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rkangel commented on Framework Laptop 16 frame.work/ro/en/laptop16... · Posted by u/susanthenerd

account42 · 4 days ago

> Can't please everyone I guess.

This is such a lame response to valid criticism.

Key remapping is not a feature that you need hardware support for and neither are macros - both can be done in the OS and/or user-space software. Different prints on key caps are also not important at all since you shouldn't need them in the first place and hardly a response to someone being unhappy with the physical keyboard layout. So basically you're saying that because Framework already provides the easy parts that the user could already do in software now no one is allowed to complain about the physical layout that users cannot alter.

rkangel · 3 days ago

Did you miss:

> numpad input module

You can literally add a physical numpad if you want: https://frame.work/gb/en/products/16-numpad?v=FRAKDM0001

rkangel commented on Code formatting comes to uv experimentally pydevtools.com/blog/uv-fo... · Posted by u/tanelpoder

twothreeone · 9 days ago

While shipping binary kernels may be a workaround for some users, it goes against what many people would consider "good etiquette" for various valid reasons, such as hackability, security, or providing free (as in liberty) software.

rkangel · 9 days ago

Shipping binary artifacts isn't inherently a bad thing - that's what (most) Linux Distros do after all! The important distinction is how that binary package was arrived at. If it's a mystery and the source isn't available then that's bad. If it's all in the open source repo and part of the Python package build and is completely reproducible then that's great.

rkangel commented on MapLibre Tile: A next generation geospatial format optimized for rendering arxiv.org/abs/2508.10791... · Posted by u/mtremmel

naikrovek · 10 days ago

And again the “Libre” community proves that they really, really suck at naming things.

Better names for a free geospatial tile format:

* Grout

* Watershed

* TesseraTile

* Dodeca

* RandomName7

rkangel · 10 days ago

It's not a "fun" name like Grout would be, but it makes up for it - I know exactly what "MapLibre Tile" is just from the name.

rkangel commented on Swiss vs. UK approach to major tranport projects freewheeling.info/blog/sw... · Posted by u/jbyers

dhfbshfbu4u3 · 16 days ago

The Swiss method works because their population is 6X smaller and GDP per capita is twice as high. They have a smaller geographic footprint and heavier services economy. The UK still has so much industrial traffic (inclusive of agriculture) and a far less cohesive political environment. This isn’t to say that HS2 isn’t a train wreck (haha - it is) but applying small country policies to big country problems is a a bit simplistic.

rkangel · 16 days ago

It is true that the Swiss have more money to spend on rail, but this makes a compelling case that we aren't spending our money as effectively.

A lot of people have spent a lot of time (accurately) pointing out how badly HS2 has gone and why. Very few people have pointed out a viable and concrete alternative.

rkangel commented on Jujutsu and Radicle radicle.xyz/2025/08/14/ju... · Posted by u/vinnyhaps

typpilol · 16 days ago

Wouldn't you end up with like 1 million commits in a decent size projects really quickly?

rkangel · 16 days ago

It's not a commit per change - all changes made since the last commit are in a new commit. You then usually do one of two things:

- Decide your changes are perfect, so add a commit message to this one and then create a new one on to to carry on

- Decide you only want some of them so use `jj split -i` to select which ones you want and then it creates two commits - the stuff you want in a new named commit, and the stuff you didn't in a new working copy commit. This is the JJ workflow equivalent to `git add -p` adding to the staging area then committing

rkangel commented on Replacing tmux in my dev workflow bower.sh/you-might-not-ne... · Posted by u/elashri

aragilar · a month ago

Maybe I'm a bit weird, but I don't know why you'd want to run tmux locally as an alternative to using tiling wm/tabs/other equivalent feature of your terminal emulator? I use tmux in two ways: 1. Persistent long-running sessions (which typically involve having more than one tty going at once, so something like shpool seems like a downgrade). 2. Local named-network-namespace sessions where I'm connected to a VPN and so not having to reconnect to the same namespace/vpn for every new tty is a benefit.

Also, if you do physically connect to a headless machine, it's nice to not need to keep having to open a new getty session (or be able to log out of a session) ;)

rkangel · a month ago

Two reasons:

I don't use a tiling WM, and tmux[1] does an excellent job at the tiling features.

I do the majority of my work physically at a Linux (Fedora) desktop, but I also work from home SSH'd to that desktop. Being able to just attach to the same session and pick up where I left off, with all the same shell management, is great.

[1] I used tmux for years, but have very recently switched to Zellij. I find the pane navigation to be much smoother (and more discoverable).

rkangel commented on Writing memory efficient C structs tomscheers.github.io/2025... · Posted by u/aragonite

4gotunameagain · a month ago

Unpacked structs are also very useful for parsing network data. You take a package, cast it to an unpacked struct, and can access everything nicely.

Many a spacecraft telemetry stacks work like that.

rkangel · a month ago

I think you mean "packed" structs. Otherwise you've got padding in your communication protocol.

If you do this you also need to be careful of byte order.

rkangel commented on AMD CEO sees chips from TSMC's US plant costing 5%-20% more bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/mfiguiere

Workaccount2 · a month ago

Even 5% more expensive means 80% of people buy the taiwan version for $475 instead of $500.

20% more expensive and 99.9% of people buy the $500 one instead of the $600 one.

Never make the mistake of falling for people's virtue signalling and pay attention instead to how they actually apply those virtues (spoiler: saving money is the #1 acted upon virtue, being far stronger than any other).

rkangel · a month ago

If other people agree with Lia Siu about supply chain resiliency, presumably what will happen is that they buy from both. Maybe they buy more from Taiwan, but the effective price will be somewhere between the two.

rkangel commented on Vanishing home field advantage in English football blog.engora.com/2025/07/v... · Posted by u/Vermin2000

xnorswap · a month ago

That unironically is the opinion of many people.

It comes up again and again, and is a culture clash that is not limited to but particularly prevalent between US and European perspectives.

US sports tend to have less meaningful "regular" seasons, which just seed "play-offs", which themselves often have "Best of X series".

All of that is designed to maximise the chance that the "winner" and the "best team" are aligned.

Meanwhile in UK competitions, an entire yearly competition can be decided by a bad 90 minutes, such as ManU losing to York City, something the fans of both sides likely still remember 30 or so years later.

This argument frequently plays out in e-sports, which still try to find a good balance between the two, with the "best players should win" crowd wanting anti-climatic double-elimination, and the "Let's have more meaningful games" crown preferring single elimination.

"Competitions should be designed to find who the best team is" is a statement that many would agree with, but "Competitions should provide excitement and allow for upsets" is one I think is just as important, if not more so.

Another similar culture-clash is the concept of relegation versus franchising, as well as the concept of "drafting" in a (failed?) attempt to even out the competition.

rkangel · a month ago

> US sports tend to have less meaningful "regular" seasons, which just seed "play-offs", which themselves often have "Best of X series".

Except if you look at the NFL - the most popular sport in the US by far - the playoffs are "Best of 1". The NFL also enforces very close parity which gives a lot of unpredictability. You combine those and you get a lot of upsets.

rkangel commented on Vanishing home field advantage in English football blog.engora.com/2025/07/v... · Posted by u/Vermin2000

amelius · a month ago

What I want to see is an analysis of how likely it is that the winner of a match/tournament is also the best team. Basically attaching a p-value to soccer. Then analyze how the rules of the game can be changed such that this p-value is increased.

rkangel · a month ago

I think there is a "best" p-value, and I don't think it's the "highest" p-value.

You don't want it too low, because then quality becomes meaningless. You do want to give good results to good teams. But there is also don't want it to be perfect - you want some unpredictability in sports. You don't want every match to be a foregone conclusion, and you want every supporter to be able to have some reasonable hope.

There is some data suggesting that one of the reasons that English football is popular is because it's low scoring. This increases the chance that random variation gives an "incorrect" result. In this hypothesis, unpredictability adds excitement and builds popularity.

The NFL achieves similar results a different way - various forms of consistency and negative feedback (salary cap, draft order, schedule) to keep teams very close in ability. This means that small differences like a game plan for a particular week can regularly affect results, and keeps predictability low.