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by mhd 6y ago
What generation of GPU would you need to get any significant & supported benefit out of this, when completed? The discussion about the fallback seems to imply that some pretty rare feature is going to be used at least for some rendering
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by mhd 6y ago
Neat, thanks!
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by mhd 6y ago
Thanks, I'm a pretty heavy RSS user, mostly with regular desktop clients. Where my usage pattern is pretty much a single dump for everything and just quickly scrolling through the 100-200 updates/day, scanning some, reading others
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by mhd 6y ago
I've always saw it as IBM = rabid salesmen, Oracle = rabid lawyers.
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by mhd 6y ago
I have to admit that I'm not too excited about the default "ad copy". Are "business influencers" the target demographic?
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by mhd 6y ago
I'd like a general "follow people" app, where I get an easily navigable interface (i.e. not just a dump) of posts on twitter, facebook, hacker news...
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by mhd 6y ago
I mostly hear Alpine in the context of either embedded systems or tiny docker images. I'm not even that worried about the server, but one of the neat things about CentOS was that I could run the same or a related (Fedora) system on my
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by mhd 6y ago
My existential dread about this is worsened when I read suggestions that the best possible alternative is Oracle Linux...
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by mhd 6y ago
Given the company's track record with ExtJS and Delphi, not surprising to me in the least.
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by mhd 6y ago
Overuse of still-not-standardized decorators seems like "4 years ago", too. Just recently MobX moved away from them for that reason. Also "let main, footer" vs "var footer; var main;" doesn't make it look
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by mhd 6y ago
Thankfully not that common, it being basically good meat undeservedly put in vinegar for days… Yeah, the two hard things in IT strike once again.
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by mhd 6y ago
I did an experiment a few months ago where I just switched of font overrides and set my default font to Comic Sans, at a pretty large default size (and I tend to zoom in a lot, too). It actually was quite pleasant and readable, despite the
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by mhd 6y ago
It's interesting and a bit disappointing to me that there's no real current trend towards beginner-friendly (or "end-user"-friendly) programming. For a while we had some interesting candidates, like Processing, Rebol, or
524.
by mhd 6y ago
A convenient way to funnel people to my Black Cauldron geocities fan page.
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by mhd 6y ago
Note that a lot of the "shell"/AmigaDOS details were inherited from Tripos[1], along with BCPL to implement that (the BCPL that begat first B and then C at Bell Labs). IIRC, that was a temporary solution until they got their
526.
by mhd 6y ago
Too early today for me to write posts ;) "Year" first would be more the point where it gets confusing, as when you really start reading the details from a calendar, the year would be first, too. (When you're actually talking,
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by mhd 6y ago
Well, if everything were based on how it appears in a calender, you'd think that Americans would start their friggin dates with the month, too ;) In German I'd say that both two number dates (lit. "schedule a meeting for the
528.
by mhd 6y ago
Ooops, very bad typo, totally obscuring my whole point, I meant to say "enterprise apps". Where looking good wasn't a selling point.
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by mhd 6y ago
Java had the issue that it was hard to build a consumer desktop app, because Swing etc. were a bit removed from native (L&F, behavior etc.). Those didn't matter as much for desktop apps, which always looked gross. (The issue that t
530.
by mhd 6y ago
Sure, but where those the advanced environments that were cancelled by people hopping on the Linux/C/etc bandwagon? I don't think that the argument goes with more funding Little Smalltalk would've been our software savio
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by mhd 6y ago
What products in what time are we talking about here? Smalltalk environments often were priced where only enterprises could pay for them. What advanced product tried to compete on the hobbyist front, i.e. comparable to Turbo Pascal/D
532.
by mhd 6y ago
Yeah, I was really sad when my Clip Zip recently didn't come on (screen is totally glitched out), and I'm currently looking for a replacement for that, too. I've got this xDuoo X3 (bought it ages ago), which apparently has a
533.
by mhd 6y ago
> The tools are there, learn to use them Luke. That's the, excuse my Huttese, friggin' point. We had versions of those tools for ages. And once we even had high hopes of using them outside of a dev's context -- the aforeme
534.
by mhd 6y ago
It also seems to combine the worst of both platforms: Apps. Is there any OSDEV work that goes towards a more integrated, component-based architecture? As sad as it seems, Unix tools & pipes seems to be the most successful and enduring a
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by mhd 6y ago
Yeah, this might be bad for promoting the library, as many users might associate this with the old framework. On the other hand, churn in the JS developer landscape is high enough that many current developers don't remember Dojo, scrip
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by mhd 6y ago
This is a bit too late, but for future reader's reference: I meant "mass produced software", regarding its benefits. I highly doubt that Facebook's ad network is comparable with mass produced pharmaceuticals or refridger
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by mhd 6y ago
That's a whole bunch of items in one place. I don't disagree, to get better cooperation and efficiency in a group, languages and tooling have to adapt. That's part of my point, if what you're doing is the same, the langu
538.
by mhd 6y ago
What language _isn't_ trying to be Java these days? What the old jargon file described as "bondage and discipline lanugage" applies to all major programming environments now, as Java proved that you can actually commodify pro
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by mhd 6y ago
Even the people moving away from the regular web will most likely be switch-hitting. Using MegaGloboChromeWeb for all that stuff where you have to do it, but also trying separate approaches. Gemini might be one of them, for applications whe
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by mhd 6y ago
As soon as some rabid congress-person undermines OSHA. I think a lot of countries and/or trade unions have that pretty regulated, so it would be interesting to see how someone sitting in a far-off country would get the necessary permis

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