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How about contributing with an example of those groundbreaking Indian metaphysics studies instead of denigrating everyone with insults?

Watch the episode called 15 Million Merits from Black Mirror.

The bright yellow color can be used perfectly if the design style wasn't flat. It's incredible how much more legible UI elements can be if you add some shading, gradients, 3d borde…

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> It may sound stupid, but you can't have unhandled exceptions if you don't have exceptions... > panic!() exists in Rust, but that's not how recoverable errors are handled. This is…

And then you encounter some ancient apps without GNU readline support (oracle sqlplus and mysql, I'm looking at both of you). No history support, cursor keys emit characters on the…

My idea is that a CPU is just a component and it's useless by itself without considering the rest of the computer system. ARM needs to dip more into standardising the rest of the p…

> ARM's less open platform also comes with some advantages though. It's easier for ARM to prevent ecosystem fragmentation and non-standard instruction set extensions. It's kind of …

26 years since the release of Win95 and Linux still cannot make a pixel perfect copy of the GUI with proper alignment and padding.

You should explain what's wrong with the argument instead of being a passive agressive asshole. It was a continuation of why it happens nowadays that people swing to static linking…

Tell me how much of the system libraries are written in C or C++, and how much of them are being written in newer languages. C is the default choice because of its ABI, and the too…

Torvalds: > Disk is cheap I certainly don't want each installed desktop app to have a copy of base gnome/kde runtime and everything down to libc. And the implication is even the gr…

> the amount of parallelism they were able to use, which was impractical in C++ You mean after not using OpenMP, basic multithreading core guidelines, and not doing the refactoring…

Yeah and Webrender, Stylo, and Servo just happen to appear out of thin air.

Oh come on now. If it was really important for them then why did they chose C++ a long time ago after deciding to rewrite Netscape from scratch? Their history is full of dumb choic…

Who knew using already existing data race analysis tools is much more feasible than shoehoning a huge project into a brand new language. Way to go mozilla!

If you develop with COM in mind, then it doesn't matter whether the object is in-process or somewhere on the network.

It's not just wayland. For every single thing you can do on linux there exists several hundred different implementations/projects with the same goal of do that thing, and it has le…

I'm tired of this pro-Wayland horseshit You have been trying to reinvent the wheel for a decade and splitting the whole community on petty shit like this, halving development effor…

pywebview's About page says: > pywebview is a lightweight cross-platform wrapper around a webview component that allows to display HTML content in its own native GUI window. You ma…

It's not the engine's fault for having terrible performance on simple levels. Most indie devs don't bother with LODs, occlusion culling, and turning off unused features. Decades ol…

Can this bloody "I made X in Rust" meme go away from the headlines, please? It's like the software has no useful feature other than being written in a language no one cares about.

Hot take: A great tragedy of the GNU/Linux ecosystem is the fact that ABI+API is still not figured out, and the most common interface between programs is the C ABI, which is embara…

You shold try out buildroot[1]. It's used for building a complete linux image for embedded systems so the result is quite small, efficient. There are several guides online on how t…

The stockholm-syndrome of the few users positively recommending something that changes their development workflow slightly when they were bored of doing things the old ways.