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by tayistay 3y ago
Admittedly I missed that assumption in cutting to the meat of the article. However, does WordPad or a spreadsheet really need to synthesize styling when the font doesn't have it? I just loaded a font without an italic style into TextEd
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by tayistay 3y ago
Was just quoting the author. But also it appears that Apple disagrees with you, since they seem to have turned off sub pixel AA five years ago in macOS Mojave. See [1]. Indeed when I screen-captured and scaled up the non-western script in t
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by tayistay 3y ago
No. You use the system fonts, which tend to be good
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by tayistay 3y ago
Text rendering doesn't hate you as much as article implies, AFAICT. 1. "Retina displays really don’t need [subpixel AA]" So eventually that hack will be needed less often. Apple has already disabled subpixel AA on macOS AFAIC
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by tayistay 3y ago
> Since GPUs are good at drawing 3D scenes, and since 3D scenes seem “more complicated” than 2D scenes, it may feel like a natural conclusion that GPUs should handle 2D trivially. They do not. While not trivial, nanovg shows that it can
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by tayistay 3y ago
Assuming equal productivity for the first four days of the week overlooks the duration of the previous weekend’s rest interval.
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by tayistay 3y ago
The point I was making here is to consider what was good about it, not the bad that everyone already knew about.
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by tayistay 3y ago
I didn't say it was perfect :)
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by tayistay 3y ago
I liked a much of classic macOS and the software. Maybe it's just childhood nostalgia, and perhaps it's also because I never had to really develop for it. When you installed an app, it usually just went in a folder. Sometimes it w
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by tayistay 3y ago
Thanks! There are a couple preview videos on the App Store and lots of stuff on YT: https://www.youtube.com/audulus
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by tayistay 3y ago
I'm currently using Lua as an extension language in my app [1]. Users can write their own custom UIs and DSP code. It's great how the Lua interpreter (and LuaJIT) allow you to provide your own memory allocator, so I can preallocat
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by tayistay 3y ago
On the page you linked, I see four lines of boilerplate in a constructor: function Account:new (o) o = o or {} -- create object if user does not provide one setmetatable(o, self) self.__index = self return o
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by tayistay 3y ago
3rd iteration of that joke on this thread.
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by tayistay 3y ago
> I'd much rather see a calculation of how many years of life are lost, an actually meaningful metric. It's only a google search away! Looks like the rich live about 10 years longer than the poor in the US. See https:/&#x
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by tayistay 3y ago
They're using Qt. All the Qt libraries are there inside the app's package on macOS.
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by tayistay 3y ago
Well, you wouldn't need to write whole new kernel/drivers/etc. to implement this design.
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by tayistay 3y ago
"Care for 9 cats, 10am" whoa
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by tayistay 4y ago
Well if you look at the other blog post titles, this person may have a bright future in the extremely creative field of self-help.
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by tayistay 4y ago
If you're doing a drawing app, then 120fps helps you keep the stroke close to the stylus. Even then it may lag a bit because of a few frames of GPU latency and you have to do predictive stroke points and then adjust your stroke later.
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by tayistay 4y ago
My rui library can render UIs at 120fps, uses similar SDF techniques (though uses a single shader for all rendering): https://github.com/audulus/rui Is their GPUI library open source?
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by tayistay 4y ago
What’s cool about the Redox design?
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by tayistay 4y ago
I think the jury is still out on whether rust is good or bad for UI. Once rust UI libraries are more mature we'll get a sense of it. There are some advantages of static typing, even for UI (see SwiftUI for example). I'll grant the
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by tayistay 4y ago
SO is mostly a mechanism for spreading unhappiness, secondarily it produces a searchable corpus of answers.
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by tayistay 4y ago
Historically, breaking up large companies has been good for innovation (AT&T for example) so I wouldn't assume a field of weaker American competitors, but I'll grant that perhaps social media has network effects that make for
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by tayistay 4y ago
Well, in response, the US govt could (in theory) break up YouTube into YouTube and YouTube India, thus freeing the US version from foreign influence. Perhaps this is another reason why companies shouldn't be allowed to get so big.
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by tayistay 4y ago
Well I was just throwing 8 out there as an example. How about other numbers of VM registers, or single argument operations?
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by tayistay 4y ago
Since I can't JIT on iOS, I was wondering about other ways to increase performance (beyond what the article mentions, I think). One issue is that the virtual registers don't map to CPU registers, but rather locations in memory. So
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by tayistay 4y ago
In some environments (iOS for example) JITting isn't allowed. (Or more precisely, marking pages as executable isn't allowed)
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by tayistay 4y ago
How does this garbage get to the front page? > In [the] 1960s, everyone worked. Yeah, the hippies were workin real hard.
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by tayistay 4y ago
Dunno where you got the 20% stat, but it’s totally wrong. From cancer.org: > The risk of lung cancer for people who smoke is many times higher than for people who don't smoke. The longer you smoke and the more packs a day you smoke,

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