stelonix

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by stelonix 6y ago
Recently I got fed up with C++ for good and have no interest in touching it anymore. There's just a sheer amount of complexity and lack of free (as in beer) tooling that has driven me mad these past years until I finally gave up last m
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by stelonix 6y ago
It's pretty obvious any why I look at it. The resemblances with MLM are staggering and the late-stage capitalism arguments for NFTs are baffling. It makes me see bitcoins and other cryptocurrencies as not so fun anymore and just a big
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by stelonix 6y ago
I'd rather HN not allow such comments and we try to make debate here better than on the rest of the internet.
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by stelonix 6y ago
Yeah I'm a big fan of Oil and hopefully in 10-20 years it'll be the standard language of shells. Also I did notice the spaces issues when attempting shell but it was only from reading your post sometime ago that I found out it was
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by stelonix 6y ago
I believe what puts people off shell (myself included) are the various arcane caveats (eg. spaces after or before operators) and little language quirks. It does not seem intuitive and since there are better alternatives like Python, I won&#
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by stelonix 6y ago
It is not impossible to add a new version of the protocol while maintaining backwards compatibility. Applications are Turing machines and there is no such a thing as "impossible". Having a bc path for old connection requests while
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by stelonix 6y ago
Wish I had seen that post of yours then. In short, X11 devs no longer wanted to maintain a huge codebase and decided to restart from scratch, thus, Wayland was born. The recent push toward Wayland adoption and "X IS DEAD LOL" beha
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by stelonix 6y ago
Fake input under X11 (XTEST) is marked as fake input and any application receiving such events can choose to ignore it. Wine does it, for example.
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by stelonix 6y ago
Yes, especially since X11 code isn't badly written. It gives me the feeling X devs were fed up with a huge codebase and wanted to write something new and shiny, albeit with 10% of features, pushing the maintenance burden downstream. Th
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by stelonix 6y ago
I did feel your pain when my last CRT died 5 years ago, but I got myself a good enough LG LCD[0] and am quite happy with it. I can't notice any motion blur, which is what always drove me mad while using lesser LCDs and no need to move
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by stelonix 6y ago
I really hate how in the US you're not allowed to comment on being fired/leaving your employer. I wish workers' rights weren't so stuck in the 1930s over there...
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by stelonix 6y ago
Oh wow, I love Soldat! I used to play it a lot in the mid 2000s and even bought a license to get rid of the nagware and support the developer. Been dreaming of having access to the code for some 17 years now, this is great news!
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by stelonix 6y ago
As code ages, people lose interest in maintaining. When you begin coding an application, you're usually adding features and that's fun, but as time passes and the software reaches its goal, you're left with finding and fixing
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by stelonix 6y ago
Although I'm not the original commenter, direct cash payment isn't the only incentive for established media to protect established product. Let's not forget they're apps from different, rival countries.
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by stelonix 6y ago
Okay, maybe I'm missing something, but someone posted[0] that exact phrase #4 at the same time you posted it. What gives? PS: I agree with your points and am saddened the anti-China rhetoric has been flooding HN over the past years. I
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by stelonix 6y ago
I do agree that there's a spread of FUD regarding X11 and its code but I believe we can win this fight if we're interested in fixing X's shortcomings and making the leap to "x12" or whatever you wanna call it. Don&#
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by stelonix 6y ago
I'm not a Wayland user and do not plan to be. Instead, it is a criticism of the current abandonment of the Xorg project, which I toy with the code from time to time. I also do not use any DE and use X in the leanest way I can, and I st
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by stelonix 6y ago
_NET_WM_PID is optional, some clients do not set it and even then afaik the server doesn't do any sanity check and the client can set it to anything, making it inherently insecure. This is not good design. > What makes you think thi
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by stelonix 6y ago
This is an issue with X11 which I don't know exactly where it comes from and what causes it. Yes, it has to do with the async nature of it all and I agree it's stupid and it's a miracle the desktop even works. Over time, I&#x
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by stelonix 6y ago
Got any songs to share? It's the kind of music I listen to most of the time, specially while coding/working on my projetcs!
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by stelonix 6y ago
Am very interested! By looking at it on a glance, I'm wanting to write a mscx (Musescore) importer. I have a question though, that may have skipped my eyes: is there a way of setting a note's duration to less than a beat?
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by stelonix 6y ago
Exactly. Had the west not interfered, the USSR would recover from the 80s crisis. Instead, they took advantage of its shortcomings and managed to break up the union: Gorbachev is considered by many Russians a traitor, but he was not the onl
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by stelonix 6y ago
Most of the time with countries not directly aligned to the west, the preaching is for us to sell our strategic industries in name of liberalism and "economic openness", usually spreading lies and misinformation about the company&
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by stelonix 6y ago
It seems you have not read the post or you don't have experience with gdb or with Linux debuggers/ide combos. He's debugging zig, but his issues are with the ux and iirc he mentions few zig-specific bugs. I have been throug
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by stelonix 6y ago
I will have to disagree here. Visual Studio's C++ tools are fundamental for any C++ development beyond toy "hello world" and prototypes. I've been a Linux user for 8 years now and my biggest pain is the lack of a proper
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by stelonix 6y ago
At least for image search, I use a Firefox extension called Unpinterested. I'm very happy with my search results now. Note: I had to toggle an option to make it work only for image search, because it borked other Google results. I reme
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by stelonix 6y ago
When I read "15 year-old game written in D", I calculated 2020-15 in my head but I already knew this could only be Torus Trooper. What an amazing game, I only wish it had a few more features! It's also where I first learned a
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by stelonix 6y ago
Yes, we can[0]. For agroforests to work though, you need to change the mindset from demanding every fruit everytime of the year to something more in line with how crop cycles work. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agro
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by stelonix 6y ago
Why was this flagged?
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by stelonix 6y ago
Just wish there was a place like HN but with people who see the bullshit in imperialism. This is the place I come for rational discussion but when it comes to geopolitical issues, the globalist/western propaganda is rampant. Being from

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