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·9 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
This style of simulating faux-realistic materials (such as glass or aluminum) on the screen looks dated and cheesy now -- (Windows engineering team 2012)

https://web.archive.org/web/20120614042824/http://blogs.msdn...

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"Cheesy and dated" -- it keeps hitting me through the years.
Naru41
·10 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
Utility-scale solar is very unpopular in Japan. Because most suitable lands of them are densely forested, and installing utility-scale solar systems requires destory the forests.

There are concerns landslides due to reduced water storage functionality, and emotional antipathy at having their hometowns' mountains covered with solar panels.
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·11 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
I think Rust is the biggest winner that has from LLM support. When I got an compile error, it is painful without LLM to reverse-thinking how to re-write something and why it needs to be written that way.
Naru41
·11 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
True.

The number can be determined at comp-time.

Buffer sizes should be computing manually.
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·11 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
I've often thought that if C just had a syntax like Go definding method, C would be much easier to write.

uint16_t (MyStruct* s) some_func() { .. }

uint16_t MyStruct_some_func(MyStruct* s) { .. }

(I guess I should just use C++... but C++ is overwhelmed in many ways)
Naru41
·11 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
Funny trivia. But of course -- there is absolute zero reason to base64 encode ascii text. Evenmore laughable to put Json encoded in base64 text inside regular Json.
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·12 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
The ideal HTML I have in mind is a DOM tree represented entirely in TLV binary -- and a compiled .so file instead of .js. And a unpacked data to be used directly in C programming data structure. Zero copy, no parsing, (data vaildation is unavoidable but) that's certainly fast.
Naru41
·ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
This style of simulating faux-realistic materials (such as glass or aluminum) on the screen looks dated and cheesy now -- (Windows engineering team 2012)

https://web.archive.org/web/20120614042824/http://blogs.msdn...
Naru41
·ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
They skipped iPhone 9 once. So iPhone 17 and going for iPhone 2026 could be better for measuring the age of the device and could be beneficial for consumers -- but what about the OS version? No one care that.

From an engineering standpoint, skipping a sequential number is just wasteful.
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·ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
I don't see the point - ASCII vs. binary doesn't make any real difference. And there's no an actual unencrypted HTTP/2 traffic, so there's no incentive to censor.
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·ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
> A cryptosystem is incoherent if its implementation is distributed by the same entity which it purports to secure against.

That's what the recent Signal tormoil is like.

Communication via Signal app that's safe if you could be sure it was compiled from verified open-source code, but Signal still doesn't provide any way to in principle eliminate the possibility that client binary distributers put in a backdoor at the last minute.
Naru41
·ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
Successful Math/CS people have a hard time applying it in biotechnology.

https://x.com/iskander/status/1903077361152610374 -- about a dozen of us with math/CS backgrounds ditched tech for biomedicine. And we got humbled hard: most of what we did flopped & techies
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·ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
Yup, I don't understand why Google would sponsor McLaren F1 team. They've already done a better promoting Chrome.
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·2 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
If Android had provided an defining UI API like this entirely in C without using Java, Android would have 100% monopolized the mobile OS market. So fast, efficient.
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·2 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
Excellent. If these compiled data structures were the web standard instead of HTML, www would be ridiculously fast.