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by twsted 6y ago
> C++ is not a very attractive language to write code in if there are viable alternatives, because it is objectively unpleasant and expensive to use From a current perspective I may agree, but in the ‘90 a number of programmers like me w
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A14X Bionic allegedly benchmarked days before Apple Silicon Mac event(appleinsider.com)
10 points by twsted 6y ago|3 comments
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by twsted 6y ago
I should still have the physical copy somewhere and also the BYTE issue
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by twsted 6y ago
> I'm not comparing it to apples's golden cage of course, they may have amazing pdf editing... Actually yes
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by twsted 6y ago
Couple of years older, but his experience matches mine completely. Even that Personal Computing issue.
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Svelte: Futuristic Web Development(m.youtube.com)
2 points by twsted 6y ago|0 comments
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by twsted 6y ago
Yes, thank you. So browsers normally optimize the first call, but are forced to update at the second one. As a related note, are you considering the content-visibility property for webkit?
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by twsted 6y ago
> And all browsers continue to have that same hazard that querying layout-dependent properties forces a synchronous style recalc and layout. Could you explain why? Is the following true even when the parent is already in the DOM? par
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by twsted 6y ago
But arr.foreach(elem => { ... }); is still always much slower than a for loop, having the callback call, isn't it?
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Rich Harris: Futuristic Web Development (Svelte)(m.youtube.com)
7 points by twsted 6y ago|0 comments
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by twsted 6y ago
Chris is a very nice guy and a super smart engineer. Why all these comments about Lex and his interviewing style and almost nothing about the technological aspects, like MLIR, LLVM or RISC-V?
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by twsted 6y ago
On macOS add the line net.inet.tcp.delayed_ack=0 to the file /etc/sysctl.conf (which doesn't initially exist).
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by twsted 6y ago
I love Firefox but my personal "fight-for-diversity" is carried on through the use of Safari, which I consider the best browser, at least on the Mac. On Linux I use Firefox. On Windows I would use Firefox.
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by twsted 6y ago
It does not support Drag & drop, is it right? I think the support is missing in Playwright. Are there any plans about this?
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by twsted 6y ago
Very dangerous position and self-defeating.
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by twsted 6y ago
"Hate" is not the right word here. Corporations tend to lose the original good feelings of their founders. On the other end, people is coming to recognize, more and more, the value of privacy. To understand that "I have nothi
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by twsted 6y ago
I would normally agree, but I trust both apenwarr and bradfitz. And Tailscale rocks.
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by twsted 6y ago
I don't like it.
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by twsted 6y ago
And for a non-IT person.
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by twsted 7y ago
And it's really interesting: see the HN effect!
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by twsted 7y ago
> Eventually I learned that POKE allows you to change values at specific memory addresses I remember, with my first TI99/4A home computer, reading tons of program listings and trying to port Vic 20, C64, Spectrum, etc programs to it
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by twsted 7y ago
Catalina is not annoying by my standards, at all.
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by twsted 7y ago
Normally when one said "the new Internet Explorer" he meant "the browser that was always recommended to use", "the browser that stopped innovation because it was almost the only one used".
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by twsted 7y ago
> It's been over 10 years since I last worked with C++ every day, and I'm nowhere near being a competent C++ programmer anymore. Part of that is because C++ has evolved, which is a very good thing. Part of it is because C++ is
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ARM-Ed Mac: We Have an Answer(mondaynote.com)
82 points by twsted 7y ago|138 comments
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by twsted 7y ago
> Anyway since svelte must be compiled i dont think it's good choice for something like mediawiki where you might have plugins and addons that want reuse core components and connect to each other in runtime. Compiled Svelte componen
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by twsted 7y ago
Yeah.. given my age, perhaps I'm quite relaxed about compilation times...
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by twsted 7y ago
It's perfect from a performance point of view. I own the last generation (so no scissor keyboard) and I work the whole day in VSCode with JS/TS, Python, Go, Rust, etc.
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by twsted 7y ago
I don’t know how they compare, but consider that in the north of Italy there is one of the most advanced health care system in the world.
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Solar generators to keep the lights on in these dark times(inputmag.com)
2 points by twsted 7y ago|0 comments

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