qalmakka

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by qalmakka 3y ago
Exceptions are undoubtedly a mistake, because error handling is to important to untie errors completely from the code that generates them. That doesn't mean that stack unwinding doesn't have its uses. For instance I find very conv
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by qalmakka 3y ago
A "real" LaTeX IDE would be nice. I think not including full integration with LaTeX (which is clunky, full of gnarly to use tools, ...) would help a lot of people writing papers and other similar works.
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by qalmakka 3y ago
What's the point of stating that "it's made in Japan"? I just don't get it. Does it have improved IME or CJK support? It's not like Japan is famous for its quality software to be honest.
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by qalmakka 3y ago
I haven't said that. I've said they've brought safety to the masses.
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by qalmakka 3y ago
They had a TUI installer which was just a rebranded `bsdinstall` from FreeBSD. They got rid of it around ~2009 IIRC because it was objectively bad and they moved away from doing releases. Nowadays they've added a new installer, and as
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by qalmakka 3y ago
a. it never had a real corporate backer, until it was too late (and Rust already stole all of its mindshare) b. It had a garbage collector, which meant that realistically it could not replace C++. Or rather, it could but you basically had t
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by qalmakka 3y ago
A GC would have made Rust yet another Dlang, which is pointless because Dlang has existed for a way longer time.
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by qalmakka 3y ago
D (Dlang) checks 3 of those marks. If you like cursed things, Vala isn't that bad...
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by qalmakka 3y ago
The fact they've managed to bring safety to the masses without a GC is arguably the #1 reason for Rust's success. This has been a good move.
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by qalmakka 3y ago
In IPv6 you'd do exactly like you'd do with IPv4, by assigning ULAs (private, local addresses) to your machines from fc00::/7. With the (IMHO) big advantage that unless some madman has configured NAT66, the traffic over ULA w
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by qalmakka 3y ago
You got me before I corrected my comment :)
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by qalmakka 3y ago
I use `exa` (and now `eza`) because it provides a better experience than GNU `ls`, IMHO. Sure, I don't _need_ it, but it's nice. I don't see any downside, especially since I've aliased it to `ls` since time immemorial an
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by qalmakka 3y ago
jq is amazing, and I'd like it even more if it supported CBOR too. The forks are just too finicky and are quickly abandoned, and the format is basically binary JSON.
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by qalmakka 3y ago
Couldn't you just use sftp?
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by qalmakka 3y ago
Awk is fine and dandy but, like wity Sed, I think that it's almost always replaceable with Perl which is way nicer to use, and ubiquitous. Every OS (except Windows) I laid my hands on in the last 15 years has had Perl installed in eith
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by qalmakka 3y ago
These kinds of things have been a recurring trend since the mid '00s, I do remember people writing Windows-lookalikes in JS even back then. Every time a new one pops up I get this very nostalgic feeling for an era of computing that, sa
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by qalmakka 3y ago
> Apple supports If Apple supports something, it 99% of the time means they already have a way to exploit for it. They've been doing it for decades sadly, if Apple endorses regulation it almost always implies their bottom line won&#
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by qalmakka 3y ago
Teams on Linux is essentially abandonware. Just stick to the PWA with a Chromium-based browser and you'll notice it works a billion times better than however the "app" has ever done before
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by qalmakka 3y ago
Chrome doesn't have the flexibility and features I want, so it could be faster than light itself, I would still use Firefox nevertheless. The whole JPEG XL shenanigan together with their constant attempt to limit extensions are IMHO se
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by qalmakka 3y ago
(Well written) Electron apps have fully supported Wayland for a while now, without any issue. I've been using VSCode on Wayland (native) without a hitch for more than a year. Discord is more problematic due to them being a bunch of don
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C++/WinRT is now in maintenance mode(github.com)
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by qalmakka 3y ago
Well, back to Win32 and C I suppose
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by qalmakka 3y ago
Very interesting, I guess that legacy really is the root cause of everything. Do you have any links or such about the history of Unicode?
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by qalmakka 3y ago
Well, QEMU has no graphical acceleration for macOS (no virtio drivers for XNU and Quartz) so it's basically unusable - software rendering has been historically borked on macOS, and never well tested.
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by qalmakka 3y ago
You can, but only if you follow an hackintosh guide and spoof it with a "virgin" ID, it's tricky but doable.
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by qalmakka 3y ago
To be fair, that has never stopped people from using C and C++ all around the world... EDIT: and most languages made before 1990 too
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by qalmakka 3y ago
Yeah, Chinese characters radicals are not an alphabet per se, while Hangul has separate, standalone letters. It's literally a matter of composing them in a fixed way, compared to Chinese characters which tend to go bananas on how many
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by qalmakka 3y ago
I don't understand why the felt the need to add precomposed characters for Hangul. Why? Why couldn't they just let the system compose them instead?
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by qalmakka 3y ago
Glibc is a nasty piece of software full of nonstandard GNUisms that basically implements a separate standard. I've fought for years against the fact they've got functions that are not found in any other libc and have different beh
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by qalmakka 3y ago
If it were that easy - sadly everything that's in any way related to the way we communicate and we relate to the world. Just look at the kerfuffle about skin tones... Everything is political if you are looking for a reason to fight. La

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