AndriyKunitsyn

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by AndriyKunitsyn 15d ago
You called me "all the worse", that gives me greenlight for a little trolling.
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by AndriyKunitsyn 15d ago
I mean - trust is subjective, right? Some people just don't care, some people are okay with the risk-reward tradeoff. I agree it's a bit absurd to compare vanguard to a font, but the parent comment was pretty unapologetic too.
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by AndriyKunitsyn 15d ago
Absolutely, and we can discuss the amounts of this trust. Some people trust the anti-cheat devs. (I do too, on a PC that is used for almost nothing but gaming.)
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by AndriyKunitsyn 15d ago
The Verdana font that your message is written with - how can you be sure that its TrueType bytecode hasn't escaped the sandbox and snuck into your ring0? You either put some trust into the systems made by other people, or you don'
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by AndriyKunitsyn 2mo ago
Ancient Greeks had a steam engine. They called it a Hero's engine. They used it as a toy. They couldn't use it as anything else than a toy. The reason they couldn't because they didn't have the metallurgy and the machini
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by AndriyKunitsyn 2mo ago
That's what id Software did in December 2025. 165 of 185 of the studio's staff at the Dallas, TX office unionized with the Communications Workers of America (CWA).
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by AndriyKunitsyn 3mo ago
1) They were in browsers since 2000s. Then Steve Jobs held a grudge with Adobe and Flash took a major blow. Today, we successfuly reinvented the wheel using "open" technologies - on the client side at least, the authoring tools of
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by AndriyKunitsyn 3mo ago
Epic's Unreal Engine development is made in Perforce, and then it was mirrored to git/Github. Or that's how it was a couple years ago. That's kind of expected, VCS is one thing, a forge is another thing.
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by AndriyKunitsyn 3mo ago
There's basically zero apps without some sort of analytics nowadays.
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by AndriyKunitsyn 3mo ago
Any particular program? GNU Radio seems perfectly fine.
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by AndriyKunitsyn 3mo ago
Well, you were talking about testing, development of DPI-aware apps is another thing. It requires the developers to be, well, DPI-aware, but I don't think there are particular obstacles to that in winapi itself. >Have you ever tried
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by AndriyKunitsyn 3mo ago
I’m not your child, and that’s false, it’s literally one key to change in the settings. That allows you to select the exact scaling factor, not macos’s “more text”/“less text”.
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by AndriyKunitsyn 3mo ago
What kind of windows programs are these? HiDPI is more than a decade old. A desktop application, no matter what OS it is, should always be tested with different scaling factors.
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by AndriyKunitsyn 3mo ago
People also use usable mice instead of touchpads, and they put the "ctrl" key where Apple thinks a useless "fn" should be. All kinds of things happen outside Apple world. To me, it's more about what I'm used to
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by AndriyKunitsyn 3mo ago
What's funny is from 2023 (I think), macOS just draws the UI unhinted. You have a 1080p display and you don't want to see the letters in the UI blurred to death? Tough luck, 1080p is incompatible with macOS, everybody needs "
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by AndriyKunitsyn 4mo ago
So, you never iterated past an array, you never used after a free(), you never tried doing i = ++i + ++i; ?
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by AndriyKunitsyn 4mo ago
There are so many Russian émigrés in Belgrade that you hear Russian more than Serbian in the city center.
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by AndriyKunitsyn 4mo ago
And I'm happy that they are happy, but Czech keyboards have so many letters they have to use the number row, and Polish words, as beautiful as they are, have a lot of digraphs.
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by AndriyKunitsyn 4mo ago
The author had an agenda to push, and they generated a load of slop to support it. Obviously, the usage of Latin alphabet today is also a political tool to support the Roman Empire. Carthago Delenda Est!
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by AndriyKunitsyn 4mo ago
No, not strange, selective enforcement is what's strange. In London, it's illegal to shake rugs in the street. If police actually starts prosecuting people for that, and not all people but just bald ones, it's natural that pe
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by AndriyKunitsyn 5mo ago
OK, can't argue with that. I have no first-hand experience on this, you are probably right.
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by AndriyKunitsyn 5mo ago
Why not? The friendliest people in the US are exactly in the open carry states. NYC on the other hand has the biggest number of jerks per capita I ever seen. (No offence to all nice people from NYC, which there are still plenty.)
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by AndriyKunitsyn 6mo ago
"My shepherd pokes me with a stick, but it's the tree's fault that this stick is so sharp".
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by AndriyKunitsyn 6mo ago
Okay, but how could the fact that these elements are in a partially ordered set, or whatever set, trump the basic law of logic, the law of identity, "a = a"? Or the argument is that NaNs are not actually the values themselves, but
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by AndriyKunitsyn 6mo ago
>With not-numbers added to the set of FP numbers, the set becomes a partially-ordered set and all relational operators must be interpreted accordingly. The same not-number, produced by the same computation, occupying the same memory, is
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by AndriyKunitsyn 6mo ago
It's the only "primitive type" that does that. If I deserialize data from wire, I'll be very surprised when the same bits deserialize as unequal variables. If it cannot be represented, then throwing makes more sense than
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by AndriyKunitsyn 6mo ago
NaN that is not equal to itself _even if it's the same variable_ is not a Python oddity, it's an IEEE 754 oddity.
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by AndriyKunitsyn 6mo ago
What if there was a voluntary indication of LLM content? Like, you press a checkbox "yes, I'm going to post some content that is partially or fully created by AI", and there would be a visible mark "slop" next to a
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by AndriyKunitsyn 6mo ago
There's a Japanese version of that page, written in classical text writing direction, in columns. Which is cool. Makes me wonder, though - how readable is it with so many English loanwords which should be rotated sideways to fit into c
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by AndriyKunitsyn 7mo ago
>That fancy ARM-based MacBook with RAM soldered on the CPU package? We've got plenty of crashes from those, good luck replacing that RAM without super-specialized equipment and an extraordinarily talented technician doing the job. C

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