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by tredre3 1y ago
> In Rust we'd use `const` for this but in C you need to use the C pre-processor language instead to make constants, which is kinda wild. I get that you're not very familiar with C? Because in C we'd use const as well.
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by tredre3 1y ago
> so I suppose no disconnected operation) You're wrong about that point, it works offline just fine after activation. It's even stated in their FAQ. Of course it's possible for them to change that at any time.
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I tried ;) GIMP developers aren't very open to external contributions. I don't consider my attempts to be of low quality either, but the bike shedding resulted in them never being accepted. "It's best to wait until X lan
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People on HN also tend to use Apple hardware so it's no surprise that for them unmaintained software is dead software, because it will likely break 2 or 3 macOS versions from now.
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LibreOffice's best guess is that they had 200M MAUs in 2019. I personally find that hard to believe and they don't explain their methodology to arrive at that number (presumably they looked at the downloads and picked a number of
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by tredre3 1y ago
Kingsoft recently announced that WPS Office has 620M MAU users, the bulk of which is in China. Microsoft has even more Office users in China https://finance.yahoo.com/news/chinas-microsoft-office-rival... So if China h
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> because those libraries provide you with so much more functionality than just the UI. Comparing GPUI to Qt based only on what they offer gui-wise is fair, in my opinion. What QtCore provides is sugar over C++: the object model, the sig
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by tredre3 1y ago
Thankfully on Macos x and Windows, the file picker isn't provided by the UI toolkit (though they usually provide abstract methods of calling it, for convenience). Linux is now working towards that goal as well, in the form of XDG Deskt
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> You would want to GTK (or Qt) I would think to draw the top level window and perhaps system menus, etc. even though the UI itself is drawn using a GPU canvas. No, you would want to draw for Wayland or X. GTK and Qt themselves don'
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> * Minimum binary size is definitely not 20MB but less. In general your apps distribution size depends on which features of the toolkit you're using. In my experience that point is absolutely correct. Qt is good but big. You usua
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> Netbsd can run on any device possible and I really appreciate it. That's more of a meme than reality and I wish people would actually look into it before mindlessly repeating the trope. I did, when I wanted to run a new OS on a ni
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> fresh out of the package? No, but the episode proved that where you place the tooth brush in the bathroom doesn't really matter (ie next to the toilet or far away).
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> I don't think the extension is installed by people that wanna dislike, rather by people that wanna see the dislike count. Yes but the corollary is that the dislikes you see are an estimate extrapolated from dislikes from people wh
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by tredre3 1y ago
The number of shared hosting providers has drastically declined since the 2000s. I would posit that things like squarespace/hosted wordpress took the lion share, with the advent of $5-10 VPS filling the remaining niches. The remaining
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by tredre3 1y ago
I also got caught on how GP said Season 5 which would have been from the 60s, not the 2000s. But apparently it is correct (unless you want to be pedantic about the choice of word Series/Season). The listing of seasons on Wikipedia goes
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by tredre3 1y ago
Uh I didn't realize that Disney was involved in production, I thought they were merely distributors. But yeah, since 2023 Disney has been co-producing. It certainly explains some of the choices, but I don't know if they can be ent
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by tredre3 1y ago
At these salary levels it might very well be closer to 25%, there's only so much fancy health insurance and 401k matching and other tax/fees you have to cover as an employer. At a more "normal" salary the 1.5-2x figure i
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by tredre3 1y ago
> This is exactly as illuminating as a neurotypical arguing whether Tylenol or vaccines cause more Autism. The author’s only skin in the game is being provocative. Are you suggesting that only people afflicted with a condition should hav
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by tredre3 1y ago
Psychology (and psychiatry) is good enough at finding patterns in the symptoms patients go through, and grouping them into so-called disorders. It's not perfect, but it's a useful tool. What they are not good at is all the rest: e
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The video is definitely more interesting than 28 fps but it's also not really 2B fps. It captures two billion pixels per second. Essentially he captures the same scene several times (presumably 921,600 times to form a full 720 picture)
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by tredre3 1y ago
If you're worried that this is going to prevent you from peeking and poking, I think you're mistaken. This is to protect a process against itself, not the outside. It will also likely be a single bit flip away of being unenforced
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by tredre3 1y ago
I could get onboard with your theory that Epipens are overused (or at least over prescribed). But I really don't agree that when someone can't breath we should "wait and see because it's the body trying to save itself&qu
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by tredre3 1y ago
Their style of intensity and overacting do have some overlap. They've also both demonstrated that, when they care, they can be excellent and nuanced actors. But Cage's intensity often comes up as kind of funny or endearing. Leto&#
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by tredre3 1y ago
> Vaccines contain tiny amounts of aluminum that are comparable to what infants ingest through breast milk or formula. During the first six months of life, babies receive about four milligrams of aluminum from vaccines, 10 milligrams fro
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by tredre3 1y ago
I was very hopeful for ntfs3, but unfortunately I think it was doomed from the start because of the ill blood built during the initial "code donation" regarding code quality, egos, and general stability. Ntfsplus looks very promis
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by tredre3 1y ago
> As hypothetically someone who is responsible for my site staying up, I would much rather blame AWS than myself. That's a very human sentiment, and I share it. That's why I don't swap my car wheels myself, I don't w
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> But it makes me wonder, is sysadmin a lost art? Yes. 15-20 years ago when I was still working on network-adjacent stuff I witnessed the shift to the devops movement. To be clear, the fact that devops don't plan for AWS failures is
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by tredre3 1y ago
In theory you can do the same with Signal, as they source dump their server code every now and then. If you reject that on the basis of "we can't know if it's what they're running" or "it's a partial dump&
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Their choice is actually Swift and by the time there's a stable release all the C++ code is intended to have been replaced. Time will tell if that will be a big problem or if more mainstream ways of doing things are better for a proj
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by tredre3 1y ago
Programmers have been manufacturing sloppy and dangerous code since the dawn of the computer. It's actually nice to see those unscrupulous types losing their jobs to AI.

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