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optymizer
·9 วันที่ผ่านมา·discuss
I've been using this one, maybe others will find it useful as well: https://owlcat.games/learning
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·เดือนที่แล้ว·discuss
Nearby Glasses on Play Store does this

(not affiliated, I did a simple search before writing an app myself)
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·2 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
Agreed. It's still my favorite Windows version.
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·2 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
I left this scene many years ago. The article brought back memories and curiosity. What does today's scene look like?
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·5 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
Not sure if sarcasm, but it's not true. For example, high performance software is still built the 80s way.
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·5 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
Not really. We would have to downsize our life.

I'll have to explain it to the wife: "well, you see, we cant live in this house anymore because AI in Notepad was just too much".

I'll dial up my ethical and moral stance on software up to 11 when I see a proper social safety net in this country, with free healthcare and free education.

And if we cant all agree on having even those vital things for free, then relying on collective agreement on software issues will never work in practice so my sacrifice would be for nothing. I would just end up being the dumb idealist.
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·5 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
Your solution for us to all agree to do the same thing is not realistic for the same reason that recycling doesn't really work, why we have a myriad of programming languages and similar but incompatible hardware, etc.

There is always someone who will take advantage of the prisoners dilemma.
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·5 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
That's why we have text editors, markdown viewers, image viewers, etc.

You were never able to "click a link" in Notepad in the past.

Mixing responsibilities brings with it lots of baggage, security vulnerabilities being one of them.
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·5 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
"why won't other people make sacrifices for me?"

Because the society in US is arranged as a competition with no safety net and where your employer has a disproportionate amount of influence on your well being and the happiness of your kids.

I'm not going to give up $1M in total comp and excellent insurance for my family because you and I don't like where AI is going.
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·5 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
You were homeless and didn't have a choice, so now obviously you're qualified to give assurances that essentially, "it is unlikely that your family will starve", right? /s

And if you're wrong, and shit hits the fan for whatever reason, who's going to fix that? You? No, he's going to have to fix that, because nobody else is going to step in.

It's easy to tell others that it's going to be OK, but put your money where your mouth is. Put $1M in a fund that he can access should he no longer be able to find employment. Then he'll have absolute certainty that it's going to be OK.

Something tells me you're not going to do that. Something tells me that what you would do if shit hits the fan, is you're going to tell him that he should find solace in the fact that while he's working for 1/5th of his former total comp, putting in more hours at the same time, seeing his kids less, not putting his kids through private school to give them the best chance at the best education, that, at least, some kid out there isn't watching 6-7 videos on the tablet that their parents use to do less parenting.
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·5 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
Fellow D fan - high five! This is seriously impressive for a 17 year old!

I'll note a few things:

1. 'fast' without benchmarks is just marketing speak. I keep seing "fast", "super fast" on the GitHub page but nothing to substantiate the claims. How fast is it compared to using D, or even C?

2. 'Download glang' link is broken

3. Why would I use G and not D directly? D generates small binaries as well.

4. What does the 'std' library include? You're mentioning 'println' and 'newline', while people expect data structures and components they can reuse. Is the D standard library accessible?

5. I couldn't find a documentation page easily, but I see you plan on overhauling the documentation

6. Including a package manager is awesome.

7. Do you have any interop with C, D or Java?

A few observations related to naming:

8. G Language is already used by a few pieces of software, though nothing too widely known (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G_programming_language).

9. If I thought my language is worthy of a single letter name, I'd swing for the fences and name the compiler executable 'g', not 'glang'. You're already using the .g file extension for G Lang source code, so might as well go big with the command too.

10. Speaking of glang, it's super close to golang by Google

11. Your Fuchsia shell's name conflicts with the Fuchsia OS (fuchsia.dev) by Google

I'm not a big fan of the syntax, but I wish you good luck. I hope to keep hearing about your language in the future.
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·5 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
> because one is hooked on and dependent on the genie, the natural circumstances that otherwise would allow for foundational and fundamental skills and understanding to develop, never arise, to the point of cognitive decline.

After using AI to code, I came to the same conclusion myself. Interns and juniors are fully cooked:

- Companies will replace them with AI, telling seniors to use AI instead of juniors

- As a junior, AI is a click away, so why would you spend sleepless nights painstakingly acquiring those fundamentals?

Their only hope is to use AI to accelerate their own _learning_, not their performance. Performance will come after the learning phase.

If you're young, use AI as a personal TA, don't use it to write the code for you.
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·6 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
I've been using vim for 20 years as well, for everything other than Java code. I type my .vimrc by hand on each new machine to set a half dozen options.

Of the intermediate features, I use tabs and, more recently, split windows.

My favorite 'advanced' feature is visual block selection and replacement over multiple lines - super convenient.
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·6 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
I think a "Just A Browser" approach would be better for people like me, who don't really want to patch configuration files for their existing browsers - sounds messy.

I would however download a new browser that promises to not have all these bad features and has stripped them straight from the source code. For example, I switched from Chrome to Brave because it blocks ads.
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·6 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
because ... ?
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·6 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
This is false.

From Wikipedia: "End-to-end encryption (E2EE) is a method of implementing a secure communication system where only the sender and intended recipient can read the messages."

Both ends do not need to be under your control for E2EE.
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·6 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
I personally found the text hard to read (both because of the typeface and the small size), the animations distracting during scrolling (while I'm trying to skim the content), and the background colors too dark for dark text on them with jarring full white (#FFF) colored text.

I understand they're trying to go for a whimsical and fun feeling, but imo as implemented it is far from "really well made".
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·7 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
Mostly gamedev books:

* Blood, Sweat and Pixels

* Press Reset

* Play Nice

* Masters of Doom

* Color & Light

* Video Game Art

* 2d Graphics Programming for Games (in progress)
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·7 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
I speak Russian and some Bulgarian as third/forth languages, and while I agree that Russian is more difficult, I wouldn't say Bulgarian is "extremely easy" in comparison. It's maybe ~20% easier at best.
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·7 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
Several of my colleagues were laid off. We all worked on the same project. I reviewed their code and was in meetings with them daily, so I know what their performance was like. They were absolutely not poor performers and it was ridiculous that they were laid off and labeled as poor performers. The project was a success too.