72deluxe

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1. 151.▲
   by 72deluxe 10mo ago

   The squealing noise of a monitor in the wrong rate is a memorable noise etched in my brain.
2. 152.▲
   by 72deluxe 11mo ago

   I think the initial idea of being the fast to hit all platforms was the idea, but this has meant a lack of skill in developers who don't know about each platform, so you end up with a mess of apps that attempt to (badly) replicate nati
3. 153.▲
   by 72deluxe 11mo ago

   This is true. Just look at what selling of products with "memory" means - "the tablet has 256GB memory"; no it doesn't. It has 8GB RAM and 256GB non-volatile storage. I suppose "AI" is easier to say than &
4. 154.▲
   by 72deluxe 11mo ago

   It's sad that the "gold rush" on social media just means "using the Internet" is a depressing experience of being tracked incessantly and sold to, constantly. A lot of the content isn't to educate or delight, b
5. 155.▲
   by 72deluxe 11mo ago

   I have found it copies the markdown that is used for the formatting? Perhaps this hopeless implementation is a wonderful microcosm and accurate barometer of the usefulness of AI-assisted development and tools.
6. 156.▲
   by 72deluxe 11mo ago

   The new broken Briefcase model from Windows 95, only far far far worse! What progress.
7. 157.▲
   by 72deluxe 11mo ago

   Perhaps they could replace the leader with a LLM trained exclusively on the MSDN documentation. It'd be technical-focused.
8. 158.▲
   by 72deluxe 11mo ago

   I once worked at a company that wrote their UI in Delphi but then wrote their logic in C++ using boatloads of COM and MFC (for non-gui elements; the std library with containers was "new" at the time) so they ended up with 20 years
9. 159.▲
   by 72deluxe 11mo ago

   I think the expectation of software quality in consumers has completely evaporated, and so people expect appallingly bad software and think it's normal. This isn't just the case for Microsoft - look at the baby-ification of macOS
10. 160.▲
    by 72deluxe 11mo ago

    Amusingly, we see the repeat of this in "desktop" apps that are just web technologies in a browser, wasting CPU time and RAM for "ease" of development. (I don't think it's easier at all - a mess of JS callbacks
11. 161.▲
    by 72deluxe 11mo ago

    They don't even look spectacular. This recent video went into the differences: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvwPKBXEOKE It is telling that there's still an active market for cameras and lenses despite LLMs.
12. 162.▲
    by 72deluxe 11mo ago

    Could you not also use an ASN list like https://github.com/brianhama/bad-asn-list and add blocks of IPs to a blocklist (eg. ipset on Linux)? Most of the scripty traffic comes from VPSs.
13. 163.▲
    by 72deluxe 11mo ago

    I am pretty sure the point was that a skilled workforce is apparent, and that the lack of such is also apparent in its output.
14. 164.▲
    by 72deluxe 11mo ago

    MCP sounds like the modern equivalent of COM, where you could query an object to see what functions it exposed but had zero idea of what they did. MCP is the same: apparently it is LLM-readable, but the explanations of what everything does
15. 165.▲
    by 72deluxe 11mo ago

    That's not what the issue here is. The issue is not that a native Windows app needs to run in a browser. The issue is that a native Windows app has been replaced by yet another browser.
16. 166.▲
    by 72deluxe 11mo ago

    I too did not know anything about Horde3D when I found it and incorporated it.
17. 167.▲
    by 72deluxe 11mo ago

    I am baffled by this. I wrote a cross-platform GUI for an audio signal processor in wxWidgets that rendered all of its own widgets (own Draw calls, for faders, graphic EQ, compressors, drag/drop linking of nodes for a layout, knobs, me
18. 168.▲
    by 72deluxe 1y ago

    Yes and Windows 3.11 came on 6 1.44MB floppy disks. Modern software is so offensive.
19. 169.▲
    by 72deluxe 1y ago

    Buy your own domain and run mox ( https://github.com/mjl-/mox ) on it. In the setup it provides details on the DKIM info you need to put into your DNS records. Get a PTR record from your ISP (if hosting at home); periodi
20. 170.▲
    by 72deluxe 1y ago

    Yes. I use it with wxWidgets and other C++ projects, never touching Qt at all. The performance analysis tools on Linux have been useful to me, and the text editor is lovely to use instead of fuzzy-font-land like Visual Studio Code.
21. 171.▲
    by 72deluxe 1y ago

    What sort of things are most people doing on their desktop computer that needs more power or RAM though? I can't imagine. You can still buy woefully underpowered laptops with hopeless resolutions and with 4GB of RAM running Windows 11,
22. 172.▲
    by 72deluxe 1y ago

    This is an excellent summary of the issues I have faced, where if you inform someone in the middle of a conversation of an experience you had in the past where someone else has done something bad, they tell me I am being negative... But
23. 173.▲
    by 72deluxe 1y ago

    As I am oblivious to D, may I ask if there are suitable GUI toolkits for it, or bindings? I typically use wxWidgets in C++ land.
24. 174.▲
    by 72deluxe 1y ago

    Since HTML is valid XML, it really is perfectly acceptable to say it's the same!
25. 175.▲
    by 72deluxe 1y ago

    I noticed on lesser devices that their word-wrapping algorithm is very very slow, so inputting a large block of text in a native Android text box got slower and slower and slower and slower.
26. 176.▲
    by 72deluxe 1y ago

    I have been using code-server (openvscode-server will also do) to run on a remote powerful machine and then connect to it from lesser devices (a phone in desktop mode would be good if I could do it!) via a VPN. Keeps all the source code rem
27. 177.▲
    by 72deluxe 1y ago

    I had one of these Atrix and laptop docks. It was really good, but sadly way ahead of its time. The desktop was a Debian-based Linux desktop and you could install various ARM packages. Unfortunately, the phone just wasn't powerful enou
28. 178.▲
    by 72deluxe 1y ago

    I think all developers should test against a Raspberry Pi 3 for running their software (100mbps network link) just to concentrate on making it smaller and faster. This would eradicate the colossal JS libraries that have become the modern eq
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    by 72deluxe 1y ago

    I suppose you are right. I worked with MFC/C++ and COM and it was horrible. Delphi and C++ Builder things were nicer to use but fell by the wayside, particularly after Borland lost their focus and didn't bother supporting VCL corr
30. 180.▲
    by 72deluxe 1y ago

    Well obviously yes! But mandating a minimum number of electric cars sold whilst NOT mandating an equivalent number of chargers being fitted is a recipe for disappointment.