ideasman42

6 ms·

1.
by ideasman42 16d ago
I couldn't believe it when the "real" news headline was reported - destructively scanning books. I thought this was one of the less plausible parts of the book, Sigh! :)
2.
by ideasman42 1mo ago
It's always seemed strange to me that it's so common for people to feel the need to have continuous ... radio/podcasts/tv. It turns out there is a fair amount of research done on this, look into: https://en.wi
3.
ST-RS: A suckless-like ST terminal in Rust(codeberg.org)
2 points by ideasman42 3mo ago|2 comments
4.
by ideasman42 3mo ago
Since moving to Wayland, I missed ST. While there are many terminals available, most seemed too bloated. This has enough font support to be useful, but doesn't provide scrolling, tabs etc... similar in scope to ST.
5.
by ideasman42 5mo ago
This was reported for Blender/Wayland, they might be able to use a fix like this: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/commit/eaf63a35...
6.
by ideasman42 5mo ago
What benefits does this have over https://github.com/dandavison/delta ?
7.
by ideasman42 11mo ago
My own modal editing system for emacs: After using evil-mode and meow, this is a system I've come up with that addresses issues I ran into with both. https://codeberg.org/ideasman42/emacs-meep
8.
by ideasman42 1y ago
Had a similar experience, tried to switch to Meow twice, it's really nice in most ways. But I found lack of vim-style repeat and accidental "dropping" the selection to be so unwieldy that I couldn't stick to using it. En
9.
by ideasman42 1y ago
This has also been going in in Libraries in Australia. Go to the library - toddlers Rush to play on the computer. I wouldn't mind so much if it was available for those who wanted it but in my experience it tends to be central and noisy
10.
by ideasman42 1y ago
Something they missed out with the GitLFS cons is authentication, if you don't use SSH-agent, pushing involves authenticating multiple times, sometimes more than 2-3 times in my experience.
11.
by ideasman42 2y ago
I remember downloading it from my library on a floppy disk (hoping the librarian wouldn't hear it the floppy drive working - since it wasn't allowed). :) It's in fact still quite small if additional 3rd party libraries are di
12.
by ideasman42 2y ago
You need to consider * How much time you are willing to invest in learning something "different/cusotm". * How much time are you interested to spend setting up your custom layout. * How much do you care about muscle memory wi
13.
Show HN: TopazNG - Amiga system font for coding and terminal use(codeberg.org)
6 points by ideasman42 2y ago|0 comments
14.
by ideasman42 2y ago
https://codeberg.org/ideasman42/font-topaz-ng Re-creating a vectorized version of Amiga's system font. Since I've always found font's online to be unreasonably opaque, the glyphs are stored in a TOML fil
15.
by ideasman42 2y ago
ORG's tightly integrated into emacs & it's ecosystem. It's fine but I don't think there is an equivalent to Sphinx for large cross referenced documents, with different outputs formats & support for translations (
16.
by ideasman42 2y ago
Strange that everyone seems to think it's simpler, it seems might be a web-developer bias here. I'm not a web developer and I don't find markdown especially easy/pretty/simple... I find it annoying when the same mar
17.
by ideasman42 2y ago
Right, this is the one fairly clear down-side of RST, in practice I've found it's never been an issue - but it does seem like a strange constraint. If you really want you can define bold italic text using some styling magic, but t
18.
by ideasman42 2y ago
Keep in mind you might not _only_ be exporting HTML.
19.
by ideasman42 2y ago
I've written a few Sphinx extensions ... it seemed OK to me, a bit awkward but long term - this is the kind of thing you do rarely & use often, so how nice it is to write extensions is barely an issue.
20.
by ideasman42 3y ago
I've been using emacs as my main editor for years now and don't find the startup speed to be an issue - to the point I've never bothered with emacsclient: It starts up with ~77 packages in half a second. This is my config. h
21.
by ideasman42 3y ago
Once this is working, is there a simple way to switch voices with the default downloaded models? Or does this require downloading other models or generating them?
22.
by ideasman42 3y ago
When trying to input a larger amount of text I get the error: The expanded size of the tensor (4293) must match the existing size (512) Any way to fix this from the IPython notebook examples?
23.
by ideasman42 3y ago
The down side of this is you have to remember them, for some time now I've been writing with n-gram auto-completion based on a large body of text (including code-comments for projects I work on), see https://codeberg.org&#x2
24.
by ideasman42 3y ago
In fact no, Python 3.10 is OK new enough. There is still the lag though, Python 3.10 was out for quite a while before PyPy supported 3.10.
25.
by ideasman42 3y ago
If it was relatively up to date with Python3 I'd use it, but as it lags behind considerably I avoid it, even for personal work.
26.
by ideasman42 3y ago
Are there any projects using this?
27.
by ideasman42 3y ago
This article misses that there are pragmatists are not the kind of technology-disinterested "normal" people. An individual may have the same values as an early adopter, while having to make the decision to used tried and true syst
28.
by ideasman42 3y ago
There are active home-schooling communities where kids socialize frequently, go on camps at least once a year. And catch up informally. Also socialize with other non-home-schoolers. An issue with most criticisms of home-schooling is they ar
29.
by ideasman42 4y ago
At what point would the magnets lose their strength?
30.
by ideasman42 4y ago
The UI works the same way it did back in the day, with updates to abstract away OpenGL spesific logic (preparing for Vulkan).

More ›