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   Nvidia DLSS SDK Now Available for All Developers(developer.nvidia.com)

   1 points by dgentile 5y ago|0 comments
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   by dgentile 6y ago

   Edited: Looks like they have safe alternatives: " - strlcpy() if you really just need a truncated but NUL-terminated string (we provide a compat version, so it's always available) - xsnprintf() if you're sure t
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   by dgentile 6y ago

   Agreed. Ownership would be way too confusing to start out with.
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   by dgentile 6y ago

   I think starting with a language with static typing would be better. With Python or Javascript you still need to know how the types work otherwise you can run into unexpected "defined behavior". Something like Golang makes a fair
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   by dgentile 6y ago

   C++ is really nice for low-level OOP, and compared with C it adds generics and classes. Compared to Python, C++ is lower-level and can have significant performance gains with a well written program. With regard to Julia, if you write your c
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   by dgentile 6y ago

   The problem is that fundamentally we always have types. We must define different types of bytes and the different things we can do with those bytes. If you can generate a binary from your programming language, it must use a form of static o
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   by dgentile 6y ago

   This exactly. That she's returning home from school at 6:30! The author didn't give their daughter's age, but we can assume it's right before 14, so maybe 12-13. I'm in high school, and I take a couple HL IB classes
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   by dgentile 6y ago

   From purely a programming perspective: Have they not heard of enums?
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   by dgentile 6y ago

   Free Software is amazing. I love emacs, Firefox, bash, zsh, nginx, postgres, llvm, linux, freebsd, and many other packages. But, I think that there are two points to be made with regard to commercial software. 1: Domain specific programs, a
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    by dgentile 6y ago

    High Schooler here. I've been teaching myself Vulkan and am writing a videogame, but I'm so exhausted on weekdays from my course-load that I only work on it on weekends and breaks. I wish I could put more time into it but trying t
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    by dgentile 6y ago

    1/3 and 1/3 is 1/6 ;)
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    by dgentile 6y ago

    Highly available web-server with batteries for small business: 1. Goto digitalocean.com or linode.com 2. Buy the smallest instance. 3. Install FreeBSD. 4. Let it run for the next 2 decades without ever needing to touch it.
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    by dgentile 6y ago

    Is it WebGL?
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    by dgentile 6y ago

    The Rust is 10% slower metric I think is unfair. If you look on godbolt, the LLVM IR that rustc emits isn't that great, so LLVM has to take some extra time to optimize that, compared to the output of clang.
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    by dgentile 6y ago

    Epic HTML hacker here
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    by dgentile 6y ago

    HS student here. Our district made the decision to keep grades, or you can apply to drop distance learning if you meet certain circumstances. This is incredibly frustrating for me since 1) I can't slack off and work on my C++ projects
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    by dgentile 6y ago

    My point was more along the lines of the code bloat that comes from essentially emulating a web browser on system, when in reality you can write much faster code in C/C++ or even C#/Java. But, GUI design for applications can be a
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    by dgentile 6y ago

    I disagree. Headless code on a single server can still be very difficult. For instance, nginx, mariadb, etc, which allow the frontend to function well, are difficult to write. You have to deal with multiple threads, search algorithms, handl