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Re: Software I’m thankful for (2021)

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Post by neilv »

ajkjk wrote: post #510
neilv wrote: post #248

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I see it a lot from non-techies who I think either don't know how to change it, or reasonably think that it's a conventional way to convey that one is on mobile (to explain why one is more terse, or heads up that they don't have access to info normally on desktop right now, etc.). When the iPhone first game out, and was expensive and hard to get, the signature risked coming across as an affluence brag.

Not even 'risked', it was explicitly that! That's a lot of why it's crass to this day.

Oh, at the time, I probably felt miffed over it, and maybe once responded with a juvenile signature, "Sent from my iPhone that your mom bought me".

But, more general than incidents of iPhone bragging/enthusiasm, I have more data points now, of different people's various motivations and thinking, and I try to remind myself not to get bent out of shape. Kinda like in David Foster Wallace's "This is Water" commencement speech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CrOL-ydFMI

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Post by cbsmith »

I found the comment about the speed of the Go compiler... surprising. Fast compile times has always been an important objective for compiled languages, and while Go has a reputation for fast compiler times, in my experience, the Go compiler's performance doesn't seem particularly impressive. Indeed, for a lot of code bases, C, D, even dirty old Pascal compilers, and for a lot of code bases (as in ones, not heavily using template foo), even C++ compilers compile as fast if not faster than Go when you disengage the optimizer. Aside from compiling C++/Rust/Ada/Haskell programs laden with tons of templates/generics/type-foo, I can't think of a compiler that seemed perceptibly "slower" than Go. Now, Go's optimizer is surprisingly quick, but then, the binaries it produces aren't particularly optimized.

Re: Software I’m thankful for (2021)

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Post by brulard »

aljgz wrote: post #243
andrei_says_ wrote: post #91

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Could you elaborate on the difference between Windows and MacOS in the context of multitasking?

I should say a lot of that is because of the fundamental assumption that multiple instances of an app are related to each other in multitasking. If I have vscode in my external monitor, plus two Firefox instances one in internal and one in the external, than in many ways of switching to the browser, both windows come up. That covers my IDE, and I need an extra click/keystroke to bring it back. One example of many. I'…

I'm not sure what kind of users you observed, but I have switched fully to Mac (as a developer from linux+windows) after seeing how quick devs can be on a Macbook. Dev conferences are full of macs and most of my dev friends made a transition to Mac and I have not heard one complaining about any workflow speed. Actually the opposite and so is my experience.

Re: Software I’m thankful for (2021)

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Post by rndpkk » 

  - Notepad++  for better writing
  - Inkscape   for drawing
  - Everything for finding your writings and drawings
  - AstroGrep  for finding content inside writings (and drawings (SVG))
  - Firefox    for the Web
  - F#         for fun

Re: Software I’m thankful for (2021)

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Post by cobbaut »

An alphabetical list of software that I really like.

Apache: Not as popular as it used to be, but I know it and so still use it

apt/aptitude/apt-get: The origin of all 'apps' and the most user friendly and secure way to manage software

Audacity: Or is that too controversial now with their telemetry?

bash: The best interface to my computers

convert: From Imagemagick, for batch converting images

Civilization IV: Yes 4, the only software that is not (yet?) open source

cron: It wakes me up every day (using mpv and bash)

Debian: I run it on almost everything

ffmpeg: to convert video formats

find: because I tend to forget where I put stuff :)

Firefox: because an alternative browser is crucial

FreeCAD: Amazing CAD software, and I like math

gcc: Because coding in C is fun!

gimp: Easy image manipulation

git: How did I ever live without it?

gramps: To keep track of my ancestors

grep: Often very useful.

Homebrew: To make a MacBook usable

Inkscape: Because vector graphics are essential

Linux: in background of course, like so many other tools that I am rarely aware of

make: For software that is not part of Debian

mariadb(mysql): So easy to build a database

mpv: For audio and video (and for their API)

Openshot: To create Lego NXT or Prusa video's

PrusaSlicer: A 3D printer opens a whole new world of possibilities

Python: I hate this language, but it is used so much and coding is still fun

return Youtube dislike: How else is Youtube usable?!

rsync: For backups

Singlefile: because web pages tend to disappear forever

ssh: Multitool for anything remote

Thunderbird: Reading my mail since 1996 (as Netscape Mail)

tmux: used daily, configured to a quiet and relaxing layout

Video downloadhelper: because video's tend to disappear forever

vim: By far the best editor for text, code, config files and more.

wine: To play that one game on Debian (though I wish its 32-bit had as much memory as 32-bit Windows XP)

Wireshark: The best tool to learn about networking

XFCE: My GUI since almost 20 years

xfce-screenshooter: Because screenshots are useful

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Post by aitchnyu »

ziotom78 wrote: post #432

Lots of good entries, I'll add a few that haven't been mentioned yet: - ncdu, to find out which files and folders take up most of the disk space [1] - julia, because scientific programming was never so fun and fast [2] - midnight commander, because a TUI implementing Norton Commander dual-pane view is so useful! [3] - lazarus, because creating multi-platform desktop apps couldn't be simpler [4] - zstandard, its perfo…

I used Baobab which is bundled into Ubuntu to drill down and find space hogs and folders which have 100000s of files. The latter helped me shorten moving all my files between PCs.

Re: Software I’m thankful for (2021)

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Post by ziotom78 »

aitchnyu wrote: post #516
ziotom78 wrote: post #432

Lots of good entries, I'll add a few that haven't been mentioned yet: - ncdu, to find out which files and folders take up most of the disk space [1] - julia, because scientific programming was never so fun and fast [2] - midnight commander, because a TUI implementing Norton Commander dual-pane view is so useful! [3] - lazarus, because creating multi-platform desktop apps couldn't be simpler [4] - zstandard, its perfo…

I used Baobab which is bundled into Ubuntu to drill down and find space hogs and folders which have 100000s of files. The latter helped me shorten moving all my files between PCs.

Wow, I never heard about Baobab. I've just installed it, and it looks awesome! To manage my servers I think I'll stick with ncdu, but for my laptop Baobab is going to be great. Thanks for the tip!

Re: Software I’m thankful for (2021)

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Post by xwowsersx »

graton wrote: post #509
xwowsersx wrote: post #490

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Hmm. I think I'm missing something basic here. git rebase --interactive is for when you want to take commits you've been baking and now want to clean them up, i.e. squashing some, rewording commit messages, etc, right? I'll usually do something like $ git rebase -i HEAD~5 to clean up the last 5. Can I do this with `git frbi`? Or is the point that I don't need to since all commits are "picked" by default so you just "…

`git frbi` allows you to pick the value that will be passed to `git rebase -i` I recommend you try it and it should hopefully make sense.

Ah, I had. I just totally brain-farted on the fact that `--interactive ` takes the SHA of the commit just before the one you want to rewrite. Thanks!

Re: Software I’m thankful for (2021)

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Post by idealmedtech »

SyneRyder wrote: post #503
idealmedtech wrote: post #207

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On a similar note for Windows: Everything Search. Blazing fast, super easy syntax, powerful search tools. Almost don't remember where most things are stored on my hard drive these days, since they're all just a shortcut and a few characters away

Is this the tool you mean, Everything by Voidtools? https://www.voidtools.com/ The built-in Windows search is (for me) abysmal compared to Spotlight search on the Mac, and especially Alfred's interface to Spotlight search. The Windows search seems to switch too early to trying Bing results when I'm only interested in local results. Never tried Everything before, but I think I've seen it recommended before, so I'm dow…

That's the one!
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