@neogoose_btw There is really no point in working more if it reduces your hourly wage.
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Thomas Trummer
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@vkrajacic @Windows I wish it had proper font rendering on Windows (and less tool-tips).
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Microsoft @Windows: "We're preloading File Explorer so it launches faster."
File Pilot: Compiles in less than 3 seconds. Launches instantly. Eats whole drive for breakfast.
Speed isn't a background task, it's design.
filepilot.tech
Windows Latest@WindowsLatest
Microsoft admits File Explorer is slow in Windows 11, and it’s going to preload it in the background to help improve launch performance. “This shouldn’t be visible to you, outside of File Explorer hopefully launching faster when you need to use it,” Microsoft confirmed. If you don’t want Windows 11 to preload File Explorer, you can uncheck the option called “Enable window preloading for faster launch times” in File Explorer’s Folder Options under View. File Explorer is still snappy on Windows 10, but the modernized Windows 11 version also brought slower performance. This change is rolling out to Windows Insiders.
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@cmuratori I caved and upgraded to Windows 11, but I would be really interested in the outcome of this since it is the last area that I use Windows for. The audio situation on Linux has always been dismal for no apparent reason given that it is a comparatively easy problem to solve.
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Continuing my slow migration of our machines to Linux, I am going to try switching the music computer. I was going to try Ubuntu Studio as the distro first, but I figured I'd ask here to see what y'all think is best. (It's basically just a machine for running Reaper + VST)
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@etscrivner The amount of damage that Robert Martin et al. have done to the software industry is quite sureal.
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Casey actually did the badly needed critical reevaluation of Alan Kay (and Bjarne Stroustrup).
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Just finished this and I think this is a hugely important talk. A critical history of OOP. The 35-year walk away from Douglass T. Ross and Ivan Sutherland only to return to them with entity-component systems and fat structs.
Eric Scrivner@etscrivner
Nice youtu.be/wo84LFzx5nI
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@badlogicgames @molecularmusing There is still the native Windows API (if you really need just some dialogs).
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@molecularmusing Sooo, Qt? I jate having to package dozens of MB just to draw some simple dialogs. (Abandoned WinUI, base self-contained hello world is 130mb)
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Native app development setups.
macOS: just install Xcode and CLI tools
Windows: PLEASE JUMP THROUGH THESE 12 HOOPS OF FIRE, SACRIFICE A GOAT, EAT A NUGET SANDWICH, LOL, STILL NO LIBS AND HEADERS
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@walaber This needs better fonts, anti-aliasing for the 3D objects and Steam integration (like the Zachtronics games).
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Day 2 and already over 120 reviews on Steam! Thank you so much for the warm reception to the game!
store.steampowered.com/app/3401490/Re…
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@0xglitchbyte Beware that Quantum Computing is a bit of a scam. The math behind it is worth knowing though.
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Please, someone, tell me this is a mistranslation.
TaraBull@TaraBull
Zelensky: “The US will have to send their Sons & Daughters to fight & they will be dying” Do you support this?
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@ChShersh I know this is extremely nit-picky but ergonomics matter (for the perception of programming languages that are mostly only used for fun).
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Many people in replies answer my question with:
“It’s fun”
“You don’t have to use it at a job”
“It’s to get better”
Y’all are just describing OCaml 😭
Dmitrii Kovanikov@ChShersh
Why so many devs are obsessed with systems programming? I don’t understand why C, Rust and Zig are so popular when they cover less than 5% of real software use cases.
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@ITSecMedia @cmuratori $40 seems fine for something you use daily. The bad font rendering makes the software unfortunately unusable.
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@cmuratori Sorry but even when Windows 11 File Explorer is the worst experience ever .... its hard to justify such a hefty price for this alternative
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If you're tired of Windows Explorer's laggy behavior and lack of features, there is some very good news: FilePilot is now in open beta!
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@rfleury I am fine with the distinction of documents and toolboxes in a text editor (with the document panel being special). I will take it over most modern software that has regressed in this area (like VS Code or the JetBrains GUIs).
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@thtrummer If by "correctly" you mean "crashes when you drag a panel around, and only some of the panels are draggable", then... I guess?
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Why is panel layout such a special-case concept in so many programs?
Visual Studio Code@code
Primary Side Bar left or right?
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@cmuratori @Jonathan_Blow "AI Max+ PRO" is a real product name? Just... why?
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@Jonathan_Blow It's a high-clock laptop APU with up to 16 Zen 5 cores and 40 GPU CUs. So it's a lot of everything :)
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Left shift key on the Framework 16 has started sticking for no reason, making the laptop borderline unusable for any reason at all.
Seems like it's that time of year where I buy another new laptop and it is even worse than what I bought last year...
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I feel like there should be a polynomial approximation, suitable for most purposes, that is *way* shorter than this...
x.com/Jonathan_Blow/…
Jonathan Blow@Jonathan_Blow
We all know that atan2 is the best function. But… x.com/KostasAAA/stat…
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@jeffdafo @dodothebird @theo I have yet to see a code review catching a bug I created. It usually devolves into discussions about blue versus green. This time is (in my opinion) better spent in writing tests. At the same, I did some testing with LLMs for code reviews and they gave surprisingly good feedback.
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@dodothebird @theo You don't do code reviews? Or do you have those mythical developers who never introduce bugs?
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I am trying to be good faith. I just…don’t know how you can be against pull requests?
Like have you just not worked on anything difficult before?
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This is the amount of shader ISA code the compiler produces for a single atan2(). Avoid using it for time critical code.
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