jcelerier

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by jcelerier 7y ago
> And your point is that it would be better to write pre/postprocessing logic in the build system well, it has to be somewhere and i'd rather write my build configuration in a language instead of N. So yes, that's what I d
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by jcelerier 7y ago
You obviously never had Python PATH hell on windows.
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by jcelerier 7y ago
> I don’t ever want to work with a Turing-complete build system ever again. so do you instead write custom additional executables that may require a cross-compilation step for whenever you have to perform custom pre/postprocessing t
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by jcelerier 7y ago
I'm saying that just because mobile device is the majority of devices does not mean that we have to care about them. Rule of the majority is never a good rule.
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by jcelerier 7y ago
I'm sorry but there are bad teachers / courses everywhere, that does not reflect on the technology (though C++ has it really bad for some reason). When I was in school learning how to debug was one of the first classes we had. If
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by jcelerier 7y ago
> As they are specifically talking about new programmers, using gdb in your example effectively communicates and confirms their point New programmers would be using IDEs, press the green arrow "play" button and launch the app w
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by jcelerier 7y ago
> If you compile without debug symbols you don't get a trace after a seg fault. uh... no. given volatile char* foo = 0x0; struct crasher { void crash() { *foo = 1; } }; int main()
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by jcelerier 7y ago
Sadly my Jolla phone died down last year and my life is filled with pain since
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by jcelerier 7y ago
> and C++ where you don't what do you mean ? in which case don't you get a backtrace in C++ ?
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by jcelerier 7y ago
> Not much of an Android user, I gather. mobile apps outside of native Jolla ones make my blood boil faster that I can turn those wretched devices off, so, yes, I try to limit my interactions with those to a minimum.
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by jcelerier 7y ago
in practice i'm pretty sure the web things i'm using are tracking me much more than any of the native apps i've ever used. I remember the outcry whenever someone would find out that $native app would send some weird packets o
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by jcelerier 7y ago
Most animals on earth are ants. Do you propose we optimize for them ?
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by jcelerier 7y ago
We can compile and run c++ code in a browser with WASM versions of clang, why would it be any issue to compile glsl / any other language to spir-v ? That's already what almost everyone is doing with spirv-cross / shaderconduc
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by jcelerier 7y ago
please, current software - not event thinking about Electron-like things, just the software that comes with operating systems, be it Finder, explorer.exe, even fucking photo viewers and music players or terminals - are already slow and frus
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by jcelerier 7y ago
> or there were serious rewrites involved why do you assume that ? if someone was using, say, "Modern C++ Design: Generic Programming and Design Patterns Applied" from Alexandrescu (released in 2001!) as a guideline when writin
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by jcelerier 7y ago
> I doubt there's layers and layers of template metaprogramming in Ableton Live, or that Maya is a study in inheritance I doubt both of your assertions - public Ableton code uses templates fairly liberally ( https://gith
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by jcelerier 7y ago
> C++ is a maintenance nightmare in comparison. c'mon, all the super large projects - adobe software, ableton live, blender, autodesk, 3DS max, maya... all the major game engines (UE, CryEngine, Frostbite, etc), are written in C++,
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by jcelerier 7y ago
> Include health insurance, retirement match, employer side payroll taxes, all of these three are included in the gross in france
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by jcelerier 7y ago
if you look at the date in the calendar, it's a time I took a good 6 months ago haha
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by jcelerier 7y ago
i3, I only set Xft.dpi: 144 in my .Xresources ; here's a screenshot with GTK3, Qt4, Qt5 and raw X11 apps : https://i.imgur.com/VfWisJ7.png
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by jcelerier 7y ago
how many 0.0001% of employees does that represent though ? 200k is more than what the average CEO makes (gross) in france (150k€)
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by jcelerier 7y ago
> If the difference between a 75dpi screen and a 100dpi workstation screen was too much, today's "retina" displays really struggle to run a usable X. I've been running X11 on retina displays since 2014 without much o
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by jcelerier 7y ago
you most certainly never had to wrestle with operating systems keeping sockets open for a few minutes after a process was killed then. pleaaaase do unwind properly and release as much resources as you can.
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by jcelerier 7y ago
> I have never seen C++ code where the constructor call is wrapped in with an exception handler. The point of exceptions is not to wrap every call that can throw but instead to let them bubble up to have them be handled where it makes mo
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by jcelerier 7y ago
but it isn't a title in the journalistic sense
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by jcelerier 7y ago
I do some work in embedded myself but vehemently disagree with that. Only very small parts of embedded systems need zero-alloc policies. Hell, I know people succesfully using new / delete on arduinos and the like. I taught a bit at uni
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by jcelerier 7y ago
> It's common in an extremely narrow field. Most if not all the apps running on my desktop right now are written in C++ and I'm pretty sure exactly zero do that.
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by jcelerier 7y ago
> If the brain is just bioelectrical hardware then there is nothing worth reverse engineering, nor is there any worth to anything at all. may I introduce you to our local nihilist club
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by jcelerier 7y ago
> Web browsers need to composite the video within arbitrary documents which may e.g. have elements that overlap the video (opaque or transparent) or may arbitrarily transform the video (CSS applies to videos just like any other element).
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by jcelerier 7y ago
I prefer my mnemonics : tar caf foo.tar.gz foo/ bar/ # Compress As Fuck tar xaf foo.tar.gz # Xtract As Fuck

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