ideasman42's comments

On: Blender 4.3

[ideasman42]

I remember downloading it from my library on a floppy disk (hoping the librarian wouldn't hear it the floppy drive working - since it wasn't allowed). :)

It's in fact still quite small if additional 3rd party libraries are disabled.

It's possible to make a much smaller download that removes OpenCollada, FFMPEG, OpenEXR, OpenImageDenoise, OpenVDB ... etc. However it's a hassle to distribute a second version at a time when the current size is manageable for most users.

On: How to find your perfect keyboard?

[ideasman42]

You need to consider

* How much time you are willing to invest in learning something "different/cusotm".

* How much time are you interested to spend setting up your custom layout.

* How much do you care about muscle memory with other keyboards you're likely to come across.

For example, why not use something like https://svalboard.com (seealso https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DataHand)

Or, do you prefer regular keys - split/ortholinear ... etc. (ergodox, dactyl... etc).

On: Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?

[ideasman42]

https://codeberg.org/ideasman42/font-topaz-ng

Re-creating a vectorized version of Amiga's system font.

Since I've always found font's online to be unreasonably opaque, the glyphs are stored in a TOML file, edited in Blender and exported using FontForge.

On: I prefer rST to Markdown

[ideasman42]

ORG's tightly integrated into emacs & it's ecosystem. It's fine but I don't think there is an equivalent to Sphinx for large cross referenced documents, with different outputs formats & support for translations (different languages).

Perhaps some of these things exist - I may be wrong, if they do I doubt the system is as mature or well supported as Sphinx's.

On: I prefer rST to Markdown

[ideasman42]

Strange that everyone seems to think it's simpler, it seems might be a web-developer bias here.

I'm not a web developer and I don't find markdown especially easy/pretty/simple... I find it annoying when the same markdown can't be used in different places based on the rendering engine and there aren't standard ways to extend it.

Also, having trailing whitespace as part of the spec.. tsk!

On: I prefer rST to Markdown

[ideasman42]

Right, this is the one fairly clear down-side of RST, in practice I've found it's never been an issue - but it does seem like a strange constraint.

If you really want you can define bold italic text using some styling magic, but that's quite awkward.

On: I prefer rST to Markdown

[ideasman42]

Keep in mind you might not _only_ be exporting HTML.

On: I prefer rST to Markdown

[ideasman42]

I've written a few Sphinx extensions ... it seemed OK to me, a bit awkward but long term - this is the kind of thing you do rarely & use often, so how nice it is to write extensions is barely an issue.

On: Zed, a collaborative code editor, is now open sour...

[ideasman42]

I've been using emacs as my main editor for years now and don't find the startup speed to be an issue - to the point I've never bothered with emacsclient:

It starts up with ~77 packages in half a second.

This is my config.

https://gitlab.com/ideasman42/dotfiles/-/tree/main/.config/e...

[benreesman → ideasman42]

That’s pretty close to what I’ve been running on the GC tuning but I like parts of your spelling better.

This is going MIT as part of a bigger project in about a month (think Lucid s/C++/modern models/).

If I inline attribution you mind if I borrow this or that?

On: StyleTTS2 – open-source Eleven-Labs-quality Text T...

[ideasman42]

Once this is working, is there a simple way to switch voices with the default downloaded models? Or does this require downloading other models or generating them?