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by rollcat 2y ago
I agree with your general sentiment. When Github first showed up, I really liked it that (unlike on e.g. SourceForge) the username is right in the project's URL, it suggested that someone's accountable for the project. But there&#
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by rollcat 2y ago
Yep, real-world HLS/DASH solutions rely heavily on edge caches; you don't care as much about having your infra in the right region, but POPs are everything. Netflix famously offers ISPs an appliance.
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by rollcat 2y ago
> Partly because they do it badly, and partly because it's harder for other applications to read the pixels. I can select text in a web browser or a spreadsheet or a chat app just fine. > The application just told the display to
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by rollcat 2y ago
That's not Go-specific, it's just how static linking works. As nolist_policy advised, it's more useful and precise to intercept programs at the syscall (rather than library call) boundaries. Programs are free to do all sorts
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by rollcat 2y ago
> If you're going to build something, you might as well be inspired by terminal-style interaction, but it can't be the goal. 100% agree. I believe that if we do replace the terminal, the end result will not be that much differe
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by rollcat 2y ago
> If you use emacs like you say, you should know you can bind ^C to whatever you want. Hell no. I've suffered Emacs bankruptcy several times over the past 20 years. I try to keep my init.el under 1k lines to avoid another one. Rebin
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by rollcat 2y ago
> I'm not so sure you can learn Photoshop [...] I'm not talking about learning Photoshop, I'm talking about quitting Photoshop. On a Mac, the "close" button is in the upper left corner of the window, and has
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by rollcat 2y ago
> Sounds dreadful. Depends. Emacs has had brilliant ideas, did brave things, it just remained stagnant for the past 30 years. (Unlike terminal emulators, which do boring things, and have been stagnant for 40 years.) A slightly better REP
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by rollcat 2y ago
> But the original terminal was also already using a side channel. What? The serial link was the only way for the terminal to talk to the Big Machine. There never was a "side channel", in fact things like control flow are mixed
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by rollcat 2y ago
> My terminal can [...] use the clipboard. Yes, but the TUI application running in it can't - unless using non-portable side channels such as pbcopy or xclip. Copying text is limited to what's visible on your screen (and have f
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by rollcat 2y ago
See my sibling comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43673486
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by rollcat 2y ago
Exactly. POS terminals are optimised for throughput. Otherwise it's literally less sales, your bottom line. You can build a perfectly snappy, keyboard-driven GUI application; a terminal emulator is (ironically) the perfect example.
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by rollcat 2y ago
> Two things can be true at the same time, TUIs are superior to GUIs, and GUIs are superior to TUIs. TUIs are GUIs - in a trench coat. A TUI program must still process input events, draw widgets, manage state & focus, etc - all the
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by rollcat 2y ago
I see, thank you for debunking. But I think my general point still stands. You can progress by addressing a need, but true innovation requires adequate space.
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by rollcat 2y ago
I never worked at Google (or any other large corp for that matter), but this sounds like the exact opposite of an environment that spawned GMail. As you think back even to the very early days of computing, you'll find individuals or sm
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by rollcat 2y ago
I would love to help bring elegance and beauty to the software we build, both on the inside and outside - and that's my main motivation behind criticising terminals and TUIs specifically. I have vague ideas for how I could build someth
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by rollcat 2y ago
Interesting project, but you still need to hook it up to a backend to create a window to draw pixels on. SDL is likely the most portable library to do that; you could substitute fbdev, DirectX, wgpu, glfw, win32, metal, and so on. The point
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by rollcat 2y ago
I see. I get this out of the box on iOS via Shortcuts & automations, it's a part of the base OS and honestly pretty powerful. I get it that iOS is not for everyone, but at the very least it's a proof and an incentive for Andro
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by rollcat 2y ago
> Web model is objectively better than [...] Hard disagree. Modern web browsers are incredibly complex beasts that evolved by amalgamating decades of experimentation, poor non-standards, and elaborate counter-measures to fix that mess. I
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by rollcat 2y ago
> I've tried many IDEs but I'll always come back to vim. Vim and Emacs both have GUIs. As an Emacs user, I subjectively find the GUI superior - I can e.g. rebind Cmd-S to "save", and that's a reason enough. >
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by rollcat 2y ago
The problem isn't as much that the websites are scraped (search engines have been doing this for over three decades), it's the request volume that brings the infrastructure down and/or costs up. I don't think mangling th
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by rollcat 2y ago
Your requirements are quite specific, and HTTP servers are built to be generic and flexible. You can probably put something together with nginx and some Lua, aka OpenResty: < https://openresty.org/ > > his I believe
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by rollcat 2y ago
It's called DDoS. DDoS is abusive.
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by rollcat 2y ago
> Sure, because they picked a set of features exclusive to Pixels. Nothing is stopping them from being more permissive about the security features they require. You're not the target audience for this OS. Strong security guarantees
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by rollcat 2y ago
Genuinely curious, why do you need root access on your EDC phone? Personally I would stick with a throwaway for experimentation, so I'm curious about your motivation.
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by rollcat 2y ago
For entire classes of applications, you can treat Linux as a black box. Things like syscalls, /proc & /sys, are all incredibly stable. So that's what Go does with its syscall package; it completely sidesteps libc, ld.so,
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by rollcat 2y ago
I don't understand the obsession with 1980s terminals. They're even less powerful than the contemporary 8-bit home computers. It's perfectly OK to be a retro enthusiast, it's another thing to claim that this is the peak
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by rollcat 2y ago
> Both desktop environments pull in different directions in appearance only. Nope, no. KDE has a dozen toggles for every feature, half of which don't make sense. It has OK/Cancel/Apply, as if Windows 95 was peak UX. Konsol
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by rollcat 2y ago
Some competition is OK. For example, similar programming languages (e.g. Rust and Zig) - they inspire each other, fit slightly different niches, and there's plenty of space for both. Experimentation is OK. DNF started as a yum fork, wi
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by rollcat 2y ago
> Either way, it's good that there are alternatives. I like how heterogenous the whole Linux ecosystem can be, it helps mitigate large scale security issues. IMHO all it does is drive fragmentation and marginalisation. Either your a

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