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Comment · 4 years ago
Comment · 4 years ago
https://iographica.com/ is a similar application that makes prettier pictures. (Anti-aliased rendering, more sophisticated visualisation that maps ‘mouse stops‘ of different lengths to disks of varying sizes, and maps time to colour.) Hacking Karbon to teach it similar tricks could be a fun project; maybe Pycairo would be suitable for better rendering?
Comment · 4 years ago
I don't know about “McKinsey infiltration into many a large F100+” first-hand, but from context I'd guess it's simply getting consultants from McKinsey & Company[0] jobs in the ‘infiltrated’ firm, on the basis that it has no in-house employees capable of properly setting up / running the bizarrely complex and idiosyncratic SCM-ERP-HCM-BI-etc. software in question.
Basically: You have a problem; Oracle/SAP says they'll solve it for you. Now you have a second problem; they say McKinsey'll solve it for you. Now you have …
Comment · 4 years ago
Currently hugged, cache:
https://web.archive.org/web/20220402000658/https://elektroni...
Comment · 4 years ago
That's all correct. While researching, I potentially found another mistake: Not sure if others see it the same way, but to me, ‘Aldi brand groceries‘ means that the brand of those products is literally called ‘Aldi’. According to a WAZ article [0], Aldi's house brand for their butter is ‘Milsani’. (By the way, apparently Aldi South's equivalent is ‘Milfina’, which is totally what Awkwafina should change her name to if she becomes a mother.)
Comment · 4 years ago
Depending on which style of literate programming you're going for, Sphinx[0] might be a good starting point. There are extensions that can fulfill a lot of requirements; for example, I like using Napoleon[1] and MyST-parser[2].
[0] https://www.sphinx-doc.org [1] https://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/master/usage/extensions/napole... [2] https://myst-parser.readthedocs.io/en/latest/sphinx/intro.ht...
Comment · 4 years ago
2019.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19871207
Comment · 4 years ago
Aha, that's a good point! It was silly of me to assume that if any cheap dongle works, that should mean ‘proper’ interfaces would work at least as well.
However, it seems like that explains why we needed Windows drivers, but not why device-specific Linux drivers are a thing? Unless the implication is that manufacturers who needed to make custom drivers anyway didn't bother to make their devices class compliant?
Comment · 4 years ago
> looked at it recently and was appalled at the amount of clicking required
IMHO that's actually not a big deal. From a comment I made in 2020 [0]:
> That's what I was concerned about before I played through one of the three campaigns a few years ago — that the UI would seem unbearable after having played a lot of Warcraft 3 and Starcraft 2. I found it actually quite OK after learning the keyboard shortcuts (of the Dos version). What actually ruined it for me and made me not want to play the other campaigns is the poor AI. Easy enemies would have been alright; I'm not that good at RTS games anyway and being able to finish each level on the first try was nice. But the opponents are so exceptionally stupid that it just got boring.
So, yes, the controls seem silly from a modern point of view, but they're far from the critical issue that prevents the game from being enjoyable.
By the way, there's a grave mistake in my old comment. I had written:
> Dune Legacy lets you play the campaigns, not just single-player skirmish, against its improved AIs. I just tried selecting ‘hard’ and (with game speed at maximum) got completely wrecked on the second map. Wonderful!
As I played more of the campaign in Dune Legacy, it turned out that the AI is even worse than in the original game. I only thought it was ‘wonderful’ because it attacked my base-under-construction with most of its preexisting army as soon as I gave my presence away too early on. But once I switched my strategy to build more stuff in secret before attacking, it turned out that the AI just sat there uselessly; no halfway decent build order, no scouting.
TL;DR: If you'd like to try multiplayer vs. humans, learn the controls and give it a try, it's really not bad! But if you want a good single-player RTS from the olden days … maybe try Plants vs. Zombies? Overcooked? Definitely not Dune 2.
Oh, and about UnDUNE II: that one really has poor ergonomics, judging from the 5 minutes I played it. It's an incredibly cool piece of art, but what it does particularly well is emulating the original game within the constraints of Pico-8. As opposed to imagining what Dune 2 would have been like in a world where Pico-8 were state of the art. It's like playing Doom on a digital pregnancy test: It's extremely cool that I could do it if I wanted to; but I really, really don't want to.
Comment · 4 years ago
Interesting; can you or someone please elaborate? I thought that device-specific drivers wouldn't be needed for the vast majority of audio interfaces, because they're connected via USB and all they need to do to ‘just work’ upon plugging in is implementing the relevant USB device class.
From my (programmer's) point of view, all I need to know to work with an audio interface is the number of input and output channels and the respective arrays of sample rates and bit depths. In theory, a generic USB driver can handle that. In practice, I observe that my Linux-using colleagues have 99 problems with audio, but none of those is related to plugging in a $1 dongle from AliExpress. (Therefore, I used to think that those audio interfaces ‘just work’, but now I'm curious about what I've been missing all along.)
Why is releasing Linux drivers for an audio interface even a thing?
Comment · 5 years ago
Release notes: https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-3100/
In terms of language features, the stand-out highlight is structural pattern matching; see https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0634/#abstract
This kind of situation actually does occur, and you can then use the knowledge that the solution is unique to conclude that neither alternative (WORDS+AMPLE or WORD+SAMPLE) can be part of the correct solution.