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Open Source 'Eclipse Theia IDE' Exits Beta to Challenge Visual Studio Code -- Visual Studio Magazine in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

A shocking amount of microcontroller manufacturers have eclipse based IDEs for their chips. Thought that seems to be going out of style, luckily.

How do you test visual programing languages? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

I was actually offered a Bachelor thesis topic by a company to write a test bench for a product in LabView.

From what they told me and my other engineering experience I'd suggest going with an approach similar to what's used with HDLs. For unit tests create test benches in the language itself which call the functions you want to test with a predefined input (e.g. from a file) and then analyse and save the output.

You can extend this to obtaining other information as well, but tbh I'll bet it's still gonna be a pain.

Hope that helps at least a little.

What's your best unconventional "blessing" like when people tell an actor "break a leg!" in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Us Germans are extra thorough. We wish both, breaking neck and leg.

What RPG have you been dying to run? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Are you me? This is almost my exact situation. Only difference is that I convinced them to PF2e from The Dark Eye 5 (DSA5).

How to efficiently package CLI application on linux in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Hi thanks for the reply. Could you elaborate on why building for an old distro may be benefitial/a good solution? Thanks for mentioning this developer/maintainer dynamic. It's not a concept I was aware of.

Do you have any projects with good READMEs you could point me to, so I can get an idea of what's important to address?

How to efficiently package CLI application on linux in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I see, thanks for the info. I wasn't even aware that this developer/maintainer dynamic exists. It makes a lot of sense though. I'll start by creating some documentation about building the software and then maybe create an example package for rpm.

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How to efficiently package CLI application on linux (lemmy.world)
 

Hi, I'm looking to open-source a small CLI application I wrote and I'm struggling with how to provide the built app since just providing the binary will not work. I had a friend test it and he had to compile from source due to glibc version differences.

My first thought was providing it as a flatpak but that isn't really suitable for CLI software.

I've googled around a bit and most guides I find just mention packaging separately for multiple package managers/formats (rpm, apt etc.). This seems really inefficient/hard to maintain. What is the industry standard for packaging a Linux software for multi-distro use?

What is the last video game that you were completely hooked on? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Runescape/Old school runescape

Been playing since 2009. Sure I've taken breaks, sometimes multiple years, but I always return.

The old saying is true, "You never quit runescape, you just take breaks"

A cargo ship’s ‘WindWing’ sails saved it up to 12 tons of fuel per day in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

Thanks for putting it into relation to daily use. 200,000 is not realistic though. Just had a google and found this source citing up to 400 metric Tons/day

https://maritimepage.com/fuel-consumption-how-much-fuel-cargo-ship-use/

12 is 0.6% of 200,000 btw

What are the best indie games you've ever played? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Melvor Idle is a great call. The base game is a solid idle game and there's a load of mods too.

I did a HCCO12B (Hardcore combat only, 12 bank slots only) run when the game first released.

Reinstalled the game yesterday and started another HCCO run using the new mod, it adds some QoL and tweaks.

My only negative about it is that when playing normally, I always feel like there's a perfect/optimal strategy and I should figure it out before playing.

What's the oldest piece of tech you still have running? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

My Harman Kardon pc speakers. They are as old as I am. Here's a pic of the same model I found online.

YouTube is deliberately crippling Firefox on ARM systems in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (6 children)

There are other alternatives too, like invidious. The yewtu.be instance works decently well for me but limits to 720p I think. There is a list of all running instances somewhere on the github iirc. There's other instances that allow full HD, just have a search and you should be able to find one.

I'd prefer to have the unlimited plan in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Another system that does it well imo is Shadowrun. In 5th edition (never played the others) when you cast a spell you can take mental damage. If you cast the spell on a weak level you are fine but if you go full-out then you can KO yourself pretty quick. Especially if you roll bad on your damage resist roll.

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Advice on upgrading GPU (lemmy.world)
 

Hi, with the upcoming CP2077 DLC increasing the system requirements I'm thinking of upgrading my system.

I was hoping you guys could give me some feedback on my plan, since my experience with building PCs is fairly limited.

My current setup: CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3600 (12) @ 3.967GHz GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB RAM: 16GB OS: Pop!_OS 22.04 LTS (Kernel 6.2)

From what I've been seeing when monitoring load levels my biggest bottleneck right now is the GPU. I'm not too sure about the CPU either, but it seemed fine for now.

My plan is to buy an Intel ARC GPU. I'm thinking of getting a 770 (8GB) since those are around 280€. I was planning on waiting for the second generation Arc cards but those are still a year away. The 16GB version of the 770 is around 100€ more and I couldn't find a reputable vendor (if anyone knows a good german vendor that carries it let me know) so I'll probably not get that one. I also checked and the Ryzen 5 3600 should have support for resizable BAR, which is required for good performance with Arc cards.

Do you guys think this is a reasonable upgrade or will my CPU just create a huge bottleneck?

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Interrupts in desktop systems [Python] (lemmy.world)
 

Hi, I'm an embedded developer and trying to write some python software for a personal project (A bot for an idle game).

One concept I'm struggling with is asynchronous behavior and interrupts on desktop systems. I'm not really finding any good resources. I'm hoping one of you guys can explain this in a way that I get it or provide me some good resources to read.

What I want to do is pretty simple. I want to have a super loop around my software which runs until a condition is met (A specific key is pressed). I'd rather not use polling, requesting an input will block the software and require user input each loop. I've tried reading the keyboard state directly but the packages I used either didn't find my keyboard or required root access.

My preferred attempt would have been to register something like an interrupt handler which is called when a keyboard event is detected. The general suggestion on the internet for interrupts in python is the signal package. This however seems to only be for dealing with exceptions, not general interrupts.

Are interrupts for general events like I/O even a thing on desktops? And if so, how would I go about interacting with them from my code?

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What are your current grinds and goals? (lemmy.world)
 

Hi, let's give this community some life.

I'm currently grinding cg for crystal shards and armour seeds.

Besides that I'm waiting for forestry so I can finish some elite diaries.

What are your current goals/grinds?

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