One of the massive problems with software development today, especially in the CachyOS and Linux world in general is that nobody does the documentation. Hack on the fly, make grand sweeping changes, and never update the doc! Fish Almost all of the documentation you find online for fish is wrong, at least when it comes to setting environment variables. Fish, not bash, is the shell CachyOS uses. All of those pages telling you to edit … Setting CachyOS Environment VariablesRead more
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Funny Numbers – WordPress Statistics
WordPress statistics is a murky, at best, topic. Most sites seem to choose the package that makes them seem more important then paste screen shots all over. The official WordPress statistics plugin makes your servers groan and has all kind of conflicts with other plugins. Same goes for their cache. I’ve had to uninstall both. Thankfully there is no end of substitutes. Koko Koko is a plugin I recently installed when my previous statistics package … Funny Numbers – WordPress StatisticsRead more
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Flatpaks are Magically Bloated in Size
In a discussion thread on the MX Linux forum someone made the comment “flatpaks are magically bloated in size.” Kids today! Statements like this require a lengthy response. Despite what Twitter and “news media” have conditioned you to believe, life is not a soundbite. Being a very old geek who started out on Commodore Super PET then moved to PDP-11/70 running RSTS/E . . . having written some geek books that won an award or two, … Flatpaks are Magically Bloated in SizeRead more
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16 Minutes to Build a QList
It took CopperSpice almost 16 minutes to build the same QList Qt built in under a second. I have spent more than a day creating the test case and running the test data. It is currently 6:24pm local time. I started my callgrind test of this at about a quarter to 2pm. It’s still running. Here are the current stats. Here is the code: The Qt version is a CMake project. I developed this on … 16 Minutes to Build a QListRead more
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ZipRecruiter Duth Sucketh
I reported this to ZipRecruiter months ago. When you use Agile, off-shore and “priced right” labor, one cannot expect valid software or anything that was even partially tested. Agile is just hacking on the fly after all. To start with, C++ is one of the most popular embedded systems programming languages ever. It’s predecessor, C, is the “portable assembly language” used to write numerous operating systems, including Linux. Anyone who went to college for an … ZipRecruiter Duth SuckethRead more