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by dualogy 1y ago
I used i3 for a few years before switching to KDE 1 or 2 years ago. For me choosing a full Desktop Environment over just-a-window-manager is about getting all the basics already co-installed with it: a default file explorer, default calcu
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by dualogy 1y ago
Wicked, fully FOSS for non-console targets, I had some fun with earlier this year, it's a great very-modern full-featured D3D-or-Vulkan renderer under active development with a lively yet cozy-sized community (including a handful of fo
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by dualogy 1y ago
> Nim has fantastic interoperability with C++ Last year I asked around in the Nim community if "the C++ interop" will allow me to easily link-to-and-import in Nim a C++ lib (in this case, a 3D engine called WickedEngine) and th
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by dualogy 1y ago
Consider the possibility that without the first 2 problems, the latter 2 examples would be no problems at all. That tells you what to focus on and what to ignore =) I could be wrong here culturally tho... I've never been in Kathmandu.
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by dualogy 2y ago
On all my Linux setups so far for years now, on German keyboard layouts, AltGr+- and AltGr+Shift+- always worked oob for me for – and —. I easily just got used to using them, things read better than with minuses.
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by dualogy 2y ago
As has happened before, I have to plug this stunningly underhyped editor, TextAdept: https://orbitalquark.github.io/textadept/ Minimalist fast native (not browser-based) code editor for Windows, Mac, Linux, BSD. Both
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by dualogy 2y ago
OP asked about "SDK Generators for Application APIs". So my guess is like when you want tight Steam integration in your Godot/Unity/Unreal/etc game, or IAP for mobile game, it's not engine-provided, but some en
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by dualogy 2y ago
As an avid reader of it myself, nullprogram.com really can very one of these sites whose articles can very plausibly get recurringly posted by its readers (it's one of those sites that, when you're getting into C, you keep ending
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by dualogy 2y ago
Also discussed 30 days ago, 33 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42485423
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by dualogy 2y ago
> the total number of requests for that resource should be very small "For that server" is the other number-of-requests..
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by dualogy 2y ago
Agree overall, and yet, and yet.. > Procedural generation can't be used as an excuse to do less work > So people going into procedural generation thinking it'll save them work are already destined to fail Consider the po
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by dualogy 2y ago
I'm all for it, but one thing I'm sensing is this: unlike most other kinds of software, with games the fun & gameplay are the chief and overriding factors for their audience, maybe artsy factors like visuals immersiveness etc,
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by dualogy 2y ago
Some months ago I gathered a sizable, mighty fine offline music collection from https://netlabels.org/electronic-music/ and https://files.scene.org/browse/music/ — plenty of "duds"
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by dualogy 2y ago
I'm already liking that one! Page 5 quote: > There is one other convention — sometimes we repeat a key point to emphasize it. In addition, we sometimes repeat a key point to emphasize it. One more quote and I'll stop: > c
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by dualogy 2y ago
> Software that works fine on the developer’s 6-month-old high end workstation and like molasses anywhere else. Also: software that works like molasses on the developer's high end workstation
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by dualogy 2y ago
So what IS the state of the art that's also FOSS, perhaps even as-a-library, and non-gen-AI (I'm thinking interactive/game-dev/realtime use-cases)?
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by dualogy 2y ago
> the bulk of the IDE's power comes from closed-source language servers Not sure that's so very true for most langs / stacks other than Python. Go LSP & vscode extension is Go-owned, C++ you have clang LSP+ext and can
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by dualogy 2y ago
True enough, way beyond my old-school favs of Goldeneye 007, Perfect Dark, and GTA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Video_game_companies_...
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by dualogy 2y ago
I was side-wondering whether OP is an X employee with all that x.com linking and mentioning. (What's hax0r about X in the year 2007+17, laments childish-laconic-portion-of-me =) In the audience space of meet.hn, defaulting to github&#x
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by dualogy 2y ago
Just a guess, but from the above context maybe futo.org
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by dualogy 2y ago
> I'm using this query to fetch cities data There's also downloadable CSV lists of the world's place names at https://geonames.org (and stably have been kept available and updated for many years by now) —
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by dualogy 2y ago
Bug alert: while clicking on the Seoul 'M' does work, listing its (currently 1) hackers, the close-by Pyongyang doesn't (despite also having "1 hacker" registered).
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by dualogy 2y ago
> The paradox is that it was meant to avoid to write language support for each editor. Yet, if you want to support vscode you must create a specific extension for it and can't just have a language client. On the one hand, this has a
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by dualogy 2y ago
Let us know which one so we can avoid it =)
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by dualogy 2y ago
Article talks plenty about autophages though..
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by dualogy 2y ago
Haven't read it yet, but PDF seems to be here: https://www.cell.com/current-biology/pdf/S0960-9822(24)01027...
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by dualogy 2y ago
At 13yo I was still reading Donald Duck euro-comics :D I think the PF scene with The Gimp and the gagged dude would have confused me greatly..
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by dualogy 2y ago
Office Space, Demolition Man, Fight Club, City of Ghosts (2004), The Big Short, Ghost Dog, Slacker, most Tarantinos, various 60s italo-westerns, BTTF 1 & 2. But there's a lot more movies coming to mind that deserve a 2nd watching i
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by dualogy 2y ago
> What happens if the growth rate outpaces our natural evolution? Too bad we can't anthromorphize evolution, else I'd say: maybe that was evolution's "idea" / "gamble" to begin with. Evolve the bei
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by dualogy 2y ago
For a text editor UI, it really isn't quite so challenging: see Sublime Text, or TextAdept, and others mentioned across this sub-thread.

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