archfrog

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by archfrog 5mo ago
Very apt headline, IMHO. I have been an ardent opponent of AI since it came up a few years back. I refuse to vibe code and I refuse to let AI think for me. I won't be an AI controller. However, two days ago I found a nice, personal u
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by archfrog 2y ago
Tiny suggestion, possibly without merit (no comments or email in the article): Use ULEB64 encoding instead of RAW unsigned 64-bit fields for STRING lengths. ULEB64 ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LEB128 ) is a simple enc
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by archfrog 2y ago
You can disable the "commercial usage detected" haressments easily enough: https://anydesk.com/en/whitelist-request
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by archfrog 2y ago
I agree fully with you. AnyDesk is pretty cool and mostly works well. There's a small trick you can use: Run but don't install AnyDesk, that way it won't install its services and so on. Simply don't ever click on the &q
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by archfrog 3y ago
Is it me or is there a bug with pointers on the bottom of http://www.pjhutchison.org/tutorial/pointers.html ? The author uses this code to dereference a pointer to a structure member: engine = *myvehicle->engin
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by archfrog 3y ago
I don't want to be toxic but why make a function to cast a char to an int? I was astounded when I briefly skimmed through the list. I hope this is not curriculum in education.
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by archfrog 3y ago
Okay, sorry, I misunderstood you :-) As a matter of fact, I think it is a shame that so few support ReactOS. The idea is grand and think about how many resources people are willing to invest into using, say, Linux as an alternative to Wind
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by archfrog 3y ago
In a way, yes. But I left because I could see no future for the project due to the fact that I could format my system partition without getting warning and other similar issues. I have to say that I wasn't a coder or anything, only i
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by archfrog 3y ago
I agree to that. I probably should have used the word "deliver" instead of the phrase "compete with Microsoft".
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by archfrog 3y ago
You should check your attitude. I didn't offend you, so don't offend me.
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by archfrog 3y ago
I was invited to join the ReactOS project about 10-12 years ago. I was part of it for, say, four days, then I left. I realized I could format my system drive with no warning or error. Then did a code review and realized that this project
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by archfrog 3y ago
As a language purist, I'm slightly saddened by the removal of the colon to indicate the beginning of an indented block on the next line. I believe Cobra did the same and it always bogs my mind why that darned colon can't be left i
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by archfrog 4y ago
Three cheers!!! So fine with new and actually improved technologies instead of the many GUI rehashes that some companies make money off delivering all the time. I don't often use SVG, and am by no means an expert on it, but I dislike t
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by archfrog 4y ago
1. Hype over Rust. 2. Pragmatism because of the many complexities with imperative programming and multi-tasking in a more and more multi-core world. 3. Hype over Rust. :-) I personally find Rust so ugly that I refuse to learn it. I don&#x2