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by mayoff 11mo ago
Some people suffer and think "I had to go through this and I hope no one else does." Some people suffer and think "I had to go through this so everyone else should too."
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by mayoff 11mo ago
The problem is that it's easy to do it wrong and the C compiler doesn't help you. RAII prevents you from leaking the resource, but the complaint in the post is that it can be cumbersome to use RAII in C++ if acquisition can fail a
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by mayoff 11mo ago
Swift doesn't capture a stack trace in the `Error` object, but Xcode can break when an error is thrown if you set a “Swift Error Breakpoint”, and the debugger will show you the stack trace. Under the hood it just sets breakpoints on th
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by mayoff 11mo ago
Another really nice thing about Swift is that you have to put the `try` keyword in front of any expression that can throw. This means there's no hidden control flow: if some function call can throw, you're informed at the call sit
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by mayoff 11mo ago
Swift gained limited support for “typed throws” in Swift 6.0 (2024). https://github.com/swiftlang/swift-evolution/blob/main/propo... I say limited because the compiler doesn't (yet, as of 6.2) perfo
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by mayoff 11mo ago
See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36908369 (“The bigger the interface, the weaker the abstraction")
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by mayoff 11mo ago
I hate cmake but this is something cmake does well in my experience. I had to write a Godot 4 plugin and Godot has many many header files. I made a project header that #included all the Godot headers, and a single target_precompile_headers
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by mayoff 11mo ago
Probably the Sun Ray computer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Ray
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by mayoff 1y ago
Unicode superscript characters. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_subscripts_and_supersc...
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by mayoff 1y ago
My problem with AppCode was that the syntax of Swift was still undergoing rapid development, and AppCode lagged too far behind. So AppCode wouldn't understand parts of my code unless I avoided the latest (often very valuable) additions
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by mayoff 1y ago
> Cura (Ultimaker's slicer) isn't open source Isn't it? https://github.com/Ultimaker/Cura
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by mayoff 1y ago
But in Java, a program doesn't have a single static entry point. You can have as many different classes as you want, each with its own static void main, and choose which to use as the entry point when you start up your JVM.
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by mayoff 1y ago
You can play with the equations on 3D Desmos here: https://www.desmos.com/3d/t66etxi1y8 Interesting to note that the parametric equations of the spiral are linear in spherical coordinates. https://en.wikiped
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by mayoff 1y ago
Supposedly this was improved in macOS 14 (Sonoma, late 2023) with "cooperative app activation". It's discussed in this WWDC 2023 video: https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2023/10054&#x2
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by mayoff 1y ago
I golfed mine down to 15.623 cycles / voxel. d2 = x^2+y^2 -- 6 / pi = 1.909859317102744 angle = 6 + 1.909859317102744 * atan(x, y) if z ~= 0 or d2 > 20 then return EMPTY end if d2 < 11 then return
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by mayoff 1y ago
Have you heard of CTE? https://www.bu.edu/articles/2017/cte-former-nfl-players/
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by mayoff 1y ago
When I think about HP as a software & services company, I think about the times I booked Disney vacations in the 2010s. The Disney web site for managing your reservations, looking at park attraction wait times, etc., was usually painful
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by mayoff 1y ago
The state preservation API wasn't added until iOS 6.0 in 2012. https://developer.apple.com/documentation/uikit/uiviewcontro...
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by mayoff 1y ago
ha ha oops I got confused
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by mayoff 1y ago
(this comment was off topic, sorry)
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by mayoff 1y ago
This is a copy of an infamous comment about the then-new Dropbox: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
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by mayoff 1y ago
The data and address registers of the 68000 were 32 bits wide.
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by mayoff 1y ago
Lots of older Mac Steam games support 64-bit but show the incompatibility warning in the store anyway. It’s annoying but with Steam’s return policy it’s not a real risk to test such games.
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by mayoff 1y ago
I use CrossOver to play lighter-spec games on my Mac, like Animal Well, Loco Motive, Ori, UFO 50, and The Outer Wilds. I also have a gaming PC but I pretty much only use it for more demanding or super latency-sensitive games like Overwatch
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by mayoff 1y ago
You could check out OpenCombine or CombineX. https://github.com/OpenCombine/OpenCombine https://github.com/cx-org/CombineX
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by mayoff 2y ago
Swift allows an enum to be marked `@frozen`, which is an API (and ABI) stability guarantee that the enum will never gain more cases. Apple uses this quite sparingly in their APIs. Swift also has two versions of a `default` case in switch st
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Designing type inference for high quality type errors(blog.polybdenum.com)
1 points by mayoff 2y ago|0 comments
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by mayoff 2y ago
Swift does that. https://github.com/swiftlang/swift-evolution/blob/main/propo...
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Moida Mansion by Lucas Pope(dukope.itch.io)
2 points by mayoff 2y ago|0 comments
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by mayoff 2y ago
I'm puzzled why this is headlined as an alternative to Typora. I'm a happy, paying Typora (on macOS) customer. Looking at the linked page, I would never have guessed that IF is at all a Typora competitor. I love Typora because it

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