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by slondr 8y ago
Ah crap. I was just working on my resume too. Well, guess I'm moving to Mega + Emacs again once it comes back up. I'm not going to trust any online service with my workflow if they're going to have downtime like this.
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Personally, I think it's a little frightening that the general public seems to have lost interest in the once-hot debate about whether or not platform providers are responsible for the content on their platform. This article assumes th
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The answer to that question is 50% "We don't know enough about the human brani" and 50% "Yes." There's been a lot of research into organic computing and how it could relate to neural networks, but it's an
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This is why the CC0 is way more useful than just putting "This code is in the public domain" at the top of every header file.
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#!/usr/bin/env python3
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I'm fairly certain the download offered on Blackmagic's website is just a JAR file that you can run in your preferred JVM. It's also in the AUR, if you use Arch.
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by slondr 8y ago
+1. I haven't seen a single free video editor that is actually professional grade like Davinci Resolve is. Openshot and Olive/Kdenlive may be great at replacing iMovie and Windows Movie Maker, but there's a level of featurefu
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by slondr 8y ago
If you want to write a program in a Lisp and ship it as a compiled binary, your best bet is to use Common Lisp and compile it with SBCL. A stripped SLAD binary will be way smaller with way less overhead then running a whole host of bytecode
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Clojure compiles to Java bytecode so it's use as an embedded script engine will be limited to programs written in Java, or else you'll have a huge overhead with having to run a JVM next to your application. It's a shame, too,
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Linux has always been treated like it's Linus's personal project. That's why more than a few of us believed that Linus taking a 'break' a few months ago was the beginning of the end. It turns out that not much chang
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Almost certainly. They also pushed their voice assistant on Android almost as hard as Apple pushed Siri. Integrating it into default home screens, keyboards, etc.
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Everyone I know who owns an iPhone XR only got it because they're in some upgrade plan that gives them a new phone every year or two. Nobody actually wants it. There's die-hards who needs the XS because it's the latest and gr
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Thunderbird is a XUL implementation with a lot of JavaScript being used for its UI. It's as close as you can get to being the Electron of Firefox without being in a PPA. The most recent version (Thunderbird 60) introduced sweeping UI c
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Ideas are easy to find. People willing to spend time and effort implementing ideas are very difficult to find.
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This is definitely one of the bigger issues. Early on, GIMP adopted the Emacs development style of building a solid core of functionality in C combined with a REPL for a scripting language within which other features can be developed. Unfor
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Yep. There's a reason that the GIMP project also spawned one of the most widely-used graphical abstraction layers in desktop computing history.
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What happened is Blender followed a linear development trajectory, constantly adding new features and fixing bugs at a reasonable pace. GIMP, on the other hand, adds a handful of features once every year and a half. Marketing was also a fac