jcelerier

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by jcelerier 6y ago
I don't understand, isn't this whole conversation about using these ARM chips for the next desktop macs ? > I don't doubt that it could run at 4.5GHz in a desktop package, with a proper fan and heatsink. well, I don't
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by jcelerier 6y ago
But my sandy CPU had not much trouble being OC'ed to 4.5ghz while apparently the top freq. of the A13 is 2.7 ghz? How many, say, convolution reverbs can you chain on the A12 or A13 would for instance be a super relevant metric to compa
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by jcelerier 6y ago
those are benchmarks, but to restate my comment I'd really like to see that hold up in actual real-world use cases
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by jcelerier 6y ago
> I do some light VST development with JUCE and have tested out my synth on my iPad Pro, worked a charm. I mean, of course a single VST works like a charm, single VSTs already worked fine on 500 mhz CPUs with win98-era computers and Cuba
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by jcelerier 6y ago
I'd really like to see an iPad Pro crunch through as many VSTs as my old 2600k did in its 2 millisecond budget
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by jcelerier 6y ago
one of my most used non-trivial shell commands must be uuidgen | awk '{ printf "\"" $1 "\"" }' | xclip -selection clipboard
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by jcelerier 6y ago
> Yeah, I'm just really confused. If you're at a CLI, you probably have uuidgen. And I'd assume there's something similar on Windows. uuidgen is provided by the Windows SDK - exactly the same usage than in *nix
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by jcelerier 6y ago
In C++ we have things like Boost.PolyCollection to improve that specific case : https://www.boost.org/doc/libs/master/doc/html/poly_collecti... With some metaclass / reflection magic maybe one
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by jcelerier 6y ago
> that pulled off two seamless architecture transitions sorry what :-) I know people who still keep a PPC mac around because some critical software they use in e.g. art contexts has never been ported.
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by jcelerier 6y ago
> At that point, I think I was mostly self-driven with the goal of making "it works" with little to no knowledge of security aspects of things. If I am doing the same thing now I would be knowing how to do, how to "Google&
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by jcelerier 6y ago
> Constraints like using a limited environment can do wonders for people’s creativity The problem is that the teachers (and the students by extension) don't know that they are learning helpessly outdated things. Nothing would be los
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by jcelerier 6y ago
> and the 1060 is surprisingly power-efficient in its low frequency modes. maybe ? the computer on which this happens is a 1070. But please be aware that series 10 are a very small percentage of people. The average laptop of non-tech peo
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by jcelerier 6y ago
> And which one of them has a better track record pushing out security fixes, especially for older software? given the amount of security issues that are being fixed silently, even sometimes unadvertently, in newer releases of any soft
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by jcelerier 6y ago
> To give you an idea that pcwalton knows what he’s been doing and has indeed been seeking to match platform rendering exactly, I don't intend at all to cast doubt on pcwalton's abilities - the work is brilliant without any hes
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by jcelerier 6y ago
> This is exactly what Pathfinder does. from the screenshots I saw so far, pretty much not. > It can do stem darkening/font dilation like macOS and FreeType in order to make text easier to read at small sizes. there are tons of
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by jcelerier 6y ago
> Don't libraries like Skia, Qt, Cairo use GPU rendering? I've always assumed so. I mean, this is 2020, GPUs have been around for decades. As a Qt user / developer - you can use the GPU for your app, e.g. with Qt Quick o
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by jcelerier 6y ago
> And: historically they've been computed mostly on CPU, but I think it's time for that to change. It would be great to wait a bit for OS & GPU power management to evolve before biting the bullet on that. My laptop goes fro
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by jcelerier 6y ago
> Even in the usecase of GUI programming, where OO is supposed to shine the brightest, OO is a failure because interactive programs are extremely concurrent. Even back then when everything was executed in serial GUI frameworks were desig
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by jcelerier 6y ago
what setup is there to do for VNC ? just run x11vnc and connect to your ip:5900... or directly X11 forwarding
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by jcelerier 6y ago
Heh, I had to go from 16G to 64G because of how often I was hitting OOM when compiling big stuff (a few times per week at least). And that was in 2016...
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by jcelerier 6y ago
> This really isn’t what a PhD is like. A PhD is a research degree - you do research in your own time. You don’t have to be in seminars if you don’t want to and you don’t have to teach (unless you need the money.) At least in france ther
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by jcelerier 6y ago
> Coroutines still seem overkill to me though. Coroutines are a fantastic way to implement ranges, in particular when you need runtime polymorphism over the way your range is implemented e.g. they allow you to have for instance :
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by jcelerier 6y ago
> This post highlights many of the reasons why I’ve chosen to just stick with a standard, widely-used desktop OS (macOS in my case, but could easily be Windows or some other OS like Fedora), and use almost all the default settings, adap
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by jcelerier 6y ago
say you want to represent values going from -10 to 10 with a step of 2 you'll have an array which is int array[]{-10, -8, -6, -4, -2, 0, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10}; -> "0" is 6 in that case and you only need 4 bits to store
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QStringView Diaries: Zero-Allocation String Splitting(kdab.com)
27 points by jcelerier 6y ago|5 comments
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by jcelerier 6y ago
that's assuming money is the one important thing in your life though :p I'd personally need at least 3 times my current french salary to start thinking about compromising my other life choices
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by jcelerier 6y ago
> So if someone has a headless OS X contraption on offer, I want to hear some more about it. you still legally need to run it on an actual Mac due to Apple's terms of service though... so is there really a lot gained ?
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by jcelerier 6y ago
Tesla uses Qt under LGPL in their own cars: https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=18/05/20/1737213
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Using Visual Studio Code for Qt Applications – Part Two(kdab.com)
1 points by jcelerier 6y ago|0 comments
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by jcelerier 6y ago
yes, just referring to his famous quote : "I invented the term Object-Oriented, and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind." :p

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