signaru

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by signaru 3y ago
I also used to be a non coder until I got my hands on VB. Consequently, my first programs were GUI instead of command line, which was everyone else's "hello world". It took a while to convince myself to learn other languages
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by signaru 3y ago
Any thoughts on Mojo? From what I hear, it is also trying to solve the multi-language problem.
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by signaru 3y ago
Sometimes the introduction chapter(s) is the killer when the author tries too hard to convince you to read the book when you're in fact already reading the book. It starts to feel like forever before I actually learn anything new or us
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by signaru 3y ago
I try guesstimating the "information density". Often you can tell from the title that a topic is so specific that the book shouldn't be as long as it is. Self help books selling you one revolutionary idea are an example. Othe
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by signaru 3y ago
It's not just AI art. Memes and unrelated stock image have also been used. It might be due to some SEO belief.
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by signaru 3y ago
See what I want to think about, but it is an unstable image flash against a dark background. Details seem there, but not enough persistence of vision to observe them. Can keep flashing the images as necessary, but it doesn't have the s
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by signaru 3y ago
Although not "official" by MS, perhaps the one from ANTLR's collection [0] is a good start (there are also other ANTLR VB6 grammars documented elsewhere). It does require knowing ANTLR's meta syntax, but it's not th
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by signaru 3y ago
If it is just specifically MIDI editing that you need, a DAW can often be overkill. And when it is only MIDI editing, the (free/relatively updated) options are fewer. Sekaiju being my preferred tool, but there is also Aria Maestosa whi
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by signaru 3y ago
I still use FF, but I do miss how customizable its UI used to be. I even made it look like Chrome back then!
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by signaru 3y ago
For one, Ubuntu should stop breaking Firefox with Snap, even though I think that is a relatively small user base. (There are some suggested fixes but I think the simplest is to bypass Ubuntu's packages and just download FF directly fro
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by signaru 3y ago
Microsoft tried with XPS which is a zipped XML format, pretty much like MS Office 2007+ files. To Adobe's credit, they made PDF an open standard around the time XPS came out. Maybe it's a combination of being there first, many fil
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by signaru 3y ago
Agree. The question also lacks a "when" part. If it were "Would you pay $5 for this NOW?" then the answer has a higher chance to be NO, regardless of whether the other person think it is a good deal. The question is mor
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by signaru 3y ago
Do these emails mention anything about content? It's scary if sites are actually ranked based on the spacing of control elements, fonts and such.
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by signaru 3y ago
With my C# codes not heavily tied to specific .Net frameworks, it's not really affected by breaking compatibilities. However I avoid the latest IDE (VS 2022) which come with the latest frameworks as the IDE is often noticeably slower.
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by signaru 3y ago
> If you give busy reviewers an easy "out" ... Reviewers looking for an "easy way out" might be inevitable if they continue to remain uncompensated and uncredited for their time and efforts while journals get all the
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by signaru 3y ago
It's awesome how he is active on stack overflow for almost anything DEFLATE related. I once tried stuffing deflate compressed vector graphics into PDFs. Among other things, it turns out an Adler-32 checksum is necessary for compliance
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by signaru 3y ago
It took me a bit of searching, but it's nice to know that there are desktop browsers that are not based on Chromium or Gecko, i.e. WebKit [1]. I would like to try Otter Browser [2], next time I use my Windows machine. [1] https:/
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by signaru 3y ago
A more realistic comparison for webdev is using plain JS vs using frameworks.
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by signaru 3y ago
It's nearly a year now that I am using Ubuntu 22.04 (and that the Firefox from Mozilla has no problems) so I don't remember all the details. I also tried using the apt version of Firefox as others also suggested. But it eventually
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by signaru 3y ago
This is why I've been using Firefox downloaded directly from Mozilla for a while now instead of the broken one shipped with Ubuntu. I just need to manually update via the "Help -> About" every once in a while, but things l
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by signaru 3y ago
It will be interesting to see citations in years to come or if it will make it to "popular articles" in ScienceDirect's front page.
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by signaru 3y ago
Many CAD programs, opensource or proprietary, work almost this way. There is often a relatively lesser known CAD/geometry engine behind the front end everyone knows as the CAD program. Perhaps since engineering has more standard comput
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by signaru 3y ago
I was reading about compression algorithms recently and this reminded me of the mess of LZW compression being used in GIF images.
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by signaru 3y ago
The reason I never had to install Adobe Reader for more than a decade now is that Sumatra was/is such a tiny install. Thanks! Edit: I just checked and Acrobat Reader requires 450/900/380 MB for Win32/Win64/Mac respe
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by signaru 3y ago
Software's re-usability is both a blessing and a curse. Hardware also has modularity, but it is still common to build hardware from scratch. On the other hand, once a library or framework exists, many people no longer feel the need to
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by signaru 3y ago
My approach is to just question everything "else" where there is a chance I might be able to do something about it. This is why I'm not popular because I don't have much interesting trivia for party conversations. But I
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by signaru 3y ago
Not just useful, but also user friendly. Not all computer users were savvy enough for command line apps or bare bones script source.
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by signaru 3y ago
Based on how the article describes the imagery, I think I am somewhere in the middle and just always assumed everyone else also is. I can see images that I recall from memory or trigger with my thoughts, but the images are unstable, and the
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by signaru 3y ago
If starting from scratch, PNG files may actually be more complex, since decoding is needed. On the other hand, once a drawing API is available, it is easier to map some form of vector graphics encoding which calls corresponding drawing inst
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by signaru 3y ago
In a lesser evil scenario it could have been Microsoft as they could have an incentive to use Unity to force users into Windows, or devs into C#. Unity is even featured in Visual Studio before.

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