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by pdntspa 3y ago
Any of the e-ink pads that run Linux under the hood and expose SSH can get you to a bash prompt. Which is about as simple as one can get. Why does it have to be /simple/ anyway? With a rich programming environment you can make you
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by pdntspa 3y ago
Every day the world gets a little more cyberpunk
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by pdntspa 3y ago
I get that but I would really like tape backup if it was viable, it's simpler and more compact.
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by pdntspa 3y ago
How rich will I need to be to get one of these for my home storage array? It is hard to find a cloud backup provider that will take 10+TB without freaking out on price.
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by pdntspa 3y ago
> Suggesting they give just one little leg knocks over a lot of stools, and for what? A great filter, for one, that eliminates those that do art for money in favor of those that do art for the sake of doing art. Personally I don't w
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by pdntspa 3y ago
You can dig deeper.... what exactly are the real-world applications of an immutable transaction ledger? I can't think of very many. Let alone a bunch of kids.
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by pdntspa 3y ago
So Whisper is all the rage with speech-to-text, but what about text-to-speech?
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by pdntspa 3y ago
There are plenty more. Log4j, Maven, Zookeeper aren't dead. Not sure about Mesos but I was given a book on it a few years back as part of... the SMACK stack I think?
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by pdntspa 3y ago
The economics of creation are meaningless if distribution lacks physical scarcity. That is the entire problem with copyright in the digital age -- it is physically impossible to control (i.e. prevent) consumption once the consumer has the
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by pdntspa 3y ago
Ergo, piracy and buying music on bandcamp. Still very viable options. I am close to publishing an EP on bandcamp myself. But I cannot deny how handy Spotify has been with musical pursuits. Spotify may rule the roost but we still have Bandca
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by pdntspa 3y ago
The music industry wasn't just handing out blanket streaming rights until Spotify showed up. All the other services of the era sucked -- their libraries were patchy and music streaming looked very much like TV streaming is today where
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by pdntspa 3y ago
I don't understand how employees contributing their personal collections is somehow worse than company agents trolling torrent sites specifically to stream. Like, every nerd from the era has an mp3 collection. Mine is literally the onl
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by pdntspa 3y ago
It was employees' personal MP3 collections that seeded their library, so while that statement is true it is a little disingenuous without further context There are lots of other examples of this happening too... I believe some of the e
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by pdntspa 3y ago
Have you written code with it? I am working on a pyQT project right now that is interactive pretty much as soon as python starts up
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by pdntspa 3y ago
Why do you care about why I care so much? I have my reasons. I have outlined them. They are much better than anyone else's reasons, by my standard, and I am going to stick to them. Why are you arguing such conformist bullshit?
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by pdntspa 3y ago
I am talking about using the platform's native windowing controls. > ideally they'd all use some base WebView from the system instead of Chromium Ideally they don't use any of that web trash and use something that favors t
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by pdntspa 3y ago
The "most people" argument is moot. I have outlined by arguments elsewhere in this thread
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by pdntspa 3y ago
Platform native dialogs almost always let you copy text with CTRL+C And winforms labels have a selectable mode.
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by pdntspa 3y ago
And if that eating is already covered? To say nothing of QT, Avalonia, Uno, GTK, and others. Many of those manage to figure out cross-platform with native controls. But no, we have to use electron because she can throw cheap oversaturated w
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by pdntspa 3y ago
Why does everything have to boil down to making money? This is exactly what I mean. The free market is meaningless when minds are corrupted by people who profit from them
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by pdntspa 3y ago
My point is that startup time may not have anything to do with the GUI. It is not a good metric. I could write both an electron and pyQT app that takes minutes to start if it has other shit it needs to be doing. I haven't used electron
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by pdntspa 3y ago
Why so in love with React? There are a million other ways to write good GUI apps without involving Facebook's clockwork
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by pdntspa 3y ago
Native's not crappy, it's the best and most supported. We just happen to be in love with the web aesthetic and cross-platform. And that decisionmaking is mostly made by MBAs who see tech as a means to a financial end and not for t
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by pdntspa 3y ago
Vidcutter's startup time isn't PyQT, that initializes nearly instantly. Considering how both defer to ffmpeg a lot of these stats dont mean anything
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by pdntspa 3y ago
Yeah but it's web tech. Desktop apps should feel like desktop apps, not a glorified webpage
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by pdntspa 3y ago
It means that we should be linking directly to resources, not shortening URLs.
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by pdntspa 3y ago
I've been writing some code in PyQT and it's been rather pleasant and performant. A lot of decent GUI apps are written in QT. Python is just slow. I will take that over some stupid app cramming an entire instance of Chromium down
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by pdntspa 3y ago
It's not an electron app, for one
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by pdntspa 3y ago
git lfs is what everyone is using, HF in particular
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by pdntspa 3y ago
Researchers are notorious for writing bad code What even is dvc edit: also- i'd avoid snap and just use your regular package manager.

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