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New comment by dreamofkoholint in "PSA: One of the FANGs [sic] is about to internally implode"

dreamofkoholint — Fri, 28 Jan 2022 19:07:20 +0000

"markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent"

Great quote. I hadn't known before it was Keynes

New comment by dreamofkoholint in "Attrs – the Python library everyone needs (2016)"

dreamofkoholint — Sat, 25 Dec 2021 02:43:00 +0000

Key thing for me was the ability to add type hinting

New comment by dreamofkoholint in "Attrs – the Python library everyone needs (2016)"

dreamofkoholint — Sat, 25 Dec 2021 02:41:34 +0000

Honestly, only use python because I have to. I don't think it belongs inside a decently sized software product

Others disagree, though, so I must use it

What you're saying only bolsters my opinion

New comment by dreamofkoholint in "Attrs – the Python library everyone needs (2016)"

dreamofkoholint — Sat, 25 Dec 2021 02:34:50 +0000

Is there a reason those features weren't added to data classes?

I don't know much about attrs, only professionally coming to python since 3.7, but I'm not going to bring it in if there's something sufficient in the language

New comment by dreamofkoholint in "Psst: Fast Spotify client with native GUI, without Electron, built in Rust"

dreamofkoholint — Tue, 17 Aug 2021 18:01:30 +0000

I believe this is the goal of mopidy

New comment by dreamofkoholint in "A 20-year-old CRT monitor can be better than a 4K LCD (2019)"

dreamofkoholint — Sun, 11 Oct 2020 17:47:41 +0000

Yes! I think the ability to watch lower-res video (even 480p) on them and still have a decent picture is what I miss the most.

It would be quite comical if the 300lb figure were correct, having lugged one around before. They hovered around 92lbs, though.

New comment by dreamofkoholint in "A 20-year-old CRT monitor can be better than a 4K LCD (2019)"

dreamofkoholint — Sun, 11 Oct 2020 17:42:43 +0000

I have one of the variants(HP A7217A) sitting away gathering dust at a relative's place. Its weight/size just made it too difficult to move with over the years.

I hadn't realized they're still desired now. I'll have to dust it off and see if there's a buyer out there.

New comment by dreamofkoholint in "GNU Shepherd 0.5.0 released"

dreamofkoholint — Wed, 26 Sep 2018 19:49:50 +0000

Do you have more detail/instructions on running Nix on GuixSD?

New comment by dreamofkoholint in "GNU Shepherd 0.5.0 released"

dreamofkoholint — Wed, 26 Sep 2018 15:05:38 +0000

There are a smattering of code snippets around

This[1] is the one I used as a reference for my kernel build which includes brcmfmac

There is also a feature called 'channels' (not widely documented AFAIK) which allows you to describe an outside repository of code you can reference to install packages. There is one[2] that provides Chromium (though I cannot get the build to succeed).

The downside to all of these not being provided in mainline is the amount of time and energy to build them. I suspect there are more people than I would like curating their build of the linux kernel, manually specifying drivers included in the kernel. I really wish the community were a little less hard-set on the principle of 'freedom' and a little more pragmatic; I am sure the community is smaller due to people being turned away at the sheer amount of effort required to get their machine to a usable state.

[1]: https://github.com/wingo/guix-nonfree [2]: https://gitlab.com/mbakke/guix-chromium

New comment by dreamofkoholint in "Ubuntu 17.10 Final Beta Is Ready For Testing"

dreamofkoholint — Fri, 29 Sep 2017 13:53:57 +0000

What sort of issues were you having?

I haven't kept up with the goings-on in this release, but I was quite excited to see so many clamoring for resolutions to pains involving multi-monitor setups in a previous discussion[1]. I would be interested to see what of those pains have been fixed.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14002821

New comment by dreamofkoholint in "Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10?"

dreamofkoholint — Fri, 31 Mar 2017 21:14:58 +0000

HiDPI is still a huge problem in the linux desktop I can't count the number of hours I've spent researching and fiddling with it. Wayland is the answer, but it's slow moving, and Sway currently looks terrible when scaling double.

New comment by dreamofkoholint in "Scala vs. Node.js as a RESTful back end server (2015)"

dreamofkoholint — Sat, 23 Apr 2016 20:23:20 +0000

The section describing strong typing is pretty weak/vague, and seems to actually be referring to static typing

New comment by dreamofkoholint in "Clementine: modern music player and library organizer"

dreamofkoholint — Thu, 21 Apr 2016 01:51:55 +0000

In terms of library management, I think Beets is pretty hard to beat! I also like the UNIX philosophy, which this seems to violate. I yearn for the ability to use a Beets library as a source for streaming, along with the ability to combine with other sources (e.g. Amazon, Pandora) The closest to this I've seen is mopidy-beets, but it is now unmaintained and doesn't seem to have the ability to manage playlists from multiple sources.