rkharsan64

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by rkharsan64 2y ago
> A few days later after the build is pushed to beta testers, you get a bug report that the game window can no longer be moved around. And then you realize that you just disabled the system’s ability to move the window around, because th
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by rkharsan64 2y ago
There's also this font that uses OpenType Contextual Alternates to create sparklines from text: https://aftertheflood.com/journal/the-worlds-first-code-free...
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by rkharsan64 2y ago
I agree that the completions might not be that great, but for context: this is a 100M model, while most models that people compare this to are atleast 100x bigger. They also focus on single line completions, and ship different models per pr
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by rkharsan64 2y ago
Just confirming if I understand this correctly: they went through a big chunk of existing code, and then made any internal symbols used in that corpus accessible via //go:linkname? I don't know why, but I (stupidly) assumed t
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by rkharsan64 2y ago
It seems like the right way to respect a user's privacy, but opt-in telemetry just doesn't work. I see the concerns as a user (and disable telemetry wherever I can), but at the same time if I were to add telemetry to my OSS projec
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by rkharsan64 2y ago
From the release notes [1], which I think this post should actually point to: > For backward compatibility, existing usages of //go:linkname found in a large open-source code corpus remain supported. Any new references to stand
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by rkharsan64 2y ago
I've seen an increasing number of projects with seemingly questionable Codes of Conduct or other similar guidelines. As an example, a few years ago I was interested in trying my hand at contributing to a FOSS project, and found P5.js w
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by rkharsan64 2y ago
One minor nitpick that irks me more than it probably should: in Gleam, 1 / 0 gives you 0.
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by rkharsan64 2y ago
I agree that this is a fun book/blog, but I would recommend anybody trying to learn Windows system programming to look elsewhere. This is more like a collection of fun bugs and weird design decisions.