cyber_kinetist

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by cyber_kinetist 9mo ago
Nowadays C# has good AOT support, but it wasn't when Flutter was in its infancy.
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by cyber_kinetist 9mo ago
Yeah good point. Although C# nowadays has good AOT support, that wasn't the case in the early days of Flutter (Google could have collaborated with Microsoft to develop this, but why would they?...)
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by cyber_kinetist 9mo ago
There is Slint ( https://slint.dev/ ), which was a company founded by ex-Qt devs and seem to be trying to make a better alternative to Qt. The core engine is built wiht Rust, but they also provide C++ and JS bindings and also
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by cyber_kinetist 9mo ago
> I very much reject a "desktop framwork". Qt has its own abstractions for everything from sockets to executing processes and loading images, and I don't want that. Yes, that is the consensus of why Qt sucks - it's a
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by cyber_kinetist 9mo ago
They're making the initial version with C#, but they have plans to make the library language-agnostic. Rather than creating bindings, they'll write it in a subset of C# and then transpile it to C++/Jai/Zig/etc, so y
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by cyber_kinetist 9mo ago
Not bad for mobile apps, but still sucks a lot for desktop support. Also, really wished they've opted for a more general language like C# rather than Dart - but that's inevitable since Google needed to make use of their Dart langu
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by cyber_kinetist 9mo ago
Absolutely, they need Qt in order to design and theme a UI that actually doesn't look terrible (They already had good experience in porting Musescore from vanilla C++ Qt5 to QML widgets, so I think they'll use a similar system for
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by cyber_kinetist 9mo ago
The main consensus in the native space is that Qt is still miles ahead of any other cross-platform desktop framework (including WxWidgets). Doesn't mean that Qt is anywhere good - it's just the least worst option out of all. I h
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by cyber_kinetist 9mo ago
I think the real conclusion is: someone has to make a native cross-platform desktop UI framework that doesn't suck. (Yeah Qt exists, but it really sucks...) Until then, everyone will default to just using the browser for a desktop
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by cyber_kinetist 9mo ago
This is probably the community he was talking about: https://handmade.network/ Here's the manifesto: https://handmade.network/manifesto
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by cyber_kinetist 9mo ago
Yeah, reminds me of the "Security" xkcd ( https://xkcd.com/538/ ) - a threat from a good ol' 5-dollar wrench defeating state-of-the-art encryption. Never estimate how state actors can use violence (or mere
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by cyber_kinetist 9mo ago
No, 2026 is definitely not the year of home servers, because hardware has become too expensive. Maybe viable if you have a bunch of spare parts laying around. But probably not when RAM and storage prices are off the charts!
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by cyber_kinetist 9mo ago
That's true if you're using a CAD-like tool, but that's typically not used for art (more for engineering / mechanical design) Game / VFX artists heavily use mesh-based tools such as Maya or Blender.
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by cyber_kinetist 9mo ago
Hah, we had this since the beginning in CUDA! (Circa 2008) It's baffling how little has been invested in shader language tooling - probably set back graphics programming in the game industry about a decade or so. I just wish there was
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by cyber_kinetist 9mo ago
The problem is that Moore's law is dead, silicon isn't advancing as fast as what we've envisioned in the past, we're experiencing all sorts of quantum tunneling effects in order to cram as much microstructure as possible
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by cyber_kinetist 10mo ago
A nice tip: make sure to install the LTSC version of Windows 10, which is the most perfect setup you'll ever have (well, other than installing Linux) No Cortana, no Copilot, no Windows Apps. Just pure unadulterated Windows, with extend
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by cyber_kinetist 10mo ago
To add some context, gold was actually something backed by the US government during the Bretton Woods era (40s-70s), where 1 ounce of gold was pegged to 35 dollars. This was only possible because the US accumulated so much wealth relative t
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by cyber_kinetist 10mo ago
> Make things that pay off even after you’re done making Which means you need to have some kind of ownership of the means of production (equity, in this world of capitalism), else you're just a wage slave.
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by cyber_kinetist 10mo ago
Current datacenter GPUs are optimized for LLM compute, not for real-time rendering. The economics for running such beefy GPUs just for game streaming won't add up.
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by cyber_kinetist 10mo ago
I think China will then try to sell their own PC parts instead, their semiconductor industry is catching up so who knows in a decade. But perhaps then the US will probably reply with tariffs on the PC parts (or even ban them!) Which is slow
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by cyber_kinetist 10mo ago
Yup you've actually pointed out the most important difference: SDL3 is designed to be compatible with the APIs and devices of the past (2010s), whereas this proposal is designed to be compatible with the newer 2020s batch of consumer d
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by cyber_kinetist 10mo ago
If you look at the details you can clearly see SDL3_GPU is wildly different from this proposal, such as: - It's not exposing raw GPU addresses, SDL3_GPU has buffer objects instead. Also you're much more limited with how you use bu
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by cyber_kinetist 10mo ago
Over a couple of decades VCs have invested in vanity startups that cost billions of dollars like it's nothing, countless times. I think half a billion isn't that expensive for a program that searches for a potential "theory o
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by cyber_kinetist 10mo ago
We already have an abundance of natural resources (at least... for the developed countries) The problem is that they aren't evenly distributed enough, to the extent that a lower population cannot counter the increasing wealth inequalit
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by cyber_kinetist 10mo ago
There's a lot of simple cloth sim examples on the internet, so I see why LLMs can code these kinds of demos easily.
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by cyber_kinetist 11mo ago
Kinda interesting that they were able to resurrect the WebKit engine on Windows, might have been quite an engineering feat. In the past (2007-2012) Apple distributed a Windows version of Safari, but it's been more than a decade since i
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by cyber_kinetist 11mo ago
If you really want to read how horrible and scary the idea of geo-engineering can get, read these two papers: https://brill.com/view/journals/hima/30/4/article-p3_1.xml?l... https://brill
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by cyber_kinetist 11mo ago
Not all jobs are fun, but they can be bearable if meaningful enough (whether that being useful for other people, or even just provide a living wage to support your family)
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by cyber_kinetist 11mo ago
If they really cared about performance (which I think is the case since they're using C++ for this) - they should use something else than nholmann-json. It's simple to use, but has one of the most atrocious performance for a C++ J
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by cyber_kinetist 11mo ago
As a side note, Intel's discrete GPUs are also famous for high-quality video transcoding - it was quite popular for streamers who needed a second helper PC only for OBS streaming.

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