lpcvoid

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by lpcvoid 5y ago
There isn't a single redeeming quality about Cryptocurrency. The sooner it dies, the better. "Using" chips for useless heat generation has no benefit at all.
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by lpcvoid 5y ago
That is quite misleading to a vast amount of people without tech background. I find it dishonest, even more so because Telegram actually does offer e2ee chats - and 1:1 voice/video chats are already e2ee, for what it's worth.
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by lpcvoid 5y ago
Can we stop comparing the lack of default-on e2ee in Telegram to "no encryption"? There is transport encryption in MTProto since the beginning. There are e2ee chats for those who want them.
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by lpcvoid 5y ago
Electron desktop client instantly disqualifies it as a Telegram Desktop competitor. Telegram Desktop is probably the best example of how desktop software should be built.
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by lpcvoid 5y ago
Wow, finally a company which takes money in return for services. Why is this such a seemingly outlandish thing for modern tech companies?
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by lpcvoid 5y ago
Don't think of it as you being a dinosaur - think of it as you being a sane person making sane decisions about your development environment.
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by lpcvoid 5y ago
In my opinion Jetbrains products are vastly superior to VSCode in every metric except price.
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by lpcvoid 5y ago
So you have requirements to interface to low level peripherals, and you need to do this in the worst language ever invented, which is at the same time one of the highest level languages? It boggles my mind.
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by lpcvoid 5y ago
That is one of the most sad design requirements I have ever read, then.
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by lpcvoid 5y ago
I highly doubt that it's faster than a dd with proper blocksize. With inefficient I mean that it's an Electron application.
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by lpcvoid 5y ago
Unfortunately, Etcher is a perfect metaphor for the state of "modern" technology in general. Inefficient to it's core.
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by lpcvoid 5y ago
Wow, that is an incredibly cool thing for an OEM to offer. Never seen this for any other vendor before.
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by lpcvoid 5y ago
Crazy, you described my whole career path.
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by lpcvoid 5y ago
Then it's good to have smaller, yet more common outages of Facebook properties, so that people are willing to migrate away from it in the long term while preserving their livelihood.
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by lpcvoid 5y ago
>We're probably already far past the point of "There are more competent Python programmers than competent C programmers." Maybe this is the point where we need to start thinking about where we went wrong? I know that nobod
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by lpcvoid 5y ago
Leave it to Microsoft to be openly user-hostile in every way possible, knowing perfectly well that it won't hurt their market share one bit. I have no idea why people think this is a different Microsoft now than it was under Ballmer.
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by lpcvoid 5y ago
There is only one place for Blockchain - in the center of the Bullshit-Bingo tile matrix.
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by lpcvoid 5y ago
This is the most hacker-news comment I have ever seen.
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by lpcvoid 5y ago
I don't see how banning a high karma account would be embarrassing? I didn't even know that people cared about karma on Reddit.
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by lpcvoid 5y ago
Actually, I value a non-electron client way higher than E2EE. In fact, the incredible desktop client is one of the main reasons I am a huge Telegram proponent.
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by lpcvoid 5y ago
In my opinion, highly biased - Lazarus/lcl, wxwidgets, Qt, imgui, in no particular order.
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by lpcvoid 5y ago
Non-uniform non-platform-widget based rendering of applications is not something I would call state-of-the-art. The overton window has only shifted to that recently. I would claim that a small statically linked executable displaying a nativ
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by lpcvoid 5y ago
The problem is not Javascript itself IMO, the problem is that there exists a large portion of web-only developers with knowledge only about Javascript, who try to cram it down every corner and every problem space that they can. This leads t
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by lpcvoid 5y ago
No, I mean specifically things like Optimus on dual GPU laptops. Also, even if the distros do in fact either install automatically or provide a method to install it, there is simply no need to even do this on an AMD system. And then there&#
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by lpcvoid 5y ago
As long as you use a AMD GPU, life is sweet. Nvidia is a lot more pain to get working - AMD is part of the kernel.
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by lpcvoid 5y ago
Why can't Chrom(e/ium) drag tabs to bookmarks or toolbars in 2021?
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by lpcvoid 5y ago
How is wxwidgets not native? They literally wrap native controls. Short of writing directly to a device frame buffer, you aren't getting any more native. Qt is does indeed not use platform controls, but it is still a huge distance away
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by lpcvoid 5y ago
No, nothing is perfect, but this is IMO a case of one being vastly worse than the other, with the only merit that it's "easier".
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by lpcvoid 5y ago
Constantly providing an "easy way out" for problems in form of technically inferior solutions is not a good path to tread on.
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by lpcvoid 5y ago
And by normalizing Electron we get even more of the same, instead of convincing people to learn better tools for the job. It's a race to the bottom.

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