@ProgramMax
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industry accolades: "software engineer" - BleepingComputer "developer" - Engadget "Twitter user" - XDA
Joined April 2009
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Blender is an amazing example of open source success. It is wonderful.
I need to check Gimp again. I feel like it needs some love, too.
std::vector<T>(size) default constructs |size| elements.
IMHO, that should have only reserved, not constructed.
It is easy for me to envision when to use performance cores (time-critical) vs. efficiency cores (not).
But there are cores in the middle I don't get.
Surely it isn't just "not time critical but don't take too long".
Maybe efficiency cores are missing certain units? SIMD?
omg I *just* learned there is a Win32 MsgWaitForMultipleObjects(), with "Msg" at the front.
(The message queue isn't exposed as a handle and so there previously was no way to sleep until a message *or* an event.)
Today is a good day!
Humanity needs to send @standupmaths on endless vacations.
So many math breakthroughs just waiting to happen.
Huh.
There is no way for a program compiled with /SUBSYSTEM:WINDOWS to know that it was launched with CREATE_NO_WINDOW.
The flag is used to run a console program silently.
My program creates a console. And it has no way to check if it should be silent.
Probably a spicy take but I think variable scope clarity in programming languages could be improved.
bool flag = false;
if (foo) { ...many lines... flag=true; }
...many lines...
if (flag) {
Really, flag just needs to exist in both of those blocks, no the parent block.
I'm designing a simple DIY CPU that can be made easily enough with discrete components.
This means limiting transistor count.
I'm seriously considering dropping conditional branches in favor of the PDP-8's style conditional skip.
How is it 2026 and Windows doesn't have a way to set a per-program default network adapter?
I'm sure we'll get 100 more hated features before it's on someone's TODO list, too.
I wouldn't be surprised if this is already happening behind the scenes and waiting for privacy to dip enough to monetize it.
I suspect 'associations' will be tracked.
IE you and these 3 other people all suddenly saw this wifi point. And again on these occasions.
I...actually like this.
I remember back when that sheep program did nothing but be cute. Then around...was it '98 Microsoft released that actor library to be an assistant.
Obviously, people hated Clippy. But I think it can be done right today.
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I have one of these and LOVE IT.
I no longer use it because it is not getting security updates :'(
I don't like foldables. They obv don't show you the crease. I prefer the gap to the crease.
This is a bit underpowered today though. And a bit too big.
Twitter/X has become a factory of hate.
It is CRAZY how much my 'For You' is filled with incorrect or misleading posts mostly based on racism / sexism and also mostly non-US accounts pretending to be US (so propaganda).
Crazier is that Twitter/X is in on it and wants that.