Pannoniae

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by Pannoniae 3y ago
Most applications take seconds to open - and that's with fairly high-end hardware and an NVMe drive. The worst offenders are the "webpages packaged as programs" (electron, CEF) and UWP. I don't think the lack of cachin
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by Pannoniae 3y ago
This approach of "things being fast enough" leads to everything being slightly slow - we literally had better usability and latency on our devices in the 90s than we have now. It all adds up.
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by Pannoniae 3y ago
by searching for the length in your favourite search engine :)
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by Pannoniae 3y ago
I apologise for being an idiot. I will buy a new sarcasm detector shortly.
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by Pannoniae 3y ago
please try playing the game, it's not about this :)
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by Pannoniae 3y ago
You can't pass 36. Just saying.
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by Pannoniae 3y ago
"Performance often doesn't matter that much, because your program often only spends a trivial amount of CPU doing something. I don't really care about a few microseconds to determine a file type given a name, when there'
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by Pannoniae 3y ago
You are right in the fact that for complex systems, it will always be quicker to use an off-the-shelf solution than making your own. However, for maintainability, the most important metric is the raw amount of code, followed by the engineer
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by Pannoniae 3y ago
This is really reminding me of a cargo cult. I observe that there is a prevailing mindset among software engineers that their peers are always better than them, and if there is a "standard" solution, it will always be better, more
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by Pannoniae 3y ago
Most Mastodon instances openly ban views they don't like based on "find another instance if you don't like". Other social media also does this but to a lesser degree. The decentralisation also makes it so most places are
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by Pannoniae 3y ago
Source for which section? I am basing this on mostly my experience and codedigging - I don't think there are many written sources about observing this other than anecdotes on forums or reddit or whatever. With that being said, I'm
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by Pannoniae 3y ago
Bedrock rendering performance is really good. Tick performance? Not so much, the game is riddled with horrible issues such as world fallthrough which don't exist on Java (due to floating-point rounding errors), and I think the defaul
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by Pannoniae 3y ago
Notchian code ran way better than modern MC - even though it used completely obsolete OpenGL 1.1 fixed-function calls. They've upgraded to OpenGL 3 and shaders now; but the game's memory and CPU usage is through the roof with in
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by Pannoniae 3y ago
Zero-K is the ultimate TA-like, IMO. BAR is really good but much less ambitious and much closer to the original TA gameplay, Zero-K has really cool terrain deformation stuff and interesting units
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by Pannoniae 3y ago
That's a fair point (well, Twitter also has the mentioned ideological zealotry) but in this case, I think it's right to say that Mastodon also has it, in a different way. Most Mastodon instances have stricter rules than other soci
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by Pannoniae 3y ago
The OSI's definition is not like a heavenly authority. It's not a trademark, so I can call something "open source" even if I put it in the license file that you aren't allowed to use it if you are a red panda. (whic
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by Pannoniae 3y ago
I 100% agree and I know, it's just that do-gooder people somehow still make a fuss about criticising it for zero logical reason.
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by Pannoniae 3y ago
I'm tired of "source-available" or open-source but unorthodox licence software being mocked. Things like SQLite (which has a clause about Christianity and its moral values) or licences which prohibit specific sectors or use-c