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by zamalek 2y ago
I doubt that Wine would actually request it. Some compositors also have "tearing mode," which is basically as good: the game gets full control of the presentation timing, so vsync/tearing would be determined by what the game
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by zamalek 2y ago
We had the tech in the 80's for the browser to facilitate popup authentication with process isolation. It's this niche and esoteric tech called IPC[1], so niche that one really can't blame Apple for not hearing about it. It t
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by zamalek 2y ago
Right, in what sane world would the website determine operating system process semantics? What next, syscalls?
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by zamalek 2y ago
> It's copyright infringement by illegal broadcast. And I'd bet they would make a good attempt at fining you for each channel that you modulated for.
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by zamalek 2y ago
Let them them revvel in this glory IMO :), it's rare to see this kind of thing happen in the hardware space.
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by zamalek 2y ago
This is really unfortunate for the existing users, especially given their profound loyalty. However, more modern chips have all of this loaded in a bootloader of sorts (e.g. nRF softdevices), so the project could prevent the RF driver nonse
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by zamalek 2y ago
Wayland has support for games completely taking over the GPU; notoriously critical for VR support. This is basically the same as Windows exclusive full screen. Wine/proton would need to support it, XWayland would need to support it (Wi
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by zamalek 2y ago
PWD is does hot refer to the directory that file I am working on is in.
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by zamalek 2y ago
What I really want to see merged is the tokens in shell commands. dotnet is my day job, and the boilerplate (its luckily just namespace nowadays) gets repetitive and typo-prone. If I could just (approximately) `dotnet new class -o $cwd`...
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by zamalek 2y ago
> Getting memory from traditional allocators is expensive because freespace needs to be tracked. If you've never deallocated then there is no free space to track, hence the cost of allocation is _mostly_ (per my above comment) affec
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by zamalek 2y ago
> Traditional allocators are fast Really it's allocators in general. Allocations are perceived as expensive only because they are mostly dependent on the amortized cost of prior deallocations. As an extreme example, even GCs can be
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by zamalek 2y ago
How did cars enter the discussion?
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by zamalek 2y ago
Electric bicycles, however, are not.
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by zamalek 2y ago
The mortality rate for amazing ideas is higher in developing countries, for more reasons than incompetent or corrupt governments. For example, there are fewer networking opportunities by virtue of the network being small, or the poverty rat
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by zamalek 2y ago
I assume this is what they are talking about here: > Standard library: we aim to add first-class support for a variety of frequently used/needed commands as builtins. you no longer need external programs to use them. That's not
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by zamalek 2y ago
I assume that the questions (and answers) aren't published anywhere? Else it would be "Humanity's Last Exam before the previous crawl".
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by zamalek 2y ago
> Nowadays the best solution to this issue is "stop using this crate" with libraries like rustls. Nice to see that the author of the library has a sensible take. Unfortunately the ecosystem does not: https://github.c
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by zamalek 2y ago
In the early days of the project it was segfaulting during performance tests. That was a pretty hair-raising bit of information for me. Deno it is. That being said, all of these run times use a JS JIT that are written in a memory unsafe lan
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by zamalek 2y ago
I originally entered on an L1B and was affected by an acquisition layoff. I wasn't able to work until my EAD came through, which took forever due to a certain president who is currently back in power. The single employer limitation car
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by zamalek 2y ago
> This would require a little malloc/free implementation and a way to reclaim memory for GC'd bytevectors. Allocation is always expensive in the hot path. Arenas, pools, etc. are a thing even in C engines for a reason. If it&#x
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by zamalek 2y ago
> Get it yet I'm not sure if your comment was meant to be condescending, but it really does come across at that. I'm very well versed in this domain. Having a per-request/connection arena isn't the only option. What I
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by zamalek 2y ago
Rust is extremely unreadable if you're not used to it, but becomes one of the most readable languages once you are. My subjective experience, at least.
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by zamalek 2y ago
Bytes is essentially multiple slices over a optimistically single contiguous arc buffer. It's basically the inverse of what the root comment is after (an array of buffers). It's a rather strange crate because network IO doesn&#x27
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by zamalek 2y ago
> NIH syndrome I would be using nonGuix if it booted on my machine (libre seemingly has its claws too deep), instead of Nix, precisely because Guix has far less NIH: Nix is homegrown everything. Guile was a pre-existing project (for both
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by zamalek 2y ago
> Societies are far more complex now Exactly: we have a superior moral compass. Complexities of society aside, other comments rightfully point out that sales tax has a higher burden the lower the income.
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by zamalek 2y ago
> how much worse can this get? We have a climate change denier going into office, so we're going to find out.
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by zamalek 2y ago
Universities are businesses, they aren't institutions of learning. Students are on the "liability" side of the balance sheet. Students who stand out could accrue massive costs. Professors? The problem is tenure.
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by zamalek 2y ago
The AI trough of trough of disillusionment is coming, and these hype-driven execs are going to feel it. There are relatively few techs that have a genuine use-case for it (copilot being an obvious example).
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by zamalek 2y ago
Oracle
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by zamalek 2y ago
I'll be taking another look at Nim :)

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