sirwhinesalot

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by sirwhinesalot 10mo ago
Yeah something like that, though built-in to the compiler.
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by sirwhinesalot 10mo ago
You misunderstood my comment. GNU local function syntax , C++ [&] lambda behavior (i.e., a hidden struct).
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by sirwhinesalot 10mo ago
I think local functions (like the GNU extension) that behave like C++ byref(&) capturing lambdas makes the most sense for C. You can call the local functions directly and get the benefits of the specialized code. There's no way to
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by sirwhinesalot 11mo ago
Yes, sorry, I meant single parent. I don't mean to fight against the idea that income is correlated to the problem, just that "lack of male role models" cannot be reduced to income inequality.
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by sirwhinesalot 11mo ago
A lot of the lower income kids are from single parent homes (which is why they can't cross the $100.000 threshold), those will obviously have less access to a male role model. If you correct for that the numbers would likely get close
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by sirwhinesalot 11mo ago
Yes lower income boys are hit way harder, but it's not like the issue disappears at the higher end. > 72 percent of boys from households earning $100,000 or more reported having a male mentor for schoolwork. > A similar trend app
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by sirwhinesalot 11mo ago
It somewhat makes sense if you think of it in terms of a really complicated 1.5GB metaprogram with a huge pile of conditionals that are triggered by the programs it itself writes (proteins). The final you is made up of an incomprehensible h
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by sirwhinesalot 11mo ago
It's not "chosen". It is evolution. Your DNA has the metaprogram that sets up all the programs in your brain. Most of them are learning programs but you also have hardcoded programs on how to perform your bodily functions, ho
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by sirwhinesalot 11mo ago
Yeah, Tauri is better in that regard. My point is if the comparison is with WinUI, you might as well use Electron.
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by sirwhinesalot 11mo ago
To be fair WinUI3 is particularly bad. If you're forced to install a 100MB runtime anyway, might as well make that runtime be a browser.
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Transaction-Oriented Programming(btmc.substack.com)
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by sirwhinesalot 11mo ago
KDE is really great. If only they could be consistent with spacings and font sizes hahaha.
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by sirwhinesalot 11mo ago
Windows Explorer still respects the color-scheme preference but the problem is the way it does it. When you as a dev use a Windows provided control (be it a button, a toolbar, a context menu, etc.) the system grabs the theme information fro
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by sirwhinesalot 11mo ago
I like to joke that we already had dark mode on Window 95. It didn't work super well with black colored icons but you could always just tone down how dark you made it. We also had pseudo-dark mode themes for Windows XP. But the new dar
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by sirwhinesalot 11mo ago
Yup, though I wouldn't even say they "fixed it" with XAML islands since they lock you into .NET core 3... They also keep doing boneheaded decisions like the new DWriteCore, which is a reimplementation of DirectWrite, and some
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by sirwhinesalot 11mo ago
Are you speaking as a user? I'm speaking as a dev. Of the applications you mentioned only a couple actually use the Win32 controls (like Notepad++) and they custom render them to get dark mode. That's a lot of extra work they had
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by sirwhinesalot 11mo ago
Of course it does, those APIs don't work well together. It's a pain in the ass to use the features only available in the new APIs on old applications. Microsoft has put some effort into making it work but it's still hugely
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by sirwhinesalot 11mo ago
Stable is the wrong way to view it. Frozen is the right way to view it. You have a graveyard of frozen APIs you can use, with new features only available on the later ones.
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by sirwhinesalot 11mo ago
It's not wrong nor misleading at all. Win32 doesn't even support dark mode properly because it's effectively "deprecated" like all the others in the graveyard. Who cares if they keep working if the only way to get d
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by sirwhinesalot 11mo ago
You're absolutely right that the issue is the coordination cost. It's not about the number of resources but just the fact that you need those resources to coordinate, slowing everything down. Not a problem in waterfall, since you
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by sirwhinesalot 11mo ago
Everything you say is using WPF is not actually using WPF, other than Visual Studio.
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by sirwhinesalot 1y ago
Yup, you get it. I wonder if cultural differences might play a role. I'm not from the USA, maybe this way of communicating is perfectly normal there and the rest of the word is just utterly baffled by it? Where I'm from this is ho
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by sirwhinesalot 1y ago
"I'm sorry you feel that way" is a canned non-apology, worse than a canned apology. At least a canned apology admits fault. I wouldn't want to get into a call with someone with that attitude. If I'm quitting because
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by sirwhinesalot 1y ago
I'm not sure why I clicked on this beyond just knowing it was going to be another Mozilla trainwreck and not being able to look away. But what was truly stunning to me was this comment thread. There are people here actually defending t
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by sirwhinesalot 1y ago
> The truly amazing thing is that reasoning models show ANY improvement at all compared to non-reasoning models, when they're the same exact thing. It's because they do more compute. The more tokens "spent" the better
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by sirwhinesalot 1y ago
I actively avoid boardgames with overly long setup times. There's no reason to spend more time prepping than playing if you can play something else with better prep time instead. Time is in limited supply as an adult. If a game needs a
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by sirwhinesalot 1y ago
> Most people don't even play with a grid and figurines (at least traditionally). This is simply not true. If you want to play a pure roleplaying game, play a rules-light one. DnD is not that. Everyone homebrews little bits so I&#x2
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by sirwhinesalot 1y ago
It's a horrible experience. I can only suggest you try out TTRPGs that don't need this. I haven't tried it yet but Daggerheart seems to avoid the problem by providing spell cards. You can do the same in DnD and I suggest do
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by sirwhinesalot 1y ago
It 100% counts. As a somewhat irregular DM, DnD is a very poorly designed game. Using digital tools as a DM for any sort of TTRPG is justifiable for the same reasons we use computers instead of books. But the real problem is that players ne
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by sirwhinesalot 1y ago
I think this is a neat product but not one I have any interest in. I play board games in part to avoid the digital world. If a board game needs a computer to handle the rules, then it is a needlessly complicated board game.

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