jcelerier

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by jcelerier 6y ago
> Creating and updating a 1 million item list wouldn't be a cheap operation in a traditional UI system either. IDK, works pretty well with Qt's item model system
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by jcelerier 6y ago
> , there's no question that immediate mode UIs also work well I sincerely hope no one looks at the screenshot on that page and thinks "this is something that works well". This UI screams "I've been made that way
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by jcelerier 6y ago
Ridiculous dogmatism
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by jcelerier 6y ago
i'd much rather have [ { line: [10, 10] }, { cubic: [ 5, 15, 15, 5 ] }, ... ] or even [ ["line", 10, 10], ["cubic", ...], ... ] - anything as long as there's a way to stream the data (which
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by jcelerier 6y ago
> Have you spent any time learning any of this? If not, then why do you say that "this is very complicated and I'm too stupid"? not all things require the same amount of effort to be understood at an adequate level. > I
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by jcelerier 6y ago
it allows to generate code at basically every scope and to create your own "base language elements" like "struct", "class". AFAIK D does not allow for this, does it ?
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by jcelerier 6y ago
It has been proposed by Herb Sutter a few years ago and has been worked on since by Andrew Dutton, so yes the c++ community is definitely behind it. See e.g. https://youtu.be/8c6BAQcYF_E
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by jcelerier 6y ago
> One thing C++ will never have is D's `static if`, which allows injecting declarations into scope don't be so sure https://github.com/lock3/meta/wiki/Metaprogramming-Introduct... a lot of it is
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by jcelerier 6y ago
> It lasted a day before the security team was made turn it off as on our team (and many others), literally 0 uses of random numbers were those requiring a secure random. can concur, currently approaching 400k SLOC of C++ in the repo. A
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by jcelerier 6y ago
> if you genuinely think that then you can never achieve anything other than complaining on message boards and hodling US treasury bonds. I mean... yes. That's, like, most people.
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by jcelerier 6y ago
> I've written a lot of C in the subsequent 20 years or so. It has some particularly nasty traps. Acknowledging that does not make me anti-C. depends on your cultural background I guess. Some people see literally everything that is
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by jcelerier 6y ago
> I actually think we have a competitive advantage here... developing native desktop apps is costly, and most commercial platforms don't bother these days (most you'll get just use a web client in Electron) Telegram has a Qt cl
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by jcelerier 6y ago
> Maybe in 20-30 years will see these languages adopting higher-kinded types, rank-n types, GADTs, and more? it's possible to express those in C++ pretty much since templates exist.
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by jcelerier 6y ago
> With this, you really have to mind that camera quality on Zoom and WebEx is usually so terrible that you can't read anything smaller than what he put on his slide and in an illegible huh, I routinely people see sharing their scree
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by jcelerier 6y ago
> Often the execution does not work as expected due to undefined conditions or states within the "mathematical language", or misunderstanding of the scope or memory allocation or release, etc. nah, 90%+ of bugs are already pres
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by jcelerier 6y ago
Think about it: why are you writing a textual comment right now and not sending a picture, video, sound clip of your message ? That would be much less "silent film"-ish, no ?
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by jcelerier 6y ago
As a guitarist, 8-10ms of processing latency is playable but feels somewhat strange especially if you compare to plugging the guitar right into a tube amp. 2ms is entirely indistinguishable for me. And, with the "normal" system AP
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by jcelerier 6y ago
The problem is that the OSS model of needing to call read/write for audio I/O is pretty hard to fit with the expected pro audio model of "get a callback called when data is ready", likely through some hardware interrupti
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by jcelerier 6y ago
> whenever I read the Arch wiki about how to have PulseAudio and JACK coexist, https://github.com/brummer10/pajackconnect start jack, start pulseaudio, run pajackconnect, done
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by jcelerier 6y ago
> Maybe so for developers, but as a user on Windows or MacOS I don’t have to know or care about any of that stuff. Things just work, and work sensibly. depends on the kind of user you are. If you're looking for the lowest-latency po
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by jcelerier 6y ago
> Also, a term I like to mention is that "instant = instant * 0.5". Meaning, if your code is fast enough that it doesn't affect the user experience in the end, and feels "fast". Making it twice as fast has litera
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by jcelerier 6y ago
if you are in 32-bits you could still have trouble in the future though. source: two days ago I had the exact same problem, so I mounted a 32gb swap file over an NFS drive because my SD card was 2gb (don't ask) and it still failed beca
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by jcelerier 6y ago
You just need more ram. I 'ever compile at less than -j$(ncpu). Hard with less than 32 GB tho - a single clang instance can easily eat upwards of 1gb of ram
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by jcelerier 6y ago
EGLStreams is not only an Nvidia thing though. For instance Google provides an implementation of it (as it's you know, an actual Khronos standard unlike GBM if I'm not mistaken) on ANGLE on windows. While GBM is purely a Linux thi
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by jcelerier 6y ago
> Screen recording works with Gnome's built in recorder. okay, but what if I don't like gnome ? e.g. I had to record a screencap of a bug of a software (that, uh, occurs only under wayland) so I went under weston and, well appa
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by jcelerier 6y ago
I also like junest, which gives a archlinux userspace very easily on any other Linux. Pretty useful when you want the latest GCC, clang, etc.. but don't have an hour to loose to find the right configure flags.
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by jcelerier 6y ago
Just checking that ACPI works correctly would already be great. It took my current laptop almost a year of having to disable ACPI completely before fixes&workarounds were implemented in-kernel.
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by jcelerier 6y ago
in my case it's Strawberry which is a modern Qt 5 app. I also tried retroarch that way and it works surprisingly well.
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by jcelerier 6y ago
hm, I'm using X11 forwarding when I'm on my mac box to control my music player and there is pretty much no latency (and text isn't a blurry mess like rdp / vnc but crisp and sharp). I'm on a gigabit network though.
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by jcelerier 6y ago
My program has no issues running with asan / ubsan so I don't think it would be a vtable / memory overwrite issue as those are pretty much 100% detected. Also I build my whole stack (except glibc and libx11 basically) statica

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