AdrianoKF (u/AdrianoKF)

AdrianoKF commented on I don't like curved displays blog.danielh.cc/blog/curv... · Posted by u/max__dev

sippeangelo · 6 months ago

I like my curved ultra-wide. I didn't at first, but my brain has very noticeably adapted to where curved things on it appear straight just fine. I noticed this when I went back to the office after a few weeks absence, where I have a regular flat pancake screen in 16:9, and straight text looked CURVED in the opposite direction!

Brains are weird.

AdrianoKF · 6 months ago

I've noticed the same when I tried to replace my ultrawide 34" with a Dell U3225QE for my home office the other day. I really wanted to like the Dell since I love the specs, but my head would hurt from the perceived bulge in the middle of the screen, where the curve used to sit farthest before. Stupid brains, really.

AdrianoKF commented on Age Simulation Suit age-simulation-suit.com/... · Posted by u/throwup238

AdrianoKF · 6 months ago

Reminds me of the AGNES [0] (Age Gain Now Empathy System), developed at MIT AgeLab. Saw it in action there back when I worked at the lab in the early 10s - I found the broad range of applications in research quite intriguing.

[0]: https://agelab.mit.edu/methods/agnes-age-gain-now-empathy-sy...

AdrianoKF commented on Baking Pi – Operating Systems Development (2012) cl.cam.ac.uk/projects/ras... · Posted by u/wsc981

AdrianoKF · 2 years ago

Reminds me of the experimental version of Stanford's CS 140/212, CS 140e, which used Rust to develop a simple operating system kernel for the Raspberry Pi 3B:

- Course web page: https://cs140e.sergio.bz/

- Accompanying material by the instructor: https://github.com/dddrrreee/cs140e-24win

Disclaimer: I've only worked through the course materials when it launched in '18, haven't actually taken the course physically, so YMMV.

AdrianoKF commented on Welcome to Apache OpenDAL opendal.apache.org/docs/o... · Posted by u/Kinrany

AdrianoKF · 2 years ago

Does this intend to fill a similar spot in the Rust ecosystem as fsspec (https://filesystem-spec.readthedocs.io/en/latest/) does for Python, or am I getting the wrong idea?

AdrianoKF commented on The mysterious second parameter to the x86 ENTER instruction devblogs.microsoft.com/ol... · Posted by u/matt_d

AdrianoKF · 2 years ago

I love how it was already clear that it would be Raymond Chen's blog just from the title and domain name. I really enjoy The Old New Thing and his coverage of obscure details that might otherwise be long forgotten.

AdrianoKF commented on Why I always hit the crosswalk button (2015) klittlepage.com/2015/01/2... · Posted by u/costco

laurencerowe · 2 years ago

American crosswalks are just insane. In Europe cars are not allowed to drive through the crossing on the "walk" signal. In the US the pedestrian is expected to run the gauntlet, hoping that turning cars will see you and not mow you down. Pretty sure this is what is going to kill me, and that's in one of the more pedestrian friendly cities in the country, San Francisco.

Keep the button, but for goodness sake stop letting cars drive through crosswalks in the "walk" phase.

AdrianoKF · 2 years ago

At least in Germany (where I live), it is entirely normal for the pedestrian lights to be synchronized with the road parallel to it, meaning that turning cars will cross the path of walking pedestrians. However, by law pedestrians have the right of way in these situations (since cars are crossing their path), and generally that is being respected. I'd say that's what sets it apart from the US in that regard. We even have right on red in some metro areas, though admittedly that's where things can get quite dangerous at times.

AdrianoKF commented on Python 3.11.0 final discuss.python.org/t/pyth... · Posted by u/pantalaimon

remram · 3 years ago

I hate that both the first (3.11.0) and the last (3.11.9) releases of a minor version branch are called "final".

I get it, 3.11.0 is "final" in the sense of "definitive" from the development team's point of view, the final one of the pre-releases. But 3.11.9 is also called "the ninth and final 3.11 bugfix update" in the schedule [1], the actual final one from the maintenance team's point of view, in the sense there will be no more.

Can't we find better terms, that work for everyone? 3.11.0 stable? 3.11.0 actual? For anyone but the dev team, this is in no way a "final" release, this is the "first" release.

[1]: https://peps.python.org/pep-0664/#lifespan

AdrianoKF · 3 years ago

Not that it takes away from any confusion that arises from the wording, but (at least) it is consistent with the definitions from PEP 440:

> A version identifier that consists solely of a release segment and optionally an epoch identifier is termed a “final release”.

https://peps.python.org/pep-0440/#final-releases

AdrianoKF commented on Flanderization en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fla... · Posted by u/egfx

shusaku · 4 years ago

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Flanderization

^ for anyone who wants to go on a deep dive!

AdrianoKF · 4 years ago

Well there went an hour of my life.. Thanks for sharing the link!

AdrianoKF commented on ISO name change for Türkiye iso.org/obp/ui/#iso:code:... · Posted by u/Koffiepoeder

gumby · 4 years ago

I assumed it was added for shop signs and product packaging (I.e. as a gimmick).

Speaking of surviving Fraktur ligatures, I’m sorry that a couple of others like tz didn’t make it to Roman. It makes poor ß appear lonely.

AdrianoKF · 4 years ago

I was actually wondering if the driving factor is legal documents. ID cards show names in all-caps letters, which creates the dilemma that your ID might not show your actual name (notwithstanding international standards for travel documents that prescribe transliteration of non-latin characters; see ICAO Doc 9303 Part 3, section 6 [0] for examples)

[0]: https://www.icao.int/publications/Documents/9303_p3_cons_en....

AdrianoKF commented on ISO name change for Türkiye iso.org/obp/ui/#iso:code:... · Posted by u/Koffiepoeder

korlja · 4 years ago

.ToUpper() is locale-dependent, so can only be used if the locale of the text in question is known. E.g. German ß capitalizes to SS, and .ToUpper().ToLower() should give you either 'ss' or 'ß' depending on what it was before. Always outputting 'ss' is okish and readable, but actually wrong.

Blindly calling .ToUpper() on anything is a typical anglo-centric mistake. Just don't use .ToUpper(), shoutcase is ugly anyways ;)

See also: one of the many "100 fallacies programmers assume about natural written language" documents or such.

AdrianoKF · 4 years ago

Small nitpick: uppercase ẞ was added to Unicode 5.1 in 2007 (https://unicode-table.com/en/1E9E/) and is considered correct German orthography since 2017 (see §25 E3 in https://grammis.ids-mannheim.de/rechtschreibung/6180#par25E3)