octorian

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by octorian 4mo ago
Okay, too late to edit, but I decided to take a look. The latest version of P4V actually is using Qt6, so I guess I have to stand somewhat corrected. I'm just bitter about a couple of apps I use that are all permanently stuck on Qt4 wh
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by octorian 4mo ago
I'd be more curious about that specific app. Niche bespoke commercial apps have this habit of being permanently stuck on old versions of Qt that don't handle these things as well as the newer versions. And until they are totally
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by octorian 5mo ago
I'm personally not a fan of GitHub actions, because of those dependencies outside your control and more because they're a pain to debug. A lot of the time, it feels like I'm tinkering with this huge script then holding my br
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by octorian 6mo ago
And this is a case where there's a long tail of "niche issues" that they end up becoming major issues when taken in aggregate.
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by octorian 6mo ago
I recently upgraded to Pop_OS 24.04 because I was sick and tired of being stuck with an outdated base. But after trying the new Cosmic desktop, I basically ran screaming back to Gnome/X11 (with a couple of extensions to give me the old
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by octorian 8mo ago
Mostly some version of 2. Or more specifically, I have a lot of top-level note documents with somewhat clear titles and organizations. And then there are a lot of "thing to remember" snippets that frequently have no obvious place
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by octorian 8mo ago
Do I hoard notes/links? Yes. Do I struggle to turn them into actions? No. Do I struggle to keep them organized for later reference? All the time. Do I use Obsidian? No. I actually use Joplin, which I switched to after deciding I needed
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by octorian 8mo ago
And I'm reading this article while sitting at an EMC/EMI test facility monitoring the test for one of my products. Certainly an interesting, and somewhat on-topic, read.
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by octorian 8mo ago
I still think there's a benefit to sticking with EVs from companies that are actually "all in" on EVs. Otherwise you're buying the product that the company (or really the sales/service channel) really doesn't
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by octorian 8mo ago
I'm very happy that the "base model" of cars now has a lot of the modern tech. Not because I'd personally buy a base model, but because its what you get whenever you travel and need to rent something. In the past, when
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by octorian 9mo ago
Its also useful for developers to have a way of bypassing customer support to have direct visibility into what issues the actual users are experiencing. This can come in the form of browsing tickets, online forums, or social media. Often s
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by octorian 9mo ago
The last time I worked on a project that actually had all these roles, "architect" basically meant someone who sat in meetings all day and played very little role in the actual software development of the project. There were plent
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by octorian 9mo ago
The Seawolf was kinda the first attempt at a next generation attack sub while we were still figuring out the technology, making it far too expensive. But it led to the Virginia class, which has gone into mainstream production. In some ways
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by octorian 9mo ago
This might be an unpopular opinion, but I'll take a car infotainment system that doesn't need CarPlay/AndroidAuto to be usable (and lacks it) over one that requires a phone attached via CarPlay/AndroidAuto to be usable
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by octorian 9mo ago
The endless list of "exception" cases is why I'm continuous skeptical about any sort of full-self-driving claims. Sure, you can cover everything they can think of. But there are so many cases you can't predict, or which
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by octorian 9mo ago
> There is nothing fun about sitting in traffic on your commute to/from work, and neither there is much fun in doing long-distance driving in a straight line on highway for hours on end And I wish this would be more broadly recogniz
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by octorian 10mo ago
Oh, its definitely a dumpster fire. And they keep changing the parental controls to make it less obvious what's appropriate for what age. And then there's the constant begging for fewer restrictions and more things being permit
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by octorian 10mo ago
Just seeing that sentence fragment about "structures of power and violence" told me so much about the author. Its the sort of language that brings with it a whole host of stereotypes, some of which were immediately confirmed with
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by octorian 10mo ago
And yet nobody wants to actually offer a tape-based solution that's practical, easy to get, holds enough data, and doesn't cost a blithering fortune. Even if you are willing to spend that small fortune, good luck actually getting
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by octorian 1y ago
Somehow I'm reminded of the Futurama parody documentary: "Don't Date Robots!"
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by octorian 1y ago
I'm grateful they don't make truly stripped down models of cars anymore, because those were always what would end up in the rental car inventory. Every time I'd rent a car, it felt like I was taking a step back in time. Now a
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by octorian 2y ago
One thing about this period that kinda annoyed me in the tech press, is that it always felt like these companies were making new/better computers for "their existing customers" as if they were only ever competing against thei
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by octorian 2y ago
Focus on farming also gives the issue a bi-partisan spin, which is something you really need to make any actual progress on issues in US politics these days.
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by octorian 2y ago
This is an easy dodge. The problem is that when lack of repairability becomes the norm, the consumer no longer has that choice. Or they have to severely compromise their market choices in the search for repairable products. And wanting rep
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by octorian 2y ago
It would result in a situation where nobody could depend on the expansion module, if they wanted their game to have the largest possible market. It would also cause a lot of confusion, where clueless older relatives would buy games for kids
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by octorian 3y ago
Okay, this makes me think of QTBUG-56214, which has to do with Qt Creator suddenly not recognizing mouse scroll wheel events after a while. (often as a result of various device state changes common if you use a KVM on your machine) Been fo
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KiCad 6.0.0 Release Announcement(kicad.org)
55 points by octorian 5y ago|16 comments
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by octorian 5y ago
One thing that got a bit lost in all of this is that "BLM" stands for two things... 1. A literal phrase that's not very controversial on its own, which many automatically agreed with and stood by. 2. An organization with its
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by octorian 5y ago
I would argue that software written under government contract is inherently awful and unusable, because... - It is driven entirely by formal requirements and specifications - These requirements are approved by "the customer," whic
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by octorian 5y ago
The designs of those kits from the 80s and 90s were also very flimsy and would break easily if you started to play with them. So really, the original build falling apart and becoming spare parts was almost expected. This really changed once

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