lpcvoid

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   by lpcvoid 5y ago

   And I don't get how you can be so defensive about Electron. It's technically inferior to literally any native solution such as wxwidgets or Qt. RAM usage, CPU cycles, Hard drive space... it's such a disrespectful stance on co
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   IEEE 802.11bf Aims to Enable a New Application of WLAN Technology: WLAN Sensing(beyondstandards.ieee.org)

   2 points by lpcvoid 5y ago|0 comments
3. 393.▲
   by lpcvoid 5y ago

   The "anti Facebook slant" is rooted in a history of complete disregard for user data and privacy, so I find it warranted.
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   by lpcvoid 5y ago

   I refuse to believe this is due to technical reasons, as long as we are talking ACID compliant data storage. A well configured PostgreSQL will blow MongoDB out of the water while actually caring about your data.
5. 395.▲
   by lpcvoid 5y ago

   Electron is almost never a great choice for anything. It saddens me to see people on a website for nerds defend it.
6. 396.▲
   by lpcvoid 5y ago

   People opting to use a meme "database" instead of a real DBMS is kind of a large red flag to me. I am hard pressed to imagine data more relational than chat messages and user accounts.
7. 397.▲
   by lpcvoid 5y ago

   It saddens me that a developer decided to stuff json into the registry, when it's perfectly possible to instead store nice and compact binary data structures. But this is 2021, can't have efficient data representation anymore.
8. 398.▲
   by lpcvoid 5y ago

   What a breath of fresh air, finally somebody not using Electron. Great job.
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   by lpcvoid 5y ago

   This sounds like something you can get with other languages which compile to native x86_64 or arm or whatever - specially the single executable concept is ages old and predates the entire internet. Why use js, which is slow?
10. 400.▲
    by lpcvoid 5y ago

    It's possible to create GUI applications with under 10kb in size, if you link dynamically and use raw win32 api. Pretty sure that my personal wxwidget stuff was way under 100kb too back in the days. Never used GTK directly on linux, bu
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    by lpcvoid 5y ago

    I really, honestly hope that this by some miracle will not happen. The "modern web" is the most bloated, slow and inefficient mess imaginable. Not knocking the browsers themselves, those are marvels of engineering, but yeah.
12. 402.▲
    by lpcvoid 5y ago

    I have to work with that daily, and yeah, it drives me insane.
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    by lpcvoid 5y ago

    No matter what the cost per MB, why is it completely normal for everybody nowadays that websites can be multiple million bytes in size? It's text after all. Boggles my mind.
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    by lpcvoid 5y ago

    Or maybe we should blast it into the sun. On a more serious note - something went terribly wrong if we consider it a good idea to keep wrapping (slow) abstractions and wrappers around things which work perfectly fine.
15. 405.▲
    by lpcvoid 6y ago

    It's actually Qt-widgets if I am not completely mistaken. Also, the reason why not more companies do this is unfortunately cost, it's much easier and thus cheaper to just cobble together some electron trash.
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    Telegram now allows import of chat histories from WhatsApp and others(telegram.org)

    3 points by lpcvoid 6y ago|0 comments
17. 407.▲
    by lpcvoid 6y ago

    Isn't this the exact sort of question that made the web the broken, soulless thing it is today?
18. 408.▲
    by lpcvoid 7y ago

    Lazarus/Freepascal. Cross platform, real native x86_64/ARM/Atmel/Etc.
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    by lpcvoid 7y ago

    I'd counter argue that it's maybe not that bad to have proven, formally validated software in the field, which is what traditional software developers in the automotive sectors did for decades. You tend to push out less crap if yo
20. 410.▲
    by lpcvoid 7y ago

    I'm aware, that was a different point of criticism. I apologize if that wasn't clear.
21. 411.▲
    by lpcvoid 7y ago

    I did not mean to come about as cynical, I simply do not understand this mindset. If you identified a problem, why not fix it? Why keep on making the same decision with the same deterministic outcome?
22. 412.▲
    by lpcvoid 7y ago

    This is how websites should always be. Great job!
23. 413.▲
    by lpcvoid 7y ago

    Good idea, but why JSON? And why HTTP content headers? I much prefer binary protocols, but I'm probably within a minority on that one.
24. 414.▲
    by lpcvoid 7y ago

    Yeah, I feel that they should actually make it default. By the way, check out Codetyphon [1], if you don't know it already. That is one hell of a component and library collection, and it has a lot of added features for the IDE. Really
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    by lpcvoid 7y ago

    There's also Lazarus/Freepascal [1], which has platform support and GUI capabilities for pretty much every CPU/Platform under the sun. [1] https://www.lazarus-ide.org/
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    by lpcvoid 7y ago

    You can use docking packages to make it exactly like Delphi.
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    by lpcvoid 7y ago

    Actually, yeah, I would argue that specially Spotify is simply a website bundled with some chromium.
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    by lpcvoid 7y ago

    I propose on building native tools that have all relevant libraries statically linked. Yeah, executable will grow in size, but it's the best of both world : portability, speed and not using javascript.
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    by lpcvoid 7y ago

    >But, while they monopolize their areas... they probably create negative value. I think Facebook is already creating negative value.
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    by lpcvoid 7y ago

    I would give him the benefit of a doubt to have access to advanced, internal statistics. I believe him.