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adius

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About adius

CEO & full stack developer at airsequel.com. Occasional blogger at adriansieber.com.

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    Comment #49249925

    Cuis Smalltalk has full high-DPI support as its GUI is based on vector graphics: https://cuis.st/

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    Comment #49174785

    The "Initial Motivation" section in the article explains why existing mobile apps aren't good enough.

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    Comment #49173586

    Fixed this on main. The macOS build linked against Homebrew's libwebp by absolute path but never bundled it, so it only ran on machines that happened to have it installed. The buil…

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    Comment #49173322

    Thanks for the report. I'm looking into it!

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    Comment #49103001

    After 9 years of on-and-off development, I'm happy to announce the 1.0 release of Perspec, a desktop app for correcting the perspective of photos of documents, receipts, and whiteb…

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    Comment #48567426

    My theory is that writing as much as possible in Rust will improve performance and produce higher-quality code due to Rust's static typing. So far, it's been working well, but the …

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    Comment #48566657

    Author here: I absolutely do not understand this mindset. It has almost 20K unit tests by now and hundreds of full end-to-end tests of complicated scripts to ensure it works and ma…

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    Comment #48444972

    Mathics ( https://mathics.org/ ) has been working on a Mathematica clone for years and hasn't had any problems so far. There have been many legal cases establishing that APIs are't…

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    Comment #48442963

    Thanks! I'm hoping to use libraries for this, but unfortunately there aren't many available in Rust yet for those kinds of problems. Integrating Symbolica would be awesome, but our…

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    Comment #48432587

    For short scripts, it’s often faster because there’s less initialization overhead. In general, though, it largely depends on whether the functions you’re using already have optimiz…

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    Comment #48432468

    As an alternative, I’m working on reimplementing Wolfram Language/ Mathematica in Rust: https://woxi.ad-si.com/ A lot of Wolfram Language code just works already!

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    Comment #48428925

    As an alternative, I’m working on reimplementing Wolfram Language/ Mathematica in Rust: https://woxi.ad-si.com/ A lot of Wolfram Language code just works already!

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    Comment #48105428

    LLMs are now smart enough to simply download the code of any project they want to inspect. So this argument doesn't really hold up anymore …

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    Comment #47972539

    Thanks! I'm using [Anki Panky]( https://github.com/kamalsacranie/anki-panky ) for generating the flashcards and then [Anki]( https://apps.ankiweb.net/ ) itself for learning them.

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    Comment #47806110

    I tried out numerous audio tagging apps (Kid3, Picard, …) and wasn't happy with any of them. They all try to work with some kind of library system of have a really bad UX (single l…

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    Comment #47200106

    Not yet, but on the roadmap!

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    Comment #47199243

    Mh, I thought about this a little and came actually to exactly the opposite conclusion: Implement as much as possible in Rust to get the fastest code possible. Do you have any more…

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    Comment #47198596

    Why should I want them to use it?

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    Comment #47197824

    Yeah, I've already looked into it, but decided to keep developing it "example driven" for now. Aka I'm playing around with it, and whenever I find something that's broken I keep a …

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    Comment #47197684

    They rebranded it to Wolfram Language a few years ago (which I actually appreciate, as it is so much more than just "math" by now!) https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2013/02/what…