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Many more, like?
For an individual, almost none. I can boycott a bank (if it's not a government one), I can't boycott my own government, only leave.
An organization can start an initiative, but without an interested party involved it's only an initiative, you can hardly call it "pressure".
For any serious work this is inadequate (see † below), as the defaults, which are relied on here pretty extensively, are inevitably giving fair to middling results on specific tasks.
Moreover, imagemagick has an extensive documentation that's open to contribution and could possibly benefit from more usage examples for beginners: https://imagemagick.org/script/magick.php
†: For example, when you don't have strict control over input formats, you start adding things like
-define tiff:ignore-layers=true "INPUT[0]"
Another thing you're bound to bump into pretty soon is transparency so you need to decide how you're going to deal with it. Color profiles is a minefield and it's a blessing when you can just ignore them completely but a pain when you can't.
Then, exporting to web mostly means downscaling, and here you need to decide whether you're prioritizing image detail preservation or size optimization. In any case, resampling in a linear colorspace is strongly recommended:
-colorspace RGB -filter X -resize N> -colorspace sRGB
The point is, basic one-liners hide the complexity. For any workflow that requires robustness and fidelity a deep dive into the documentation is a requirement.
Context here is Russian Federation.
Common-sense like a complete ban for entering the country for red passport holders.
Lithuania is a wonderful, beautiful country and I understand the need to push the hardliner stance in the EU, but their decisions during the conflict have been strictly political, not in the slightest "common-sense".
I've had one of his electrics briefly and it felt and played great. I didn't bond with the instrument due to specific personal preferences, but it was great to feel for myself this particular guitar was as good an instrument as Parker reputation makes you expect.
Logic errors should be visible so they can be fixed?
I have a multidevice filesystem, comprised of old HDDs and one sketchy PCI-SATA extension. This FS was assembled in 2019 and, though it went through periods of being non-writable, is still working and I haven't lost any[1] data. This is more than 5 years, multitude of FS version upgrades, multiple device replacements with corresponding data evacuation and rereplication.
[1] Technically, I did lose some, when a dying device started misbehaving and writing garbage, and I was impatient and ran a destructive fsck (with fix_errors) before waiting for a bug patch.
Don't want to compare it to other solutions but this is impressive even on its own merits.
my_photos_at_-3c
my_photos_at_-10c
Do users want smaller numbers first, or do they want them in counting order, away from zero?
One of the most overlooked features is a custom user menu[1]. It allows greatly expanding MC's capabilities with custom actions and integrate it into specific workflows. No plugins or DSLs, just a `sh` calling whatever you like.
For example, I have a couple keybinds for transferring selected files/directories over rsync while browsing the remote directory over sftp. You can easily adapt it to do the same for directories mounted remotely with sshfs/rclone mount.
Another action that I like to add (this one I actually use in Double Commander on my GUI workstation) is to automatically convert transferred files on the fly, like compress media with ffmpeg (WAV to FLAC, * to OPUS, etc).
[1]: https://source.midnight-commander.org/man/mc.html#Edit_Menu_...
What I don't like:
- No remote terminal persistence solution in the works + termux/screen incompatibility.
- Two modes of font rendering and both are meh. Legacy is uneven and jagged, modern has unbalanced perceived font thickness for dark-on-light and light-on-dark, and the modifications can only make it more unbalanced.
Have no complaints besides that. Default keybindings are ok, performance is great, features are plenty, configuration is easy. Font config `kitten` is great.
Go to a jazz jam where non-pros are not afraid to go. Still usually a downer for the listener. However, they all know they suck.
Then around 2019 Nim started to gain momentum (preparing for 1.0 release) and when I looked into it a bit deeper it became evident that for most of the code I usually write for myself Nim is just a more pragmatic choice than Rust. It gets me there faster.
Zero job perspectives both times, scratched my own itch twice though.
Glad I haven't gone with Go. Nim is not a perfect overlap with Rust, but it definitely covers everything Go can do and more and is a better design in my opinion.
Please, file bugs or complain on the official matrix room. The community tries its best to keep up the official documentation in sync with the changes.
To me, full-information games feel immensely boring, they all look like a harder version of Tic-Tac-Toe that require a bigger brain. Just don't make mistakes and you're guaranteed to win. Harder games like chess just make it so incredibly expensive and attention draining that only a special kind of people get really good.
The fun part of Poker for me is exactly the psychological game of reconstructing the hidden info. Tuning your intuition when you know you still lack it is also fun and revealing.
Regarding teaching children: bluff and lies are rampant in real life. Poker teaches to take it into account and to do it yourself in a no-consequence conditions. Even if you never resort to it you need to know what it feels like to understand others.
It's the first time I've been classified as suspicious, to my knowledge. Cool.
Some very desirable features are just not available as plugins (or I didn't find them), like enhancing the recording quality: this is only available as paid services aimed for podcasters so work on spoken voice only.
Again, the problem is that most of the offerings are trying to leverage the neural network for some complete solution, in the way replacing the steps professionals are perfectly able (and need to decide on) to take themselves. I'm constantly looking for specialized solutions that do the job that's impossible to make manually. The best example is Demucs for stem-splitting: it does one job and leaves me to work on the rest.
You'd think those would be easier to achieve than something that tries to just replace me completely.
It's seriously optimized and includes ready to use modules which are alternative to Nim's standard library or more tailored/opinionated interfaces for basic POSIX software building blocks.
Don't skip going over examples[1]. All of those are fully functional programs, some are pretty niche, but all are very usable and, I bet @cb321 will confirm, in some cases are competitive with widely-used alternatives.
Regarding tables: using monospace typefaces and padding floats with zeros to better align numbers make them easier to visually compare at a glance. Compare the difference the alignment of the AFR column of the two first big tables makes.
More like Bike Overtake Prevention System. Unbelievable.
Well, it depends on the level of inconsistency. Ironically, I'm in a bridged Tg-to-Matrix chat room on the Matrix side and regularly get dozens of messages in a shuffled order. Even though the messages have timestamps, it's very confusing. I tend to just ignore this room. So much for ordering guarantees.
BitTorrent is superior file distribution technology, it deserves to be used.
It just mostly makes them irrelevant by EEE. A permissive license is simply asking for it.
Not quite true. Wireguard is already actively detected and suppressed if necessary. There's already a fork that employs basic changes to improve the protocol in this regard. AmneziaWG was shown to be more robust to detection for now.
https://docs.amnezia.org/documentation/amnezia-wg/
Too bad managing WG is such a pain and Tailscale/Netbird don't support this protocol yet. The following two issues need attention:
Exactly. This is why the tech has to be made resistant to surveillance and censorship by default. Until usage of alternative connectivity and circumvention methods sticks out as a sore thumb (turns out, for most tools it does), it applies a constant pressure on anyone under oppression to stop, increasing the risks for those who continue to use them.
You have to back such claims with data. Also consider what happens in the said adjustment lag and how long it lasts.
https://www.nature.com/immersive/d41586-025-00269-y/index.ht...