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by rossy 12y ago
Well, it's concerning that this is used to pass security related flags (-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE,) and it appears to have been open since 2012. I didn't think use of CPPFLAGS was that obscure, though I guess it has an unfortunately confu
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by rossy 12y ago
When you convert audio from a lossy format to a lossy format (from YouTube's native AAC streams to MP3,) you always end up with worse quality than the original, regardless of the encoding settings. Since pretty much everything can play
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by rossy 12y ago
IIRC --ytdl-format is passed directly to youtube-dl -f, but all other options have to be set in youtube-dl's config file.
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by rossy 12y ago
The bit that invokes youtube-dl is a Lua plugin. It checks if the URL starts with http:// or https:// , and if so, invokes youtube-dl -J on the command line to dump JSON information about the video.
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by rossy 12y ago
I think quvi might be dead. mpv-git actually dropped libquvi a little while back because it was buggy and development was inactive. It's been replaced with a youtube-dl based downloader, so in mpv-git, this would invoke youtube-dl to g
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by rossy 12y ago
Because it interprets video IDs that start with a dash as short options? This should be better: youtube-dl -x --audio-format mp3 -- -fCtvurGDD8
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by rossy 12y ago
The problem is, only one person has to figure out how to build it, then if it's real free and open source software, they're legally allowed to distribute their own unofficial builds over the internet. The original XChat developer
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by rossy 12y ago
Nope, the UI got an update too. It renders at high-DPI on Windows. Chrome on a high-DPI machine looks exactly the same as on a low-DPI machine, except sharper. It used to be plagued with issues, but I'm fairly sure they're all gon
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by rossy 12y ago
They're mathematical symbols. I guess they're for situations where, say, a double-struck letter has a different meaning to the regular letter. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_Alphanumeric_Symbo...
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by rossy 12y ago
> if you are on a high DPI display, chrome just looks awful I'm fairly sure this is no longer the case. Chrome is high-DPI aware on Windows now, and it uses DirectWrite for font rendering, the same as IE. It just can't display
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by rossy 12y ago
I wish this worked on Windows/Chrome, or I knew why it didn't work so I could star the issue on their bug tracker.
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by rossy 12y ago
Probably not. From the looks of it, GoW is just a mashup of MSYS and MinGW compiled binaries, much like msysGit except without Git.
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by rossy 12y ago
The problem isn't with disk IO as much as it's with speed of the stat() syscall. IIRC Cygwin stat() is backed by three different NT syscalls, so it's slow because it requires three transitions to kernel mode, where Linux only
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by rossy 12y ago
You shouldn't have to build SFML from source. The blog post says that CLion supports Cygwin and MinGW toolchains on Windows and SFML provides MinGW binaries, so you should be fine there. As I think the parent post was trying to explain
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by rossy 12y ago
This looks nice. From the layout of some of the menus, it seems like it was written by fans of OllyDbg, maybe because OllyDbg still has no 64-bit support. OllyDbg is great, so hopefully I can get some use out of this tool as well.
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by rossy 12y ago
This is true. I've been using it for a while, but it's great to see it switched on by default. Hopefully more designers will be able to use web fonts without having to worry about how it looks in Chrome/Windows (probably the
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by rossy 12y ago
This is great. Finally web fonts and icon fonts don't look terrible on Windows/Chrome. I'm using Chrome Canary to test, and you can really see the difference on Google Fonts and the Font Awesome homepage. GDI with ClearType o
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by rossy 12y ago
Linux kernel uses tabs. I'm a fan of kernel-style, so I use it in my personal projects as well. It seems common in C projects, anyway. https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/CodingStyle
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by rossy 12y ago
Windows has a number of native compilers: MSVC, MinGW GCC, Clang, icc, Pelles C, Embarcadero C++Builder etc. Nothing makes MSVC special, except that it happens to be from the same vendor as the operating system. MinGW GCC is free software,
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by rossy 12y ago
It's not an overly entitled way of thinking when it comes to a device I own that uses a data package I pay for. I don't actually run an ad blocker in my web browser, but on mobile, where screen size, battery life, and data usage c
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by rossy 12y ago
With a paid version of the app or an in-app purchase, sure. Sadly, some devs only have an ad-supported version. Apps that waste my screen space and download quota with ads just aren't worth it. Either the ads go (with AdAway) or the ap
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by rossy 12y ago
I wish I knew why so many Windows devs hate Cygwin. It has some pretty poor default settings, but you can change your .bashrc just like on Linux, or ditch the whole thing and use zsh instead, which works out of the box with oh-my-zsh (it lo
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by rossy 12y ago
Most operating systems and frameworks don't expose the concept of leap seconds to user code. For example, Unix time is the number of seconds since the epoch ignoring leap seconds, so a program that compares timestamps generated by time
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by rossy 12y ago
4chan's code (Yotsuba) has always been a closed source fork of Futaba, though there are several open source Futaba clones, like Kusaba X.
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by rossy 13y ago
The discussion in the comments is interesting. MinGW, the compiler for VLC, LibreOffice and most other FOSS projects on Windows does exactly what Raymond says not to do. In fact, the entire purpose of MinGW is to make GCC able to target msv
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by rossy 13y ago
I'm not seeing Something Ricked This Way Comes, which is definitely my all time favourite. It's present on IMDb, so I guess this site caches data.
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by rossy 13y ago
That's good to hear! I only guessed the missing parts were censored because a lot of them came after comments that implied the following code was security critical, like here: http://referencesource-beta.microsoft.com/#
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by rossy 13y ago
It looks like there are still big censored parts: http://referencesource-beta.microsoft.com/#PresentationFrame... One of the first things I had to do for my last job was subclass Window to support custom borders (Zune Playe
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by rossy 13y ago
C99 doesn't support function overloading. I guess that style is used by everything that wants to expose a C compatible API. Come to think of it, it might be possible to do that with C11 _Generic.
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by rossy 13y ago
And yet, FFmpeg couldn't really have been written in anything else. A 5% difference in performance could be the difference between a 1080p video decoding in real time on a low powered device like a phone or a netbook and the video deco

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