Notices by Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io), page 79

@benoit @globalc Well, the laser surgery also failed to correct 100% of the astigmatism in one eye, but I could live with it...

@benoit @globalc No, but the effects of presbyopia appear over time and there's no treatment.

@benoit @globalc I'm starting to wear glasses again after over 10 years from laser surgery, and now I'm noticing those annoying chromatic aberrations around text... and the slight distortion when I turn my neck...

@benoit @globalc I'm starting to wear glasses again after over 10 years from laser surgery, and now I'm noticing those annoying chromatic aberrations around text... and the slight distortion when I turn the neck...

@dragfyre Bro, do your splines even reticulate? 😃
https://sims.fandom.com/wiki/Reticulating_splines

Now I see how the various types of splines relate to each other, and why they're preferably used in some domains (e.g. fonts, animation paths...)

#graphics #math #programming

Splines! They're everywhere... in web pages, in videogames, in industrial design...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvPPXbo87ds
#programming #graphics #math

@amigalove My favorite #Amiga module player was DeliTracker.

Too bad it was never opensourced :-(

https://www.exotica.org.uk/wiki/DeliTracker

@amigalove My favorite module player on the #Amiga was DeliTracker...

Too bad it was never opensourced :-(

https://www.exotica.org.uk/wiki/DeliTracker

@dragfyre Awesome, I didn't know!

@srevinsaju Why do they use a weird 8086 board when there's QEMU?

@benoit, do you frequently use toilet paper or tissues to wipe your glasses?

And did you have the anti-scratch coating on these? Plastic lenses are way too soft...

@globalc

If, like me, you have never used #Meson in any of your projects, here's a quick overview:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33606649
#programming

After 10 years of development, the #Meson build system nears 1.0 release, with stable #Rust support

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Meson-1.0-RC1
#programming #linux #cpp #python

It's common for the names of #anime characters to contain subtle references to their personality or their role.

Though most of these are lost in translation...

#anime #dennoucoil #japanese

勇子 is unamused by Fumie's clever pun, but the nickname "Isako" sticks.

#dennoucoil #anime #japanese

@TheTechScribe Do you keep your home directory across reinstalls? I'd guess 90% of upgrade issues on desktop systems actually originate from user config files.

For instance, the location of user-installed fonts changed from ~/.fonts to ~/.local/share/fonts a few years ago.

@TheTechScribe Next you notice any glitches that get resolved by a clean reinstall, please let me know. We should file bug reports and get them fixed.

You can use "dnf distrosync" to uninstall any old packages that are no longer supported after an upgrade.

I just tried it and there weren't any this time, but it definitely happened in the past, and could cause trouble.

@TheTechScribe #fedora

Ok, I'd be lying if I claimed it's always been a smooth experience... I definitely had to chase and fix dozens of little issues in almost every #Fedora release...

But few of them were caused by upgrades, and none of them required a clean reinstall to fix.
@TheTechScribe