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by tenfingers 11y ago
It's also a completely useless feature in the chip without the ability to setup arbitrary keys at boot time. This is the worst DRM incantation ever. I expect AMD to clean up Intel's act on this.
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by tenfingers 11y ago
I live close to switzerland's borders, and it's incredible the disparity in terms of salary/cost of living between switzerland and all it's neighbors. I do not consider myself poor, but there's no way I can afford a
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by tenfingers 11y ago
Approaches similar to unexec() are quite common in lisp-like environments, so emacs doesn't come as a "surprise" here. There's no reason emacs needs to use the glibc's malloc implementation though, especially given
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by tenfingers 11y ago
By Widget I mean any object which is a QWidget and is bound by some other widget (so I do not count plain QObjects) that you need for your UI. ListViews are optimized for display of lists, obviously, so they generally instantiate only visib
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by tenfingers 11y ago
If you have a classical desktop interface where you reach 100+ widgets (which sounds like a lot but is easily reachable with just a toolbar, some buttons and a form), the difference is noticeable when interacting even on recent hardware (i5
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by tenfingers 11y ago
Read their own introduction page. CopperSpice is a fork of Qt4.
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by tenfingers 11y ago
Yes sorry, typo (fixed).
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by tenfingers 11y ago
Note that C++ has "extern C" for the same purpose, and many people do not seem to be aware of it. You can perfectly write a C++ library and expose a C-safe subset. I've done so many times. The problem arises if you need to ex
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by tenfingers 11y ago
I wished Qt just split into a different widget set for mobile. The interaction behavior is significantly different that attempting to reuse the same UI for both mobile and desktop will result in a terrible experience on both. Likewise, QML
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by tenfingers 11y ago
Easy: just provide a certificate that cannot be changed within FF (must be modified by changing a file in the installation directory). No preference needed. This would allow developers to roll their own, and organizations to allow their cus
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by tenfingers 11y ago
Add-On Signing which can be automated does provide very little added security for the user, and just serves as a big pain the butt for everyone else involved. I'm routinely questioned to do support for users, and I find malware exten
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by tenfingers 11y ago
... or, you could ask everybody to walk, thereby "quadrupling" the effective capacity. I've been in UK many times, and being able to effectively walk up all escalators due to the diligence of the people always impressed me.
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by tenfingers 11y ago
Have you have ever used the "flex" nib? I wonder if anyone found some "use" out of it that couldn't be done by just pressure feel adjustment.
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by tenfingers 11y ago
I do, yes. But the translator needs to be aware of the extra indirection to produce the text he needs, and between a custom layer and a standard formatting syntax, the second is definitely friendlier for anyone approaching translation, even
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by tenfingers 11y ago
Do you have direct experience with it? Any improvements in the tracking quality of slow lines?
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by tenfingers 11y ago
There's not much difference. In fact, you cannot expect translators to know how the underlying object is handled or write data extractor out of the file object. If translators are cooperating with you, it's very easy to provide th
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by tenfingers 11y ago
There's also twisting (yes, it's a true 5 axis). But you have to buy the more expensive "art pen". See: https://www.wacom.com/en-us/store/pens/art-pen Notably, some pens support additional
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by tenfingers 11y ago
you have both roll and pitch.
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by tenfingers 11y ago
It's awesome, but if it weren't for patents, we would have pens on every device with a touch screen now. I use wacom styluses for work, and mind, they're egregiously fine, but wacom is trying to protect their own interest wit
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by tenfingers 11y ago
Can you clarify the last point? I do not get it. Can you make an example of where an extra indirect mechanism (besides interpolation) is _required_ for translation? I generally localize for western languages and write in many programming la
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by tenfingers 11y ago
It's not much about language, it's mostly about code/ecosystem re-use (that is: if you have a library available in system X and you're writing for Y you can still take advantage of it).
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by tenfingers 11y ago
The data that goes into the plot is unrelated to it's visual complexity. The "problem" is that ggplot also takes care of the transformation/reduction step for you. For example, a KDE plot can source potentially a limitle
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by tenfingers 11y ago
"python-bond" also came out in 2015: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/python-bond allows a simple interface between python runtimes and php/perl/nodejs.
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by tenfingers 11y ago
Anyone that have been using schema after using 'rx' ( https://pypi.python.org/pypi/Rx/ )? I generally like the simplicity of Rx and the fact that's language agnostic (I've used it with both json
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by tenfingers 11y ago
My biggest problem with ggplot is that it's slow, unbearably slow. It also enforces all data to be realized into a single dataframe, which is true only for small (as is: fits in memory) datasets. Very often, to produce specialized plot
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by tenfingers 11y ago
That's a simplistic view. A grammar might not be a 1:1 mapping to an AST (where the AST is just a reduction of a higher-level construct set). Also, an AST is really a generic term, and can mean anything from a parsed representation of
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by tenfingers 11y ago
I have nothing against the blocks&arrow model. I just find it [sometimes horribly] inefficient. For instance, in a video-compositing application (something like nuke - to put a name) it makes sense, especially so you can represent/
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by tenfingers 11y ago
Is anyone aware of other visual programming paradigms which are not based on (or reduce to) the blocks&arrows model? I cannot say I was ever satisfied in in every context where I saw this model applied. My experience ranges from trivi
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by tenfingers 11y ago
As for GTK3, rendering performance, latency and memory usage in QT5 suffer significantly. QT4 is not light, but QT5 adds overhead for no reason. I like the general polishing in the core modules, but I have really no use for qtquick. For thi
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by tenfingers 11y ago
I'd say good riddance GTK3. I really liked GTK1/2, to be honest. I liked the column-based (unixy) file dialogs, detachable menus that you could use as a poor-mans toolbars, and many minor tweaks. The API was always horrendous (it

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