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In this thread: bash experts with arcane knowledge, unintentionally demonstrating how awful bash is.
The obvious solution would be to use something more sane, like PowerShell or nushell, but instead old experts will always defend the skills they have honed for years, while criticizing anything that's different.
Interestingly the "activate on release" logic was implemented in computer GUIs long before touchscreens were common, used purely by mouse-click (a physical button).
My point was about user expectations / users not being aware when the button triggers. Your argument has nothing to do with that.
Isn't this exactly why browsers implemented "private mode"?
Why don't they inform users about how to properly use private mode, which works with any website, instead of rolling their own solution, which the user has to learn just for that one website?
But a button that works like that in a GUI would feel wrong.
No, it doesn't. It feels way more responsive.
My pet peeve is "stopwatch apps" which trigger on release instead of on press. When timing something where fractions of a second matter, most people won't realize that it triggers on release and tap down when they want to start / stop, adding some arbitrary delay until they actually release the button.
You're wrong.
"Users should vote and comment when they run across something they personally find interesting—not for promotion."
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html#:~:text=Use...
If you want to see what a random distribution looks like:
jot -r 100 0 1 | rs -t 10
Only in theory. A 3D printer doesn't need to sustain lateral forces - a router does. It might not be built for this.
The docs say that's the default:
https://docs.deno.com/runtime/desktop/backends/#webview-(def...
More fun facts:
Omitting those characters makes it good for generating passwords if they need to be typed in by hand.
Double-clicking a base58 string always selects the whole string and it doesn't wrap accidentally, thanks to missing / and +, so it's also convenient to copy and paste.
Or the more recent memory of the F1 ad pushed via the wallet app.
This is just a continuation of common StackOverflow advice to "make it work", which the LLMs use as "knowledge":
https://stackoverflow.com/a/28002687
https://stackoverflow.com/a/32282390
https://stackoverflow.com/a/18062293
Naive users used to copy paste those things from StackOverflow, now they can use line completion in their editor.
Already works with nightly:
https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/cargo/reference/unstable.h...
#!/usr/bin/env -S cargo +nightly -Zscript
---cargo
[package]
edition = "2024"
[profile.dev]
opt-level = 3
---
fn main() {
println!("Hey, man!");
}I think you've misunderstood the analogy. Just ignore it, analogies mostly break down anyways.
a model capable of completing the tasks assigned to it
The thing is, the "task assigned to it" is changing with improved capabilities. If everyone around you in 2036 is using general AI to do amazing stuff, you will probably have little interest in vibe coding slop like it's 2026.
I find that hard to believe. The AI companies will want to control what's possible and find new things to do that "need" their services. Otherwise it would be like Intel and Microsoft had decided in the year 2000 that computers are "good enough" now and we would have explored what's possible with that hardware ever since.
Definitely.
x-cache: Error from cloudfrontBut can you show me a "top of the range" product? Not Ikea's top range, but "high end" in the common sense.
The point was to show that machines can produce knifes with precision. The other commenter stated that "CNC can't do the tolerances needed behind the apex.", whatever that means exactly.
Are you talking about a chef's knife? If well done, I see no reason why it should be any worse than a high end knife made by a skilled human.
Have a look at this if you're interested:
They have "bottom of the barrel" and slightly better quality products. But the better products are nowhere near the (top) end of the range.
Goods are usually (although not always) inferior when made by a machine.
This is only true in the beginning, when machines are still primitive (e.g. first automatic looms). Nowadays machines mostly yield much better quality than any human can produce (e.g. automated welding, anything CNC controlled). Many things are only possible to build with machines (e.g. semiconductors).
A hand-crafted solid wood table is still superior to something from Ikea.
This is by choice. Ikea chooses to produce the cheapest furniture possible, using cheap, crappy materials. Other manufacturers still produce high quality furniture, which is much more expensive.
They all seem to be single nozzle.
The upcoming INDX looks promising. But I can't see how Prusa solves the "dust and moisture" problem. They don't have something like Bambu Lab's AMS, do they?
Same problem with the Snapmaker U1.
Edit: the Snapmaker U1 also seems to have an open top, which is problematic for ABS, I assume.
I have a problem:
I'm in the market for a new 3D printer. My old Ultimaker 2 is still going strong, but it's from a different generation and doesn't fit my needs anymore. Looking purely at features, I really want a Bambu Lab X2D. However I hate what that company is doing, don't want to give them my money and don't want to lock myself into their increasingly locked down ecosystem.
Features I want:
- 2 nozzles (print parts with a different support material or a combination of solid and TPU)
- make simple 2-color prints without manual intervention (to add labels on parts, only a few layers require two colors)
- hassle-free filament storage (protected from dust and moisture, multiple spools ready to print at all times)
- a choice of different nozzles (e.g. 0.8 mm) which can be swapped easily
- able to print ABS reliably (or another material that is more heat resistant than PLA), the Ultimaker 2 with its open chamber is not good at this (parts lift off and warp)
- hassle-free operation (no tinkering)
Don't need:
- cloud stuff (I print everything locally, my own models)
What should I buy?
Amaze!
I am wearing a T-shirt right now in fact that was advertised to me a week or two ago as "on sale" for £8 (eight) and which I clicked through and purchased.
This means the ad was effective. But was it useful to you? Did it save you from having to look for it yourself?
If you were not thinking something like "I need a certain T-shirt" before this came up, it's likely the ad created a desire in your mind which you didn't have. You got manipulated successfully by the advertiser.
With AirSane [1], you can make scanners integrate nicely with macOS. This page [2] has a writeup (in German) how to set it up on a RaspberryPi. On non-macOS devices you can still use the web interface, as demonstrated by the "yes-we-scan" app.
As an outsider, trying to make some UI/UX changes in old open source projects is often extremely energy consuming and difficult. You have to convince all the old hands, who feel it's their project (maybe rightfully so) that the changes are good for new users. Old users will mostly fight any change (don't want to relearn). Many discussions end with "maybe let's make this a setting?". This leads to crappy software with bad defaults, way too many options and nobody will ever use the new settings.
Even though I have a background in UX design, I'm not cut out for this kind of open source work. I've tried.
Do you remember that foolish Windows-Themes on Linux? Luckily GNOME has killed custom theming.
In what way has GNOME killed theming? There are lots of themes available on [1] and some of the most downloaded ones are consistently imitations of the latest macOS or Windows style.
Graphically perfect, but content-wise nonsense. The pelican's center of gravity is clearly behind the wheel. It needs to be above or very slightly ahead of the wheel.