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Apple's CUPS repo was archived

github.com
6 points·by qrobit·25 giorni fa·3 comments

Ask HN: How do you deal with color blindness?

2 points·by qrobit·2 mesi fa·3 comments

Electron Band Structure in Germanium, My Ass

web.archive.org
2 points·by qrobit·3 mesi fa·0 comments

Libinput 1.30 adds support for Lua plugins

lore.freedesktop.org
4 points·by qrobit·8 mesi fa·0 comments

Flatpak Happenings

blog.sebastianwick.net
5 points·by qrobit·8 mesi fa·1 comments

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qrobit
·18 giorni fa·discuss
And it comes with tidyverse-like cheatsheet[1] that I confused with ggplot2 when first discovered plotnine

[1]: https://github.com/rstudio/cheatsheets/blob/main/plotnine.pd...
qrobit
·24 giorni fa·discuss
Sort of, there're more posts about graphene in the year 2026 & they get much more attention. Aggregated some data and plotted it with my agent: https://boop.icu/Pr.png
qrobit
·25 giorni fa·discuss
That's what I wondered as well, whether it is a new implementation, or perhaps they still use their version of cups? Or maybe they use the forked openprinting cups? Would be nice if somebody knowledgeable with a mac device told whether the cups is still used
qrobit
·25 giorni fa·discuss
The repo got archived in march, I wonder whether it means that Apple uses something other than CUPS on their devices? Quick search suggests they still use CUPS, but why would they archive the project then?
qrobit
·30 giorni fa·discuss
previously https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46906947
qrobit
·mese scorso·discuss
On nixos they're not, there's a single executable in /bin -- /bin/sh, and a single executable in /usr/bin -- /usr/bin/env
qrobit
·mese scorso·discuss
Both are non-deterministic, both have some metric to optimise, one is specific and efficient, the other is too broad and very expensive
qrobit
·2 mesi fa·discuss
Much older? Wikipedia says[^1][^2] java appeared in 1995 (started in 1991), while python appeared in 1991 (started in late 1980s). 4 years doesn't seem too far apart, considering both language are >30 years old now.

[^1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Python_(programming_language)

[^2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_(programming_language)
qrobit
·2 mesi fa·discuss
He doesn't have a role at Facebook anymore AFAIK, although I can't find the source now. I remember hearing it was mostly due to filtering engine at Facebook being rewritten in Hack, so they don't have the need for Haskell people anymore.
qrobit
·2 mesi fa·discuss
Secure boot ensures the image you boot was not tampered with. You can't install keylogger without tampering with the image. If you wanted to install physical keylogger, you would need to open the device up, and at least my laptop provides detection of bottom cover removal, meaning the system will ask you for a bios password if the laptop was opened up.
qrobit
·2 mesi fa·discuss
> you don't have a colourblind person's 'profile'

Why not? As far as my understanding of color blindness goes, you just need to find a precise transformation matrix and offsets to be able to correct any type of deficiency (except for achromatopsia, I guess).

> When I use them I find the colour profile I am used to in the wider world flipped, and the semantic meanings given to colours, or their hierarchies, completely changed.

I think the correction applied to digital content is a positive thing. At once you can perceive color the way it was intended to be perceived. May be wrong here because I don't have daltonism.

> You can try to make a perfect system for every variation but the end user won't see it as precisely as you intend.

My goal is not cover every case, but to create exactly one profile (and perhaps create a usable correction workflow for someone else)

Thanks for an elaborate response :)
qrobit
·3 mesi fa·discuss
There should still be privacy concerns, especially with their demo which sends a POST on "Generate". The author suggests the model is 85kB of weights, which could run perfectly well in browser.

> But with this software - the tolerances are looser, so the clothing becomes more manufacturable.

Does it? How do looser measurements help? I assume manufacturer would always take the upper bound of dimensions. Suppose model also predicted your dimensions are higher then they really are, so these two in combination give you an oversized piece of clothing.
qrobit
·3 mesi fa·discuss
I personally like marimo[^1], the developers rely heavily on AI tools afaict

[^1]: https://github.com/marimo-team/marimo
qrobit
·3 mesi fa·discuss
Just a reminder that even if you managed to amend those commits and force-push, the commits would still exist and will be addressable given the hash is known.
qrobit
·4 mesi fa·discuss
Hackage recommends using Haskell's PVP[^1], but does not enforce it. That's why many haskell packages are a four-places versions: 3 required and fourth optional (but popular) that represents "other" changes, like documentation.

[^1]: https://pvp.haskell.org/
qrobit
·4 mesi fa·discuss
Mostly true, but I personally have it turned of for duckduckgo and it shows me some ads with [ad] label. Actually if you wanted to disable ads there, you wouldn't even need an ad blocker, there's toggle in the settings
qrobit
·5 mesi fa·discuss
It will be easy to check with devtools when the update is released
qrobit
·6 mesi fa·discuss
I was surprised not to find cantata[1], another MPD graphical client, on the list. Used it for the past three years, despite it being unmaintained for quite some time now. The client is very featureful, allows downloading lyrics and covers automatically (TBF had many mismatches, like downloading some Gillette ad as an Eminem's album cover). Most important to me is the ability to listen do directories and not artists/albums, which cantata does perfectly. Recently nixpkgs replaced cantata with a fork[2], so cantata is kind of online again.

[1]: https://github.com/CDrummond/cantata

[2]: https://github.com/nullobsi/cantata
qrobit
·6 mesi fa·discuss
Bubblewrap seems to be much more popular[^1], personally this is the first time I heard about landrun

[1]: https://repology.org/project/bubblewrap/information https://repology.org/project/landrun/information
qrobit
·6 mesi fa·discuss
I wanted to say Haskell with shh[^1] and stack's or nix's shebangs[^2][^3], but interpreted haskell is not particularly fast.

Also I think a Python script is reasonable if you use a type-checker with full type annotations, although they are not a silver bullet. For most scripts I use fish, which is my preferred interactive shell too.

[1]: https://hackage.haskell.org/package/shh

[2]: https://docs.haskellstack.org/en/v3.9.1/topics/scripts/

[3]: https://wiki.nixos.org/wiki/Nix-shell_shebang. On a side note, if you were to use nix's shebang for haskell scripts with dependencies, you should be using https://github.com/tomberek/- instead of impure inputs, because it allows for cached evaluation. I personally cloned the repo to my personal gitlab account, since it's small and should never change