qalmakka

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by qalmakka 2y ago
I am Italian and whenever I go to Spain I usually don't really need to speak English because the languages are close enough that you can go by by just knowing a handful of basic words (and the Spaniards I meet usually prefer it that wa
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by qalmakka 2y ago
I guess SerenityOS is somewhat doomed now? I never saw this kind of move ending well, honestly. Even when not involved, having the original around is always a great boon to the popularity of a project. I for one would love to see the Sereni
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by qalmakka 2y ago
> we weren't confident the old file system (HFS) would be easy to read from a modern system. AFAIK modern Linux is still able to properly read from HFS and HFS+. I mounted a MacOS 9 disk image just a few days ago.
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by qalmakka 2y ago
AFAIK all editors and IDEs I've ever used can open a random file in a new tab, even if it is outside of the repository.
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by qalmakka 2y ago
The IDE is literally a text editor. Why not hit file -> new file and write stuff in there?
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by qalmakka 2y ago
> We did a lot of work to modularize our codebase so maybe that is helping? Almost definitely the case. We have 100+ devs on a >1M legacy codebase with a lot of cross dependencies, and it's incredibly troublesome without a strict
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by qalmakka 2y ago
Sadly our codebase is full of legacy nonsense - which makes modularizing it a chore to say the least.
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by qalmakka 2y ago
> the impact is minimal. yes, I must admit it's not the end of the world, but it tends to add an extra layer of gotchas on top of our already crufty legacy codebase (millions of lines of code, >100 devs on 3 different platforms).
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by qalmakka 2y ago
Unreal's unity builds get very annoying as soon as your teams exceeds a handful of developers. You often have code that has builds fine on a machine but doesn't on another developer - it completely depends on what order the UBT pi
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by qalmakka 2y ago
This. The obsession for object oriented in the '00s has made immense, irreparable damage to an entire generation of developers. I have to fight every day to keep our codebase sane against new entries that are still following that cargo
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by qalmakka 2y ago
You usually don't need either for software development though, and if you do the free or online alternatives are often good enough for the rare occasions you need them. If you are a software developer and you have to spend significant
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by qalmakka 2y ago
Damn I forgot about explorer hanging when you put a CD in. That was especially terrible when you didn't have DMA
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by qalmakka 2y ago
This, exactly. As an embedded turned Unreal developer the first impression I had while using Unreal is how little concern for correctness there is overall. UB is used liberally, and there's clearly a larger focus on development speed a
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by qalmakka 3y ago
On this computer it has pretty bad framerate on Firefox, but it works great on Chrome (Linux)
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by qalmakka 3y ago
> One of the exceptional characteristics of the Super Nintendo was the ability for game cartridges (cart) to pack more than instructions and assets into ROM chips Wasn't this true even on other Nintendo consoles? Gameboy and Gameboy
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by qalmakka 3y ago
This exactly. It's hard to properly understand security, even for educated professionals. IMHO security features should be the default only if they are demonstrably correct or hard to misuse. Otherwise, the often wiser thing to do is t
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by qalmakka 3y ago
That sounds like a bonus to me?
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by qalmakka 3y ago
> I don't think it offered anything that wasn't already mostly available between Java and C# Well it is massively easier to integrate C and C++ libraries in Vala compared to C# or Java - P/Invoke is bearable, but JNI is a
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by qalmakka 3y ago
It's a bit unfair to compare Perl and Rust/Go, they are massively better languages with massively better tooling that fix an IMHO different problem. Perl is IMHO for glue code, text processing, and that's it. It is not for la
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by qalmakka 3y ago
> written in perl Perl scripts are surprisingly resilient. I have seen Python modules only a handful years old turning to garbage, and unmaintained Perl modules still working fine after > 20 years.
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by qalmakka 3y ago
Vala is a lovely yet criminally underused language. It does a lot of things right IMHO, and it massively simplifies writing GLib/GObject and GTK applications. It's nice to see more awareness around it, honestly.
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by qalmakka 3y ago
To be fair C# is vastly different in terms of semantics compared to C++. There's a lot of areas where it's not viable to use C#, and IMHO it also has its own share of legacy and bad decisions from its "Java clone" days t
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by qalmakka 3y ago
When my shell scripts get too large, I usually switch to Perl. Still best in class at handling text processing with a few shell commands here and there.
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by qalmakka 3y ago
Google has been acting even stupider than usual lately, but snubbing JXL goes beyond stupidity - it's clearly malicious, it must be, otherwise I really can't even fathom the rationale behind such a moronic decision may ever be.
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by qalmakka 3y ago
In my case it's because Canonical is once again going against the flow by adopting yet another in-house Ubuntu-specific solution that fragments community efforts and makes Linux less attractive to packagers. It's hard enough to ge
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by qalmakka 3y ago
> Inconsistent return statements Returning the wrong data type has been an error with Clang since the earliest days. Why does GCC still allow that?
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by qalmakka 3y ago
> Rust as we know it stops if this one particular web service goes down. True that, but that is only because we got used to not having to download dependencies manually (like with C). The option of "download all of your dependencies
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by qalmakka 3y ago
I got 8 GB of RAM with a ~€900 laptop back in 2012. 8 GB were a lot back then, but not an immense amount. How the heck does Apple justify selling 8 GB RAM laptops in 2023? My two years old phone has that amount of RAM. This is clearly a way
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by qalmakka 3y ago
printing (errc, strerror(errc)) instead of just `errc` would have costed them literally 0 seconds and would have helped a lot. Instead they removed everything but error codes and "Oops :(" I get better error messages from the firm
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by qalmakka 3y ago
> players have been encountering error “0x82d60002” OT: Microsoft should be banned by decree from showing naked error codes to people, I've been fighting them for decades now

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