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by zengid 3y ago
This is some spicy shit from Apple: > “In the past, Epic has entered into agreements with Apple and then broken them,” Schiller reminds the game maker in the letter dated February 23, 2024. “You also testified that Epic deliberately
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by zengid 3y ago
Not if your program needs to be realtime or near realtime safe. Locks are controlled by the OS typically, and can have non-deterministic latency.
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by zengid 3y ago
Looks like a fast embeddable functional lang for doing math or dsp. Cool!
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by zengid 3y ago
I'm on the billing team and we just shipped our new platform send me your regards!
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by zengid 3y ago
Great film! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuv7SIVNkx8
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by zengid 3y ago
If you listen to their original podcast 'On The Metal' it was infamous for it's overly repeated use of 2 or 3 pre-recorded self promotions, so much so that a fan recorded their own commercial for them to air. 'Oxide and
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by zengid 3y ago
thank you!
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by zengid 3y ago
if there are any tidal hackers in here I've found it difficult to figure out how to use pitch frequencies that aren't the standard MIDI notes or 12TET frequencies. Does anyone have a guide on that? Let's say I want to just us
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by zengid 3y ago
Really excited for this work. I'm curious about what the author means by "Avoiding Custom Widgets". > On the other end of the spectrum, the web has shown that you can implement complex custom UIs given a rigid but rich se
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by zengid 3y ago
When you become a parent, it's like being reincarnated but your old body is still there. You have two bodies now. Eventually you grow strong enough to withstand the new flood of sensations and emotions, but the majority of your energie
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by zengid 3y ago
> One honest competitor I see rising up - Home Depot I'd like to add Walmart, too.
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by zengid 3y ago
This guy ARCs
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Ask HN: Adds for Flutter on YouTube?
1 points by zengid 3y ago|0 comments
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by zengid 3y ago
Very cool! This is something Jack Rusher cries for in his talk "Stop Writing Dead Programs" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ab3ArE8W3s
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by zengid 3y ago
If you're making a certain class of desktop app (CAD, DAWs, Video Editor) this is worth exploring!
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by zengid 3y ago
I completely agree, and these are required features for a full app that is planning to reach the world. It requires a lot of extra work, but real world apps like Figma [0] are rendering directly to the canvas, and frameworks like Flutter of
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by zengid 3y ago
It can be! I think that's the number 1 response when anyone wants to actually make a better platform. Projects like AccessKit are a really great step in the right direction https://github.com/AccessKit/accesskit
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by zengid 3y ago
I think once WasmGC is finished up, that will make shipping a VM inside a VM more viable. Opening up direct access to the DOM would be cool, but if it were up to me, I'd just skip it and render everything inside a <canvas/>
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by zengid 3y ago
I just started working through this over holiday break, and it's been a joy! I can also recommend this awesome video from kishimisu: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4s1h2YETNY
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by zengid 3y ago
No worries, thank you!
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by zengid 3y ago
This is a really beautiful write-up! I have one small gripe in that on my browser (chrome-windows11) the scroll bar is imperceptibly small, so I can't easily scrub through by grabbing it with the mouse. Other than that this is awesome.
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by zengid 3y ago
it wasn't formatted like this at the time
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by zengid 3y ago
RIP Prof Wirth Side note: can we get a better tag on this to show it's a PDF file? I think the source is reputable but I always freak out when a url goes to a pdf.
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by zengid 3y ago
Obligatory posting of Bryan Cantrill's interview with Arthur Whitney https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1531242
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by zengid 3y ago
It was, according to Sean Parent (Adobe employee) in an interview about Pascal (around 8:03): https://adspthepodcast.com/2023/12/29/Episode-162.html
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by zengid 3y ago
ADSP podcast (named after Wirth's book) just had an episode on the history of Pascal https://adspthepodcast.com/2023/12/29/Episode-162.html
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by zengid 3y ago
Edit: Hey my bad the prompts for Genuary are all for making visuals, but I suppose they could be interpreted for audio too. My bad, but I'll leave my music-nerd rant below in tact in case anyone finds it useful ----------------
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by zengid 3y ago
I was going to say check out something from Casey too. Maybe just randomly jump into one of the 600+ videos for handmade hero and try to see what he's doing. I think Casey is a great educator, even if he has a lot of hot takes.
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by zengid 3y ago
Super cool, thank you for sharing!!
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by zengid 3y ago
I'd like to see a middle ground between immediate mode and retained mode, where the UI is more like a scene-graph where you have nodes with transforms, but you can draw anything inside them, and the framework will keep track of all the

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