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usrusr commented on Mirror Ball Emoji Proposal (2018) [pdf] unicode.org/L2/L2019/1931... · Posted by u/michalc

tgv · 7 days ago

Why would you have such a thing? When you communicate, you know the receivers' culture, isn't it? Otherwise wouldn't it be a rather infrequent symbol with less practical use than e.g. "incomplete infinity"?

usrusr · 7 days ago

Do you? All I know about the readers of this post is that they either know how to read English, use some translation service or won't understand much of what I was writing.

But even when you do know exactly who you're addressing, they might be a very diverse group.

usrusr commented on South Park creator’s 2007 digital ad revenue sharing clause readtrung.com/p/south-par... · Posted by u/JustExAWS

shazbotter · 13 days ago

There is no human alive who can ethically enjoy a billion dollars. Give them each a hundred million and say, you've hit your cap, everything else goes towards the public good.

A hundred million dollars buys you a life of comfort and luxury. Anyone with a billion has too much influence, imo.

usrusr · 13 days ago

Yeah, the things is, ownership isn't a natural concept. It's just a social construct. Without that, you own what's in your stomach, what you can hold in your hands and what you can sit on, until the moment you walk away.

I believe that the best amount of processes for revoking ownership not zero. Revoking not as in "we take n money from you because...", but as in "we stop respecting any of your accumulated ownership rights, but you are free to accumulate new ones". A reset like the one called bankruptcy, just for positives.

Currently, in countries that do have the death sentence, ownership is even more untouchable than life. A (hypothetical..) rich person on death row you could still write their will and it would be respected. People will argue "don't punish the children!", but where's the difference really, between "don't gamble it all away, for the sake of your children" and "don't end up on death row, for the sake of your children"? Apparently, ownership is more sacred than life itself and I find that quite hard to stomach.

Note that I'm not advocating for a world where it's common for rich persons to get stripped whenever the masses get a little envious, or whenever redistribution seems convenient. Just for ac world where there is some last resort process defined and accepted that's less bloody than an all-out revolution. Ancient Rome had certain forms of exilation that went with complete property forfeitment as punishment (in reality: as the price for losing a power struggle I guess)

usrusr commented on Pebble Time 2 Design Reveal [video] youtube.com/watch?v=pcPzm... · Posted by u/net01

saltcured · 14 days ago

This is off topic, as the Pebble doesn't really aim at a use case I care about. Navigation and tracking of hikes and other daytime outdoor activity is my use case.

Automatic illumination has never worked well for me on any watch. It seems I just don't roll my wrist to view the screen the way other people do, so this heuristic fails badly for me. I often read my watches via ambient light and the light hasn't triggered or comes later after I've already seen what I want. And on the other hand, I get annoyed by false-positives where it just lights up randomly in my peripheral vision. So I often disable the automatic light feature.

So, I enjoy the always-on but passive aspect of a transflective LCD display. It is practical like a conventional watch with physical hands. It works well in bright sunlight, well enough in other decently lit environments, and at least copes with dark via the backlight. I wish it was even more reflective for low light, but the recent LCDs are not bad.

I vastly prefer my Garmin FR255 which seems like the last of its breed. Garmin may have lost me as a repeat buyer with the changing products. I think I'd like their Enduro line, but not at those prices. I don't like many of the compromises of the Instinct line either, but it seems the only option left.

usrusr · 14 days ago

Same. Amoled watches feel like TEXT IN ALL CAPS to me, screaming for attention when all they should do is make information available, vs force-feeding data. For attention, there's the vibration buzzer (which I absolutely love, so much more personal than a phone jumping around on the table)

usrusr commented on Palantir gets $10B contract from U.S. Army washingtonpost.com/techno... · Posted by u/aspenmayer

westpfelia · a month ago

might as well use it then right? I mean think about it if there was only 1 country on the whole world. Then we would be safe. I mean we would still need to use the military equipment on the people. Anything else but absolute control over everyone would be suicidally naive.

Right?

usrusr · a month ago

You seem to greatly underestimate how much of the fighting Roman legions did was against other Roman legions.

usrusr commented on Palantir gets $10B contract from U.S. Army washingtonpost.com/techno... · Posted by u/aspenmayer

Ozzie_osman · a month ago

This quote from the CEO of Palantir (Alex Karp) haunts me. ---

  > “I actually am a progressive,” he said. “I want less war. You only stop war by having the best technology and by scaring the bejabers — I’m trying to be nice here — out of our adversaries. If they are not scared, they don’t wake up scared, they don’t go to bed scared, they don’t fear that the wrath of America will come down on them, they will attack us. They will attack us everywhere.”

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/17/style/alex-karp-palantir....

usrusr · a month ago

Clearly shows that he does not understand the concept of cooperation, not outside of how a mob cooperates. He probably considers the Marshall Plan a failure.

Yes, strength isn't unimportant. But if that's your only approach you're part of the problem, not part of the solution. May he reap what he saws, preferably with as little collateral as possible.

usrusr commented on I tried Servo spacebar.news/servo-under... · Posted by u/robtherobber

echelon · a month ago

Questions for the Rust UX experts:

Is Dioxus (or Leptos) much more performant than Tauri/Electron?

I want to (1) build blindingly fast, low-latency, super performant UX for users, which precludes Tauri/Electron (something I'm currently using and unhappy about), but I also want to (2) maintain developer velocity, (3) have access to nice UX primitives and widgets, and (4) have it look nice and modern.

Javascript/browser-oriented frameworks make requirements 2-4 easy, and it has the side benefit of also making hiring easy (not a requirement per se). But the results feel so bloated and anti-Desktop/native. It gobbles up RAM and renders slowly, even when best practices are used. It's the very definition of a double-edged sword.

Are these four requirements simply impossible to satisfy together for native Rust UX toolkits right now?

Rust's egui looks amazing, but I doubt you'd be able to build a very complicated UX with it. Or if you could, it might take you half a year to deliver.

Iced also looks cool, but looks less featureful.

Are there any "non-browser" Rust UX toolkits that aren't dated GTK/KDE frameworks, but that can build graphically-oriented (not just text/button widget) programs?

If I were building a "slimmed down photoshop", are there any Rust GUI toolkits to reach for? Or if I were incorporating a Bevy or 3D render pane?

usrusr · a month ago

Makepad is neither gtk generation nor browser based. Might check the "just text/button widget" box though, I'd certainly place it on the minimalistic end of the spectrum. (haven't worked with makepad, just enjoyed the demo)

usrusr commented on Most Illinois farmland is not owned by farmers chicagotribune.com/2025/0... · Posted by u/NaOH

AnimalMuppet · a month ago

Most housing is not owned by tenants? That surprises me quite a bit. Would you supply a source for that?

usrusr · a month ago

I guess it depends a lot on what you measure in "most": housing per head or housing in square feet? Lots of heads cramped into rented minimum viable housing. Lots of square feet held by owners who occasionally live there, when they do happen to be in town.

(the general upwards trajectory of real estate makes it an investment even when it does not generate any income, do much better than owning a boat!)

usrusr commented on It's time for modern CSS to kill the SPA jonoalderson.com/conjectu... · Posted by u/tambourine_man

dsego · a month ago

And the frontend-backend paradigm has seeped into the engineering culture and even the non-engineers on the team understand things in those terms. The main way we break apart work into tickets is API endpoints and client-side UI stuff.

usrusr · a month ago

This. The mental model of an API with a frontend deployed as static resources just happens to be very attractive. Even more so when the SPA isn't the only frontend, or when you don't know that the SPA will remain the only frontend forever. When you have an SPA sitting on top of an API, introducing new clients for feature subsets (e.g. something running on a Garmin watch) becomes trivial.

If you have a huge org working on the project you might actually succeed in sticking to that architecture even when serving as plain old HTML, but smaller teams are likely to eventually write full stack spaghetti (which might still be fine for some use cases!). Once there was a fashionable term "progressive web app", with manifest workers optionally moving some backend stuff into the browser for offline-ish operation, and these days I also see a parallel pattern: progressively moving a browser UI into an electron-esque environment, where you can features requiring more local access than the browser would allow.

usrusr commented on Electric cars produce less brake dust pollution than combustion-engine cars modernengineeringmarvels.... · Posted by u/tzs

xxs · a month ago

>On paper, yes, but did that ever happen?

Like absolutely, unless you consider 1.4L petrol engine large for something with over 170KW (over 220hp). Such kind of offerings are quite common at the East side of the pond.

usrusr · a month ago

I'd consider engines with HP in the two digits range not big. Few ICE cars (hybrid or not) are ever accelerated at the rate you could achieve with a 75 HP engine revved into the high but still safe range. People buy big engines so that they can get all their acceleration needs served at half throttle. And that's for stick shifting, those on automatic pick engine size so that they can accelerate on quarter throttle or else the car shifts back and it sounds all x "small engine working hard" (which would be so much less inefficient!).

usrusr commented on Electric cars produce less brake dust pollution than combustion-engine cars modernengineeringmarvels.... · Posted by u/tzs

pkolaczk · a month ago

Another part of the point is that you can pack a much smaller and more efficient ICE and then substitute the missing power and torque from electric motors when needed. Most cars are not used at max power all the time. You need max power only at short times when accelerating. With pure ICE there is the tradeoff - a bigger engine will get you more max power / max torque but is going to be less fuel efficient because of internal friction.

usrusr · a month ago

On paper, yes, but did that ever happen? Sorry for being sarcastic, but where I live the frugal hybrid is exceptionally rare and the "same big engine, but driving a much heavier car" hybrid is omnipresent. The kind of people who might buy the frugal one buy second or third hand while almost all buyers of factory new pick the "same big engine" option, and those are the ones who decide what's available on the second hand market.