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Am I the only one who clicks on these kind of articles holding out hope to see the glimmer of Linux on an actual CRT from composit outputs?

But it's always just screen shots from an emulator...


I'm awaiting some screenies from a peer that has the flash cart for the Jaguar; don't worry, they'll get added! I have both the Jaguar and the Jaguar CD but don't have the flash cart...


Another problem with these old controls is even when code is sent over serial, they are slow. Think like less than 9600 baud.

They also don't have the computing power to do adaptive or other modern tool paths.


Is 9600 baud a real problem realistically? That’s still at least 10 gcode commands per second, right?

If your CAM software is smart enough to use arc commands instead of using line segments, I don’t really see a tool path where you would need more than that.


Depends on how complex the part is. I've seen adaptive toolpath posts get 1,000s of lines long.


It's not nothing. Plus the fact that it's money not not getting shipped out of Europe to hostile regions is a net win.


Where are the panels sourced from?


Most panels are from China. Panels have a very long lifetime. Over their lifetime they generate way more than their price in oil. Europe is not a huge producer of oil and relies on imports to sustain its usage. Sourcing panels is effectively reducing the amount of money leaving Europe in the long term.


China. With that said, they have so much solar PV capacity that they’re barely breaking even, even when exporting tens of GW of PV panels a month. I argue it’s a net positive the solar PV printers in China are kept in business to maintain their annual output, the world needs as much solar PV as it can produce as fast as possible.


I mean this has been a this has been a theme going back further than "Shadow of the Colossus" or "Undertale".

Both "Chrono Trigger" and "Crono Cross" make you question your actions and whether or not it was worth on a monster genocide.


I've never understood GIMP's approach to copy paste either. They've made a decision that copy and paste must require as many un-intuitive steps as possible.

Most graphics programs let you select a region, copy it and then move the copy around to where you want it, the end. You can usually paste into new layer if needed.

But not in GIMP for some reason you have to copy something and 'anchor it' or convert it to a new layer before you ever see it.

This kind of thing just makes me use other software.


That's how Procreate works as well. When you paste, it pastes into a new layer and then you can decide if you want to merge it down or not.


I've memorised the keyboard shortcuts that I need in order to do this extremely common thing.

1. Select region with mouse.

2. Ctrl-C: Copy the region.

3. Ctrl-V: Paste (with the selection still active, so that it pastes in the same place).

4. Ctrl-Shift-N: Makes the resulting "temporary layer" into a permanent new layer.

5. Use the new layer.

I wish I could skip step 4. It's usually not necessary, and if I need to place the temporary layer into the same layer that I was already using, I can just merge the two myself.

Of course, sometimes you do need the ability to directly paste into the same thing, such as if you're editing a layer mask rather than the actual layer itself...


Not sure what you’re seeing, but if you choose the move (four arrow button) tool after pasting, it will move the selection. Then you can create a layer or merge down etc if you wish but not required.


Slightly beyond that, pasting creates a temporary new layer you can manipulate like normal layers before anchoring it or converting it to a normal layer. It's visible in the Layers window as a separate layer from the one you were working on.


Right, “floating.”


> But not in GIMP for some reason you have to copy something and 'anchor it' or convert it to a new layer before you ever see it.

I select something, copy it, paste it, and I can see and move it right away. Is that not working for you? I’m on GIMP 3.2.2.


Copy & Paste default behavior was changed in GIMP 3.0 (I was one of the people who worked on the change). GIMP 2.10 and earlier creating floating selections as described earlier.

I've gotten equal parts praise and complaints for working on that - some people think it makes GIMP much more intuitive, while others find it interfers with their workflow of quickly copying, editing, and merging back down pieces of a layer.


Try this out for all of KDE to CDE window theming needs:

https://github.com/spacestate1/cde-plasma


Here's a good starting point for those of us that use XFCE:

https://www.xfce-look.org/p/1231025/


The reality is anyone generate useful code with an AI agent now. Dores in accounting can now automate all her spreadsheets in a single afternoon.

Not trying to hype AI, but we are in an interesting transitional period.


The accounting saas dores presumably uses doesn't "automate spreadsheets" as its core value prop.

related: i'm thinking these vibe coded solutions are revealing to everyone how important and under appreciated good UX is when it comes to implicit education of any given thing. Like given this complex process, the UX is holding your hand while educating you through a workflow. this stuff is part of software engineering yet it isn't "code".


Clicking on a lot of the maps gives me this ? I'm logged in as well

Unauthorized: You do not have access to this item.


Yes, there are a number of maps (the FHA ones and also one Sanborn) that are part of a research project that is still in the works, so they are hidden for now.


Also the amount of people in DC who drive while smoking weed seems very high(no pun intended). Based on the number of cars that can be smelled from another car while in traffic.


Plus according to this the Detroit Electric Sold 13,000 units between 1907 to 1939

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detroit_Electric


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