skriticos2

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by skriticos2 6y ago
I'd agree with you a decade ago, but nowadays Qt is all over the place (I still like it, just not good to start out - two GUI frameworks in the core library, which one do I choose; the docs certainly don't help). Today you fare be
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by skriticos2 6y ago
I remember the time when I was a teen and started out with TurboPascal 8. It was a really polished experience with the inbuilt library being enough to do anything console (even a GUI framework). Very found memories and it did show me the ba
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by skriticos2 6y ago
Yes, pretty much this. The last time I tried it, the platform had a dark theme style that wx tried to apply, but then ended up with light grey borders within the dark parts of the widgets and there really wasn't a simple solution - the
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by skriticos2 6y ago
Unless you consider HTML5 in the browser, the options are quite limited (I guess you do, as you included Electron). GTK is always GNOME first and has issues most other places or just looks ugly. wxWidgets always looked off and had the weird
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by skriticos2 6y ago
I concur. It really depends on the reward function you chaise. Let's say you are a genius OCD person being elated by seeing the numbers on your bank accounts go up and nothing much else. You live 60-90 years and at the end you have som
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by skriticos2 6y ago
Indeed. One of the entries like this is a dedicated robot infrastructure service (like, managing real robot hardware that does something out there - think delivery robots). Certainly out of the usual software domain. They also collaborate w
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by skriticos2 7y ago
Kubuntu at least boots. I was trying neon first, which refused to do so on my laptop.
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by skriticos2 7y ago
I just recently switched to kubuntu (KDE) back from fedora (Gnome 3). On one hand I do like that the desktop does not try to re-define basic muscle memory things, like changing the shortcut if you try to switch between two windows of the sa
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by skriticos2 7y ago
The problem with the 737-MAX was not that it used a computer. It was that the 737 series is generally not designed to be fly-by-wire and it was rammed in there to keep previous flight characteristics and just generally downplay the design r
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by skriticos2 7y ago
Nokia had a problem long before that. They were trying to play on too many playgrounds. They had S60 and Symbian as their workhorse OSs and then were dabbling in various custom Linux stacks (I had an N800 back than, GTK+ based - could skin
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by skriticos2 7y ago
I was thinking about that too - and all the articles about the Chinese ghost towns. Few people are going out most places where the epidemic is raging - society basically came to a stop. My guess is that that would indeed modify the function
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by skriticos2 7y ago
Metallurgy is fascinating! This reminds me of the semi-secret one crystal cooling process for airplane turbine segments. The entire thing comes out as one crystal and you need very precise temperature control not just as a whole or in vario
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by skriticos2 7y ago
I concur. Also in feudal times people lived 30 years on average and had horrible quality of life, spending most of the time with back breaking work. Death was common before, during and after birth. We just like to romanticize it. I like fan
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by skriticos2 8y ago
Most supermarkets have bottle recycling ATMs (outside the entrance) around here in Germany. The homeless scavenging bottles from public bins and returning them are doing just fine. I'm not aware of the lot of mess this causes though, n
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by skriticos2 8y ago
It's about 30 USD ct in Germany (25 euro ct) for plastic bottles (that you have to pay up front). Very few bottles are not returned around here.
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by skriticos2 8y ago
Person from Germany here where we have 4 different bins per household - paper, recyclables (metal, plastic), compostables and dump (+ glass by color, batteries and electronics at dedicated sites). We get to a recycling rate of about 20-30%
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by skriticos2 8y ago
Yep. That's the current problem. They have built a ton of wind-farms out in the north sea and have industry in the very south of the country. So they want to build a set of power-lines that connects these places called SuedLink. They s
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by skriticos2 8y ago
Yes, but Japan also has trice the population density of France and most of the people are focused in the gargantuan city landscapes like the greater Tokyo bay area. Makes it a lot easier to saturate the trains while maintaining a reasonable
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by skriticos2 8y ago
That's why they reminded me of the series immediately. :) One of my favorites.
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by skriticos2 8y ago
My thoughts exactly. Especially since it's much easier to simulate 1 gravity in space with rotating space stations. (You live long enough on Mars/Moon/etc., you are not coming back without being crushed). The stations would n
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by skriticos2 8y ago
I love vim, but that .xinitrc stuff is really out of date by now. Gnome 3 now uses Wayland fairly well and the setup is done with the GUI app Tweaks and the system settings.
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by skriticos2 8y ago
It's not even about the price. I have no problem tweaking my Linux desktop to use an international Dvorak layout (useful for those European languages with ä's and é's) and switching the caps and ctrl keys. Say what you want a
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by skriticos2 8y ago
Nah, wrong comparison. Microsoft mostly stayed in their corner (Software) while the others (Google, Amazon) are branching out to everything else. Things like Waymo will probably even take over the revenue of pure digital services (though it
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by skriticos2 8y ago
Not the same problem, but I have been on and off thinking about infinite/recursive compression and compression of random data. Finding patterns in numbers can be very compelling.
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by skriticos2 8y ago
I concur. It's an interesting endeavour though - which mashes well with humanities impulse to progress and push the boundaries. Not everybody cares about that, but there are enough dreamers that marvel about humanity becoming an space
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by skriticos2 8y ago
For me it usually is "I would like to use some sensible tools, but corporate policy requires me to not do that (because they are not available) - so I have to (ab)use Excel/Office/VBA to get things done." It's not p
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by skriticos2 8y ago
This reminds me of employee work reviews in Germany when they leave, that are mandated by law to be positive (not kidding). The result is that it spawned a new code language for HR people (there are dictionaries) that "translate"
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by skriticos2 8y ago
With a capsule you load the machine and feedstock comfortably on the ground, shoot it up and press the start button. Wait for it to complete, deorbit, unload. With Dragon you have about 6 tons of weight to work with, so even if the aperture
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by skriticos2 8y ago
Yes, but you'd simplify logistics. Maintaining a space station is magnitudes more expensive. Construction, complexity, upkeep, loading logistics. If the machines fit, you almost always come out ahead cost-wise.
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by skriticos2 8y ago
Why not just send the weawer fitted to a dragon for a few dozen orbits and then land the produce? With block 5 they can make the trip for 50 million. Unless the machines are too big it won't get any cheaper. Little logistics needed.

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