oriolid

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by oriolid 1mo ago
In the before times, a small dedicated team could hold back against bad engineering culture and intentional enshittification. Now the balance has changed.
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by oriolid 3mo ago
Does it make Matrix "proprietary" or "silo"? Did the IRCv3 WG have any results in 2015?
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by oriolid 3mo ago
Like Matrix (the one at https://matrix.org )?
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by oriolid 3mo ago
So... Usually it's claimed that one of the advantages of IRC is that it doesn't depend on a single server, so using a single server feels a bit like cheating. Replacing the server-to-server protocol sounds a lot like it's not
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by oriolid 3mo ago
Netsplits, missed messages and bot wars over channel and nick ownership were an integral part of IRC UX, and they were direct consequences the IRC protocol. If Discord was run on top of IRC protocol, it would have the same. Discord would pr
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by oriolid 3mo ago
Everyone probably has thought "what was the person thinking when they wrote this". Now you know that they probably didn't think (and since 2025 or so, it might not even have been a person).
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by oriolid 6mo ago
I can totally understand why. I tried fixing ag around the time Ripgrep was first published and once I learned about rg I never looked back. On a related note, it's now ten years since an everyday tool written in Rust was released and
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by oriolid 6mo ago
For me it was trying to add a filter to search CMake files to ag and then realizing that the code had some rather stupid design decisions that prevented it. I wrote a pull request that fixed enough things to add the filter, got ignored by t
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by oriolid 9mo ago
I'm not completely convinced. When I was a teenager I pirated games because I didn't have money (and games were incredibly expensive back in the day). The people who I copied them from did it to show off their collection and conne
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by oriolid 10mo ago
I think every every company I've worked at that had R&D had some kind of reward system for patents. Yes, most of the software patents were nonsense but those who have their names on it still did get paid.
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by oriolid 10mo ago
Suunto, Polar and probably a lot of others were doing the same. Android was attractive because it would be a huge saving on software development costs, have maps out of the box and allow third-party apps. At least Polar had a watch that wou
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by oriolid 10mo ago
> "Peeing yourself to stay warm". Which in-house OS this was about? For Symbian, "burning platform" was at least honest.
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by oriolid 1y ago
Make it idiot at algorithms and I believe you.
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by oriolid 1y ago
Did you actually look? Typical websites are not static and include a huge amount of JavaScript and other stuff from different ad networks, analysis tools, etc. It looks like most of it isn't cached. Video delivery on the other hand is
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by oriolid 1y ago
No article sorry, it's just what the bandwidth display on my home router shows. I could post some screenshots but I don't care for answering to everyone who tries to debunk them. Mobile version of Facebook is by the way much bette
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by oriolid 1y ago
> The vast majority of internet bandwidth is people streaming video. Shaving a few megs from a webpage load would be the tiniest drop in the bucket. Is it really? I was surprised to see that surfing newspaper websites or Facebook produce
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by oriolid 1y ago
To each their own.
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by oriolid 1y ago
How much did you get paid for this comment? And if not, why was it worth writing?
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by oriolid 1y ago
CMake has fetch_content, and CPM is a package manager built on top of it. They are not great.
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by oriolid 1y ago
It's missing one important distinction: Below 0C: Freezing, probably slippery, not raining water. Above 0C: not freezing, probably not slippery, rain comes as water. They are as uncomfortable as you make them.
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by oriolid 2y ago
Don't you remember how hostile people were to ripgrep just because ag or find + xargs + grep existed? Or the same with meson because cmake exists and cmake because autotools exists? Or systemd or clang? It takes an unusualy stubborn pe
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by oriolid 2y ago
No, drunk people who do stupid shit or have passed out in public are just locked up for night and then let go unless they injured or killed someone.
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by oriolid 2y ago
Cool project! I understand mass producing these doesn't much sense, but would a build kit that has just PCBs with SMD components in place and the rest of work left to user work? I know someone who did a similar project and it turned ou
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by oriolid 2y ago
I doubt that it would be good business for Microsoft though. The people who use them, and the people who buy them and force others to use them are two separate groups, and anyone who cares even a bit about user experience and has power to m
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by oriolid 2y ago
> apple finished the transition fat binaries are useless again? Is the transition really finished? I'm writing this on a x86_64 Macbook with a browser that is distributed as x86_64/arm64 universal binary.
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by oriolid 2y ago
Yes. The problem is that the field is insanely competitive, as in there are so many beginner pianists and so few paying gigs. Yes, there are many people who have made it as concert pianists, but concerning childhood dream careers, it is far
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by oriolid 2y ago
Yes, the giant in the language learning area is Duolingo and there are probably too many to list smaller ones. I wrote one word quizz app for myself when I was in high school, too bad startups weren't a thing back then.
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by oriolid 2y ago
Yes, there are gamified learning apps like this. Some of the more well-known ones are Simply Piano, Yousician, Skoove and Synthesia and various clones but just searching "piano" on iOS app store gave me longer list than I cared to
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by oriolid 2y ago
> and all the great virtuoso have gone through it whether they like it or not. It would be interesting to see some citations about this. > If this was true then we would be churning out new pianists at faster rate but its falling but
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by oriolid 2y ago
Playing scales and arpeggios is one common warmup. For practicing technique, there lots and lots of etudes by Czerny, Burgmüller and others that have copyright expired.

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