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by sprash 4y ago
Agreed. The display in Jupyter should happen via some inline WebGL-shaders which would be instant rendering. Also the "marching qubes" algorithm to render the stl is not exactly state of the art (use at least octrees or something)
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by sprash 4y ago
I used to like OpenSCAD for its simple approach but then I discovered SDF-based modelling with Python made possible with this neat library: [1]. This is perfect if you are a programmer that doesn't know anything about CAD-Software. 1.:
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by sprash 4y ago
When is China going to "acknowledge the truth about climate"? When it finished building the hundreds of planned coal power plants? This BS is all a pure geopolitics show with obvious traitors in power of western governments.
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by sprash 4y ago
It's not that impressive if you consider that the current government in Germany is driving a massive de-industrialization campaign. Destroying the own car industry fits well in the agenda.
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by sprash 4y ago
Most of the criticisms in this talk are solved with DRI3. Also this guy makes money with a consultant agency that mainly works on Wayland and indirectly profits from shitting on X11. This is not a neutral source.
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by sprash 4y ago
X11 became really stable in the late 00s. And since the introduction of DRI3 it is at the same technological level of Wayland concerning the efficient buffer swap mechanism. X11 is however still miles ahead on the architectural level. Parts
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by sprash 4y ago
By gold standard I actually mean no fractional reserve banking. The great depression was caused by the federal reserve. As soon as you have fractional reserve banking you allow over-leveraged debts which lead immediately to boom and bust cy
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by sprash 4y ago
X11 is actually not really difficult to maintain. There is just no corporate funding anymore. Wayland is designed to be used in car entertainment systems. At least this is where most of the funding is coming from. As such it is completely u
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by sprash 4y ago
The boom and bust cycles are artificial and are created entirely by the central bank. We can have continuous stable development and did have it when the gold standard was still a thing.
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by sprash 4y ago
The work is not done for free. It is done by consultant agencies like Collabora with full time paid developers. It is just unclear who funds them. And no, it's not worth it. The amount of regressions are high compared to the rather que
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by sprash 4y ago
> Collabora ports windows game to linux. Not according to their references. > They created SteamOS for Valve. Obviously not. They created some parts of the update system for SteamOS 3.0.
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by sprash 4y ago
Since this isn't a community effort at all but purely done by a consultant agency called Collabora my question would be, who is funding them?
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by sprash 4y ago
This has been tried. All you will get is rejected pull requests. What makes it even worse is that GNOME has usurped many projects that were original not part of GNOME but that the community relies on (one example is the " GIMP Tool Ki
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by sprash 4y ago
There are several full time paid developers working on it which is plenty of resources (AFAIK more than KDE). They are not only actively user-hostile but also community-hostile. Every library or project they have under their umbrella receiv
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by sprash 4y ago
Flatpak is essentially RedHat/IBM tech. Why should Canonical even think about supporting their competitors. Just because multi billion corps like RedHat/IBM have the audacity to ask for donations to develop their products doesn&#x
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by sprash 4y ago
If payment is your main incentive to work on software you should stay out of the FOSS space. Go write your iPhone/Android app or sell your stuff on Steam. Another little insignificant app store won't convince Adobe or AutoDesk to
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by sprash 4y ago
Does your motherboard have a parallel port header? Connecting some LEDs is trivial. Writing a short C program to display CPU utilization on LTP is not that hard either. There goes your weekend.
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by sprash 4y ago
If you don't use your capslock/numlock/scrolllock on your keyboard you can use those LEDs to indicate hdd, network or even cpu activity (kernel must support it) by writing the appropriate command to the sys interface like thi
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by sprash 4y ago
From Alphabet Inc to Alphabet Soup. Why not? The former is just a front of the latter anyways.
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by sprash 4y ago
To me writing C is orders of magnitude easier because I almost instantly can see in my mind the resulting assembly code generated by the C code. In comparison Rust feels very opaque (e.g. A simple writeln expands into a rather large macro a
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by sprash 4y ago
This! If you really care about security you should educate people about how to use available tools to analyze C instead of relentless Rust evangelism. People arguing that "you can not ever write safe C" might also come to the conc
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by sprash 4y ago
Even simpler is farbfeld which supports 16bit per channel + alpha. The header is nothing more than a magic string and image dimensions.
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by sprash 4y ago
> Is there anything even remotely similar around? There is GnuBee [1] with two models for 2.5" drives [2] and 3.5" drives [3]. 1.: http://gnubee.org/ 2.: https://www.crowdsupply.com/gnubee/
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by sprash 4y ago
> No, all those can be solved with client libraries. There is no easy way to open a Window and render a string. Period! You either need to write it yourself completely (as OP stated) or you can use Gtk/Qt or other heavy weight &quot
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by sprash 4y ago
> there's nothing at the protocol level that prevents the long tail Severe over engineering, unstable interfaces, massive boiler plate and huge development overhead is preventing the long tail "at the protocol level". As e
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by sprash 4y ago
> "With Wayland, you handle everything, even with wlroots." The observable effect of this is that the long tail of niche projects like X11 window managers, custom toolkits or small applications (that don't carry around ext
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by sprash 4y ago
The Solution is very simple: 1. Scrap everything you have done so far and start over. 2. Use tried and tested engineering principles as basis for your development philosophy (such as "mechanism, not policy" or "Keep It Simple
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by sprash 4y ago
This is interesting if you are after retro effects. State of the art dithering however works with blue noise threshold textures[1] because we have plenty of memory available these days. Here is a nice comparison of all kinds of dithering al
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by sprash 4y ago
Not Semantics. It shows how Wayland forces a Gnome/GTK and KDE/Qt duopoly and cuts out the long tail of hobbyists and power users. The latter is the interesting part about the FOSS/Linux-Desktop ecosystem. With Wayland the FO
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by sprash 4y ago
Yes. Wayland is a display protocol, not a general-purpose IPC. Hence it must contain access control interfaces for buffers. Only the compositor has access to the composited image therefore is the only program able to make screenshots and fu

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