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by mrec 8y ago
I think Conrod and other IMGUIs are intended more for games than for desktop apps.
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by mrec 8y ago
> we don't get this in Rust because of type inference Might be worth mentioning that (AFAIK) type inference is entirely optional in Rust. If you prefer to write explicit types on your decls that's fine. (I suspect there are p
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by mrec 8y ago
I was about to say "yeah, you should look at flohofwoe's Sokol stuff for an example of nested init", then saw the username :)
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by mrec 8y ago
It's not just about having less, it's also about paying more for less. Constant property ramping by the BBC back in the early 'oughts was the main reason I cut the cord and never looked back. They're about the only big
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by mrec 8y ago
Different question, no? This is about Browser vs Electron, not Browser/Electron vs Native.
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by mrec 8y ago
"Studying what Electron does for people ... What gives the app value over the web page?" I always assumed that the immediate benefit here wasn't to the user at all, it was to the developer who could be 100% sure what engine
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by mrec 8y ago
True, but in this case that requires stripping the DRM too.
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by mrec 8y ago
> use WASM outside the browser (I don't even know if that's a thing) Not mainstream, but absolutely a thing. There's people even looking at running it in Ring 0. https://github.com/nebulet/nebulet
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by mrec 8y ago
That doesn't make you weird, that makes you sane. You couldn't pay me to drink in bars like that.
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by mrec 8y ago
"Muddle-headed confusion" is harsh. I'd prefer something like "human intuition not being particularly reliable on questions it wasn't evolved for". If preserving a sense of profound mystery is your goal then...
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by mrec 8y ago
Yeah, when I said "somewhere else" I was kind of scoping it to this universe. I know, so small-minded. Note though that an infinite universe doesn't imply that everything imaginable occurs within it. There are an infinite n
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by mrec 8y ago
> there are many other options beyond just materialism and Cartesian dualism Can you give some examples of the kind of options you're thinking of? I mean, I have a lot of time for functionalist accounts, and given Sufficiently Sma
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by mrec 8y ago
I'm ashamed to realize that despite being well aware of Pathfinder, and of Mozilla's somewhat surprising pivot toward "mixed reality", this connection had never occurred to me.
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by mrec 8y ago
It's essentially an evolutionary explanation, so the problem domain is anything that increases reproductive fitness, yes.
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by mrec 8y ago
What does this mean? What's the "I" that's somehow separate from your specific physical instantiation? Unless you're getting into Cartesian dualism and souls, I'm genuinely confused.
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by mrec 8y ago
> Drug companies like names because they can develop drugs for specific disorders rather than for a combinatorially large number of factors Which then mysteriously only seem to work on a small fraction of people diagnosed with that dis
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by mrec 8y ago
That's an old and popular idea, but controversial in modern linguistics. See for example http://anglisztika.uni-eger.hu/public/uploads/orsi-2015_576c... which among other things points out that words like &qu
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by mrec 8y ago
It's not like bottled beer goes off, so unless you were planning to buy 2 bottles and then never buy beer ever again , I don't see the problem.
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by mrec 8y ago
> That's why (well one of the reasons anyway) the next generation of games like Doom originated on the PC and not on the Amiga. Well, for the specific example of Doom the Amiga's main problem was its planar graphics; great fo
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by mrec 8y ago
Kim Stanley Robinson's Pacific Edge (the last in his Orange County trilogy) springs to mind.
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by mrec 8y ago
I don't follow education policy so I'm not sure what you're referring to here, but I'd be curious to hear what you think the government's motivation is for "trying desperately" to do this. I mean, acciden
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by mrec 8y ago
I don't think I ever tried Edge - what advantages did it have?
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by mrec 8y ago
Agreed. I suspect a more useful distinction would be " ...can't match the performance of languages that facilitate stack allocation " - the main advantage comes from locality of reference rather than tighter heap management.
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by mrec 8y ago
How much of sans-serif's digital advantage was predicated on low-resolution displays compared to print? (Not a rhetorical question; I'm genuinely curious. What was true for NTSC-interlaced isn't necessarily true for 8K.)
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by mrec 8y ago
Previous discussion two months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18458908
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by mrec 8y ago
> FTA where the UK gets the better end of the deal FTAs aren't zero-sum. Free trade benefits both parties; neither needs to get a "better end".
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by mrec 8y ago
Donald Tusk has repeatedly offered "Canada +++" to Great Britain. (Not to the United Kingdom, as part of their "we're going to annex Northern Ireland as a punishment beating" approach.) > UK still needs to respe
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by mrec 8y ago
> Why is May being held responsible for this? In short, May has never taken a WTO ("no deal") exit seriously. Since she won't walk away she's had no leverage, so the EU predictably gave her the worst "deal&quot
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by mrec 8y ago
> they are trying to camouflage that reality with a bad deal They're not, May is, and May is not a Brexiter. The Brexiters generally are pushing to leave on WTO terms, not so much as a preferred end state but in recognition of t
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by mrec 8y ago
> and are the fattest people on the planet Not even close. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_body_mass...

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