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by slimsag 3y ago
still relevant today, but as someone who writes a lot of Zig code I haven't ever really encountered it in the wild. You definitely could, though, and it'd be wildly confusing. Luckily, the Zig core team has recognized it is an iss
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by slimsag 3y ago
Not true! Apps enable so much more, notification spam, access to contacts and wifi networks, data collection and privacy invasion.. SO much easier when it's an app! Also all those banks - if they just had a website they wouldn't b
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by slimsag 3y ago
Modern text shaping can even require executing a WASM binary in the font file[0] [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36652569
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by slimsag 3y ago
I tried PopOS! recently and nvidia GPU worked 100% fine out of the box, without doing anything.
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by slimsag 3y ago
Well, I'm not smart enough to know if it's hyperbolic but it's a pretty damning statement right there in the README. Certainly enough to turn me away from ever trying it on one of my machines.
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by slimsag 3y ago
> No. Not even questionable. If you have an NVIDIA GPU, You're on your own. Latest Valve updates for Steam client including normal and Jupiter bootstraps have broken gamepadui on NVIDIA GPUs, and if so, no support will be provided f
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by slimsag 3y ago
I think the problem with Threads is they bootstrapped its user-base and content from Instagram. As a result, it feels a lot more like 'Instagram with a Twitter UI' than it does old-school Twitter, where yes there was a global plat
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by slimsag 3y ago
a proportionate number of times to people leaving comments like this
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by slimsag 3y ago
Mastodon generally encourages users to host their own instance of it. https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/run-your-own/ Many people run theirs on a small VPS, raspberry pi, etc. and there are a number of 'paid
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by slimsag 3y ago
What he wrote was not just a devils advocate position. I encourage everyone to read it in full. Also his 'Horrors of SPIR-V' article a year later[0] which has this conclusion: > I had a chance to work with SPIR-V rather intimat
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by slimsag 3y ago
Loving bluesky so far, thanks for making it. Honestly it's the best competitor to Twitter I have seen so far, and after looking at the company / job listings and seeing how incredibly focused you are on the UI/UX aspects.. it
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by slimsag 3y ago
People keep spreading this incredibly misleading statement - god knows I do not like Apple's closed-source behavior, but at this point people are basically just spreading lies about the situation By all accounts, Apple's /onl
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by slimsag 3y ago
The parent comment downplayed the importance of mobile gaming/gambling. I simply rebutted.
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by slimsag 3y ago
Ads are harmful, no doubt, but I do not think they are more harmful than the normalization of gambling in our society. 'I watched an ad, and then [my entire life was destroyed]' is quite hard to imagine, unless it's an ad for
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by slimsag 3y ago
I find it interesting that companies are allowed to make statements like this: > “Despite decades of investigation and myriad epidemiological and laboratory studies, no scientist or doctor — whether or not affiliated with Syngenta — has
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by slimsag 3y ago
Thanks for the info, cool to know you can install that separately. My original point remains: out of the box, many Windows users find they have the 'latest drivers' for their graphics card, find that DirectX 12 is working fine on
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by slimsag 3y ago
In Windows 10 and above, windows update provides a default graphics driver for each IHV, which comes from the manufacturer, has DirectX support, but doesn't have Vulkan. Often nvidia users will try to debug it, and discover 'the
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by slimsag 3y ago
Or, you became aware of the most aggressive aspects of algorithmic curation, feel you are immune now, while not knowing the more subtle ways it has influenced your internalized thinking the past 5 years.
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by slimsag 3y ago
Beware on Windows, out-of-the-box Microsoft will ship e.g. nvidia drivers that have DirectX 12, but not Vulkan. This can lead to confusing user situations ('DirectX 12 games work fine.. but not Vulkan') and probably means DXVA wou
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by slimsag 3y ago
Formally verified C code, or WASM[0] [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38613031
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by slimsag 3y ago
Hasbro needed to, and failed to (imo), transition into selling higher-end luxury toys for adults with nostalgia - and focus less on kids. With the exception of DnD, everything else Hasbro-owned has failed to capture such an audience I think
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by slimsag 3y ago
We may see that the 'next generation' of 'better' programming languages (the next Swift, the next Rust, etc.) cannot easily/readily/practically become certified for government use, though, leading to less innov
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by slimsag 3y ago
Adding some more for other languages: * many GC'd languages like Go, C#, Java make it harder to leak memory, while languages where reference counting is more prevalent (Python, Rust) it can be easier to leak memory due to circular refe
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by slimsag 3y ago
Well, there are groups that want a government mandate for this, though. If you don't know, Consumer Reports is paid by groups interested in encouraging the government to apply regulations to certain areas. A bike helmet manufacturer ma
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by slimsag 3y ago
I think WASM has a problem which isn't really noticed/worked on yet (at least, that's my perspective) The WASM GC will be good, not because it's a GC, but because it would allow languages compiled to WASM to interoperate
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by slimsag 3y ago
Doesn't matter, I ask because the industry will (and is actively) trending towards this. It won't be Microsoft, it'll be whoever replaces Microsoft in the long term. My question remains: what will happen in that case and what
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by slimsag 3y ago
Huh? If people are having a technical discussion or architecture decision.. it seems totally reasonable for an EM to want to be involved and aware of what is going on. That's not weird. The best managers I've ever had are aware of
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by slimsag 3y ago
If Microsoft discontinues Windows and stops partnering with all personal PC manufacturers to produce computers/laptops... while simultaneously pushing the xbox as 'more than a gaming console', introducing 'portable xbox&
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by slimsag 3y ago
My understanding is all modern screenreaders (NVDA, JAWS, VoiceOver, etc.) handle JS websites perfectly fine and modern accessibility standards in JS are much more than box-ticking. I'm a fan of simple HTML, too-but I don't believ
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by slimsag 3y ago
Agreed - and just to drive home a point you touched on: the foundation of SemVer is an arbitrarily defined 'public API'. Imagine a project which consists of a library, a CLI tool, and perhaps a GUI. * Is the library API part of th

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