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New comment by omegote in "How many AMD RX 7900 XTX's are defective?"

omegote — Wed, 11 Jan 2023 22:53:16 +0000

The standard position for graphics card has been horizontal, for many, many years. I don't think the standard position for a cigarrete lighter is upside down, to begin with.

Next, for your "solution" to work you need a special case that allows for the card to be installed vertically, which is not common.

New comment by omegote in "Watercolor Basics"

omegote — Thu, 16 Jun 2022 01:02:08 +0000

Too opinionated advice on an even worse medium. Please do yourself and the rest of us a favor and open a blog. Reading an article about watercolor basics which is basically a wall of text without a single picture is a pita.

Also some of the advice is just plain wrong. Paper should be the number one thing you shouldn't skimp on and yet you recommend buying cheap/on sale.

New comment by omegote in "Why is it hard to buy things that work well?"

omegote — Tue, 15 Mar 2022 10:17:23 +0000

Good luck reading an article with lines that span the entire 2560px of the width of my screen.

New comment by omegote in "Graphviz: Open-source graph visualization software"

omegote — Mon, 17 Jan 2022 17:56:56 +0000

I've used Graphviz for many years and my main gripe with it is the lack of customization. Yes, there's "some" customization, but there's a point (not too far from the initial style) where, if you don't like the output, you're out of luck and might as well redraw it using draw.io or some other WYSIWYG editor.

New comment by omegote in "OBS Studio 27.0"

omegote — Tue, 01 Jun 2021 22:10:07 +0000

I considered OBS a really nice piece of software, specially after a 10-year long track record of testing desktop capture software like Camtasia and the like. After fighting myself with ffmpeg (libav) to build a simplified desktop capture software myself, my appreciation for OBS has increased even more, because dealing with libav or anything multimedia is definitely a pita.

New comment by omegote in "Freenode ops take control of 700 channels"

omegote — Wed, 26 May 2021 12:08:39 +0000

> Unfortunately some are also moving to entirely closed source platforms like Discord

From an openness point of view, yes, that's unfortunate. But discord channels are arguably way more useful than IRC nowadays. The mere message persistence is something that tips the scale in favour of Discord.

New comment by omegote in "Sublime Text 4"

omegote — Fri, 21 May 2021 07:28:19 +0000

I hope they have (or have plans to) updated the docs for their plugin API. I've made some bucks building plugins for ST3 and the docs are... scarce. It's a shame, because I prefer using Python for building plugins than JS or TS as in VSCode, but it was a PITA to find anything.

New comment by omegote in "Changes at Basecamp"

omegote — Tue, 27 Apr 2021 06:14:00 +0000

Totally. Not sure about the US, but at least in Spain that kind of benefits (private health insurance, restaurant tickets, etc) tend to be a lot cheaper for the employer often just for being a company, but usually for the large quantities they work with.

Create Mindmaps from Text

omegote — Mon, 01 Mar 2021 22:22:01 +0000

Article URL: https://josetomastocino.github.io/mindmapit/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26309253

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by omegote in "Blender 2.92"

omegote — Fri, 26 Feb 2021 16:30:35 +0000

+1, thank god we've finally come to acknowledge and accept that Gimp has never been and will never be a professional alternative to Gimp for many users.

New comment by omegote in "How computer programming became the worst choice of career"

omegote — Sun, 21 Feb 2021 22:03:38 +0000

Would you mind commenting on your current salary range and location? I've decided I want to stick to C++/Python on Linux for my tech stack, as I've grown to hate the current state and pace of web development.

New comment by omegote in "How computer programming became the worst choice of career"

omegote — Sun, 21 Feb 2021 16:38:07 +0000

Sure, the cost of living is way lower, but given the ability of working remotely for companies abroad, there shouldn't be such a large gap. I think (and hope) it's a matter of time for most developers to realize how many opportunities there are for working remotely with better economical conditions, and along with that local businesses will have to up their game as well.

New comment by omegote in "How computer programming became the worst choice of career"

omegote — Sun, 21 Feb 2021 14:54:55 +0000

I can kind of relate to the author. Here in Spain, programming salaries are way _way_ further from those in the UK, let alone the US. The average wage for a senior developer is around 35k€ to 40k€ (roughly 48k USD). The technologies are the same, the working hours are the same, heck I even have to read, write and speak English on a daily basis even tho I'm in Spain, but the salaries are nowhere near.

What's even funnier is that the technologies I work with are not that common. In comparison, finding a C++ developer with good knowledge of Linux internals (e.g. me) is much harder than finding front-end web developers, but the former are getting paid way less than the later.

The difference with the OP is that I've analyzed the situation and I know that, if I want to improve my financial status, I have to move abroad or start freelancing, but I prefer the current stability I have. Not sure about the future tho.

New comment by omegote in "A speaker placement tip that speaker manuals get wrong (2017)"

omegote — Fri, 15 Jan 2021 12:14:07 +0000

I was (and still am) in the same situation as the author two years ago. I bought a pair of JBL LSR 305 that I placed at each side of the screen, roughly 120cm away from each other and at arms length from me. They're about 30cm away from the back wall.

The problem I have is with the bass. Standing in the normal position to interact with my PC, the bass strength is low. Now, the moment I move back about 1 meter, the bass strength becomes great (the one I'd expect from this pair of speakers).

I really don't know what to do :/

New comment by omegote in "Why can't I write code inside my browser?"

omegote — Fri, 15 Jan 2021 10:09:06 +0000

The case here is that, if it were up to nowadays frontend developers, it would not be possible to write simple JavaScript code in notepad to quickly run in the browser. The frontend scene has evolved to become an unmanageable monster of cargo-cult programming, unnecessary complexity, infinite scaffoldings and huge node_module folders, and frontend developers are proud of that complexity. They enjoy running npm init and tens of initialization commands before even writing a single line of code of their own.

And all of that goes against the ease of access the OP post seems to request.

New comment by omegote in "Why can’t you buy a good webcam?"

omegote — Tue, 22 Dec 2020 11:39:47 +0000

Wow it's been many years since I last heard about AverMedia. I used to have an AverMedia AverTV capture card back in WinXP times, and it worked really well with composite video input from my Handycam lol.

New comment by omegote in "Qt 6.0"

omegote — Wed, 09 Dec 2020 00:04:59 +0000

I've always had that impression. I've been using Qt for 10+ years (professionally for half that) and I've always used QtWidgets. QML always seemed flimsy to me, and all those futuristic UIs... Not sure how they work with the c++ qt libs.

New comment by omegote in "Qt 6.0"

omegote — Wed, 09 Dec 2020 00:01:24 +0000

Question should be "even with C++17?". Cmake has had moc and uic support for years now. The question is why they don't leverage the c++17 features to get rid of moc, ffs.

New comment by omegote in "Flash Animations Live Forever at the Internet Archive"

omegote — Fri, 20 Nov 2020 12:28:32 +0000

Comparing the creativity of youngsters doing voice-overs in TikTok to that of early 2000's teenagers creating full-fledged games and entire films with Flash is... I don't know.

As you said in your last paragraph, Flash _raised up_ a generation of engineers by _lowering_ the entry barriers to a minimum. TikTok is just a showcase for attw's.

New comment by omegote in "Piipcam – 1080P IP Camera on a Raspberry Pi Zero W"

omegote — Sun, 01 Nov 2020 16:03:41 +0000

I think you could probably achieve that with v4l2loopback and ffmpeg. I've done something similar in the past and it works.