vasvir

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by vasvir 4y ago
Having a major project in Qt 15 years ago under my belt I can't disagree more. The project started with Qt 2 and at some point migrated to to Qt 3 in half a day. KDE is written in Qt and frankly if it was not a good option that experim
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by vasvir 4y ago
It is stuff like this that answers the question: What could possibly go wrong? Great catch (for the author) and thanks for the explanation (for the parent).
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by vasvir 4y ago
yes you are right. Guilty as charged. I have caught myself many times to crave for the simplistic easy answer and the ready made explanation. The one that tingles your ego suggesting: "How can nobody thought of that? Wow! I am really s
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by vasvir 4y ago
I didn't want to imply that. Educated people can be wrong alright. However really educated people are rarely absolute in their positions because they know that the world is not black and white and almost always the answer is "it d
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by vasvir 4y ago
I believe the underlying problem is the actual human programming deep in our genes. People tend to get organized in clans (i.e. football teams in Europe, political parties etc) and to host polarized opinions such as conspiracy theories that
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by vasvir 4y ago
Very cool. Thanks for posting this. I tried with screen and I can confirm that it also works.
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by vasvir 4y ago
Also the deployment makes much more sense in the web. Users are always in the latest version of the software with no install / update shenanigans. This has other implications as well. The application may change internal formats since i
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by vasvir 4y ago
Matrix is a nice federated protocol and with its client element (formerly riot) https://matrix.org/docs/projects/client/element both demonstrate some respect for user privacy boundaries. But since it is mostl
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by vasvir 4y ago
Skype was "good" back then because it could pierce firewalls and nat setups with its p2p magic. See https://www.theregister.com/2003/10/08/how_does_skype_get_th... but if you look around you will fi
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by vasvir 4y ago
MariaDB sports several storage engines such as InnoDB, MyISAM, Aria etc One of them is CSV which uses plain text files as backends https://mariadb.com/kb/en/csv-overview/
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by vasvir 4y ago
I can attest that KODI has options to bypass the default audio format that was automatically selected during handshake usually through HDMI. The use case is the following. Consider one that has: * 5.1 capable audio system * A TVBox (K
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by vasvir 4y ago
Where there is GNU Octave https://octave.org/ an Open Source MATLAB clone that works ok for me but your mileage may vary.
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by vasvir 4y ago
Looks a lot like Hypothesis https://web.hypothes.is/ which is not only for PDF but also for any web page with a url. Apparently the whole annotation thing is a W3C standard https://web.hypothes.is/blog/
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by vasvir 4y ago
Where is xonix? Better not answer this. I am still trying to make up for all the hours I lost 30 years ago...
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by vasvir 5y ago
Audio? I believe X has nothing to do with audio. This is a job for ALSA, pulseaudio and most recently pipewire.
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by vasvir 5y ago
What that means though? A VCL backend that targets HMTL5 instead of Qt? Can you elaborate?
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by vasvir 5y ago
It also works for me in firefox 96 Debian, Linux but it needs some time for downloading... You can't open local files or save to local files. Open/Save remote crashes... Pretty impressive though.
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by vasvir 5y ago
Well there is makefile2graph https://github.com/lindenb/makefile2graph . It is even packaged be Debian and it does exactly that. I use it like this from inside the Makefile: make-db.png: make -f $(MAKEF