Yes thank you. I am using it. I’m good with finding things on the Internet but I’m struggling with parts that are deeper and not well documented. There are big projects that use pyo3, but not plugins. And there are big projects with plugins but not pyo3.

There is a python library as well. But the core algorithm and the plugins are in rust. The GIS component also is computationally intensive or memory intensive, that makes Rust have advantages over python. And the Whitehouse is also talking about more memory safe languages so it seems like a good choice to do it in rust over c/c++ for computational parts and the plugin architecture.

Edit: As for professors. I need external professor for my committee, and this is a good option as I’m not familiar with any CS professors in my university that do grad research.

I’m trying to do computationally intensive things, and I didn’t want to do them in C/C++ because of practical reasons. I am making a python library as well, so people using the program can either use the CLI/rust library or the python library. The plugins and the core program is in Rust.

It’s sad that I don’t know if you’re joking

Yeah I think it’s the money issue. The companies have more money making self driving cars. Specially since the incremental advancements make them more money on every new car sell.

While trains don’t have incremental advancements with sells associated with them. They have less training and incentives. But technology wise it is definitely easier to control speed 1D, while mostly looking at the front (maybe back) compared to the degree of control/sensors cars need.

But do you know how easy it is to have self driving train compared to self driving car? Because trains only need speed control. Honestly trains are already almost self driving and only needs human inputs occasionally.

I’d like to say people don’t understand the difference between torturing animals vs just being curious about animals. Helping the live ones, but also looking at dead ones. Many children get bullied for that.

Now think, patents are similar things but for with more money. And imagine if someone else had similar idea and made slightly similar website you go sue them coz you had the idea first.

I know it’s an edge case. But the edge case of having to pay more on taxes on increasing income existing for incomes close to poverty line seems counterproductive, doesn’t it?

That’s not how tax brackets should work. But sadly for last year’s state tax I came across it. [Example numbers] Previously I had 24,200 annual salary but zero tax as it was below 25,000. Even though personal deductions are 10,000, below 25 was considered too low to tax. This year, due to a mistake from employers I was paid for two weeks retroactively, now I have 25,300. Instead of taxing 300 above 25,000 the tax was for 15,300 after deduction. So I had to pay taxes which decreased the money below 25,000 which should not happen if income below 25,000 pays no tax.

And considering there might be things like not qualifying for financial assistance and other things when you cross 25,000 (again example numbers), the actual benefit of making slightly below that, is higher than making slightly above that…

So the system is putting a resistance to overcome poverty. Either you start making double of what you are making, or stay on your lane. Because trying to improve your situation by only a little is harmful.

Of course. How else do you keep poor people poor and rich richer.

Poor people: charge them extra for not affording things.

Rich people: let them buy things they don’t need but can afford and then charge poor people to rent those things.

The reality where people cannot afford $10-20 things. And the corporations just start charging those poor people interest.

I haven’t tried many CAD softwares but AutoCAD has really intuitive UI. I used to be able to find most things by just thinking what tab it should be based on what it is. It actually inspired me to learn better programming and software design to make something intuitive. I haven’t used it in years since I came to Linux so as long as they haven’t changed it.

Dam, this is actually awesome, I actually wanted to do something similar to this but couldn’t figure things out.

I need to try again, might be able to make a virtual desktop screen and make xrandr pipe that output to that window.

Basically the thing I wanted to make is kind of like the picture in picture mode we have in browsers but for anything. Like just have those app open in a different virtual window and only remap the portion you wanna see into a always on top window.

You said you’re not allowed to use a horse on freeway and it’s not a fair comparison. But I think it is exactly that. Freeway is where the majority of traffic is and it’s analogous to some of those major platforms where everyone is nowadays. You can use a horse and go to any place as long as there is land. It’s just not practical to do it.

Yes you can make a website anyone can access but how will they find that website? You’ll need to inform the people in the web, and that’s dominated by those platforms. When people did the reddit blackout thing, reddit removed the posts and moving to lemmy, so without those posts we can’t expect people to know about alternatives. There are probably so many websites that host contents for users to post and such, but how many have we heard about? How many can we find with an internet search?

Common knowledge doesn’t mean people use it. It’s easy to forget even if you studied about it in school.

For example you is singular and plural. But we rarely use you for multiple people nowadays, we just go “you guys”, “you all”, “all of you”, or something else to disambiguate.

Languages move towards easy communication and simplicity.

Thank you. I’ve been using grk4-rs so I went over their examples and the book. Looking at the c examples might be good as well. And I’ll learn about the GObjects. So far I’ve been winging it based on examples I see and the properties of different classes.

Thank you, I’ll go over them. I think I got a little bit of the basics now. But I need a little advanced knowledge. And most tutorials seems to be for gtk3 and many widgets are now deprecated.

Originally my plan was to make each slide edited separately when you right click and do edit. And be able to drag them up and down and everything, but my skills were not enough. After trying to make that for a week I gave up and made this simpler version. So listview and treeview models from that tutorial could give me more info.

Yeah, the bindings were a great help. I also tried tauri, iced, beavy, and a lot of libraries. At the end just using gtk4 seemed to be the best for my use case. I went through the grk4-rs book, and then started experimenting. I don’t like GUI at all, but for simple cases it works well

Glade doesn’t work for gtk4. There’s cambanche, but it didn’t work as smoothly as glade. Originally I tried just using glade and converting to gtk4 for a bit, didn’t work great as some classes were different.

So at the end I went with just looking at gtk4 docs and writing xml on the editor. It’d be problematic once in a while if I miss closing some tags, other than that it went well.