72deluxe

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by 72deluxe 9mo ago
How can C++ not be the "right" language? It seems to meet all the requirements for event-driven GUIs - event handlers are function callbacks after all...
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by 72deluxe 9mo ago
I don't understand why he thinks all users will use WSL in Windows. I have never ever touched it, and I've developed on Windows for decades (C++/C#/JS/web). It seems like trying to make Windows non-native or some se
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by 72deluxe 9mo ago
I don't understand how it got so bad. On Windows 95 or 98, you knew that pressing Windows > P > across right > N would open Notepad in about 22 milliseconds of interaction. Things just worked and responded. Today it's utt
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by 72deluxe 9mo ago
How do you find macOS Tahoe? I have deliberately avoided installing it on my M3 MacBook Air that I use for work mainly due to the lack of attention to detail they seem to have dumped on the UI. I have used a Mac at work on/off since th
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by 72deluxe 9mo ago
I think the UI was reasonable and easily understood in 2000. After that it seems links and buttons became interchangeable, and now we end up in the mess where scrollbars may or may not be visible until you try fiddling with the UI etc.
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by 72deluxe 9mo ago
I would have to agree with this. I don't understand people how say developing on Linux is somehow better. I have built C++ software across Windows, macOS and Linux and I can't say one is easier than the other at all. Perhaps it is
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by 72deluxe 9mo ago
I have set up ntfy on a Pi at home, and use it to send me Android notifications of headlines every morning. This is by a bash script in a cron job that reads RSS feeds and grabs the headlines and links to articles, so I can get a flurry of
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by 72deluxe 9mo ago
Do you also believe you should discuss every other topic under the sun in the belief that not discussing it is "ceding ground" to a viewpoint or action of others? It would seem that in your view, we should be discussing all things
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by 72deluxe 9mo ago
That's true, but still it's small mercies!
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by 72deluxe 9mo ago
I started watching it but the modern presentation style of shouting everything instead of speaking at a normal volume, and using many many gestures and facial expressions to state a simple sentence made me switch it off rapidly. It seems to
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by 72deluxe 9mo ago
But that sounds rewarding for the applicants, and the project?? The project gets code, and the guys get some money. Being a middle aged man working 9 to 5, I would enjoy contributing to a project I was interested in rather than the boring j
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by 72deluxe 9mo ago
Thank you very much
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by 72deluxe 9mo ago
Thank you
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by 72deluxe 9mo ago
Yes, I remember making my 12" IBM monitor scream as I put the wrong mode information in the config file for X. I think I was on RedHat 5.0 from a cover CD, on a 486 DX2 with 64 MB of RAM (I was poor; everyone else was on Pentium IIs or
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by 72deluxe 9mo ago
It is odd because those symbols have been used for decades even on tape players. I found it amusing the other year when a youngster knew what the save button was, and recognised it, but didn't know what it was - a floppy disk (as he&
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by 72deluxe 9mo ago
Yes, modern UIs are baffling. You're meant to know that groping around the screen and swiping at things does magical things, or to swipe from the edges of things for other actions. Combined with the industry's perpetual desire to
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by 72deluxe 9mo ago
I use Mate desktop and I know I can do Ctrl-Esc > P > Q for Programming > QtCreator (using the classic simple menu), and I have mapped Windows + R for app launch so can do something similar. I didn't mean to lump Linuxland int
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by 72deluxe 9mo ago
I agree with you, on Ubuntu MATE 24.04.2 enjoying getting work done instead of popups and unfathomable UI changes. Let's be friends.
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by 72deluxe 9mo ago
Is there any particular distro you're using KDE on for this to work flawlessly on a Thinkpad? I have a Carbon Gen 6 on Windows 10 but one day will need to migrate. The device itself is sound and reliable.
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by 72deluxe 9mo ago
Yes, even the Windows 98 Explorer with IE integration (let's load a JPG of clouds to the left of the file detail pane) was better than modern equivalents. In Windows 10 (or was it 7?) they introduced a stupid column view in detail view
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by 72deluxe 9mo ago
It's a pity Lenovo isn't doing Linux support for their Snapdragon laptops. I'd switch.
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by 72deluxe 9mo ago
But when Apple released macOS Snow Leopard (widely held to be great), it announced 0 new features over Leopard, to much applause. It focused exclusively on fixing issues, and was better for it. Journalists will report whatever they get fed
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by 72deluxe 9mo ago
I wonder if they'll show charts of how few people have upgraded in the same way they mocked Windows 10 adoption and Android versions a few years ago at the Keynote, to rapturous applause. I for one am staying on Sequoia as the OS looks
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by 72deluxe 9mo ago
Are those the people who recommend "fixes" like resetting the PRAM / NVRAM to solve application level issues, or who recommend removing all files from the Desktop to somehow speed up general responsiveness? The Apple pages ar
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by 72deluxe 9mo ago
Sadly grids of unrelated data aren't good for information at a glance. A wall of post-it notes will never beat a structured list; the old Start menu was a structured list, where you knew things were always in the same place (the Progra
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by 72deluxe 9mo ago
I missed KDE 3.5 for many many years, as KDE 4 was terrible by comparison, and went to MATE due to the awful GNOME 3. KDE 3.5 was so so usable and Konqueror handled everything well.
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by 72deluxe 9mo ago
Yes you are correct that after Windows 8 we had this obsession in Linux-land with making applications more "full-screen" and less "distracting", at a time when screen resolutions were increasing significantly and you cou
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by 72deluxe 9mo ago
I don't remember the Android UI framework being bad at the time. Android 2.3 time period? I remember Fragments coming out, and the overhaul on the UI for Android 3 (I had a Motorola Xoom and it was nice to use), then every Google i&#x2
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by 72deluxe 10mo ago
Despite all of the complaints in other comments about the use of Claude Code, it looks interesting and I appreciated the video demo you put on the GitHub page.
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by 72deluxe 10mo ago
I have a 2016 VW Beetle (which is a pleasure to drive, the 150PS diesel), but it has buttons on the steering wheel that do absolutely nothing without me paying £200 for the privilege of VW unlocking them. Want to press that phone button to

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