samiv

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by samiv 1y ago
I expect the "death of the middle class" musician to be part of the same phenomenon that is sweeping through all our western societies. The hollowing out of the middle class, wealth distribution producing more unequal societies wh
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by samiv 1y ago
Since you mentioned Outlook.. at work we use Outlook 2019 and its exactly like you mention. The user interface is littered with useless crap, the File menu goes back to this weird completely new different UI layout etc etc. And the best par
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by samiv 1y ago
After having worked on my own (2D) game engine [1] for about 5 years now and having worked on related stuff for paid work I'd like to explain one thing that many people might not find so obvious. Engines are the easy part. The real mea
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by samiv 1y ago
After having embedded Lua in my game engine and having worked with some Lua games I've come to conclusion that: - Lua is great from the integrator/engine dev perspective. It's easy to embed and there are several libraries tha
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by samiv 1y ago
For the developer that knows what they're doing the installer is not absolutely necessary, you can just download the zip (or tar.gz) and extract the whole thing somewhere and go from there. The installer does provide some more advanced
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by samiv 1y ago
It's double licensed. The Qt Company offers both a commercial and LGPL license but they do their best to bury and hide the LGPL option and use dark patterns to try to trick one to get the commercial license. They also want to push you
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by samiv 1y ago
Cool.. I guess but I just wonder.. is writing the UIs in code an actual practice that people do these days? I program (mostly) in C++ using Qt for my UIs and I just use the Qt Designer to visually drag and drop to build my UIs and the actua
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by samiv 1y ago
Let's fix that right there. Capitalism is a concept, a tool to organize production in a society. It doesn't do anything by itself. And the capitalist didn't do any of those things. It was the social democracy that demanded an
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by samiv 1y ago
This is very much what professor Richard Wolff is saying. What you're witnessing down is the systemic failure and breakdown of a system (capitalism) that is completely out of control and ultimately starts to attack the very institution
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by samiv 1y ago
Not necessarily.. During the Great Depression the Americans did pull together and demanded from President Roosevelt a social reform. That was called the New Deal Coalition. This time though the fight will be much harder because even the dem
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by samiv 2y ago
He doesn't suggest that the economy is a zero sum game, but that the distribution of that wealth matters and in our societies we're increasingly distributing wealth unevenly so that tiny minority of people increasingly control and
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by samiv 2y ago
I think he understands that but when you have a situation where the real economy is growing only around 1% per year but rich people grow their wealth somewhere around 4-10% that can only come at someone else's expense. In other words w
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by samiv 2y ago
You know that when the public media and the elites start attacking him personally by attacking his credentials or his background or work history he's onto something. And this will happen because they cannot refute what he's sayin
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by samiv 2y ago
If it already hasn't been said I'd really recommend anyone interested in this topic to checkout "Gary's Economics" on YouTube. Even if you don't agree with him (and I know many don't for various reasons..)
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by samiv 2y ago
What's exactly wrong with Gary's economics? I'd say he does bring pretty convincing arguments to the table and his logic does make sense. if you take all the wealth and give it one group of people who don't put it back i
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by samiv 2y ago
Profit? You mean "enhanced security and user experience"? /s
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by samiv 2y ago
I have mad respect for Microsoft engineers for the compatibility work that they've done over the past decades. It is indeed superb that you can take even today an old Win32 executable and run it and it'll just work. But I expect t
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by samiv 2y ago
Yep, the technology is already there. Just a question of time before they flip the switch for good and force it down everyone's throat and call it "enhanced security and user experience".
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by samiv 2y ago
I'm also 100% convinced Microsoft will introduce mandatory code signing at some point and make it so that you can only ever install software from Windows Store. They are envious of the Google and Apple walled gardens/cashcows and
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by samiv 2y ago
Obviously if your business strategy is "build X but better" where X is some incumbent on the market you already failed. Because they have everything that you as a start-upper don't have.. money, resources, visibility, name re
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by samiv 2y ago
I don't think this is what lasagna means. Lasagna is when you have your software organized in layers. In other words instead of having a big ball of mud where A calls B calls C calls A calls C calls B you have layers (like in lasagna
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by samiv 2y ago
I've had the same issue in my engine. What I've found is that essentially WebAudio has such a terrible performance that the audio buffers need to be at minimum 100ms. And if you have a bad frame or any jank in your RAF is likely t
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by samiv 2y ago
I can only speak for myself but I took 4 times a year or more off. Three of those times I spent backpacking and traveling in Australia, NZ and South-East Asia, and I spent time doing something else such as fruit-picking and working as a Div
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by samiv 2y ago
Sure you can do this, but the point is that it's all manual and always will be because you get no help from the compiler. Compare in C++ where you can have higher level types and compiler helpfully provides features that let the pro
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by samiv 2y ago
The biggest problem with C is that doesn't even have enough features to help you build the features and abstractions you need and want. For example with C++ the language offers enough functionality that you can create abstractions at a
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by samiv 2y ago
I mean the time frame in which he took his party from nothing to the second biggest in the parliament and then got himself promoted from the party leader to Chancellor. Of course then the ultimate power was then seized rapidly as you say on
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by samiv 2y ago
I don't know if it's a co-incidence but this topic disappeared from the front page faster than you can say "front page"...
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by samiv 2y ago
It's worth to keep in mind that it took only about 2 years for this one guy from Austria to remove the final backstops the society had in place before until he was able to become the supreme leader in the 1930's. 2 years. What has
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by samiv 2y ago
And after every update there's something new that is broken. I suppose you mean "stable" as in "you can count on something always breaking".
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by samiv 2y ago
Oh, I thought it's still the early days considering that just the other day the whole system went into a death spiral where everything graphical slowly ground to a halt and then froze completely and I had to pull the power cord. Or con

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