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by creshal 4y ago
Even G-Suite isn't really getting that much support, it's on life support at best. There's so many missing features and bugs and just painfully unergonomic workflows that have been ignored for 10+ years at this point; the lon
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by creshal 4y ago
The X300: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hnOCUkbix0 The X1 came later and with a 14" form factor is a good chunk bigger.
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by creshal 4y ago
Even Thinkpads iterated more often than the basic Air design. And the direct competitor to the original Air got cancelled after two years.
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by creshal 4y ago
> 1. It's clear that we have too much grunt work. Im not sure if this is a failure of language design or libraries, but we need to do better at the core. We've been iterating over that for decades, there's always one more
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by creshal 4y ago
Calling everyone except yourself too retarded to figure out compiling Linux software is not a productive discussion. And glibc/mesa related breakages are well documented, if you care.
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by creshal 4y ago
I don't know. For a while, Sublime hit a slump, where 2 was no longer actively maintained, but 3 an unfinished beta that also didn't seem to receive much public updates, but that's been resolved years ago, and from all public
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by creshal 4y ago
For being unmaintained for months it's holding up remarkably well. Edit: And the sole active Ads developer who was still actively responding when the blog post was written, was apparently laid off a week after the article was posted. O
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by creshal 4y ago
We've reached the point where the C ecosystem has so given up on having a package manager that isn't Linux distributions that Microsoft added WSL and Docker(-compatible) Linux images are the most widespread distribution format.
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by creshal 4y ago
glibc breaks regularly, as does mesa occasionally, so it would realistically be required if you wanted win32-style 20+ years of backwards compatibility. And there is a lot of more obscure examples: fontconfig e.g. at some point changed th
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by creshal 4y ago
In practice it works because GP is exaggerating. Arch does hold back library and/or program updates until they work together, or simply ships multiple major releases of libraries, and have a separate testing branch. Right now e.g. ther
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by creshal 4y ago
And even Debian tries to upstream fixes where feasible, which isn't too uncommon for security vulnerabilities, they tend to lurk in old parts of codebases that haven't been refactored for a while.
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by creshal 4y ago
They all have wikis you can read. And running DEs in parallel is a different problem from simply switching between two.
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by creshal 4y ago
No distribution forces you to use package managers for everything. Even before flatpak/snap, distributing (especially commercial) software as just archives or executable installers was/is perfectly possible. The caveat is, there
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by creshal 4y ago
The strawman sounds compelling on the surface, but that's not what happens in practice: Bug fixes are sent upstream by all relevant distributions, and they regularly cooperate with each other directly, as well as upstream. The "ne
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by creshal 4y ago
I don't think Windows is a good comparison, since major upgrades for it tend to be vastly more invasive than major upgrading the average Linux distribution. Debian 6→7, ten years ago, was a really massive infrastructure upgrade, but ev
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by creshal 4y ago
Usually for all major distributions you get in the official repositories - Gnome - KDE - Xfce - Cinnamon - Mate - LXDE/LXQt - Several *box stacked and assorted tiling window managers and assorted glue scripts That's a fairly solid
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by creshal 4y ago
> Choosing a distro is basically choosing a DE and package manager these days anyway What distribution doesn't support at least half a dozen desktop environments these days?
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by creshal 4y ago
Ubuntu has a much more aggressive 6 months release cycle, it's not nearly as outdated as Debian sometimes can be.
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by creshal 4y ago
The whole point of a distribution is that this job is done by the distributors, not the authors.
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by creshal 4y ago
That's the first time I've ever heard of that, is there anything to read up on that?
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by creshal 4y ago
But git gives you nothing to handle more complicated topologies, all remotes you interact with have to result in a linear history with everything on all other remotes… unless you feel like doing a manual merge every time you update your soc
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by creshal 4y ago
Git makes it easy to make copies, but its nature of having one designated "origin" remote per repository that serves as upstream source of truth (on platforms like github also across forks) makes it not really federated/decen
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by creshal 4y ago
Most of the successful deployments I've seen involved a lot of programmers regardless; either to advise the domain experts, or to customize the solution to the specific needs of the organization, be it with custom components, or interf
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by creshal 4y ago
A lot of games have some internal "physics rate" or similarly termed tick rate at which the logical state is updated. The better you can decouple the graphics pipeline from it, the better.
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by creshal 4y ago
We've already seen much of this development pre-AI with the rise of no code / low code platforms. Even if you manage to put this particular genie back into the bottle, there's no escaping the increasing automation of programm
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by creshal 4y ago
> Apple is horribly stingy with RAM even on the Pro models. 6 gigabytes of RAM on a phone is hardly stingy, when laptops with 8 gigabytes are still considered reasonable.
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by creshal 4y ago
> Junior devs who actually write code are beneath you and don't use "analytical thinking" or have to understand processes or dependencies? They're hardly given a chance to do so when all they're getting is tick
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by creshal 4y ago
Maybe we'll finally invest into a real education and training pipeline, instead of making people figure out everything on the job, like other professions.
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by creshal 4y ago
There's already a whole industry of no-/low-code platforms that try to solve that very problem, Airtable etc. And a lot of companies have been very successful adopting them… or the last half dozen waves of digitalization. But in m
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by creshal 4y ago
> his is the first time I've seen it applied to programming. Programming is just a means to an end. I've never considered programming to be an industry. C++ versus Pascal mindset. :) > This is the first time I've seen i

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