nirvdrum

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   by nirvdrum 5y ago

   How did you handle differences in macOS/Windows and Linux? The last team I was on that tried to do all local development in Docker kept running into breakages. To allow the devs to use whatever editor or IDE they wanted, the source cod
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   by nirvdrum 5y ago

   "Axiom Verge" comes to mind. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axiom_Verge
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   by nirvdrum 5y ago

   Oh, nifty. I tried getting it going with msys2 and didn't have good luck. I think something might be conflicting. I haven't gotten to the point of wiping the machine yet. Maybe I'll have better luck with meson.
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   by nirvdrum 5y ago

   Thanks. I'll try running through that. relm4 links to https://www.gtk.org/docs/installations/windows/ and I followed those steps without success.
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   by nirvdrum 5y ago

   Thanks. I'll take a look. I've tried Relm 3, Relm 4, and gtk-rs, but they all use Linux only in their CI. I just can't work out what to install and what env vars I need. I didn't the official GTK docs all that helpful on
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   by nirvdrum 5y ago

   GTK and Rust works really well on Linux, which I suppose is the pertinent part given the focus of the article. I've yet to work out how to get GTK and Rust to work on macOS or Windows, which makes cross-platform UI difficult.
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   by nirvdrum 5y ago

   Isn't that true of cloud providers, too? I'll use AWS as an example because that's where I have the most experience. There's a dizzying number of services, some of which have a high degree of overlap. Someone needs to un
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   by nirvdrum 5y ago

   > Why shouldn’t string literals be allowed to contain complex emoji? I didn't say they shouldn't, just that many do not and you know that at parse time. > Why should identifiers disallow them? I don't write the language
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   by nirvdrum 5y ago

   I see this mentioned periodically in discussions about UTF-8 and it just doesn't seem to match reality. Very often you can be certain you're not operating with multi-codepoint grapheme clusters. Whether through string literals, co
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    by nirvdrum 5y ago

    I've got one and my family still has a blast playing it. Aesthetics are obviously personal. I won't say it's the nicest looking fixture in my living room, but I also think the PS5 looks ridiculous. Its name was probably Ninte
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    by nirvdrum 5y ago

    I was really hoping for some sort of backwards compatibility. Nintendo had been doing that with their handheld for the past couple of generations. The dual screen would have had to have dealt with, naturally. But the 3DS has an amazing libr
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    by nirvdrum 5y ago

    A surprisingly large number of first party Switch titles were on the Wii U first and didn't drive sales. It's amazing how much marketing and even the product name help. I think Nintendo made the right call to delay BotW on Wii U f
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    by nirvdrum 5y ago

    Apple's insistence on setting the terms of the sale is also problematic and all the more reason to support another store. I absolutely loathe IAP. The last thing I want to do is download an app and guess what parts are going to get unl
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    by nirvdrum 5y ago

    I think it was pretty evident that computers were going to continue to get smaller, handheld, wearable, what have you. Apple didn't invent the space, they just made the product that got people to adopt the new form factor en masse. Tha
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    by nirvdrum 5y ago

    We'll have to agree to disagree. This ad to me looked just like the "Mac VS PC" ads, where Apple wanted to convey to you that their personal computers weren't "PCs", but something else, something better. But, t
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    by nirvdrum 5y ago

    I cited one campaign that very clearly answers the question posed. It was not incumbent on me to go through all of their campaigns and conferences and earnings calls and whatever else. Although, this campaign was hardly the first time Apple
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    by nirvdrum 5y ago

    Apple ran an ad campaign with the message "Your next computer is not a computer": https://youtu.be/awTP7IUY3uo
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    by nirvdrum 5y ago

    I think that's probably true in the SaaS world. I'm seeing the same mentality take hold in the open source world with "opinionated" or "curated" software. Tools that have limited options or actively remove opti
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    by nirvdrum 5y ago

    These are all valid concerns, but UX is purportedly concerned with serving the user. Reducing expenses is a competing concern. Together, they influence the design, but I don't think it follows that removing options leads to a better us
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    by nirvdrum 5y ago

    The point or question I was raising was specifically about UX. Design, which includes UX, isn't done in a vacuum. There's many competing interests and environmental considerations that ultimately influence a product. Norman spends
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    by nirvdrum 5y ago

    I'm not a designer, but I have done a fair bit with HCI for whatever that's worth. I recently read "The Design of Everyday Things", which I understood to be a seminal text in the UX world. In it, Norman argues that no on
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    by nirvdrum 5y ago

    I'm curious how you completely eliminated it. I've heard the claim from others, but it hasn't matched my experience at several companies over the past 13 years (the first place I worked at using AWS was in 2009). While cloud
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    by nirvdrum 5y ago

    I'm sorry if not clear, but I was asking about the WebDriver spec [1]. The terminology gets confusing because WebDriver was a tool that then merged with Selenium and Selenium implemented the WebDriver wire protocol. If Playwright isn&#
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    by nirvdrum 5y ago

    I've been out of this space for a while, but isn't WebDriver the only cross-browser spec for browser automation? The last I knew, the browser vendors were removing other automation hooks for security reasons and heavily influenced
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    by nirvdrum 5y ago

    I'm not sure what's unfair about the comparison. No other 1080p source I've tried has this problem. OTA TV, HDHomeRun, Plex, Hulu, Disney+, Amazon, Apple TV+, Vudu, HBO Now -> Max, video game consoles, Blu-ray, and some ot
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    by nirvdrum 5y ago

    Fortunately, Netflix is the only service exhibiting this issue. Blu-rays look great in 1080p and UHD. Other streaming services look good as well. I've also tried Netflix on multiple devices connected to the TV. In all cases, the Netfli
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    by nirvdrum 5y ago

    OLEDs can display true black whereas standard LCDs cannot. If the black regions are compressed and blacks become something close to black, but not quite, it looks bad on an OLED as that region is illuminated. Netflix appears to compress bla
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    by nirvdrum 5y ago

    I dropped Netflix about a year ago in no small part because any show with dark scenes (e.g., "Stranger Things") look like a blocky mess in HD. For a while, I thought somehow my network was at fault, but I don't have the issue
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    by nirvdrum 5y ago

    Wired had an article about this a year or so back [0] that said shows get more expensive after the first two seasons, so Netflix is inclined to kill them in favor of new shows. It also said viewership during that initial window also heavily
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    by nirvdrum 5y ago

    Two years is about the length of time required for me to consider a show on Netflix. They kill a lot of shows after two seasons. I don't want to invest the time in a storyline that Netflix is going to axe without a natural conclusion.