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by laumars 5y ago
Chrome is pretty resource heavy and Teams might not need all of that. Eg It might not need the latest web APIs or even v8 at all. While it seems counterintuitive, I have read quite a few success stories of people moving from Electron to Qt
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by laumars 5y ago
Without more context either party could be in the wrong there. - The developer for building a non-standard solution that wasn’t asked for and is impossible for the next person to maintain (like those who decide to roll their own database, V
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by laumars 5y ago
You guys are still missing my point that it’s not a TUI because non-text elements have been drawn to the frame buffer. This is actually a lot easier to do in DOS than it is in UNIX too by virtue of the fact that DOSs text mode isn’t a pseud
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by laumars 5y ago
Electron is more than just V8 and in fact most of the UI elements (since we are talking about UI usage here) fall outside of V8. But it’s also worth noting that JavaScript isn’t as close to Java as you claim. Not only do the benchmarks post
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by laumars 5y ago
It has bevels made up of 3 colours, so I can’t see how it’s pure text mode. It’s certainly text heavy so they could have drawn the GUI int a frame buffer and then just used text mode for screen updates. But that’s a little disingenuous from
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by laumars 5y ago
So do Blueray players, Java is everywhere.
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by laumars 5y ago
Near the top. They never came out on top because languages like C++ would out perform (and now we have Rust too). But Java is certainly up there. That said, recently even a lot of the other languages have made some huge optimisations in the
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by laumars 5y ago
Java was used long before Android. It was in feature phones, like from manufacturers like Sony Ericsson (and developers would write games and mapping software in it too).
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by laumars 5y ago
A TUI is ostensibly just a command line application with an event loop and plenty of {ESC} characters being written to STDOUT. And I can assure you there are no shortage of Java applications that run headless.
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by laumars 5y ago
I’m surprised you’re surprised. Electron runs like a dog on modern systems while Java has been used in enterprise applications since the 90s. They’re not even in the same league. But then there isn’t much out there that even comes close to
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by laumars 5y ago
> style TUIs were kind of awful. You might have disliked them but they were far from awful. They were some of the cleanest TUIs ever designed. The other screenshot you shared isn’t a TUI by the way. It’s a GUI. It just happens it runs
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by laumars 5y ago
In trivial examples when we are all relaxed then yes, you would be right. It’s non-trivial occasions when we are stressed and trying to read someone elses code at two in the morning when I really value strict code style guidelines. The abil
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by laumars 5y ago
It’s an informal way some people write SQL if they’re developing a script. I’ve done it this way before because it was quicker to edit, and and remove lines. But it’s not a format I’d particularly like to share with others because it looks
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by laumars 5y ago
Makes you wonder if this tool would be better a code formatter rather than linter?
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by laumars 5y ago
I don’t think I’d go as far as saying that. Apple has always had a premium price tag even under Jobs control. But I do agree that Cook has doubled down on the premium part of Apples product line (sometimes to the detriment of overall produc
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by laumars 5y ago
Ironically the biggest two IT companies in the world, Apple and Amazon, are ones that go out of their way to control the entire supply chain.
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by laumars 5y ago
Ok, I take your point there. HNs support of markdown is lousy. But the design of the site itself is fine
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by laumars 5y ago
The design is perfect. It’s information dense while being really clear and easy to use. There is absolutely nothing wrong with the design.
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by laumars 5y ago
That’s a very specific use case you have there though. I can’t think of any occasion when I’ve actually wanted to do that in the 20 years I’ve been a sysadmin for *nix. The few occasions I have had multiple daemons I’ve wanted to start and
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by laumars 5y ago
The problem is misinformation is usually published as vague data or opinions in a complex situations. Misinformation seldom comes in the form of easily refuted statistical data. I’ve grown to realise that this is not only intentional becaus
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by laumars 5y ago
Because if the main bulk of your problem is getting solved with external executables, like the ffmpeg example given, then it makes more sense to call them from a scripting language that is designed around forking other processes. Python be
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by laumars 5y ago
It amazes me people buy those earphones when they’re probably the worst on the market for fit.
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by laumars 5y ago
You reminded me of this scene from The Simpsons https://youtu.be/ThcThv7Yaq0
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by laumars 5y ago
> Now we have a monopoly of a much bigger, more user-hostile browser(s) and the web "standards" effectively under the control of a single company I’m not saying thing are great now but it was definitely worse in the IE6 days.
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by laumars 5y ago
In fairness, the U.K. adverts for probiotic yoghurts have said it contains natural bacteria found in the gut.
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by laumars 5y ago
Amen to this. These days us old folk are mocked for saying stuff like this but the pain was very real and a very deliberate corporate strategy by Microsoft too. I’ll never trust another Microsoft browser again.
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by laumars 5y ago
You could still apply Group Policy’s to later versions of IE as well. So that wasn’t the reason. It was more to do with corporate apps being tied to specific versions of IE due to later versions of IE having breaking changes in the way it r
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Chess Boxing(en.wikipedia.org)
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by laumars 5y ago
I think you’re being a little defensive. People might like the graphical design but not the control scheme. In that case I think it’s fair to say that. Sure it might intended as a keyboard site but that doesn’t mean the author couldn’t enha
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by laumars 5y ago
> If you decide to implement a high density mode (I would make sure other users beside me want this before doing that work), That’s a refreshingly humble request. So often in FOSS I see people demanding features, even being downright c

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