ChiefOBrien

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by ChiefOBrien 3y ago
How about contributing with an example of those groundbreaking Indian metaphysics studies instead of denigrating everyone with insults?
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by ChiefOBrien 3y ago
Watch the episode called 15 Million Merits from Black Mirror.
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by ChiefOBrien 4y ago
The bright yellow color can be used perfectly if the design style wasn't flat. It's incredible how much more legible UI elements can be if you add some shading, gradients, 3d borders, anything!
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by ChiefOBrien 4y ago
Lua
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by ChiefOBrien 4y ago
> It may sound stupid, but you can't have unhandled exceptions if you don't have exceptions... > panic!() exists in Rust, but that's not how recoverable errors are handled. This is the worst argument in the whole articl
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by ChiefOBrien 4y ago
And then you encounter some ancient apps without GNU readline support (oracle sqlplus and mysql, I'm looking at both of you). No history support, cursor keys emit characters on the line, literal hell when trying to quickly fix remote d
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by ChiefOBrien 5y ago
My idea is that a CPU is just a component and it's useless by itself without considering the rest of the computer system. ARM needs to dip more into standardising the rest of the picture, and the RISC-V guys could also start looking in
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by ChiefOBrien 5y ago
> ARM's less open platform also comes with some advantages though. It's easier for ARM to prevent ecosystem fragmentation and non-standard instruction set extensions. It's kind of funny way of looking at the core part of t
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by ChiefOBrien 5y ago
26 years since the release of Win95 and Linux still cannot make a pixel perfect copy of the GUI with proper alignment and padding.
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by ChiefOBrien 5y ago
You should explain what's wrong with the argument instead of being a passive agressive asshole. It was a continuation of why it happens nowadays that people swing to static linking and then posts like this get shamelessly upvoted.
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by ChiefOBrien 5y ago
Tell me how much of the system libraries are written in C or C++, and how much of them are being written in newer languages. C is the default choice because of its ABI, and the tooling around it is made for using shared libraries. What can
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by ChiefOBrien 5y ago
Torvalds: > Disk is cheap I certainly don't want each installed desktop app to have a copy of base gnome/kde runtime and everything down to libc. And the implication is even the graphics would be duplicated, for example the Adw
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by ChiefOBrien 5y ago
> the amount of parallelism they were able to use, which was impractical in C++ You mean after not using OpenMP, basic multithreading core guidelines, and not doing the refactoring with sanity checkup in TLA+, tools that end up on the fr
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by ChiefOBrien 5y ago
Yeah and Webrender, Stylo, and Servo just happen to appear out of thin air.
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by ChiefOBrien 5y ago
Who knew using already existing data race analysis tools is much more feasible than shoehoning a huge project into a brand new language. Way to go mozilla!
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by ChiefOBrien 6y ago
If you develop with COM in mind, then it doesn't matter whether the object is in-process or somewhere on the network.
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by ChiefOBrien 6y ago
It's not just wayland. For every single thing you can do on linux there exists several hundred different implementations/projects with the same goal of do that thing, and it has led to bad cohesion between system components. Even
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by ChiefOBrien 6y ago
I'm tired of this pro-Wayland horseshit You have been trying to reinvent the wheel for a decade and splitting the whole community on petty shit like this, halving development effort on an already non-popular platform, and yet you wonde
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by ChiefOBrien 6y ago
pywebview's About page says: > pywebview is a lightweight cross-platform wrapper around a webview component that allows to display HTML content in its own native GUI window. You may think of as Electron for Python (minus huge execut
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by ChiefOBrien 6y ago
It's not the engine's fault for having terrible performance on simple levels. Most indie devs don't bother with LODs, occlusion culling, and turning off unused features. Decades old tricks like turning off unseen/far awa
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by ChiefOBrien 6y ago
Hot take: A great tragedy of the GNU/Linux ecosystem is the fact that ABI+API is still not figured out, and the most common interface between programs is the C ABI, which is embarassingly primitive even by 80's/90's stan
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by ChiefOBrien 6y ago
You shold try out buildroot[1]. It's used for building a complete linux image for embedded systems so the result is quite small, efficient. There are several guides online on how to build for Raspberry Pi, might support cloud as well.
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by ChiefOBrien 6y ago
The stockholm-syndrome of the few users positively recommending something that changes their development workflow slightly when they were bored of doing things the old ways.
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by ChiefOBrien 6y ago
I don't like the style this site uses. Ugly color choice, typography and whitespace all over the place, and emoji ridden visual noise. Like why spend all the time picking exotic fonts and optimizing images if the presentation is simply
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by ChiefOBrien 6y ago
Reminds me of OSGi. Great idea, poor adoption, mostly due to the complexity of the problem domain. Microservices are a lot worse in that regard, yet remain a whole lot more popular, sadly.