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by Crinus 7y ago
How does extern void foo(char a[..]); differ from extern void foo(size_t dim, char a[dim]); if they are meant to be binary compatible?
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by Crinus 7y ago
See my other posts where i explain why that would be the issue as well as how it could be addressed, but that would require hardware that AFAIK doesn't exist. I do not have any benchmark as the only way i can think of for performing a
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by Crinus 7y ago
> If you don't mean there's a universal definition of what a shell should and should not do, then WHO do you mean proclaimed that "computation is not meant to be done via the shell or shell scripts"? One doesn't
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by Crinus 7y ago
> but the result is totally unacceptable visually It is perfectly acceptable to me. And this is the issue with Wayland vs X11 when it comes to compositing: Wayland forces it down your throat, either you like it or not, whereas X11 enable
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by Crinus 7y ago
This is mainly an issue if you are running windowed or borderless windowed games and under Windows there is latency too. It is a shame that playing a game on a window is given such a low priority as personally i often prefer to do that for
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by Crinus 7y ago
I should note (i already mention it in my other post but it is in a little bit in a sea of words) that disliking tearing and wanting to run a desktop environment free of it is perfectly fine and X11 does allow for that - there is nothing in
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by Crinus 7y ago
I didn't claim that there is a universal definition of shell. My comment is about how these tools are meant to be used and designed as to follow unix philosophy (btw Bash does not follow the unix philosophy as it is a very complicated
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by Crinus 7y ago
The idea is that the tools are meant to be limited to avoid complexity (this is why bash, like most GNU tools, isn't really a good example of unix philosophy - it is too complex) and instead rely on composition.
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by Crinus 7y ago
Note that Wayland introduces latency between input (you doing something) and output (seeing the result of your action), see my other posts for detail. While this latency wont make a game unplayable, it will make the experience worse for fas
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by Crinus 7y ago
If you are doing this for a bunch of images once in a while it is meaningless to even care about the performance implications. If you are doing this often enough where such computation affects the throughput of your application, then you ar
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by Crinus 7y ago
The shell is meant to pipe programs together, not perform computations itself. Computations are meant to be made by programs, not shell scripts. Use the right tool for the job, do not complain that you screwdriver sucks because you cannot c
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by Crinus 7y ago
The only way to avoid the composition latency is to have the entire composition be done when the GPU is sending the final image to the monitor (note that performing composition using the GPU via OpenGL or whatever is not the same thing even
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by Crinus 7y ago
Composition forces latency tied to the refresh rate of the composited output and is the only reason i do not like it and disable it where possible. For me this latency makes Wayland imperfect. I do not love screen tearing, i just do not min
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by Crinus 7y ago
Note that some Steam games are DRM-free and do not require Steam for anything beyond first download. Sadly this isn't mentioned anywhere in the game page so unless you already know about if a game uses Steam's DRM or not, it is a
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by Crinus 7y ago
Paying authors directly doesn't mean the book will not have DRM nor using an intermediate book selling service mean that they will have DRM. The problem is having DRM, not how the book authors are paid.
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by Crinus 7y ago
Weird that your decade old computer wouldn't boot DOS, I've booted MS-DOS on my previous i7 4770K computer from an external floppy disk drive. I tried some CGA games i wrote and they kinda worked with the exception of BIOS not sup
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by Crinus 7y ago
FWIW DR-DOS is also free, IIRC it was released as open source some years ago (i think OpenDOS is based on it) and it is a bit more compatible with MS-DOS than FreeDOS.
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by Crinus 7y ago
And pretty is subjective, i find the Win9x, Win2K, OS/2 (...to some extent), BeOS, and KDE1 icons better looking than the more recent ones which are usually monochromatic. The Win9x icons tried to be colorful but also were limited by a
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by Crinus 7y ago
So you need Apple's yearly approval to run your own software. Personally i consider this a major dystopian flaw of iOS and one of the main reasons i do not buy their devices (the other being their disregard towards backwards compatibil
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by Crinus 7y ago
> As developer I can run anything thanks license. I cannot parse this, what do you mean? > As consumer, app stores are more than proven. I do not have any problem with app stores as long as they are not tied to a locked down OS. See S
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by Crinus 7y ago
It is also what gives Apple the power to lock older iOS devices from getting new apps - regardless if those devices would be able to run those apps or not and many of those devices would be able to run a large number of applications they ha
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by Crinus 7y ago
This is optional, available only for specific professional uses and above all: wearing a belt doesn't impact where you can go, whereas a locked down OS does impact what you run on it.
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by Crinus 7y ago
I'd thank malware authors and virus writers only if i was a platform vendor trying to find a scapegoat for why i "have" to take away control from users. Thankfully i'm not one. But that doesn't make me blind on such
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by Crinus 7y ago
Having to use a seatbelt or helmet doesn't prevent you from going to any place you want to go. Not being able to install any software you want on a device you own is not a small inconvenience cost, it is a great artificial limitation m
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by Crinus 7y ago
Yeah AFAIK it works like torrents. About the moderation, etc, this is really opt-in so you use it by your own choice and by "going in" you pretty much have to expect that like any other place where moderation is light or non-exist
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by Crinus 7y ago
Apple has stated a lot of things they changed later. Companies have many reasons to lie, especially if they have a long term plan that they want the public/customers to follow. Just because a company stated something, it doesn't m
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by Crinus 7y ago
These two have nothing common, i'm not sure why you bring that up.
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by Crinus 7y ago
But it also affects "me" and anyone who tries to follow a discussion by making the text harder to read. The commenter already has a feedback on the visible-to-them score. Why not make negative scores visible to everyone instead (e
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by Crinus 7y ago
Yeah, perhaps a better solution would be for the comments to be stored in something like ipfs? Though if i understand ipfs right, it works like torrents, meaning that unpopular comments will disappear over time.
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by Crinus 7y ago
> Downvoted comments (i.e. with a score < 1) reduce their placement on the comment thread and will appear desaturated to other users deemphasize them. This desaturation is the most annoying misfeature of Hacker News IMO, it makes read

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