72deluxe

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by 72deluxe 5y ago
I can think of the "desktop" apps that are actually a bundled web browser like Slack and Skype. I utterly detest them - slow and without proper native menus and memory hogs. If only a native toolkit had been available to build the
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by 72deluxe 5y ago
Even using Slack in a browser indicates how heavy it is. Abysmal.
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by 72deluxe 5y ago
What a brilliant idea. I wish they'd do "be my ears" for most of the overly compressed albums that get released these days!!
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by 72deluxe 5y ago
"I wish we could somehow force everyone to live as somebody else for a week." I often wished this simple request whenever I was lumbered with a non-technical manager who would promise things to their equally-out-of-touch manager o
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by 72deluxe 5y ago
They also typically load faster because they don't need megabytes of javascript to "display" the content or offer pointless fading in/out of text and lazy/load of images. All of which means less CPU, fewer network r
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by 72deluxe 5y ago
Are you saying that the client includes all of the Facebook logic or something?? Surely displaying forms (essentially what a post is) and ability to scroll through a list and click on a button or view/upload a photo is the essence of t
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by 72deluxe 5y ago
Haha thank you! That genuinely made me laugh haha You are right - they are terrible analogies, and I am proud of them.
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by 72deluxe 5y ago
Yes, and also need to hide the speedometer in cars because my mother-in-law drives incredibly slowly and being a passenger has a negative effect on my mental health. We also need to abolish the "top apps" features in the various a
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by 72deluxe 5y ago
All choices have effects. If you are suffering mentally due to your activities and cutting out causes "social suffering", surely it is an active choice where you decide one is greater than the other?? And even more so in the case
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by 72deluxe 5y ago
That's a good point, but we don't only sell blunt knives in case someone goes on a stabbing rampage. Nobody would blame the knife for the rampage.
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by 72deluxe 5y ago
There are all manner of addictions that can be "assisted"/made worse with technology. The solution isn't in the technology though - it surely starts with the person?? Should my toaster warn me if I use it too often in an
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by 72deluxe 5y ago
But developing self control isn't impossible, else EVERYBODY would be "addicted" to all manner of things - alcohol, smoking, food, sex, shopping, hoarding - all of them. As these things aren't experienced by everybody, t
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by 72deluxe 5y ago
When you run a Pi-Hole you see how much telemetry is being sent back with the DNS requests to many different domains. Insane, simply for scrolling through pictures. I think it tells you a lot.
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by 72deluxe 5y ago
Have you tried just not using it?? Or developing self control?? Surely it's like saying bottles need to be harder to get into because I like drinking alcohol too much... Or cars need to accelerate slower because I love speeding and can
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by 72deluxe 5y ago
Curly braces is an "initializer list". Stroustrup covers it in the blue C++ book he wrote about C++11.
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by 72deluxe 5y ago
Spot on about the orchestra. A chap used to know used to work for Midas and said that visuals affect perception of quality significantly. They had a problem with a digital desk where the UI was running at very slow framerates and the custom
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by 72deluxe 5y ago
I like how Google's own page about Lighthouse performs really really badly under Lighthouse.... https://developers.google.com/web/tools/lighthouse/ Perhaps they should apply what they preach.
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by 72deluxe 6y ago
But what if your account in the black got blacklisted???
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by 72deluxe 6y ago
Yes, I hung a picture on the wall once. A violent act indeed!
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by 72deluxe 6y ago
Please don't use "onboard". That would imply that I like boats and I might suffer from naviphobia.....
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by 72deluxe 6y ago
Odd that "hang, hung" is on there as "unnecessary voilent language". If a picture is hung on the wall, that is not violent! Very odd.
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by 72deluxe 6y ago
I find the documentation fairly easy to follow and well written. I leave the class index open in a web browser, pinned. The great thing is you can just look at the source if there's any confusion. One issue is the mildly broken nature
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by 72deluxe 6y ago
WOF is on life-support?? What do they recommend now then? I know in C# land WinForms was discouraged (no idea why) but what do they recommend now?? What is the "native" toolkit for modern C++ apps on Windows? I end up using wxWidg
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by 72deluxe 6y ago
Converse to this, I find the layout manager really useful and easy. wxSizer is easy to understand. Want something to expand? Use wxEXPAND. Use proportion 1 to make it take up all the space. Use wxFormBuilder if you find laying stuff out dif
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by 72deluxe 6y ago
That page you linked at the bottom mentions an interesting point, and quite thought-provoking: "We in Libreboot recommend that you do not have a code of conduct, because it alienates new contributors and creates a self-censored environ
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by 72deluxe 6y ago
Such happy memories. I am using QMMP on my RPi4 these days and using CherryMusic to also offer the same giant directory of music to my other devices over HTTP, whilst running a classic WindowMaker desktop for lightness and speed. It's
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by 72deluxe 6y ago
I found the cppcon video on c++ 20 features to be very informative and I am honestly excited to use ranges and other items mentioned, unlike the other guys on here who hate progress. https://youtu.be/FRkJCvHWdwQ
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by 72deluxe 6y ago
My NVME SSD plugged into a USB 3 port on the Pi4 (booting from SD card) goes to sleep after a few days and therefore the root filesystem is unreadable so I have to reboot. Any tips here on how to keep the thing awake and alive?
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by 72deluxe 6y ago
OK boomer isn't obligatory.
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by 72deluxe 6y ago
10 seconds? What disk were you using? How will you ever get those 8 seconds back??

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