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by sho_hn 7mo ago
It's been improving rapidly. The upcoming (imminently) 1.1 has a large amount of modern UI affordances, such as on-canvas gizmos that at times actually are easier to use than e.g. the Fusion ones. I'm a heavy Fusion user, but for
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by sho_hn 7mo ago
> I never understood the Wayland push and I still don’t. What happened is basically this: - X11 was fairly complex, had a lot of dead-weight code, and a whole bunch of fundamental issues that were building up to warrant an "X12&quot
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by sho_hn 7mo ago
> Why is Wayland so complicated? It's not particularly complicated, and certainly a lot simpler and cleaner than X11 in almost every way. The reality of the situation is that there's sort of a hateful half-knowledge mob dynamic
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by sho_hn 7mo ago
Feels like the world religions that doubled down on reincarnation/rebirth/cyclic narratives were, literally, ahead of their time. Cherish it if the Great RNG In The Sky gave your simulation cycle a good seed.
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by sho_hn 7mo ago
There are actually cases this has happened in (e.g. re-releases using ScummVM under the hood; id basing products on community source ports, etc.), but it's not always that simple. Chris Sawyer as creator for example is known to have pa
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by sho_hn 7mo ago
Your stance is aggressive and provocative, but no less so than the challenge AI poses to software developers in general. I think what you say should be seriously entertained. And as someone who loves Python and has written a lot of it, I te
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by sho_hn 7mo ago
On the other hand, AI being very good at everything while select humans may only be very good at some things is likely also a quality we want to retain (or, well, achieve).
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by sho_hn 7mo ago
Honestly, a Pi 5 is powerful enough to run a full desktop very comfortably. It's not a low-powered computer anymore by any means.
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by sho_hn 7mo ago
My anecdotal experience is rather different. I write a lot of C++ and QML code. Codex 5.3, only released in Feb, is the the first model I've used that would regularly generate code that passes my 25 years expert smell test and has turn
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by sho_hn 8mo ago
The module that does the annual donation thingie should also load here, there isn't really any differentiation by the shell package as it's handled elsewhere via a mechanism that's agnostic to it.
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by sho_hn 8mo ago
Just to manage expectations: Big Screen is a fairly old project at this point, that has always had a relatively small number of people showing it some love (though I understand recently there's been an uptick again). This is not a new
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by sho_hn 8mo ago
> so many developers and other tech nerds - the type who post on HN The average developer stopped being a "tech nerd" around 2010 or so. I think older developers sometimes don't understand how the ranks have swollen and ho
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by sho_hn 8mo ago
The EUV and other factory equipment everyone's using is predominantly European. High-end testing tools used in R&D are largely European. The fabs aren't, and that is no small thing. The tech stack is there though. It's pr
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by sho_hn 8mo ago
The authors presumably don't have English as their first language.
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by sho_hn 8mo ago
Although I would recommend a more sturdy dog breed, for when the angry mob that can't buy RAM sticks and SSDs this year shows up at the front gate.
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by sho_hn 8mo ago
I for one am all in on DiL (Dog in the Loop) engineering.
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by sho_hn 8mo ago
And Shatner's cover was covered by Family Guy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZL4pNtI9nM
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by sho_hn 8mo ago
Of course if the proponents are right, this approach may fit to skipping coding :-)
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by sho_hn 8mo ago
It's not the general public who know nothing that develop and release software. I am not specifically talking about this issue, but do remember that very little bad happens in the world without the active or even willing participation
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by sho_hn 8mo ago
It's incredibly rough and unreliable, sadly.
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by sho_hn 8mo ago
I think freeopinion is right, though. I don't think "Make internals" is off by default only because the developers are conservative, but because the meaning and behavior of it changed a few times recently around the merger of
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by sho_hn 8mo ago
> I think it is unfair to say that they are "blinded to the pain". I mean it more in the sense that it's very difficult to truly conceive of what a new user of the app would stumble over or dislike, if you're very use
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by sho_hn 8mo ago
This shows a general problem that FreeCAD still has: Inside an initially off-putting and frustrating UI experience is a really good application trying to get out, but at the moment a new user still has to dig it out themselves. For example,
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by sho_hn 8mo ago
It's mostly a received holdover opinion from the days when Gimp still defaulted to being strongly multi-windowed. The people who keep repeating it probably haven't used Gimp for a while. The usability may still not match Photoshop
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by sho_hn 8mo ago
Note as a Linux user, the only version of Fusion you can really use is the (bad) browser one, which requires a $900/year subscription. I like Fusion, but this is a powerful motivator to make due with FreeCAD or Dune3D.
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by sho_hn 8mo ago
I think Dune 3D making constraints available in 3D space is not quite the same, but at least a bit adjacent.
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by sho_hn 8mo ago
The touted SVG improvements make me excited for animated pelicans.
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by sho_hn 8mo ago
For sure. "I hear coding makes money" is the Bootcamp era.
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by sho_hn 8mo ago
My advice: Upgrade yourself from programmer to engineer, including the learning that involves. I now enjoy going between software and hardware/EE/mech, between writing code and CAD, between bits and metal working, between creating
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by sho_hn 8mo ago
I'm impressed by the people doing this job. How do you turn off at the end of the shift and go home to sleep, when you know an hour more of work could make a more immediate difference? How does work/life balance work in this profe

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