tapia

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by tapia 8d ago
In Linux it's pretty easy to create such things with cups. A while ago I did a cups backend for my Fujitsu Quaderno A4 [1]. It is super useful to be able to just open any document, in any program that supports printing, and then just &
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by tapia 3mo ago
I understand the goal, but describing complex geometries with specific tolerances with natural language is much more complex than creating the geometry programmatically. There are geometries that I could not clearly describe with words, but
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by tapia 3mo ago
How can this approach be better than just selecting the edge and click the extrude button/write extrude command? Now you have to start writing a prompt and hope that what you want to do is understood by the LLM. I mean, CAD is really n
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by tapia 5mo ago
When you click the link it will not navigate to a new page, but instead open some kind of pop-up window with the other issue. I have been very annoyed by this behavior for the last couple of days.
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by tapia 5mo ago
Touchscreen is one of those things that sound nice, but in my experience are not so useful. At least not for my typical use (programming, writing, even CAD design). Before having a framework 13 I had a dell xps 13 with touchscreen for about
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by tapia 5mo ago
How is Linux fault that some strange peripherals/input devices don't work?
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by tapia 6mo ago
Not my experience at least. You can go to the forum of archlinux and see the replies. They tend to be quite useful and in a good tone.
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by tapia 6mo ago
I agree that it is very different from other CAD software, but that is also something I like. When I started using SolveSpace for some easy models, I was a bit lost. But then it clicked, and I really enjoyed the different approach. It is no
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by tapia 9mo ago
The accountability part is what makes me more angry. I get to lose so many (maybe hundreds?) of hours a year because of how bad DB works. Meanwhile the executives at DB get their nice boni each year and absurdly high wages for what they do.
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by tapia 9mo ago
I am always a bit annoyed when the root of the problem is not explained. This is the case most of the time (DB of course). I would really like to have a bit more information. Even if there is nothing you can do, it helps to understand how b
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by tapia 10mo ago
Just got my Framework 13 last week. I really love this computer, and how it is pushing for upgradability and repairability in this segment. Thanks a lot for creating this computer!
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by tapia 10mo ago
Yes, I think that just trying to use services that don't require special mobile apps can get you a long way. It is sometimes difficult, but now I'm beginning to move more in this direction :)
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by tapia 10mo ago
I just bought a second Fairphone 4 just to play a bit with pmOS. I'm really surprised by the state it is. It's not fully usable as a daily driver yet, but with some work it can get there. Waydroid works also pretty good. Of course
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by tapia 10mo ago
That sounds interesting. But how can you test these internal binary formats? Do I need to extract that somehow?
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by tapia 10mo ago
I am an engineer, but not a computer scientist or developer. I have been using Linux for 20 years and program a lot at work and at home. I think it should be possible, but find it difficult to interpret the hex code. I do have a general ide
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by tapia 10mo ago
Thanks. That is kind of what I imagined. But I am not good at understanding the information from the hex editor. Reading the article I was a bit lost with the terms like little-endian and thought that that might be someone important concep
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by tapia 10mo ago
Sorry, that was a typo (autocorrected). I meant binary format.
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by tapia 10mo ago
I'm always amazed by people doing reverse engineering of some country formats. There's a binary format that I've been wanting to reverse engineer, but I don't know exactly how to start. It's for the result file of a
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by tapia 11mo ago
If you make a lot of slides with latex, then it is definitely worth it to try typst. I have a lot of presentations in latex for lectures and such things, with many animated tikz figures. But the compilation times are huge. At some point it
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by tapia 1y ago
I was very surprised that it worked perfectly in my 10-year old notebook. Normally, nothing this fancy is playable in a web browser for me. The CPU was about 20% (I only have two cores, 4 threads).
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by tapia 1y ago
I think that the tools are not will organized, and I always have problems finding the tool I need in the menu. The concept of having different workbenches does not work good for me, as often I am looking for a tool and then realize I am in
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by tapia 1y ago
This looks super nice! That is kind of the interface I wish FreeCAD could have. I am more the type of person who likes to use a python interface to create parametric models, but this is really cool! Anyone knows what is the status of Truck
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by tapia 1y ago
I also hate the youtube "feature" that translates the titles of videos to your setting's language. This is so annoying. I can understand English and don't need these automatic translations.
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by tapia 1y ago
Yes, the Glulam alternative tends to be a bit more expensive for some applications, but I am surprised that it is 5x more expensive than the steel solution. The reference I have (in Europe at least) is that the cost of Glulam is currently a
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by tapia 1y ago
If that is the case, then I don't see any novelty here. This has been done for a long time. In Germany, this is called "Panzerholz" (something like "bulletproof wood")
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by tapia 1y ago
You can probably do that already without this material. Glued laminated timber is already a pretty good material for such cases.
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by tapia 1y ago
Nice work. Maybe you could do some preprocessing of the XML data, so that you actually have a diff of the content and not the whole XML block.
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by tapia 2y ago
I am not sure that Wayland forces you to run all those things. That might be the case if you use Gnome, but e.g. sway is much more minimalistic.
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by tapia 2y ago
I guess that using Consent-O-Matic [1] has saved me some hours of my life :) [1] https://github.com/cavi-au/Consent-O-Matic
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by tapia 2y ago
The only thing I need to start writing more serious documents with Typst is an equivalent to latexdiff. But I really think (and hope) that this will replace latex in the future. Alone the compilation time makes it so much nice to use! Meanw

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