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by rvdginste 5y ago
Ok, thanks, good to know.
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by rvdginste 5y ago
JetBrains Rider is a perfectly fine IDE that works on Linux. Way better and way more powerful than VSCode and Monodevelop. And in my opinion also better than Visual Studio (though I didn't try 2019 and 2022, Rider does everything I nee
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by rvdginste 5y ago
Since that book is over 20 years old, is it still relevant and useful?
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by rvdginste 5y ago
As a developer, I find it a bit embarassing that I started using Emacs in 2000, that at some point I even read my email with it, and that I never took the time to really learn emacs-lisp. Still, some day I will. This book might help me. :
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by rvdginste 5y ago
Dell Precisions have both a trackpad and a trackpoint and feature 2 times 3 buttons (one row on the top and one row on the bottom of the trackpad). I think that old Thinkpads always had a middle button because it was used combined with the
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by rvdginste 5y ago
That may be true about the ~500MB RAM, I did not measure it or anything and I agree: if you want to go for <100MB RAM you'll need to look for something else. I actually used i3wm (with separate programs) before on my older computer
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by rvdginste 5y ago
> The usability of KDE aside, it's not exactly the most lightweight interface. I wonder if that is still true. I switched from MATE to KDE several months ago and from what I read, KDE invested a lot in optimization of their code (bo
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by rvdginste 5y ago
I don't really care about the noise to know what the computer is doing. I prefer a silent computer, because I really need silence to be able to focus my mind on something. (And it might seem inconsistent, but I do love clicky mechanica
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by rvdginste 5y ago
I discovered Doom Emacs a couple of months ago and it made me use emacs more often again. Doom Emacs is well made and makes configuration of emacs a lot faster and easier. I've noticed that a lot of file types have support from an LSP
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by rvdginste 5y ago
The X200 officially only supports 2x2GB, but seems to work fine with 2x4GB, as long as it's the correct type of ram (single-sided if I remember correctly). So I need to find the right type of ram and it's something I plan to upgra
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by rvdginste 5y ago
A couple of months ago, I bought a used Thinkpad X200t in excellent condition. I knew about the popularity of the older Thinkpads and libreboot, and I was interested in a tablet pc because I wanted to use it to read and make notes, so when
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by rvdginste 5y ago
> It’s code that’s much harder to get visibility into, harder to track over time, harder to reason about in the context of a larger codebase, and harder to measure and understand the performance implications of. I think this really depen
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by rvdginste 5y ago
> And if we had a new spec for irc, would we need Slack/Discord/MS Teams/etc? They could then all talk to each other. We shouldn't be trying to reinvent the wheel, we should be using these older services in our platfo
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by rvdginste 5y ago
I believe that this kind of issue is possible with most language specific package repositories. That combined with the fact that a lot of developers upgrade dependencies without giving it a lot of thought (newer is better) probably means th
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by rvdginste 5y ago
You can use database schema compare tools for this. You create a clean empty database using the new DDL and use the tool to compare that schema with the schema for the version in test or prod. The tool will then show the differences and can
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by rvdginste 5y ago
I think only very few people can be really proficient in more than 3-5 programming languages (at the same point in time). And with really proficient, I mean both a good understanding of the programming language semantically, being aware an
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by rvdginste 5y ago
I didn't know about Dillo's history, thanks for the info!
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by rvdginste 5y ago
And what about Dillo? https://www.dillo.org/
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by rvdginste 5y ago
A really liked Galeon, a Gecko-based browser. http://galeon.sourceforge.net/
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by rvdginste 5y ago
> The two footpads give operators full control over the trajectory of the robot, and allow the robot to make turns with a centripetal acceleration that exceeds that of most insects. > In this work, the major innovation was adding thes
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by rvdginste 6y ago
I've used distcc in that way long time ago. I had an powerpc iBook (G4) and a x86 desktop (Pentium4). The desktop helped compile software on the iBook using distcc and a cross-compiler. It did work pretty well. I also used ccache in ad
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by rvdginste 6y ago
Since I've been testing both on linux on an older laptop (Core i5-3317U, 10GB RAM, Sata SSD): Emacs + lsp (Omnisharp) is not noticably faster than JetBrains Rider. Both are slow and at times lagging on this hardware. In the end I just
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by rvdginste 6y ago
I studied engineering and got a degree in computer science. So I like to call myself a software engineer. At my job I do a lot of things: analysis, design, development, project management.
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by rvdginste 6y ago
This! I did the same thing: read about the model for the commits, the blobs and the hashes. When you know that (just the basic data model, which is really simple), it's a lot easier to understand and memorise the different git commands
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by rvdginste 6y ago
Personally, with git, I would work on one "work" branch with the 5 orthogonal commits in succession. For each commit that is finished, I would create a new branch and cherry-pick that specific commit on it. I would create a PR for