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by v1ne 3y ago
First, I'm really happy about all those solutions for the gaming industry! They solve real-world problems and work with software at scale, with great pragmatism. But I would have liked to see a comparison of this solution to others on
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by v1ne 3y ago
Hmm, sounds novel at first. But when I looked at the description of the synthesizer and their videos, I noticed that these are not free-running motors that would do their own thing. Instead, these are brushless DC motors tightly controlled
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by v1ne 3y ago
Indeed, motors are physical devices with their own imperfections. But … these are brushless motors, tightly controlled with a feedback loop. They, as they also say in their videos, very quickly follow input changes. I wonder how much weird
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by v1ne 3y ago
This discussion about monitor-aware positioning of windows relative to another is a real treasure trove: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland-protocols/-/m... One post summarizes it pretty well. Jeh
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by v1ne 3y ago
Looking at the examples given, it seems like Darktable becomes more and more unusable due to a lack of good defaults and easy configurability. I agree with the author that opinion and good defaults help to keep software simple. Yet, I also
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by v1ne 3y ago
I'm really sold on the idea: Instead of a full-blown OS, you compile your application with a thin layer of support libraries that provide the OS features that your application needs (network, I/O) and that talks to a hypervisor. I
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by v1ne 3y ago
For me, Computer Modern Font (CMF) looks like it's an example for how to write Metafont. The serifs are incredibly pronounced, making every document typeset with it look like a Roman tombstone. But that's a common theme with (La)T
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by v1ne 3y ago
I share your sympathy for Wayland over X11 for bringing the Linux desktop into the 21st century (VRR, mixed DPI, …). But you're flat-out wrong about Windows. It supports any of those flawlessly and with backwards compatibility.
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by v1ne 3y ago
Well, so many words and also such strong words, e.g. "Performance is the key focus. A design goal for Aeron is to be the highest throughput with the lowest and most predictable latency of any messaging system." I find that hard to