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by delta_p_delta_x 2mo ago
> Linux has a stable system call ABI This is a noble but practically worthless ideal. Hardly anything is written against the kernel ABI except glibc itself. End-user application developers don't write against the kernel interface. P
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by delta_p_delta_x 2mo ago
Indeed. I was just about to point out the fact that the CRT only provides the C standard library; Windows applications can run perfectly fine without one by linking only to the Windows API DLLs.
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by delta_p_delta_x 2mo ago
I think the grander point is that there is no real 'system CRT' on Windows; as I mentioned, there are multiple entry points each at an appropriate level of abstraction available to both platform and application developers (not tha
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by delta_p_delta_x 2mo ago
> Windows explicitly does not want you to link the system libc This is categorically false; UCRT[1] is a thing. The 'U' stands for universal . Unlike Linux, Windows allows developers to choose their ABI boundary and also ship
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by delta_p_delta_x 2mo ago
And for some books about Windows system programming: - Windows Internals, Parts I and II - Windows 10 System Programming, Parts I and II - Windows Kernel Programming, Second Edition - Programming Windows, 5th and 6th Editions
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by delta_p_delta_x 2mo ago
> fastest & leanest Surely you mean leanest and meanest :P I'd also say that tooling on Windows is simultaneously better and easier to use than on Linux; the noob case of green play button in an IDE is taken care of, but if you
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by delta_p_delta_x 2mo ago
As someone within that age group who moved back to Windows for development and entertainment, I find systems programming on Windows more fun and engaging than on competition OSs. Oddly enough the open-source nature of the latter kind of tak
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by delta_p_delta_x 2mo ago
> Provide Access to Clean Water ??? We don't need any AI for this. Start with separated sewage/wastewater and stormwater drains. Then accredited and highly scrutinised wastewater treatment and discharge into water bodies (or se
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by delta_p_delta_x 3mo ago
I got 30 GB back on a 256 GB hard disk drive. It was amazing.
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by delta_p_delta_x 3mo ago
Vista wasn't garbage. In fact, Vista and 7 precisely parallel Leopard and Snow Leopard both in timelines and in release quality—a somewhat rushed, haphazard release of a new OS with tons of new features, many of which were considerably
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by delta_p_delta_x 3mo ago
Borrow from the late 1990s upstart GC languages: Pointer<Type>.
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by delta_p_delta_x 3mo ago
PowerShell needs to become more ubiquitous. There are so many things about it that once considered in greater detail make so much sense. Parameter setup, typing, and naming. Flow control. Object-oriented scripting. Built-in parsing for recu
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by delta_p_delta_x 3mo ago
I find that Claude does this much more than other models. GPT, for instance, knows I'm on Windows running PowerShell, and writes very idiomatic PowerShell. But maybe that's because I'm the sucker, and since PowerShell is mo
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by delta_p_delta_x 3mo ago
India has had ICBMs for decades now.[1] [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agni-V?wprov=sfla1
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by delta_p_delta_x 3mo ago
Thanks; this is much more concise than I could manage. I think the key idea is fixed minimum/maximum boundaries for a lot of astrophysical phenomena—stellar protium fusion, the Chandrasekhar limit, Tolman–Oppenheimer–Volkoff limit, etc
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by delta_p_delta_x 3mo ago
This reminds me a lot of https://ciechanow.ski , down to the body typeface. (IBM Plex Sans?) Also, the SI units everywhere here make me beam. Thank you :)
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by delta_p_delta_x 3mo ago
Not necessarily. Most desktop OS compositors provide a void** buffer that can be blitted to. Sure, this buffer will probably end up going through the compositor which does GPU hardware acceleration anyway, but it is definitely possible to s
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by delta_p_delta_x 3mo ago
There's really a lot to unpack here. (I rewrote this response thrice...) To spoil the answers straight away, and perhaps to address some misconceptions upfront: > If a brown dwarf is right on the edge of stardom would it start proti
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by delta_p_delta_x 3mo ago
Even within stars the layman labels are a bit iffy; it is better to use the stellar classification. 'Dwarf' is badly overused, as is 'giant'.
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by delta_p_delta_x 3mo ago
I'm clearly super old-school when it comes to rasterisation, and a lot of this has flown above my head. I have a ton of questions; I hope you can answer them. > (1) discard (fast but not a great user experience) What are we discardi
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by delta_p_delta_x 3mo ago
Yes; I was under the impression that from context it was clear what I was talking about. In astrophysics, to avoid precisely this confusion, the convention is to use the adjective 'massive' when comparing, well, masses , and &#x2
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by delta_p_delta_x 3mo ago
Worth noting that the artist's impression is... not accurate. Both CD-35 2722 b (the brown dwarf orbiting the primary star) and CD-35 2722 b I (the exomoon orbiting the secondary) should be much closer in size. It is estimated that Jup
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by delta_p_delta_x 3mo ago
The definition of a brown dwarf is that there is enough heat and compression for deuterium and/or lithium fusion, but not protium fusion. The exact model limit is unclear, but the physics modelling is relatively straightforward.
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by delta_p_delta_x 3mo ago
The situation is very different on Macs. Apple control almost the entire hardware stack of the machines that macOS runs on. They make it an absolute pain in the neck to run any application not blessed by attestation. This attestation serv
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by delta_p_delta_x 3mo ago
> There’s still a world of difference between a MacBook touchpad and a windows one Oddly I've found otherwise (Dell Precision notebook from 2021, and Surface Laptop). It might be macOS's animations and smoothing interfering her
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by delta_p_delta_x 3mo ago
> It's Windows Update that's installing LG crapware upon seeing relevant hardware IDs This is also a misrepresentation. Microsoft has provided LG with a certificate to sign its driver packages with, and allows LG to upload pack
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by delta_p_delta_x 3mo ago
> Another win for the Linux security model I swear, OSs have become sports teams. Linux's 'security model’ has plenty of holes. The very fact the kernel and much of its user-mode is written in C almost guarantees that its sec
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by delta_p_delta_x 3mo ago
> There are still differences between PDFs in different viewers Most obvious when viewing PDFs in Adobe Reader versus in Chrome's built-in viewer. The former has subpixel anti-aliasing. The latter doesn't.
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by delta_p_delta_x 3mo ago
I should've specified USB audio interfaces, which do have gain and stuff like loopback. I'm very glad the Realtek tray program has fallen by the wayside, what an annoying bit of crap.
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by delta_p_delta_x 3mo ago
Windows does plenty of 'advanced work'. Almost all video games are written primarily on and for Windows. > In my experience, most of the advanced work is done on Linux nowadays That's because your experience probably hasn&

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