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by deaddodo 11mo ago
Fabrice’s DNA is infused in the FOSS ecosystem. He’s an avid and prolific developer. FFMpeg, Qemu, libbf, softfp, BPG, jslinux, etc, etc, etc.
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by deaddodo 11mo ago
“Speed running paint”? You mean opening the image and dragging a text box over the existing text, changing the font to comic sans, and typing the text? There are complicated workflows in Paint, this is not one of them.
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by deaddodo 11mo ago
I made no value judgement of the language. Simply an assessment of its simplicity. I’m glad you agree with that. Feel free to let the other commenters know, not me.
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by deaddodo 11mo ago
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by deaddodo 11mo ago
> It was particularly visible in how, if you edited the map so that every pile of resources was 50k, so essentially endless, you'd arrive at a stalemate. Given (effectively) unlimited resources within base distance, Zerg undoubtedly
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by deaddodo 11mo ago
Nobody said every copy was lost, they said the copies in whatever repository Westwood handed over to EA were lost. There might still be a copy on one of the individuals involved in development's machines/backups/etc.
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by deaddodo 11mo ago
It's moot to the aforementioned point. Undefined behavior wasn't introduced as a new language "feature" between C89 and C23; it's existed the whole time. We're talking about specification deltas, not the entire
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by deaddodo 11mo ago
To learn all of the common GCC and MSVC extensions would make up a fraction of the language features of C# or Java. You’re really overstating the complexity to make some invalid point. “Actually, one of the most notoriously conservative and
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by deaddodo 11mo ago
Yes, if FFMpeg suddenly made a corporate-incompatible license change, it would 100% make sense to fork it. I don’t see how that at all relates to the point, but sure, you got me.
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by deaddodo 11mo ago
It has nothing to do with being “too hard”, and everything to do with not making sense to the type system. PHP is weakly-typed and heavily reflection-based (so everything is aware of it’s and each other’s type at all times). Adding generics
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by deaddodo 11mo ago
C hasn’t changed all that much, and someone who coded in C99 would take about 30mins to catch up to a modern C23 codebase’s changes. Famously so, as conservatism to change is the main friction in the community for about two decades now.
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by deaddodo 11mo ago
This is most useful for retrocomputing, and that’s gonna be the target demographic. While it’s true that industrial and manufacturing sometimes have really old hardware, that’s usually less due to them not having newer options and more due
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by deaddodo 11mo ago
Google, AWS, Vimeo, etc can demand all they want. But they’re just another voice without any incentives that aid the project. If they find having an in-house ffmpeg focused on their needs to be preferable, go for it; that’s OSS. But given i
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by deaddodo 11mo ago
No one said make it proprietary; there are other OSS licenses that would make ffmpeg non-viable for commercial usage.
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by deaddodo 11mo ago
I wasn’t countering your point, I just wanted to add that there are alternatives (well, an alternative in the OSS sphere) that are viable and well used outside of ffmpeg despite its ubiquity.
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by deaddodo 11mo ago
There are alternatives such as gstreamer and proprietary options. I can’t give names, but can confirm at least two moderately sized startups that use gstreamer in their media pipeline instead of ffmpeg (and no, they don’t use gst-libav). On
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by deaddodo 11mo ago
I don’t know about ffmpeg, but plenty of OSS projects have outlined rules for who/when a project-wide/administrative decision can be made. It’s usually outlined in a CONTRIB or similar file.
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by deaddodo 11mo ago
And then the argument for refusing to just pay ffmpeg developers gets even more flimsy. The entire point here is to pay for the fixes/features you keep demanding, else the project is just going to do as it desires and ignore you. More
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by deaddodo 11mo ago
Disclaimer: I'm making presumptions, since I haven't used the service. Correct me if I'm wrong. I don't like the idea of a centralized system to flow all of my email accounts through. I think this would work better as a
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by deaddodo 11mo ago
Also your style. Game design is influenced by the mind of the designer. Some take a systematic, methodical approach to it. While others treat it like a painting, designing as they go from a core of an idea. And others go full ad hoc, with m
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by deaddodo 11mo ago
I was forced to buy a new iPhone recently (my 16 was stolen), and had iOS 26 foisted on me. My god, is it bad (for me, I'm sure some like it). The ugly glass UX, the weird floating controls, the always on display, blah blah. It's
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by deaddodo 11mo ago
Who said it was perplexing? If anything, it's the opposite. It's so simple and rudimentary as to be antithetical to filesystem navigation. Back/forward operate on history, not on hierarchy; at least have an "Up" but
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by deaddodo 11mo ago
And yet, it's a simple toggle (sometimes multiple, for specific display flows) in GNOME, KDE, and Windows 10+.
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by deaddodo 11mo ago
Welcome to the Mac ecosystem. Where basic functionality is gated behind apps that Apple fans will tell you "are lifesavers and totally needed in Windows/Linux/etc)" for $4.99-14.99/piece. And, when they get popular
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by deaddodo 11mo ago
Finder is the number one reason it boggles my mind that people claim macOS as head and shoulders above other OSes "for professionals". Finder is a badly designed child's toy that does nothing at all intuitively and, in fact,
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by deaddodo 1y ago
Any sort of gating will always lower certain web usage, that's obvious. It's also much more obvious that a taboo/illicit service asking you to, essentially, deanonymize yourself is going to be hit the hardest.
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by deaddodo 1y ago
I've never had in-ears that use the same size tips. I always just assumed I was the oddball with weirdly mis-sized ears, but I'm pretty sure everyone has it to some degree and just always accept one subpar fit rather than use diff
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by deaddodo 1y ago
> Even while Pascal wasn't written with low-level programming in mind If that’s true, then neither was C, Algol, etc. When those languages were conceived, “low-level” programming was just “programming” and “high-level programming” w
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by deaddodo 1y ago
What you’re referring to as “Win32” is WinAPI and its derivative/wrapper technologies. Which can include WinRT, WinUI3, MFC, etc. And “Win32” as a reference to the platform is well gone, as it’s exclusively “Win64” on the x86 side thes
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by deaddodo 1y ago
NeXTSTEP was never a “FreeBSD core”, at least not as is usually implied by that. It was XNU (Mach with FreeBSD’s world bolted on and IOKit shoveled in) with a custom Desktop Environment.

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