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vor 4 Monatendiscuss

I had started working on something similar a few months back but as a collection of CLI utilities.

The first was a todo list printer where the todos are written in a YAML file. It includes fields for the name of the list and the date.

I also started working on a Sudoku printer (which I think is only possible on 80mm paper). But I completely forgot about the entire thing after coming back from vacation.

You've inspired be to get back to working on it :D

As an aside, are there any good recommendations for a wifi/bluetooth printer using 80mm paper that doesn't break the bank? I initially bought the Munbyn ITPP098P but it being USB only is a bit unergonomic.

vor 8 Monatendiscuss

Are there good ways of achieving this in tools like Blender and Illustrator? My best result so far in Illustrator was to round corners first and then apply a small amount of smooth but it looks a bit wonky.

letztes Jahrdiscuss

I use Joplin with encrypted notes synced over Dropbox. I can use it on all my devices plus it has support for math and mermaid diagrams. I also use a Leuchtturm1917 120g notebook which is perfect for writing and sketching with a fountain pen.

letztes Jahrdiscuss

The link to the paper is in the first paragraph.

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsphotonics.4c01667

vor 2 Jahrendiscuss

Not just in consoles. While RTL is solved for most cases, I generally avoid writing Arabic in code for example (hard-coded strings, regex, etc) and just use Unicode escape sequences. Some issues include ASCII punctuation appearing (visually) in the wrong order and very awkward text selection

vor 2 Jahrendiscuss

Here's one use case: while I don't use this particular GUI, it really does help when you have some columns containing RTL text such as Arabic and you want to browse through a table. RTL handling in most terminal emulators I've used is really lacking, though I can't blame them.

vor 2 Jahrendiscuss

> One of my most common things nowadays is to ask ChatGPT is to ask to build a curriculum.

I've been trying to do this for some rabbit hole I decided to go through. It's great for generating a list of topics but good luck getting actual existing books or papers. In some instances it would generate a paper title and link it to some other paper that might be slightly relevant.

vor 2 Jahrendiscuss

I've only use JSON Patch once as a quick hack to fix a problem I never thought I would encounter.

I had built a quick and dirty web interface so that a handful of people we contracted overseas can annotate some text data at the word level.

Originally, the plan was that the data was being annotated in small chunks (a sentence or two of text) but apparently the person managing the annotation team started assigning whole documents and we got a complaint that suddenly the annotations weren't being saved.

It turned out that the annotators had been using a dial up connection the entire time (in 2018!) and so the upload was timing out for them.

We panicked a bit until I discovered JSON Patch and I rewrote the upload code to only use the patch.

vor 3 Jahrendiscuss

I started learning Live after applying for a job interview at Ableton. At that point I had only known what Live was but I never touched it and never had an interest in music making. I downloaded the trial version and after just a couple of hours familiarizing myself with it, I was addicted. I never got the job, but I still open up Live when I'm bored to tinker around.

Here's what stands out to me:

  - Session view is great for experimenting with different arrangements and samples using the same processing chain without having to scroll through a huge timeline of different ideas. You can then go to arrangement view to work on your final arrangement.

  - Almost everything that you create is reusable. You can string together an instrument and/or a bunch of effects, group them together, map each their controls to a unified (and smaller) set of controls, and now you have a new instrument that you can drag and drop later on. You can then chain and group those together as well.

  - Max4Live is to plugins as Flash was to games. There are a ton of weird and experimental M4L devices out there available for free or for a very small price.

There are some negatives though:

  - As others have mentioned, it is pricey, $750 as of today if you want the complete version with all their instruments and effects.

  - Bouncing (re-recording) to a new track or to a file is a bit convoluted. Furthermore, bounced samples are encrypted in Ableton's proprietary format which means you can't use samples that YOU created in other plugins easily. There are a few workarounds that I found but it's just a frustrating experience. This also applies to any sample packs that come with Live or from Ableton's shop, you can't use them outside of Live's inbuilt devices or M4L devices. Again, there are workarounds but it's frustrating and there's probably something in the fine print against it.

  - No facilities for batch exporting sample slices. Say you want to use Live to process some sound effects and export them to individual files, well you can't do that easily in Live. There's a paid M4L device out there that helps with this but I just use Reaper to do this now.

vor 9 Jahrendiscuss

If you guys don't have the original Game Boy Camera and would like to try, I wrote an iPhone app a while ago to get a similar effect. Sorry for the shameless plug :P

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/pixl8r/id981531620

vor 10 Jahrendiscuss

Yeah, just got that as well :(

vor 11 Jahrendiscuss

As a Lebanese person, it's sad to see that this part of our history isn't taught to us. I only found out about it when the original article was written. Such a shame that the Lebanese (with quite a few exceptions, especially among millennials) have given up on intellectual progress.

vor 13 Jahrendiscuss

True, but I would think that since photographs taken by Jelly would a) most like be close-ups and b) might also have some extra annotations (eg. circled objects, hint in the question). This would result in a training set that better suits real world input. I am not really sure to be honest, it's just a thought.

vor 13 Jahrendiscuss

So they are right in assuming that people are searching more and more for answers to questions rather than looking up documents containing keywords. They are wrong in assuming that all of these questions inquire about what some physical object/location/etc is. But I think having something like this is useful in other ways. One application that comes to mind is that they could gather all submitted answers to build an automatic object/scene recognizer. Probably in a few years, Jelly could automatically tag objects in the photo you just took.

vor 13 Jahrendiscuss

Yes, they do! However, some art students I know would like to freelance while studying to pay off their student loans. The student edition won't allow them (legally anyway) to make money off of their work.

vor 13 Jahrendiscuss

I find that the students and new-comers are also benefiting from Creative Cloud because it allows one to try out all the tools unrestricted (and maybe even profiting from work) without having to take out a loan or worry about 30 day trials.

> I think Gimp vs. Photoshop is the vim vs. Emacs for digital artists.

As a programmer and a hobbyist painter, the analogy should be more like (vim/emacs/sublime) vs MS Notepad. While GIMP is great for general photo manipulation and editing, it is out of Photoshop's league when it comes to painting.

vor 13 Jahrendiscuss

Thanks!

vor 13 Jahrendiscuss

Is it me or is anyone else having problems scrolling down the page.