md8z

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by md8z 5y ago
I mean, it depends? What is the measure and what are you trying to do?
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by md8z 5y ago
I don't know why you want me to take any pattern seriously or why that would be relevant, or what either of us could possibly do in any case. We can give our opinion (which we already did) but beyond that, if we don't work at or a
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by md8z 5y ago
Thanks for this, that's a good explanation. I don't have anything to dispute regarding your principle, but you only mentioned two people so I don't know if I would really call that a pattern of anything in particular. Also I
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by md8z 5y ago
If you're taking an app built for Linux or GNU or BSD, then it probably will need modification, as those systems have various extensions on top of POSIX.
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by md8z 5y ago
Right, that's why I asked for clarification...
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by md8z 5y ago
No I am not, please stop this. You're jumping to the other extreme and that's exactly why I think that type of rhetoric is not helpful. If you have something nuanced you'd like to say then I'd love to hear it. Personally
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by md8z 5y ago
I'm not the one who made the comparison, the parent comment suggested that no one would give that person a job. I know people who are unable to get jobs anywhere. They tend to suffer from debilitating physical or mental health issues t
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by md8z 5y ago
Sorry but I still have no idea what you mean by "DEI orthodoxy" or "DEI administrative authoritarianism", I don't understand what that is supposed to mean and the way you've used them seems to be religiously&#x
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by md8z 5y ago
An infectious disease doesn't care about any of that, it doesn't care what your political process is or where you draw the line. It's not a trade off of public health maximalism vs individual freedoms, it never is that simple
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by md8z 5y ago
Or it could be because the grandparent post contains the common non-sequitur about "individual choice". That rhetoric is pointless in a discussion about public health and ruins a perfectly good comment. An infectious disease does
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by md8z 5y ago
At that point, why not just contribute to Linux?
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by md8z 5y ago
I'm very confused by this comment. There are a ton of other things you need to implement if you want to have desktop applications. POSIX does not specify any APIs for graphical applications. You might be thinking of something else. If
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by md8z 5y ago
Maybe the core specification isn't that big a deal if you're just trying to get started writing some note on/off messages, but the full set of specifications with all the controllers and sysex messages and extensions and supp
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by md8z 5y ago
The suggestion was for a GUI running on the host, not on the instrument...
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by md8z 5y ago
Look, I hear what you're saying but it all just sounds like hypotheticals to me. If you want to take that approach, hypothetically the other vendors could have chose to standardize the feature, it could have become standard, and all th
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by md8z 5y ago
I'm sorry but this comment rings very hollow to me. I have seen this "hypothetically they could have done more" type of sentiment repeated so much on HN and it's not helpful nor is it a meaningful criticism of Google. E
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by md8z 5y ago
There isn't anything else for me to say, and I am not arguing with you or presenting an argument, this is just a casual conversation. Most of the software I know about uses OpenGL or Vulkan for rendering, and the server side ones are t
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by md8z 5y ago
I don't know if I would call MIDI 1.0 simple in practice. It has a lot of really confusing idiosyncrasies, it's definitely got that feel of being a simple base that was organically developed and had tons of things piled into it ov
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by md8z 5y ago
I don't see why someone couldn't make an adapter from 1 -> 2. I think the other way around would be lossy and not desirable.
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by md8z 5y ago
Except they aren't really, the main widget in all of those is already an OpenGL accelerated canvas... If your application is primarily a form or a dialog then yeah, but everything else that has images or video or custom drawing is goin
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by md8z 5y ago
Wayland uses WAYLAND_DISPLAY, X uses DISPLAY.
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by md8z 5y ago
Well, I think Wayland is going to avoid the "second-system effect" as it was intentionally designed to be smaller and less grandiose than X. http://catb.org/jargon/html/S/second-system-effect.html
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by md8z 5y ago
I can't say that's been my experience!
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by md8z 5y ago
Web browsers? Programs based around images/video? LibreOffice? Krita? Blender? Most "productivity" apps I see are based around a canvas or around images in some way. If they can hardware accelerate that, they will.
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by md8z 5y ago
"And, I have also been reading the claims of programs going to switch to OpenGL 'any time soon' since the 2000s, with people backing out of the idea always due to 'drivers' or the like." I really don't kno
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by md8z 5y ago
Xdotool is actually (yet another) one of those things in X11 that is somewhat broken and due for a redesign. The APIs that it uses are not really safe for applications to use, they're meant for window managers, so in some situations yo
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by md8z 5y ago
Yeah they will be if you use a lot of those old style toolbars-forms-and-dialogs apps. For other apps I don't see much interest in Qt Widgets.
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by md8z 5y ago
I'm not sure who you are referring to when you say "proponents", Wayland and X are mostly being developed by the same people. I don't see why they would lie about their own software. Also, if you look into it, you'l
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by md8z 5y ago
I'm curious as to why you think Motif "plays to the strengths of the Unix desktop" or what those strengths would be. I don't believe Motif has ever been particularly popular among GUI developers, it seems to me the only
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by md8z 5y ago
I would say that's probably something specific to your set up, and you may want to try some more apps, or ask those developers of your apps what their plans are. If you use Plasma, then you are using some Qt Quick software. Currently o

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