use `cp -a` even when copying loc
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by loxias 5y ago
That makes sense! In that rare situation, I typically use tab completion to find the remote file. However, I bet that would SUCK on a high latency or low bandwidth link, where sftp would be just fine.
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by loxias 5y ago
One person's "bug" is another person's feature. In my usage, and opinion of mosh, the remote terminal emulation is at least half the point. It lets you be functional with minuscule amounts of bandwidth, and makes your s
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by loxias 5y ago
This jumped out at me too! It's the author's mistake, not whoever posted it here. Which makes me question how much consideration should be given to one who doesn't know what latency is. :) Assuming the best, it's a typ
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by loxias 5y ago
I'm probably living in my own little bubble, but I didn't know anyone used sftp for ANYTHING, at least not in the last decade. Looking at my terminal history, scp for a single file, rsync (which you don't need to pass that --
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by loxias 5y ago
Is there any answer other than "mosh, duh"? Keithw (who's now a prof at Stanford) wrote mosh for that use case (high loss high latency), if memory serves correctly. (which it might not! being as apparently an entire decad
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by loxias 5y ago
> Also another thing I was wondering, does the math used in audio processing also come in useful for other broader applications like video? Dear lord yes. YES. They're all signals (audio, images, video, radio waves, EEG readings,
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by loxias 5y ago
Sorry, I don't understand your comment, I mean, I don't get the point? :) I guess it was founded in 2009? (who am I to argue with wikipedia!), but wasn't "real" until 2013 or 2014. I know this because I was there,
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by loxias 5y ago
I just need to say: I've spent some (the happiest part!) of my career (and ~2/3rd of my life , hobby wise) involved with sound/music technology, designing and writing audio (and some video) plugins (VST, AU, PD, and others),

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