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polakrobak99 said:
When it comes to troons in Libre Software(tm), I too used to get mad at them and all that COC garbage, until I tried coding in Rust, and that dragged me somewhat on their side. Rust is fucking amazing. Straight up pure programming bliss.
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That good, huh? Would you say it was... euphoric?
 
Aidan said:
Everything is text. If I need to transform that text I pipe it accordingly.
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Everything being representable as text and being text are two wildly different things
 
Aidan said:
I was joking, my point is it doesn't matter because you can handle it with the shell or other programs run by the shell like with anything else on any computer. It's not a problem.
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My bad, I get a bit hung up on that topic because a huge driving force behind the LLM bubble is thinking that everything is text, and it grinds my gears
 
where would i go to find information about making Apt accept Xlibre as a replacement for Xorg?
 
prollyanotherlurker said:
even just using bash you could do it. there is a lot you can do with bash.


That said. from what I know about python. Doing math, and calculations, algorithms, whatever, is actually one of it's strong suits. Sometimes python isn't a great option that get's crammed into spots it shouldn't be though.
I could be misremembering though.
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Bash is fine as long as your math is integers. The moment you start doing floating points it craps the bed. That's where Python comes in handy. I've built scripts before to do calculations with bc and it's a right pain in the ass. But thankfully I haven't run into a lot of problems involving math beyond simple counts or adding to an array, so YMMV.
 
DavidS877 said:
There's a few features Xorg could use. Namespaces being the big one so you can actually sandbox an X app and not let it view the full screen or capture all keyboard input. HDR might eventually be nice and some more scaling and refresh optimizations.
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wasn't that what the xlibre dev was planning to do which started the whole thing?

prollyanotherlurker said:
That said. from what I know about python. Doing math, and calculations, algorithms, whatever, is actually one of it's strong suits. Sometimes python isn't a great option that get's crammed into spots it shouldn't be though.
I could be misremembering though.
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it is, which is especially helpful in STEM and python's syntax being dumbed down more accessible. it also is cross-platform so you can use it wherever.

not the biggest fan of python either and it certainly has it's fair share of shill and fanbois, but I can at least see the appeal.
 
ZMOT said:
wasn't that what the xlibre dev was planning to do which started the whole thing?


it is, which is especially helpful in STEM and python's syntax being dumbed down more accessible. it also is cross-platform so you can use it wherever.

not the biggest fan of python either and it certainly has it's fair share of shill and fanbois, but I can at least see the appeal.
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Python is mid, but useful
All I ask is that type annotations become more mainstream
 
The Count of Monte Cristo said:
Can't you get emerge to download binaries using --getbinpkg or --getbinpkgonly?
I think there are some specific *-bin packages in gentoo still but, you can setup portage to download from servers that have precompiled binaries for non *-bin packages.
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There likely is. For most of the normal Gentoo repo, there are binaries. But, it will only use them if it doesn't conflict with your use flags.

So you would need to make sure you have the right use flags set. And nothing else is stopping it from using a binary.

I want to say you can tell it to ignore non matching use flags and use binaries anyway. But idk if that's a great permanent solution. Because you might have to deal with it in an update later. I've taken to use avoiding binaries. Full source code, except for packages that offer a -bin option. Because they won't have that issue. Since they are just a binary package.
 
The Count of Monte Cristo said:
Can't you get emerge to download binaries using --getbinpkg or --getbinpkgonly?
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I have binary packages enabled, but gentoo does not offer binary packages for everything. It only pulls in binaries for stuff they have in their repo. If you remember CloverOS, from /g/, it's pretty much the same thing.
 
Frederica Bernkastel said:
I have binary packages enabled, but gentoo does not offer binary packages for everything. It only pulls in binaries for stuff they have in their repo. If you remember CloverOS, from /g/, it's pretty much the same thing.
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Sure they might not for absolutely everything but when I force it to get a binary for LLVM it finds one, though an slightly older version. Maybe I'm misunderstanding something on my end. 8)

$ doas emerge --ask --getbinpkgonly --verbose llvm-core/llvm llvm-core/llvm-common

Local copy of remote index is up-to-date and will be used.

Local copy of remote index is up-to-date and will be used.

Local copy of remote index is up-to-date and will be used.

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
Dependency resolution took 2.67 s (backtrack: 1/20).

[binary UD ] llvm-core/llvm-common-20.1.7-1::gentoo [20.1.8::gentoo] USE="-emacs -verify-sig" 30 KiB
[binary UD ] llvm-core/llvm-20.1.7-5:20/20.1::gentoo [20.1.8:20/20.1::gentoo] USE="binutils-plugin libffi xml zstd -debug (-debuginfod) -doc -exegesis -libedit -test -verify-sig -z3" ABI_X86="32 (64) (-x32)" LLVM_TARGETS="(AArch64) (AMDGPU) (ARM) (AVR) (BPF) (Hexagon) (Lanai) (LoongArch) (MSP430) (Mips) (NVPTX) (PowerPC) (RISCV) (SPIRV) (Sparc) (SystemZ) (VE) (WebAssembly) (X86) (XCore) -ARC -CSKY -DirectX -M68k -Xtensa" 105,620 KiB

Total: 2 packages (2 downgrades, 2 binaries), Size of downloads: 105,650 KiB

Would you like to merge these packages? [Yes/No]
 
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@The Count of Monte Cristo
It's because I'm using ~amd64. They don't have a binary for that yet. I'm getting 20.1.8.
 
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