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Exactly like with any Ubuntu release. Ubuntu is a clone of Debian.

Ubuntu just copies Debian's packages. The release cadence is the same: 2 years. It really is just intertia at this point.

Depends on how much accuracy you want in your results. You can do chessboardless calibration and stereo today, but you need lot of data and careful error propagation that nobody does. The mrcal project does does high-precision calibration and streo with boards. I've a boardless method mostly done now, and will run experiments soon. The conclusion might be that you need unreasonable input data to get good results :)

Of (home,end,pgup,pgdown,delete,backspace) the mac has just backspace. And they have just a single control key and such. Clearly the mac keyboard is designed by people that have no idea how to type. There's no "standard windows keyboard" anymore, but even the worst is still worlds better than whatever apple puts out.

> And what on earth is the first plot? A moon that rises to its zenith doesn't become half lit

If it rose to the zenith, it would. This is the paradox.

Well sure. Yeah. Do you find this explanation clear and satisfying though? Can you use it to answer a question like "at sunset, during a half-moon, can you see an upward-facing moon"? Maybe you're much smarter than me, but I had to write the simulator to figure out the answer. Claude and gemini never wrote the simulator, so they consistently answer that question incorrectly :)

I think you're overstating your case. I never said this was novel. I didn't vibe code any of this. Two balls and a lamp were not sufficient to make this clear to me, but writing the simulator was.

The LLMs have read all of the internet, and are thus quite good at answering questions like this, and I have zero problems asking them about it. In THIS case, the answers available on the internet kinda suck, which made the LLM suck as well.

Then you don't take the car. Why is this confusing?

"Laika" is the generic dog name in Russian. Means "barker".

That's exactly what this is, a marketing blur. Was this unclear?

Not being open source is the thing that the program in the article fixes. You want the goal of the software-writer to be producing a good tool, not using the software as a means to turn a profit. That's how you get the turd being replaced by the tool in the article

I want org-mode markup support for the wikis and readmes. Github supports this, and gitlab sorta does. You should hook up pandoc to it, and support everything it can handle.

Great writeup. Along similar lines, the East fork of the San Gabriel river is a bit outside Los Angeles. It has a dead-end road with two tunnels to nowhere, abandoned in the 1960s. Below that is a massive bridge to nowhere that connected to an under-construction road that was abandoned in the 1930s, with all traces of the road largely gone; except the bridge, which is huge and is very much still there. Much more obscure is the PL&P trail, a bit above the bridge. Built and abandoned in the 1910s. All in the same canyon!

There's a link at the top of the article for that too: https://notes.secretsauce.net/notes/2017/09/25_pole-of-road-...

This is more due to the special blend of an inferiority complex and a strong us vs them mentality common to far too many Russians.

ARM boards need a custom kernel and bootloader. These aren't things managed by the distro. The userspace IS managed by the distro and IS standard. Using yocto to manage userspace maybe made sense 15 years ago, but it has long since become far more trouble than its worth. Debian supports most architectures out of the box, has good cross-building infrastructure, many thousands of ready-to-use packages, and is non-weird.

Modern SBCs are just normal computers and not "embedded" in the traditional sense. You can generally just use Debian, and spend time on the actual project, instead of wrestling with the system

Hear hear. That was has been thoroughly lost.

At least with android devices, you can plug in any usb keyboard, and have it work. Those are free, in the garbage all over the place

A dedicated key for all window-manager things is what people that have thought about it do (I use the "windows" key). But keyboard manufacturers haven't thought about it, so sometimes reasonable things aren't possible. I don't know.

It sorta looks like they're trying to reinvent Debian, and kinda failing?

Debian has their own nvidia driver packages (it's nvidia's drivers repackaged in a nice way that integrates with the system well). I can't say if they're "outdated" or how different they are from what ubuntu ships, but they've always worked very well for me.

Debian is great, and is where the distro development actually happens. What doesn't it do that you want?

GNU Make has a debugger. This alone makes it far superior to every other build tool I've ever seen. The cmake debugging experience is "run a google search, and try random stuff recommended by other people that also have no idea how the thing works". This shouldn't be acceptable.

I'm suggesting that people creating build systems read the make manual. Surely this isn't controversial?

If you think cmake isn't very good, the solution isn't to add more layers of crap around cmake, but to replace it. Cmake itself exists because a lot of humans haven't bothered to read the gnu make manual, and added more cruft to manage this. Please don't add to this problem. It's a disease