eviks

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by eviks 11mo ago
> Their purpose is to convey information in limited space. No, that's only one of their purposes. Another one is faster visual parsing of shape recognition instead of reading even if space is not an issue (just like with all of thes
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by eviks 11mo ago
The general point holds - there is no universal solution, to some people some icons will be noise, to some the same icons will be instant visual parsing replacing reading, so the solution is obvious - easy user customization (ideally at an
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by eviks 11mo ago
How are you going to get access to his kids?
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by eviks 11mo ago
First, the issue is not a closed=solved issue, if you bothered to actually read it you'd realize there is another currently still opened issue about this, Second, there are no "issues", there is only one such link I encourag
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by eviks 11mo ago
The AI beating will continue untill the buying improves. And the use will be forсed by changing the OS.
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by eviks 11mo ago
> Anyone can slap a fancy UI It's the opposite, anyone can slap an existing good engine to a bad UI that works well on many sites because it already works for some major browser. Almost no one can slap a fancy UI, and none of these
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by eviks 11mo ago
What are the exact timings? And what OS? For a Windows example, a proper native framework would be fractions of a second, Electron would be many seconds (especially on first run), iced would be a few seconds (as also noted in the issue link
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by eviks 11mo ago
> which I'm aware may not be the same if the tag was updated. That's the mistake that breaks the following. People don't usually expect that it's an arbitrary modifiable reference, but instead that it's the same
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by eviks 11mo ago
The legacy business usually explains why there are no new features, only minor maintenance, it doesn't explain why there is a lot of investment into work that makes it worse
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by eviks 11mo ago
You're right, unfortunately, don't have a good iced-specific list, so left it out, but here a few things: startup is blazingly slow (one of the big issues of all those awful electron apps which the native frameworks can supposedly
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by eviks 11mo ago
Most of the information on the screen is the useless 101101, nothing utilitarian about it
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by eviks 11mo ago
It's "hidden"in the very first feature point > Fast by design … powered by WebKit.
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by eviks 11mo ago
> Languages with strong type systems won't save you, good procedure will. One of the items in the list of procedures is to use types to encode rules of your system.
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by eviks 11mo ago
> This first change was being rolled out using our gradual deployment system. So they are aware of some basic mitigation tactics guarding against errors > This system does not perform gradual rollouts, They just choose to YOLO > Ty
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by eviks 11mo ago
> The drawback to using vector images is that it can take longer to render a vector image than a bitmap; you basically need to turn the vector image into a bitmap at the size you want to display on the screen. Indeed, would be nice if on
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by eviks 11mo ago
emulation is addressed in the next sentence? Also see the sibling comment with more details on the list of issues if you "simulate" the OS instead of using the real one
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by eviks 11mo ago
Because it's not limited to games, forcing updates cuts of a lot of apps that can't invest enough in updating. Also the barrier to use you're suggesting with alternative install/emulator is pretty high for an average use
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by eviks 11mo ago
> Bugs exist, and they're sometimes fixed more slowly than we'd like, but given the size of the GitHub ecosystem this is probably just one of many outstanding bugs. Sorry to be blunt, but you've said nothing of substance.
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by eviks 11mo ago
There was no mind change, just a change in published words from a true expression of his mind into a more bland corporate speak
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by eviks 11mo ago
Yes, of course, many people use the same shortcut for the same action in all the apps
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by eviks 11mo ago
How does Windows without such force to contribute code back have better drivers?
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by eviks 11mo ago
Why would you presume that? Especially given what it is: > We are teen hackers from around the world who code together (besides, "many projects" is more likely a downside here as it spreads the oversight resources)
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by eviks 11mo ago
> but a non-profit structure allows others to contribute financially without fear of misappropriation or misuse of funds (as protected by legal requirements and oversight from the fiscal sponsor). None of the parenthesised provide any st
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by eviks 11mo ago
It would be helpful if you actually listed the ways and the else
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by eviks 11mo ago
> other than plain HTML. It's literally a machine-readable format But we're talking about humans, it's not very human-readable!
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by eviks 11mo ago
> What a mess! Why is the DirectX 12 documentation so scattered across so many websites in different shapes and forms? Of course, I don't know While you're at it, do you also not know why they break the URLs from time to time s
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by eviks 11mo ago
Are there display pipelines that cache the generated-for-my-device-resolution svgs instead of doing all the slower parsing etc from scratch every time, achieving benefits of both worlds? And you can still have runtime-defined scaling by &qu
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by eviks 11mo ago
So will the mess suddenly disappear?
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by eviks 11mo ago
> that some other FOSS group...could take its place with a firefox fork What stops them from contributing improvements now?
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by eviks 11mo ago
> The reason I dislike the twitter argument is, even if ruby was the root cause, the choice of ruby still launched the business and got them to that first success disaster. This only works if there was no better language to launch a simi

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