I want a keyboard switch with a weight on the end of a lever, typewriter or piano style. Or some other mechanism whereby the resistance would be constant or even reverse-linear-ish (from gravity and momentum), not linear (from a spring). But as far as I know no such thing exists. :(
Readit Newsakdor1154 commented on Exploring Different Keyboard Sensing Technologies lttlabs.com/articles/2026... · Posted by u/viraptor
The rendering is very cool, but what i really want is this as a renderer i can plug into Vega.
Vega/VGlite have amazing charting expressivity in their spec language, most other charting libs don't come close. It would be very cool to be able to take advantage of that.
akdor1154 commented on California is free of drought for the first time in 25 years latimes.com/california/st... · Posted by u/thnaks
Desalination uses a lot more energy and is higher cost
In the era of solar power saturating the grid in daytime, the energy cost is far less of an issue - At least, I assume California has similar characteristics to Australia in this regard.
lol you should see how bad it is nowadays. Like 90% of my traffic is from SE Asia or germany trying to scrape my site. I blocked like a dozen countries because of it. Singapore itself is an insane amount of traffic for me.
Singapore could be due to being a common VPN exit node for within SE Asia? Close by and avoids the most common regional blacklists (and gov firewalls of course).
akdor1154 commented on Stop Forwarding Errors, Start Designing Them fast.github.io/blog/stop-... · Posted by u/andylokandy
Many Rust programmers despise Go's "if err != nil" pattern, but that pattern actually forces you to think about errors and "design" them to give meaningful messages, either by wrapping them (if the underlying error is expected to provide userful information), or by creating a one from scratch.
It may be easier to just add the "?" operator everywhere (and we are lazy and will mostly do what is easier), but it often leads to problem explained in the article.
I think that was the intent of Go's design, but in practise i think it normally devolves into an overly verbose '?' with a poorly typed Result<_, String>.
As a Go dev, I'm looking at this article with great interest. I would very much like to apply this approach to Go as well, I think the author has got a very strong design there.
akdor1154 commented on Text rendering hates you (2019) faultlore.com/blah/text-h... · Posted by u/andsoitis
>But if the transform is an animation this will actually look even worse
I wish they provided an example video of this since I can't visualize it. My natural thinking is subpixel antialiasing should look fine.
>the characters will jiggle as each glyph bounces around between different subpixel snappings and hints on each frame.
This shouldn't be a big issue unless your animation is slow and your subpixels are big.
The issue (i think) is that the animation is done post-rasterizing. So a translate of integer pixels is fine, but scale? Skew? Suddenly you have really visible colour fringing appearing out of nowhere.
Wow, even if it wasn't so fast, I'd be tempted to use this solely due to their support of intersection (A & B) types! This is a sore omission from the standard python typing system.
akdor1154 commented on Pop_OS 24.04 LTS with COSMIC desktop environment blog.system76.com/post/po... · Posted by u/onnnon
What’s wrong with Gnome’s multi monitor support? My two monitors even have different pixel density.
Gnome works OK with integer scaling, more granular than this and you're up shit creek.
E.G. can you set one screen to 150% and one to 175%? (I think the answer to this is 'technically yes but then everything goes a bit blurry because they do it by rendering at 2x then downscaling')
Proper mixed dpi scaling means stuff will render pixel-perfectly instead of downscaling hacks.
akdor1154 commented on Pop_OS 24.04 LTS with COSMIC desktop environment blog.system76.com/post/po... · Posted by u/onnnon
> the community in total can finally move protocol forward that were blocked by really dumb ideological conflicts that are holding back Wayland. If Cosmic can take Gnome market share, people will be more willing to move on protocols without Gnome and hopefully eventually Gnome will realize that they have to implement this stuff, or at least large users of Gnome will realize it.
Can you expand on what you mean here? I only somewhat follow Wayland/X11 migration/development, but from what I understand gnome is on Wayland, enough so that they apparently dropped x11 support from their upcoming release in march.
Gnome is wayland, but they are very stubborn about the extensions they will/won't implement. For example, mixed dpi scaling, server side decorations, accessibility protocols all work differently on gnome or not at all.
This makes it very difficult for Wayland to evolve in a way that people want, as Gnome is the biggest player by user count.
akdor1154 commented on Pop_OS 24.04 LTS with COSMIC desktop environment blog.system76.com/post/po... · Posted by u/onnnon