omegote

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

+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.

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.

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.

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.

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 :/

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Yep. In order to use non-standard fonts in Flash I recall you had to embed the fonts, even if the movie clip containing the textfield was not being used anywhere.

Rather than more effective, I'd wish 3D printing were faster. My main grip with 3D printing stuff is the time it takes - and, depending on the printer, the noise it makes.

Damn, your lack of tact is seriously depressing.

I wonder how many more times this link will get posted here.

studying for a few weeks affects their outcome should raise eyebrows everywhere

Lol then what do you think about the hefty exams people have to go through in Spain to become a public employee? People spent several years just studying after finishing college just to get a job - for life, that is.

"Some"? The fact that you have to manually access the database backend in order to change a password is a joke, among many.

I did something very similar some time ago: https://omegote.wordpress.com/2020/02/26/3d-printed-arduino-...

Qt has both Qt Designer and Qt Creator to build GUIs with drag and drop.

I cannot believe it's been 15 years, literally half my life, since I got my design accepted at CSSZenGarden: http://www.csszengarden.com/185/

Incredible, I had never thought of how long it's been...

"This page contains set of challenges that you can go through to test your understanding on the topic."

Let me tell you that none of those problems are challenging at all. They're entry level stuff.

Wat. Those you're mentioning have nothing to do with the creativity that Flash provided. How are you comparing Flash with Blender?