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by chipdart 2y ago
> Or stopped writing C++, I'd consider myself one of these for many use cases I used to use it for. Some use cases like GUI programming sound like they are better addressed by specialized tech stacks. Nevertheless, either you'r
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by chipdart 2y ago
> There are still too many half-baked ideas that turn out to be mistakes afterwards (...) Care to point an example?
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by chipdart 2y ago
> The painful bit is C++. I did a fair bit of that going back to MFC. I'm sorry but referring to MFC while referring C++ is a telltale sign you don't really have any meaningful experience in the field. Developing GUI apps for W
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by chipdart 2y ago
CopperSpice is LGPL, not GPL. It's not a problem.
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by chipdart 2y ago
> It strikes me that having the C++ requirement is part of what makes this difficult. It doesn't. In fact, it makes the problem even easier to solve due to the options that are already on the table. Virtually all .NET-based framewor
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by chipdart 2y ago
> if you can compromise on the 40MB size requirement then Electron should be a good fit to cover all your other requirements. Microsoft also supports React Native, which is arguably way better than any webview-based approach.
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by chipdart 2y ago
> Writing GUI apps for Windows in C++ is painful I don't think so. Qt makes this a trivial problem, and WinUI3 supports C++ as a first class citizen. I'd argue that desktop development for Windows was never as good as it is rig
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by chipdart 2y ago
> Windows GUI apps is painful. Drop any one of these requirements and there are good established options. The "portable" one is not a hard requirement. It's a whimsical self-imposed constraint, which makes as much sense as
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by chipdart 2y ago
> While it’s a bit cumbersome, he doesn’t really point out any major flaw with the WinForms/WPF ideas, other than of course requiring two stacks. He says he wants native code and wouldn’t want any C# visible but doesn’t explain why.
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by chipdart 2y ago
> This is a good overview of some of the options, but the author’s specific requirements push it in a specific direction that eliminates a lot of options. The blogger sounds like they put up a bunch of arbitrary constraints that in norma
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by chipdart 2y ago
> You seem to think I want to gallop around with you. I'm not accountable to you. I love to derail spammy garbage though. I'm asking (for the third time, mind you) why do you think your complains are relevant to the fact that t
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by chipdart 2y ago
> For the record: Ukraine has no defense agreement with any of these western nations that are currently supporting them (...) Why do you feel this is relevant? > (...) and there is 0 chance that - if roles were reversed and another Eu
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by chipdart 2y ago
> In a country of 350 million, the only two selections are Trump and Biden? Trump is a baffling choice of candidate for how bad and utterly unsuited it was. Trump is a candidate who won an election thanks to a massive wave of foreign int
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by chipdart 2y ago
> It's really up to the community and mods what counts as tech news, and clearly they disagree with you. I don't think that's true. There's indeed plenty of engagement in this discussion, quiver above the average enga
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by chipdart 2y ago
> Because they are. I don't think so. Feel free to try to explain in your own words why you feel an ad-hominem is relevant. > You speak as though you are the OP (...) I speak up when I see attempts to derrail an interesting discu
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by chipdart 2y ago
> Most people aren't here to read about the Russia/Ukraine conflict. I don't know what "most people" is supposed to mean. To me, Russia's invasion of Ukraine, as the US presidential elections, are clear exam
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by chipdart 2y ago
> How many accounts do you have, and why? Why do you think that your question is relevant to the fact that this post is being flagged?
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by chipdart 2y ago
> Russia has shown that they don't have the resources to make meaningful progress towards Ukraine and given West's support the outcome is inevitable that Ukraine will be victorious. Even though the russian invasion of Ukraine i
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by chipdart 2y ago
From the article: > Arrested in his hospital room and placed in police custody, he initially denied any criminal intent. Yet after searching his hotel room, investigators found and seized evidence that contradicted his statements. They f
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by chipdart 2y ago
> Let's just call this article what it is: pure leftist propaganda. This is a stupid take. Separation of powers is a cornerstone of the system of checks and balances. The Legislative Branch exercises congressional power, the Executi
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by chipdart 2y ago
> I think your response is overly optimistic; what you're saying is _possible_, but actual deployment of the policy leaves quite a bit to be desired. Again: textbook example of perfect being the enemy of good. I completely disagree
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by chipdart 2y ago
> The killer is grocery delivery services. I don't think so. This is largely dependant on each grocery delivery service, but of you look at it the worst cases are actually just continuing business as usual,which is hardly a regressi
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by chipdart 2y ago
> Its not all great, these reusable bags are starting to fill up in landfills. People forget to bring them, or make an unplanned stop to the grocery store to pick up a few things and buy a new bag. Then at home the bags pile up and get t
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by chipdart 2y ago
> Box plots don't make anything bell shaped (...), they assume that your data follows a bell/gaussian shape. Not true. Box plots represent low and and high quantiles independently and support the representation of outliers. Thi
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by chipdart 2y ago
> Not to mention MINIX is hidden away in almost every modern Intel CPU as part of its Management Engine. Sometimes I wonder how the world would be today if MINIX was distributed with a FLOSS license similar to Linux. I think the Linus To
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by chipdart 2y ago
> If everybody can turn their private flat into an tourist rental just by signing up to an online platform that is no longer the case. In Barcelona, making apartments available as short-term rentals involves the exact same type of reglat
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by chipdart 2y ago
> I know your comment is a "hot take", but the thing is about Tourism as an industry, is that the places where that /is/ the industry end up not gaining any other industries. This discussion is about Barcelona. Barcel
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by chipdart 2y ago
> Too much of the wrong tourism in the wrong area of the city can be a negative thing for living quality, for life outside touristic seasons, for the general development of neighborhoods etc. If that was really a concern, cities like Bar
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by chipdart 2y ago
> We can maybe both agree that doing something is better than doing nothing? Yes, that's the whole point. Doing something clearly better than doing nothing. Railing against short-term rentals does absolutely nothing to fix the probl
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by chipdart 2y ago
> Tourism is a shit industry. You could mostly annihilate it and replace it with productive things most of the time. That's a bold statement, as if the whole world invests in tourism because they don't know better. Spain's

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