Simran-B

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by Simran-B 1y ago
Another entertaining piece by the Lego Island guy! My takeaway is that you should choose a passion project as your hobby and put in the time to learn and do whatever is necessary to achieve your goal on your own or together with similarly m
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by Simran-B 1y ago
I would argue that it's not meaningful to do so for larger files with comptime as there doesn't seem to be a need for parsing JSON like the target platform would (comptime emulates it) - I expect it to be independent. You're
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by Simran-B 1y ago
You're not providing extra information to the compiler, clarifying the intent, but merely follow the requirements of the language when writing . to infer the type or @ to use a built-in function.
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by Simran-B 1y ago
It's not annotation noise however, it's syntax noise.
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by Simran-B 1y ago
You can simply offer a function to create an object using positional arguments if you want that
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by Simran-B 2y ago
The usingnamespace language feature isn't used much by Zig itself, and there is talk about removing it. I wonder how Bun as a heavy user of usingnamespace would be affected - is it trivially replaceable? Do the alternatives add bloat?
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by Simran-B 2y ago
> Most people would have probably driven around for years with a foreign GPS tracker. So basically everyone with a smartphone? I'm not sure if it's really worse if the car has its own GPS and cell connectivity. How many people
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by Simran-B 2y ago
The ones I encountered were purely German companies, so I doubt it had to do with salary ranges.
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by Simran-B 2y ago
It's certain abused for below-the-line marketing, such as for appearing bigger than they are, but also to make them look more competent by adding ridiculous requirements such as fluency in at least five different languages.
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by Simran-B 2y ago
Some IT service corporations that are known for a very high employee churn rates often post the same position a dozen times, for each of their office locations. Sometimes it's a 100% remote job, and they still post it multiple times wi
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by Simran-B 2y ago
Yes, it's sad. On the other hand, I think it's a good thing that people share knowledge less, publicly and free of charge on the web, because there is so much exploitation going on. Big corporations obviously capitalize on the goo
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by Simran-B 2y ago
A decentralized solution, doesn't that scream internet archive on blockchain? What could go wrong.
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by Simran-B 2y ago
What about WGSL though, the shader language of WebGPU? WebGPU is kind of Vulkan lite, but unlike with Vulkan, Apple is on board and actually the reason why WGSL exists as yet another shading language.
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by Simran-B 2y ago
I have to disagree to a limited extent. I recently tried to boot multiple current Linux distros from a USB stick for evaluation and all of them had issues. Fedora wasn't usable at all due to lack of space because it lost the RAM partit
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by Simran-B 2y ago
I once tried out a screen reader out of personal interest but gave up after an hour or so due to how frustrating the experience was. I couldn't find the right key combinations or had a hard time remembering them because there are so ma
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by Simran-B 2y ago
There already is: https://github.com/linebender/vello Also see the comment by the author of the paper and library: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40890270
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by Simran-B 2y ago
You can download additional assets in the settings and then interpret data as encoded in various formats. I don't see CP437 in the list but the file format for encodings is straightforward, you can probably create a mapping easily. ht
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by Simran-B 2y ago
For the international readers: HOA = Homeowners' Association
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by Simran-B 3y ago
Bevy is written in Rust and according to https://github.com/rive-app/rive-bevy/ , the backend used for the integration uses Vello (also Rust), not the Rive renderer. Could be that integrating Vello into the C++-bas
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by Simran-B 3y ago
Which of the 800+ PRs do you think should have been mentioned but isn't?
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by Simran-B 3y ago
I can't comment on the Fairphone 5 specifically but some of the issues reported by the community sound similar to the two predecessors. My personal experience with two Fairphone 4 phones running Android 13 isn't great. Apps sporad
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by Simran-B 3y ago
Maybe not dying (yet) but it is technologically behind with a lot of things by now. This is annoying if you want to try out new web platform features. Sometimes, there isn't even a signal from Mozilla while Google marks a feature as st
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by Simran-B 3y ago
If you like this, you might also enjoy WindowKill, a video game similar to Asteroids that cleverly uses windows that can overlap and interact with each other. You need to shoot at the window boundaries, too, or the window shrinks. Additiona
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by Simran-B 3y ago
They also seem to say that it cannot be used directly for improving CPUs as they are designed today: > “[…] they are not necessarily compatible with current hardware used in the semiconductor industry,” […] the applications for these sem
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by Simran-B 3y ago
Philanthropy? Humans are social creatures.
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by Simran-B 3y ago
Instantly reminds me of the creative piracy protection from the early days of video games. Nice video about how Atari frustrated people with purposeful memory corruption while making it look like software bugs: https://youtu.be&#
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by Simran-B 3y ago
Hugo's documentation isn't good, no doubt. But compared to Jekyll's docs, there's at least a lot of (reference) content. Jekyll's docs feel like a beginner-friendly tutorial, but from there you have to figure out ev
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by Simran-B 3y ago
Some aspects of it certainly are, but it's also one of the more limited templating languages out of the box IMO, and there are several sharp edges especially in conjunction with Jekyll, where it requires you to do all the parsing of wh
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by Simran-B 3y ago
It would require full compatibility to be useful. I suppose most users of GitHub Pages don't actually use customization. Gojekyll could be used for building these, otherwise fall back to standard Jekyll. I believe GitHub Wikis are also
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by Simran-B 3y ago
> With Jekyll I can write "_plugins/foo.rb" and put any code in there to add new Liquid template tags To be fair, Hugo's shortcodes are similar to this without requiring a plugin. And with render hooks and `.Scratch`

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