sepples

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by sepples 4y ago
Back when I was in grad school I set up an HTML/CSS to PDF workflow for making posters. It was surprisingly difficult to find a decent way to render nice-looking web pages with reasonably modern CSS to PDF without having things get cut
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by sepples 5y ago
I first used FreeCAD around version 0.12 for designing simple parts for my 3D printer. At the time, it was very buggy and would reliably crash or corrupt your model if you ever tried to go back and edit a previously specified dimension or e
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by sepples 6y ago
That's actually a "feature" for IR cameras because 9+ FPS brings it into a different category for export control.
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by sepples 6y ago
Northern Ireland is part of the UK, and the government currently grants licenses to carry a concealed handgun there despite having highly restrictive laws elsewhere in the country. I highly doubt this would be the case if there wasn't
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by sepples 6y ago
Typical page loads were much slower two decades ago than they are today by my recollection, unless you were lucky enough to have something better than 56k dialup.
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by sepples 6y ago
I don't mind it that much for programming languages like Python. The one annoyance I have is related to editor tooling: In languages that use braces to denote blocks, I can paste a block of code wherever and have my editor autoformat i
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by sepples 6y ago
This is something that was fixed in the forthcoming TOML 1.0 spec. Parsers that have been updated to support it will allow heterogeneous types in arrays, which your application can convert to a vector of floats or whatever collection type i
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by sepples 6y ago
TOML is great if you think of it as JSON, but optimized for being written by humans instead of machines. I hope no new first-class types or syntax features ever get added after the 1.0 release so it can have the same stability that makes JS