thomasfortes

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by thomasfortes 4mo ago
> Above like $500, they all play pretty much the same Yeah, really cheap guitars (like $150 cheap) can be great but they also can be terrible due to non existent QC and electronics and hardware being the cheapest available because every
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by thomasfortes 8mo ago
Yes, you can and I know just enough of cars to not be scammed by people, but not to know how the whole engine works, and I also don't think that you should learn everything that you can learn, there's no time for that, that's
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by thomasfortes 8mo ago
Last weekend I was arguing with a friend that physical guitar pedals are better for creativity and exploration of the musical space than modelers even though modelers have way more resources for a fraction of the cost, the physical aspect o
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by thomasfortes 1y ago
Using GRiSP Metal, not exactly without an OS, but using a real time OS designed for embedded devices. https://www.grisp.org/software
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by thomasfortes 1y ago
Nine Sols was clearly built on top of Hollow Knight, but my take on the combat is a bit different, Hollow Knight and Nine Sols would be like Dark Souls/Elden Ring (HK) and Sekiro (NS), one is focused on fast movement and dodges while t
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by thomasfortes 1y ago
Android has granular control over notifications, which is great because some apps that I need send a lot of marketing notifications that I don't care about but I cannot get rid of essential notifications. Not all apps do it and some pu
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by thomasfortes 2y ago
> The soldered ram was necessary for Strix Halo In the LTT video the framework CEO explains that AMD wasn't able to make LPCAMM work because of signal integrity over the bus reasons. But 2000 dollars for up to 110GB of VRAM in Linux
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by thomasfortes 2y ago
> it's not exactly a case of 'lost their original vision'. Considering that one person that says that he worked at the beginning of the project writes that the original idea wasn't to compete with flathub and given t
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by thomasfortes 2y ago
Hey, here they are :) Original vision https://pagure.io/fedora-workstation/issue/463#comment-95406... Person with more than 700 packages https://pagure.io/fedora-workstation/issue/463#com
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by thomasfortes 2y ago
One of the comments in the main thread says that the original vision for the fedora flatpaks was to be mainly for things that fedora wanted to have tight control and be preinstalled in their distros (Firefox, LibreOffice, GNOME and apps, et
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by thomasfortes 2y ago
You're stuck with cloudflare nameservers¹, so if you want to change nameservers you need to transfer them to other registrar, how much of a deal breaker this is is up to you, to me is project dependent. 1. Section 6.1 of https:/&
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by thomasfortes 2y ago
Integrating javascript with liveview and pushing and receiving events from client to server (and from server to client) is pretty simple using hooks: https://hexdocs.pm/phoenix_live_view/js-interop.html#client-... The
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by thomasfortes 3y ago
> I’m wrong but I’m struggling to think of a killer feature of Twitch or an aspect of the overall experience that’s better than YouTube Live videos. Discoverability, content creators and community. Live streaming is a second class citize
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by thomasfortes 3y ago
Yeah, a PS2 controller has a graveyard at the center when compared to a PS5 or series controller, just grab a cheap USB controller from Amazon and use some tool to see the precision of modern controllers. That said, unless conventional stic
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by thomasfortes 3y ago
At least for Xbox controllers and headsets (and logitech lightspeed mouses too) they don't use bluetooth, they use a proprietary protocol, you can connect them using bluetooth but if you really want low latency you will need a propriet
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by thomasfortes 3y ago
Also no shared memory in processes and they all communicate strictly through message passing, so running a piece of code in the local node, in another node in the same machine or in a node on the other side of the planet is a matter of tell
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by thomasfortes 3y ago
Something like this: https://fly.io/docs/reference/dynamic-request-routing/#the-f... ? You probably would have to handle a lot of the logic by yourself for privacy and security reason, but I think this is a ni
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by thomasfortes 3y ago
It's a play on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenspun%27s_tenth_rule
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by thomasfortes 3y ago
Virding's Law: Any sufficiently complicated concurrent program in another language contains an ad hoc informally-specified bug-ridden slow implementation of half of Erlang.
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by thomasfortes 4y ago
A couple weeks ago a client asked for some stats that came out of the blue (the data was collected, but they weren't exposed at the dashboard), his app was at fly.io, I've set up a wireguard tunnel to connect a livebook to the app
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by thomasfortes 4y ago
When working with livebook the usual library for graphics/plotting is vega_lite. https://github.com/livebook-dev/vega_lite
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by thomasfortes 4y ago
Hear the same thing about beats, too much bass. Anyway, the point still stands, Beats is considered a fashion brand, it was used by athletes all around the world a couple years ago, now athletes are all in on apple airpods and it's bee
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by thomasfortes 4y ago
Isn't Beats by Dre considered not top of the line when it comes to sound quality and more like a fashion brand? I'm not saying that they are bad, just that they aren't at the same level as brands like bose and sennheiser whic
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by thomasfortes 4y ago
They moved from Go to Rust. https://discord.com/blog/why-discord-is-switching-from-go-to...
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by thomasfortes 4y ago
From the discord blog posts it seems that elixir powers the chat system, with rust and python as the other two main languages in their stack. As for whatsapp, they are mainly a erlang shop and yesterday they open sourced a type checker for
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by thomasfortes 4y ago
> The people working on BuckleScript had been unhappy about syntax for a while, and wanted to make it simpler for people coming from JS. Yeah, but as far as I remember the new syntax and all changes were discussed and developed behind cl
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by thomasfortes 4y ago
Agree with you, Reason is effectively dead, the "drama" part is that the decision came from nowhere, leaving the native devs with a sour taste and the frontend devs with a "Hey, we just changed the syntax without warning and
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by thomasfortes 4y ago
Funny thing, ReasonML (the alternative syntax for OCaml) was created by Jordan Walke, who also created React. The cool thing about Bucklescript is that it generated pretty readable javascript, so dropping the compiler and working with the J
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by thomasfortes 4y ago
The creator of bucklescript (ReasonML/OCaml to JS compiler) decided to drop ocaml support and gather the already built community around his new project (Rescript) and it wasn't well received by the part of the community that were
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by thomasfortes 4y ago
If I had to bet, I would guess that the ReasonML > Rescript drama/change killed a lot of the momentum in the community.

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