Shorel

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by Shorel 3y ago
wxWidgets is as native as MFC. It is the same real controls, Win32 style. It is the only cross-platform library that uses native Windows controls. Qt? Emulated. GTK? Only native in Gnome, emulated on Windows. Even the new APIs, like WinUI,
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by Shorel 3y ago
I take the same game runtime (open source, so the argument about being proprietary is not the main argument) and compare the Linux and Windows versions: Descent D2X-XL. Linux version: can't install the binaries in my distro, they are n
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by Shorel 3y ago
If MFC are an option, then wxWidgets is also an option.
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by Shorel 3y ago
> Upgrading GPUs out of cycle seems like it might make sense but you probably should just use a desktop PC for anything using a GPU. There are external GPU enclosures, so no need for a desktop, even for that case.
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by Shorel 3y ago
Printed and framed, right?
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by Shorel 3y ago
I remember, in some sense, Google (and also a group of anti Microsoft developers) encouraged web development as a strategy to break the Windows software monopoly. So it's not that Microsoft missed it, it is that a big shift happened an
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by Shorel 3y ago
It only works with toy examples and then stops working. For reasons unknown, as it should work.
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by Shorel 3y ago
I think it was more like: XP was Win2K with added DirectX and the skins. And yes, they started as the same kernel and drivers.
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by Shorel 3y ago
Then you can use D lang.
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by Shorel 3y ago
The universe is intelligent because we are part of the universe. And we are intelligent, given our current definition of intelligence. Otherwise, a rock will not be intelligent by itself. Or a mountain. Or a star.
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by Shorel 3y ago
The sun doesn't burn more quickly if we use it, but also not slower. The sun will start becoming a red giant and kill us all in about one billion years, long before this tidal lock will eventually happen.
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by Shorel 3y ago
Unrelated but fun: There's a Colombian rock group called "1280 almas". 1280 souls.
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by Shorel 3y ago
Total Commander lacks many useful features from Norton Commander. The preview panel for example. There was a Windows version of Norton Commander and it used all available registered Windows preview handlers. I am using Double Commander inst
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by Shorel 3y ago
This, while being an apparently superfluous complaint, would be important for eventual enterprise adoption. Other languages have failed for less visible reasons.
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by Shorel 3y ago
This can run very efficiently in a Virtual Machine. So many virtual machines run complex kernels and security features, for just one application listening on some port. While this is a toy operating system for some standard Desktop scenario
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by Shorel 3y ago
Why not? My laptop is convertible to tablet, and it is amazing for comics. Using it for books is also a convenient feature. And I do have an e-book reader.
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by Shorel 3y ago
I just tested it. Compared with other EPUB readers on Linux, it is fast. Really fast.
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by Shorel 3y ago
The thing is, IMO, everyone has a hiring problem. It is very easy to hire one bad player, and he takes the team down, and (in most jurisdictions) it is hard to lay them off. The reason is, no one who knows what it is required, wants to do t
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by Shorel 3y ago
So many people claim that. The advent of AI means they will not need to work. I just don't see it. They will need a job, they just won't be able to find one. It is not a utopia, it is a disaster.
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by Shorel 3y ago
That seems extremely underfunded, IMO. A serious effort would use a substantial amount of the AI GPUs produced in a given year.
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by Shorel 3y ago
That's how it works in Colombia, BTW.
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by Shorel 3y ago
The only good example I know is the gun-kata from Equilibrium.
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by Shorel 3y ago
Also, because the cars now are gigantic, compared with old cars. Even the Mini Cooper is huge now.
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by Shorel 3y ago
Yeah, for real hardware it is important to be flexible. But these virtual machines can all be exactly the same, except for the network MAC and IP. It could even be possible to compile executables that bypass the need for a kernel, just have
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by Shorel 3y ago
The easiest way to perceive the superficiality of Sapiens is to read: Dragons of Eden by Carl Sagan, immediately after the former. Then you have the master to judge the (accidental) student.
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by Shorel 3y ago
Dawn of everything is exquisitely quoted, everything has a source and a sound argument, like if Graeber really expected these people to go after him. Now, about the 'anarchism', I don't feel that at all. He simply is having a
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by Shorel 3y ago
This book also inspired Harari to write Sapiens.
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by Shorel 3y ago
Gnome doesn't even have functional drag and drop for files between two of their file windows. Every time I need to do that I end up selecting a lot of files, because that's the only thing that can be done with the mouse. Then I us
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by Shorel 3y ago
I agree with you so much. Dynamic linking is the bane of backwards compatibility. Now everything is containers, appimages, flatpacks, docker images and so on, and all they do is pack all the libraries a binary may need, in a more wasteful a
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by Shorel 3y ago
> I do prefer the "do one thing and do it well" approach. I prefer the "do what you do well" approach. If it's one thing, or many things, doesn't matter, as long as it's both efficient and correct. I m

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