vinkelhake

19 dni temudiscuss

I've seen variants of this comment for many years. The alternative to "web UI slop" would presumably be one of the many native toolkits.

I see it in a different way. The fact that "web UI slop" has managed to make great inroads on the desktop is an indictment of the state of native toolkits. If you think it's a problem that desktop apps are being written with web toolkits, the solution for that isn't to shame (as the term "web UI slop" clearly tries to do), but rather to figure out how to improve the native toolkits.

The opportunity to improve those toolkits was always there, and the ball was dropped.

vinkelhake

3 miesiące temudiscuss

I grew up with and absolutely adore The Last Ninja series. I'm not going to comment on the size thing because it's so trite.

Instead - here's [0] Ben Daglish (on flute) performing "Wastelands" together with the Norwegian C64/Amiga tribute band FastLoaders. He unfortunately passed away in 2018, just 52 years old.

If that tickled your fancy, here's [1] a full concert with them where they perform all songs from The Last Ninja.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovFgdcapUYI [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTZ1O1LJg-k

vinkelhake

4 miesiące temudiscuss

This is "just" about providing the official Chrome binary to ARM64 "desktop" Linux.

You've been able to build and run Chromium on ARM Linux for a long time (I'm running it right now), it's just that they haven't provided an officially branded Chrome.

This is a good thing. While Chromium works well, there are a few things (like syncing) that is a bit of a pain to set up.

vinkelhake

4 miesiące temudiscuss

I did something similar a few years ago. I put together a Pimoroni Interstate 75 (which is an RP Pico with an integrated LED matrix connector), a 32x64 matrix, a NES controller port, designed a simple case for it and made a Tetris. It was a fun project and the first time I had really done anything with hardware.

I've been meaning to do a write up of the project, but I keep putting it off. I wrote the software bits in C++. To speed up iteration (i.e. not have to deploy to real hardware for every tweak to the game code), I made a small web harness that ran the core logic as wasm.

https://imgur.com/a/tetris-HoXenDg

vinkelhake

5 miesięcy temudiscuss

FWIW, and errors aside, I think I agree with the general sentiment. Things added to the C++ library ossify. The ABI concerns, and the general unwillingness to do anything about it, is a big reason why Google largely exited the C++ standard business.

But the conspiracy brained part of me can't help to think that part of this is sour grapes. Vinnie contributed a lot to the failed proposal to add networking (loosely based on ASIO) to the C++ standard. That proposal eventually lost out to the sender/receiver library[0] which is getting added in C++26. That still doesn't have actual networking, but lays the groundwork.

It remains to be seen how well sender/receiver turns out. Given ranges (another Niebler addition), I'm not super optimistic.

[0] https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/experimental/execution.htm...

vinkelhake

5 miesięcy temudiscuss

Is there an equivalent to Godwin's law wrt threads about Google and Google Reader?

See also: any programming thread and Rust.

vinkelhake

8 miesięcy temudiscuss

I recently had my Framework Desktop delivered. I didn't plan on using it for gaming, but I figured I should at least try. My experience thus far:

    * I installed Fedora 43 and it (totally unsurprisingly) worked great.
    * I installed Steam from Fedora's software app, and that worked great as well.
    * I installed Cyberpunk 2077 from Steam, and it just... worked.

Big thanks to Valve for making this as smooth as it was. I was able to go from no operating system to Cyberpunk running with zero terminals open or configs tweaked.

I later got a hankering to play Deus Ex: Mankind Divided. This time, the game would not work and Steam wasn't really forthcoming with showing logs. I figured out how to see the logs, and then did what you do these days - I showed the logs to an AI. The problem, slightly ironically, with MD is that it has a Linux build and Steam was trying to run that thing by default. The Linux build (totally unsurprisingly) had all kinds of version issues with libraries. The resolution there was just to tell Steam to run the Windows build instead and that worked great.

vinkelhake

8 miesięcy temudiscuss

This felt like a blast from the past. At a few times reading this article, I had to go back and check that, yes, it's actually a new article from the year 2025 on STM in Haskell and it's even using the old bank account example.

I remember 15 or 20 years (has it been that long?) when the Haskell people like dons were banging on about: 1) Moore's law being dead, 2) future CPUs will have tons of cores, and 3) good luck wrangling them in your stone age language! Check out the cool stuff we've got going on over in Haskell!

vinkelhake

8 miesięcy temudiscuss

That would depend on your idea of "good". It would be an upstream swim in most regards, but you could certainly make it work. The Asahi team has shown that you can get steam working pretty well on ARM based machines.

But if gaming is what you're actually interested in, then it's a pretty terrible buy. You can get a much cheaper x86-based system with a discrete GPU that runs circles around this.

vinkelhake

9 miesięcy temudiscuss

Besides the box art, I miss the days when 1) the graphics card didn't cost more than the rest of the components put together, 2) the graphics card got all of its damn power through the connector itself, and 3) MSRP meant something.

vinkelhake

9 miesięcy temudiscuss

Which format are you saying the Chromium team made and wants to push in favor of jxl?

vinkelhake

10 miesięcy temudiscuss

You can write a WASM program today that touches the DOM, it just needs to go through the regular JS APIs. While there were some discussions early on about making custom APIs for WASM to access, that has long since been dropped - there are just too many downsides.

vinkelhake

10 miesięcy temudiscuss

I first watched it back when it came out. At the time I was living in a different country and San Francisco was just another US city to me. I just happened to re-watch it yesterday (it still holds up) for the first time since moving to the bay area.

It was interesting hearing the names of the locations and bridges that previously meant nothing to me (except the golden gate).

It's free to watch on youtube at the moment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qy9XYQBBIJ4

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