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  • The list is great! But it doesn’t really tell us which ones are actively developed. Running historical DEs is fun sometimes. For example, LXDE doesn’t really see a lot of development compared to its successor, LXQt. But once again shows the the Arch Wiki is the best ;)

    I guess people do occasionally compile KDE 1.x just to see if it still runs on modern systems (it does, but obviously some underlying things have changed over the years, like the audio and graphics stacks). But that isn’t the same as being actively developed :)


  • Troy@lemmy.catoTechnology@lemmy.worldOnyx Solar launches walkable PV tiles
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    7 days ago

    This depends on what you’re optimizing for. If you are optimizing for total energy captured per square metre, then you’re right about the benches.

    But suppose you have a sufficient flux even with some areas being covered so you aren’t bothered by the shadows. Wouldn’t it be aesthetically superior to have uniform tile types? Or would you prefer they micromanage the tile placement such that the tiles below the bench shadows are different?

    Anyway, I think it is a good idea. Better than the silly solar roadways crap.


  • Someone enlighten me. How many active desktop projects are there currently? (Not just window managers…)

    KDE Plasma, Trinity (is it active? Fork of KDE 3.5)

    Gnome, Mate, Cinnamon (fork all the things!), or “reskins” like Unity or Budgie?

    LXQt, Xfce… Is enlightenment still active as a project?

    Does anyone use Deepin – appears to be a partial fork of KDE (kwin, etc.) with new desktop environment built around it rather than use Plasma.

    Or Pantheon (Vala+GTK3?).

    Cosmic is from the ground up, recent and active I guess.

    Missing anything?





  • Troy@lemmy.catoTechnology@lemmy.worldThe Pythonic Emptiness
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    24 days ago

    Duck typing is the best if fully embraced. But it also means you have to worry just a little bit about clean failures once the project grows a little. I like this better than type checking relentlessly.

    It also means that your test suite or doctests or whatever should throw some unexpected types around now and again to check how it handles ducks and chickens and such :)



  • Troy@lemmy.catoTechnology@lemmy.worldStack Overflow Website Traffic
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    25 days ago

    The ideal result? LLMs are just early versions of much better things that come later.

    The unlikely result: we develop a separate human curated internet somewhere, complete with verification that a human wrote every bit. Basically verifiable digital id and signing on everything. Maybe.

    The probable result: the internet turns to shit as AIs are trained on content created by AIs.