royjacobs

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by royjacobs 3y ago
It's consistently been impressive to me how thoughtful the Java language is being steered. Especially the explicit choice to NOT have an async keyword where other languages were all falling over themselves to add it, with all the compl
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by royjacobs 3y ago
As soon as the first person registers WinRAR I'm sure they'll let you know!
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by royjacobs 3y ago
Oh wow, I didn't realize notepad had that feature. Awesome!
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by royjacobs 3y ago
See also: https://groups.google.com/g/comp.os.msdos.djgpp/c/VD-mIK56h7...
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by royjacobs 3y ago
Through my three year old son I've discovered the concept of Fumikiri channels on YouTube in which railway crossing signs not only protect railway crossings, but have families, go to restaurants, etc. It's a subgenre of train vide
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by royjacobs 3y ago
I'm not sure language design should be a race to see who can add the most features, though. I prefer Java's more thoughtful approach to introducing new features.
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by royjacobs 3y ago
You might be thinking of the article written by Pascal of Cubic Team. I think the archive is called pasroto.zip and it explained why rotozoomer performance would tank when the texture was rotated by 90 degrees (since you're stepping in
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by royjacobs 3y ago
Counterpoint: why not?
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by royjacobs 3y ago
How optimized is the generated code? One of the benefits of using LLVM is the amazing set of optimization passes, after all. Will Onyx have to reimplement a lot of these optimizations?
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by royjacobs 3y ago
I was prepared to read the article and scoff at the author's misuse of std::fs. However, the article is a delightful succession of rabbit holes and mysteries. Well written and very interesting!
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by royjacobs 3y ago
Plug plug: I've written an assembler[0] for the 6502 (with full LSP and debugging support). It also supports the concept of unit tests whereby your program gets assembled and every test individually gets assembled and run, whereby you
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by royjacobs 3y ago
James Burke has a new Connections series up on Curiosity Stream, I'm looking forward to seeing it.
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by royjacobs 3y ago
Looks interesting, I wonder if the method of marking functions as 'having side effects' is going to be easy to make fool proof. For instance, I assume that in the example the random number generation is a side effect because it co
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by royjacobs 3y ago
It can function as a NAND gate, and anything can be built out of NAND gates. At that point it might be simpler to just use actual NAND gates though :)
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McKinsey: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)(youtube.com)
7 points by royjacobs 3y ago|0 comments
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by royjacobs 3y ago
I was part of the PC demoscene in that era (1997-2002) and it definitely was a super productive and exciting time. The transition to Windows wasn't necessarily a big deal, but the impact of 3d acceleration definitely was. In that perio
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by royjacobs 3y ago
Here in The Netherlands there's a recycling box next to my local (walking distance) convenience store. There are separate openings for cables, phones, chargers, etc. It works really well and it makes it effortless to toss in an unused
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by royjacobs 3y ago
This is true for the demoscene in general, as well. Not completely, thankfully, but it seems like that it is becoming even more niche than it already was.
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by royjacobs 3y ago
Would you rather he posted it to an open-source platform where everyone already agrees with him?
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by royjacobs 3y ago
This is pretty nice. I've written some tools for my own softsynth that revolved around parsing various DAW formats and having a standard format, even just to export to, would have been very nice to have.
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by royjacobs 3y ago
Meanwhile Microsoft dropped their major Windows update today too, enabling me to ungroup taskbar items. Put THAT in your Apple and smoke it!
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Go Manic for Mantic(popey.com)
1 points by royjacobs 3y ago|0 comments
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Compose Multiplatform 1.5.0 Release(blog.jetbrains.com)
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by royjacobs 3y ago
In a movie specifically about the person Oppenheimer, why would it be considered weird that it focuses mostly on him? I mean, the movie isn't about the broad topic of the nuclear arms race, it explicitly makes the choice not to sho
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by royjacobs 3y ago
Crytek started by recruiting people from the demoscene, somewhere in the early to mid 00s. Cevat Yerli did this himself, simply by shooting off some emails to whoever did some cool demos, I guess. I got contacted as well, but this was befor
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by royjacobs 3y ago
I'm fairly sure Italy would happily trade some pasta-based dish for unlimited hydroelectric energy.
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by royjacobs 3y ago
Well sure, there are a lot of different options. But I wanted to pick a toolkit where there were already a lot of UI components available and I would haven't to hand roll a lot of them manually. For instance, my UI contains a node grap
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by royjacobs 3y ago
Yes, but at that time Tauri did not have support for WebGPU on MacOS. Also, the Electron community is substantially larger and since this is mostly a personal project speed of development and easy access to community forums were more import
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by royjacobs 3y ago
I'm looking forward to seeing how this pans out. I've been working on some WGPU based rendering code the last year or so, and in lieu of any truly decent UI libraries on the Rust side (no offence to the existing players) I ended u
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by royjacobs 3y ago
Isn't that the grandparent's point though? Features that other languages have are first considered "not beneficial" and are in fact mocked as being useless or extravagant. Then, once said feature is introduced to one&#x2

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