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by trympet 3y ago
Good analysis. > 5. Hardware accelerated GUI initiation vs 'dump everything to frame buffer in kernel GUI32 library' Even on my fast workstation, this seems to account for most of the percieved startup latency in modern, well-w
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by trympet 3y ago
What's so bad about Scala? I've only used it for hobby projects myself.
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by trympet 3y ago
The Postgres query optimizer is more powerful than the MySQL query optimizers [1]. It generally scales better for OLTP. Also tons of extensions that can accelerate your workload. [1] - https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document&#x
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by trympet 3y ago
This is false. Here are technical docs on how the TPM is used: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/informati...
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by trympet 3y ago
Is that directly relevant to the consumer? The M1 architecture seems to be fairly sustainable. Intel, not so much.
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by trympet 3y ago
YMMV, but I found the macOS app store way more picky than the MS Store. Denying my submission for using the term 'Exit' instead of 'Quit' rubs me the wrong way.
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by trympet 3y ago
No clue, however, they've made it relatively seamless to publish and download from there. You can also use winget [1] to download signed apps from the store. End users don't need an MSA. [1] - https://learn.microsoft.co
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by trympet 3y ago
They do most of this -- albeit without support -- through the store if that's a viable distribution channel for you. You can actually get support, but be prepared to pay big $$$.
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by trympet 4y ago
This has been a major pain point for me as well, especially related to developer documentation. Recently switched to Bing, and it seems to be handling my queries better.
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by trympet 4y ago
> lock down of PC software to the Microsoft app store, probably roughly at the same time apple also tightens a lock down on macOS Nothing is locked down. UWP and win32 are funcionally equivalent with sparse registration. If you decide to
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by trympet 4y ago
According to MSFT [1], its a "multiyear, multibillion dollar investment", not an acquisition. Do they have an exclusivity deal? [1] - https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2023/01/23/microsoftandopen
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by trympet 4y ago
I made a simple app for tracking stock prices on your desktop: www.stockdesktopwidget.com
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by trympet 4y ago
- Sonarqube - Github Actions agent for Linux - Tons of Elasticsearch (6x) - NVR software - Haproxy (2x) - Scvmm - Unifi controller - Sonarr, Radarr, Jackett, Transmission, Ombi - Nextcloud - Nginx for work stuff (2x) - Plex - Various Window
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Asynchronous Everything (2015)(joeduffyblog.com)
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by trympet 4y ago
Question: why can you not separate the different graphics tiers as optional addons? That way, I only have to download high resolution textures if my PC can actually handle them. Edit: never mind. Saw this being discussed elsewhere in this t