delta_p_delta_x

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by delta_p_delta_x 4mo ago
A follow-up comment: when dragging, you could perhaps offer a 'sticky' mode (toggle/enable with Shift/Alt/Ctrl key?) that locks nodes to TikZ's default alignment features, and display a tooltip with the anchor
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by delta_p_delta_x 4mo ago
> not sure what would be a good UI for switching an element to relative positioning 1. Right-click on an existing object, offer drop-down context menu. 2. Menu item `Position relative to...`. 3. The cursor now selects _other_ obj
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by delta_p_delta_x 4mo ago
This is superb. Will you consider adding support for pgfplots[1]? When I was a student I was long considering writing a native application for real-time TikZing. [1]: https://ctan.org/pkg/pgfplots?lang=en
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by delta_p_delta_x 4mo ago
There is a specific UI guideline for something that can be enabled or not: it's called a tick box. The on-off switch thing is a distinctly iOS invention [1]. The funny thing is that OS X (now macOS) mostly held off using those 'sw
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by delta_p_delta_x 4mo ago
The loss of the theme menu and 'Windows classic' from Windows 8 onwards is dearly missed. But Windows classic hasn't gone away. If you run a 32-bit executable on Windows 10 or 11 under Windows XP compatibility mode, and set &
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by delta_p_delta_x 4mo ago
Use Windows Implementation Library to clean things up and get some RAII on handle types: https://github.com/microsoft/wil
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by delta_p_delta_x 4mo ago
That is a cop-out. You made the assertion, you define it. What about these particular workloads (and the environments they're used in) make them 'serious' and why are other workloads 'lesser' and therefore the sta
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by delta_p_delta_x 4mo ago
Clang/LLVM with its more permissive licence sees _much_ wider use and is written purely in C++. PlayStation, automotive, platforms and runtimes like Chromium/V8, Android, etc. are all built with Clang.
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by delta_p_delta_x 4mo ago
> anything serious, i.e. high throughput, low frequency, massively concurrent work Why is only 'high throughput, low frequency, massively concurrent work' considered 'serious'?
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by delta_p_delta_x 4mo ago
> I pretty much always prefer using an options struct This is essentially what Vulkan does; there's a CreateInfo struct for every object creation or command function. And even then they managed to sort of mess it up, because they al
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by delta_p_delta_x 4mo ago
> ABI changes do happen Will never happen on Windows, especially not in user-mode libraries, and especially not something this pervasive.
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by delta_p_delta_x 4mo ago
> A truly zero-cost abstraction Sadly the MSVC ABI makes std::span and std::string_view a pessimisation: https://github.com/tringi/win64_abi_call_overhead_benchmark https://godbolt.org/z/7baaox7
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by delta_p_delta_x 4mo ago
The blogger and the blog says: > BTW: As a nice addition, if you use SAL annotations > Windows C++ Programming Not everyone will see the irony, but the Windows user-mode application and library suite and the kernel now very heavily re
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by delta_p_delta_x 4mo ago
You know what? I ain't even mad. 300k is life-changing money in Sri Lanka.
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by delta_p_delta_x 5mo ago
There is a way to criticise unfettered nationalism and jingoism without the criticism involving racism, and tired and highly offensive stereotypes about nearly a fifth of the human population. Then the criticism becomes worthless in itself.
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by delta_p_delta_x 5mo ago
They didn't disappear into thin air. Their culture syncretised with that of the incoming (or invading, depending on who you ask) Indo-Aryans, they moved southeast into the furthest bits of the Indian peninsula. The strongest hypothes
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by delta_p_delta_x 5mo ago
Not the OP, but probably (please correct me if I'm wrong...) Knuth's claim was that a font's metrics could be described as geometric transformations and equations. I believe most of the TeX typefaces were described with Metaf
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by delta_p_delta_x 5mo ago
> a phenomenon where a single genotype produces distinct phenotypes Ah, so like how Wurmple may evolve into Silcoon or Cascoon and thence Beautifly or Dustox. Cool.
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by delta_p_delta_x 5mo ago
> I tried live latexing my math courses This was by far the biggest time sink in my maths courses, and frankly, a giant waste of time. Sure, the end result looked beautiful but I think I understood less of it than if I'd just writte
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by delta_p_delta_x 5mo ago
> making high schoolers write all their coursework by hand You make this sound like it is some long-gone practice. I was writing maths by hand as recently as 2020 in university , for my CS-associated maths courses (linear algebra, calcu
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by delta_p_delta_x 5mo ago
VS and JetBrains IDEs have very good sane defaults. They're usable out of the box. In VS I load a .sln file, or a project containing CMakeLists.txt, press F5, and I am debugging with a full-fledged data structure visualisation, CPU and
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by delta_p_delta_x 5mo ago
Tiny nitpick: Windows Forms wraps the Windows API; the function call is `CreateWindowEx`[1]. [1]: https://github.com/dotnet/winforms/blob/27e7cb2e5043780dd75e...
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by delta_p_delta_x 5mo ago
> Native apps on Windows look crap to me (without even mentioning the advanced fragmentation in UI toolkits in Windows). WinUI 3 is pretty decent. Have a look at first-party programs like PowerToys[1], or Windows Terminal[2]. [1]: https
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by delta_p_delta_x 5mo ago
> These things are objectively better on a modern KDE linux They are not. I use a KDE distribution at work. I regularly see GPU texture copy bugs like random lines across the middle of the display, or along the bottom edge. I use a 4K 14
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by delta_p_delta_x 5mo ago
I'm currently running Windows 10 Enterprise with a volume key from my alma mater. When I eventually upgrade to 11, either Server or LTSC is on my radar.
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by delta_p_delta_x 5mo ago
Cheers. Some of the themes look pretty good! I used to use StarDock Start and StartIsBack back when I was using Windows 8 to, well, get the Windows 7 Aero theme and the start menu back. That being said I do notice that many of the rounded c
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by delta_p_delta_x 5mo ago
No thanks, I do not want Linux. I use Linux for my home servers and at work, and I'd like to keep it that way, at arm's length. I don't know why people suggest Linux for desktop use at the first swoop. I dislike it. I disli
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by delta_p_delta_x 5mo ago
I really wish Windows 11 had a Windows 2000 mode. I want a grey, boxy UI, but I also want al the modern technologies Windows has introduced since—DirectStorage, D3D12, fast SSDs, device-independent pixels and vector UIs, all written directl
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by delta_p_delta_x 6mo ago
Your point being?
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by delta_p_delta_x 6mo ago
> To be fair, if you use only the Linux syscall interface, then a program that you compiled on x86 in the 90s will probably still run anywhere today. Linus is adamant about this. This is frankly the opposite of how it should've been

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