timeforcomputer

há 7 mesesdiscuss

Hyperion is awesome. Each story could be its own novella but especially the priest's tale. I also loved the consul's tale. I haven't read the rest yet because I am unsure how the story will go without that structure as I wasn't too invested in the space politics, but I hear it is good. Also if you haven't read, The Terror by Dan Simmons is also great and strikes historical/horror like I feel hyperion does scifi/horror

timeforcomputer

há 7 mesesdiscuss

I still have to read Wind and Truth but I'm still waiting for the same paperback edition I have the other books in haha. Great series

timeforcomputer

há 8 mesesdiscuss

I really enjoyed Fezzick and Inigo's chapters. And the Zoo of Death! As I remember, the framing narrative was quite different, something about a screenwriter with some glaring personal issues IIRC. Worth reading if you love the movie, definitely.

timeforcomputer

há 8 mesesdiscuss

How is the latency for drawing? I am going to start doing this, but it makes me think, it would be nice to have a way to disable full refresh while drawing, and doing tablet-side drawing over the current VNC frame while the stream is paused, and asynchronously forwarding the input which will hopefully recreate the same drawing path on the server.

timeforcomputer

há 8 mesesdiscuss

You can also use EXWM in Xephyr, so you can have an emacs window with its own controlled windows instead of replacing the whole DE/window-manager. I suppose this doesn't work with multiple frames though.

I have been experimenting with xdotool windowmap/windowunmap and override_redirect (and maybe LD_PRELOAD?) to try get something like EXWM to work without creating another X server, by capturing windows. I'm doing this in vim though.

By the way, neovim has an apparently working EXWM-like plugin, NXWM/nwm: https://github.com/altermo/nwm

timeforcomputer

há 8 mesesdiscuss

I love it because I have glare/doubling around words. Adding some visual noise can mask my own eye problems, and adding some visual effects with the glowbar and jittering if I feel like it, can really make it easier to focus for some reason.

timeforcomputer

há 11 mesesdiscuss

Almost the same emoticon logo too.

ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ Bear vs. ʕ·ᴥ·ʔ Build EAR

The compilation database tool (https://github.com/rizsotto/Bear), is extremely helpful. It got CCLS/clangd working for me over multiple in-house build systems at a vfx studio.

It also is super helpful for debugging. I have used it a lot alongside a script which converts a compile_commands.json to a sequence of commands, so I can edit them individually without fiddling with the build system, and then once fixed (such as adding a flag to one TU) try to find the way to do that in the build system.

timeforcomputer

há 11 mesesdiscuss

I've heard good things about sclerals and am planning to get them. Small triple images in the left eye and triple in the right eye with a major image further away, like 3 lines on my computer screen away. It doesn't sound nearly as bad as the many images but good to hear sclerals work with worse cases!

timeforcomputer

há 12 mesesdiscuss

Thanks for the link to tmuxinator, I had heard of it but never learned what it does. I think I'd like something like this. But I think this is a case of tmux providing a platform, I think the core idea of tmuxinator could be implemented outside of tmux, so tmux in that regard is basically an implementation detail.

Then it is a pragmatic decision, using tmux you get to use the ecosystem of things like tmuxinator which explicitly target tmux to get a known number of terminal features like splits. What I learn from the OP, is that there are technical reasons that tmux is not a "good design" - like Kovid's comments on how it constrains innovation in terminal designs - which might lead someone to consider, what actually does tmux do and could my workflow be implemented otherwise?

It might be a bunch of unixy hacks and tricks (as another commenter here said) but it can work. I'd imagine recreating something like tmuxinator would be hard though, but it could also be interesting, like having arbitrary GUI programs configured to appear in "splits" using tiling integrated seamlessly within the terminals. But yeah, if the workflow is already set up and serviceable and supported with a community, using tmux, then I'd just keep using it.

timeforcomputer

ano passadodiscuss

VFX software development, repairing and modifying pipelines for artists, at a company with a large internal tool infrastructure like Weta, ILM, Pixar, is my target job

timeforcomputer

ano passadodiscuss

"Because we raise the trigger and only two carrying noodles, and only two can announce in this network but their excess cites their examine this places where the apparatus of military power torches the ground"

He makes an intriguing point.

timeforcomputer

ano passadodiscuss

I have felt similar, wanting to learn physics sims. I have had to learn over time to separate domains of knowledge like physics from programming tools used to ~manifest them. Especially starting with gamedev, initially it felt like there should be a natural programming idiomatic way to set up each of the major simulations like rigid bodies, cloth, springs, fluids, so the first thought I had was these sims will be naturally encoded in the language, like a fluid sim being somehow setting up a grid, then choosing some update rules per timestep. But really it is modelling a problem as real mathematics and physics, then mapping this to a language/toolset which perhaps can't naturally express it idiomatically.

There are a few algorithms like some cloth sims based on particle positions and springs, which can be coded easily, but that was misleading to me when trying to improve, I had to dig a lot more into physics and numerical analysis then mapping the problem to code, which can end up clunky and with a lot of magic numbers.

timeforcomputer

há 2 anosdiscuss

As latexr said you can disable watch history. This means there is no home page (even when it should have known my interests, my home page was awful so this isn't so bad). You don't get watch-progress memory on videos, which is simple to adjust to. Recommended are less targeted and I get a lot of the typical ragey youtube stuff but it is mostly half relevant. I no longer watch any shorts which I kept clicking just to "see how bad they are" until it became a habit. And the UI keeps pushing it... If youtube makes the no-watch-history method not work, I'm just deleting the app and waiting until I'm bothered to configure revanced.

timeforcomputer

há 2 anosdiscuss

I love this book so much. The literate programming style I think inspired from Knuth's cweb, great writing, beautiful high-quality physical book worth buying but also free access to knowledge. The literate-programming style means you are almost immediately applying theory to a practical system, I keep having to take breaks to learn outside math/physics though, but it is self-contained in principle I think.

timeforcomputer

há 2 anosdiscuss

I think the geo URI scheme might work if you have an exact location for the book.

timeforcomputer

há 2 anosdiscuss

Yay Ben Rady. He has a great podcast with Matt Godbolt (who made Compiler Explorer) called Two's Complement.

timeforcomputer

há 2 anosdiscuss

I just realised in the above comment I was making a mistake in an analogy to shortest path optimal substructure. In shortest path, starting with an optimal solution, "subproblems" have optimal solutions. This is not true starting from a non-optimal path, although length-1 subpaths are optimal. But still not sure of a particular way to phrase optimal substructure for code size. Sorry for the confusion!

timeforcomputer

há 2 anosdiscuss

Thanks, it looks like I had forgotten how dynamic programming works, e.g. constructing from possibly all subproblem solutions rather than just some way of breaking into some disjoint union. In this case I guess for code optimization a "subproblem" needs to be defined. I'm not sure if just breaking the code into chunks works as I was imagining. Maybe optimal substructure applies to some graph-like model of computation but not the naive assumption I made on how this would work.

timeforcomputer

há 2 anosdiscuss

Yes I was surprised at that sentence because I think (considering theoretical properties of code size are the same as instruction count) that the main initial reason compiler optimization is non-trivial is because these kinds of global optimizations are possible, like your loop example.

Also I am really enjoying your article, still reading it with wikipedia open on the side haha.

timeforcomputer

há 2 anosdiscuss

In the article he says "Now, let's say you split the function in two parts and you find their minimums independently", so I am trying to think of what that means. I was thinking something like splitting "func() { ins1; ins2; }" into "ins1func() { ins1; } ins2func() { ins2; } func() { ins1func(); ins2func() }", but I agree this is an unwieldy/unrealistic example, all the register context would need to be passed in, stack memory addressing etc., and this changes instruction counts non-trivially.

So I guess I don't need to think too much of the functionness of splitting up a code-block, I suppose this example contradiction would also apply and more cleanly if just thinking of the compiler considering blocks of code individually e.g. in a greedy algorithm.

(Actually reading the intro again I think I overcomplicated this and he actually does mean just splitting into code blocks. My mistake)