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> On the actual thread topic, I guess Wio is cool. If it works as well as I
> think it does, I shall have to improve my opinion of Wayland.
>
The developer of wio is the same that wrote sway (an i3-like Wayland
compositor) and wlroots, which is now used by many projects. Sway is
definitely a
On Fri, May 3, 2019, at 1:34 PM, hiro wrote:
> a lot of us younger people have an intuitive understanding only of
> newer hardware, and no idea about older bottlenecks, obvious back
> then.
Meanwhile, I have an intuitive understanding of older hardware and no idea
about newer bottlenecks. And
On 5/3/19, hiro <23h...@gmail.com> wrote:
> i think you mean the devdraw lempel-ziv compressed images. font images
> are just images really (on the memlayer below devdraw), and i also
> tried to understand the compression code (the first i ever looked at),
> but couldn't.
> they did recommend to
also they repeatedly talked about the benefit of starting anew without
unix compatibility: they truly had a good awareness of historic code
cost. i guess i just don't always understand their decision process,
i'm sure it was well thought out!
perhaps sometimes they also did some more pragmatic
i think you mean the devdraw lempel-ziv compressed images. font images
are just images really (on the memlayer below devdraw), and i also
tried to understand the compression code (the first i ever looked at),
but couldn't.
they did recommend to read that original paper by lempel-ziv and i
didn't -
In your defence, Hiro, I quite believe at least some of what you said.
Plan 9 is superior, aesthetically, but not perfect and graphics is no
exception.
Which is unfortunate, because it is also a very difficult field that
attracts mostly those who are prone to take short-cuts and apply
pragmatic
actually i take that back, no thanks to skip, i meant dan!
> It wasn't clear to me that there was a question, let alone a point, in that
> word salad.
thank you skip, that was very poetic, entertaining and so enlightening.
