jonpalmisc

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by jonpalmisc 5y ago
I almost wish I never tried Emacs. Ignorance is bliss, and Emacs ruined all other text editors for me. There are absolutely areas that others do better, but the self-documenting “living program” nature is too much to give up; everything you
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by jonpalmisc 5y ago
What’s the reason behind the inches vs millimeters distinction? I understand it’s just a heuristic but I don’t get what the underlying cause is.
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by jonpalmisc 5y ago
This PDF brings back memories. I went down this path about a little over a year ago—it’s great fun. I didn’t end up finishing anything significant but I’d highly recommend everyone give writing a kernel or an OS a shot sometime. You will le
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by jonpalmisc 5y ago
Slightly off topic: So many projects and posts boast “written in Rust”. I haven’t been on HN that long—was there a point in time where “written in C++” was a similar “selling point”? From a quick glance, it looks like this could have been i
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C++ UI Libraries(philippegroarke.com)
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by jonpalmisc 5y ago
I love doing UI programming in Pascal, but I miss sane build systems and package management from other languages when I use Lazarus or Delphi. If Lazarus were more popular and had a better library ecosystem, I’d probably use it a lot more.
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by jonpalmisc 5y ago
I should clarify I’m talking about my artist profile picture, configured through artists.apple.com.
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by jonpalmisc 5y ago
When did you upload yours? I’ve attempted to upload non-face photos on multiple occasions now and had them all rejected.
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by jonpalmisc 5y ago
They also have profile photo rules, notably, that it must include your face. I later found out that you cannot remove your profile photo, even upon request. Nor can I replace it with something other than my face. Can’t say I’m a fan of that
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by jonpalmisc 5y ago
Not hiring—just a fellow HN reader—but your site is beautiful.
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by jonpalmisc 5y ago
To be abundantly clear: I'd hate to have my source code leaked. But I will admit that incidents like these or the Windows XP source leak are fascinating. I'd hope others share the same curiosity I have for getting to "peek be
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by jonpalmisc 5y ago
I’m always hesitant to start projects in less popular languages without knowing if they will stick around, etc. I don’t know much about Nim, but I have tons of respect for people who create excellent content like this that helps a language
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by jonpalmisc 5y ago
I’ve used this before and it’s quite good; it not only captures the “old Windows” look well, but I find it to be quite functional too. I was frustrated trying to get my Linux box to look “pretty”, since I find that most GTK and DE themes la
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by jonpalmisc 5y ago
It's not a tutorial series, but you may get something out of browsing the source for https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity in the meantime. I'm also curious if there are any recent/relevant C++ OS devel
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by jonpalmisc 5y ago
bombcar’s reply is correct. Too late to edit my comment now, but the main thing I was praising is actually the Parallels graphics driver.
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by jonpalmisc 5y ago
UTM is good and I’m not the biggest Parallels fan, but Parallels is currently the only host with guest tools for Windows 11 ARM. While Windows 11 ARM can run in UTM and VMware, it’s a night/day difference in quality when using Parallel
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by jonpalmisc 5y ago
Yup. This is my new favorite color tool website. Excellent work.
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by jonpalmisc 5y ago
On the topic of fonts: If your font of choice has it, try using the medium weight as the "normal" weight in your editor — I've found I prefer it to the regular weight with most fonts. I started doing this after noticing that
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by jonpalmisc 5y ago
There are definitely some JS libraries for it that exist. I don’t know all the details but I often find myself Googling “graphviz online” and clicking the first link to quickly mock up diagrams. So in short, I’ve used it on the web before.
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by jonpalmisc 5y ago
I think this is a good change. While I would have preferred to see support for Graphviz over Mermaid, I understand Mermaid was probably chosen for the sake of easier integration. Either way, it will be nice to be able to embed diagrams rath
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by jonpalmisc 5y ago
Anyone have experience using projects like this? Are the performance gains (and/or other benefits) that noticeable?
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by jonpalmisc 5y ago
For those who just want to see the rule: > My willingness to judge something should be proportional to how much I know about it. I think it’s a sound rule. Going to try to remind myself of this more.
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by jonpalmisc 5y ago
If you already know C or C++, I’d recommend checking out Compiler Explorer [1]. It helped me tremendously when learning assembly as I could see how source code translated to assembly, which helped me learn common patterns in assembly, etc.
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by jonpalmisc 5y ago
Do you have the links for those tweets by any chance? I’d like to learn more about this.
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by jonpalmisc 5y ago
I would love to see a Switch emulator for the M1, although I certainly understand why it'd be a last-priority for emulator developers. I know /nothing/ about emulator development, but I wonder what the performance of a Switch
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by jonpalmisc 5y ago
ChubbyEmu’s video [1] on this was quite good. (As is the rest of his channel, if this kind of stuff interests you.) [1] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NJ7M01jV058
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by jonpalmisc 5y ago
The integration with LLDB here seems really neat and makes me think about what other LLDB scripts could be made to improve debugging of common structures and data. It’s be neat to be able to visualize a tree, etc. in LLDB.
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by jonpalmisc 5y ago
I don’t use Windows anymore so I don’t really have any investment in WSL, but I’m happy to keep seeing things in the WSL camp get even better. I’d argue WSL is the single best Windows innovation in years.
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by jonpalmisc 5y ago
Cheap shot, but: just the taskbar? Everyone likes to complain about privacy, telemetry, etc. in Windows. I’d rather have a Windows 7 with telemetry than Windows 11 with no telemetry. Every Windows release just becomes actively more annoying
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by jonpalmisc 5y ago
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29962004

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