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ninepoints

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    Comment #42114788

    You're in good company. Ligatures were really not meant to be used this way, and materially harm the editing experience IMO.

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    Comment #42098899

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    Comment #42097982

    Using parens to pass type arguments was one of the things that turned me off on Zig. For a language that prioritizes "no hidden control flow," it sure did a lot to make various syn…

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    Comment #41737278

    > from a patent attorney This isn't an interesting counterpoint. This is the de facto narrative regarding patent lawyers and patent trolls masquerading as firms that act as though …

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    Comment #41687254

    Very mid compared to Visual Studio in my experience. You don't even get a modules window, and there's a whole litany of core C++ debugging features missing.

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    Comment #41664448

    Anyone who had any respect for Sam "Give me your eyeball data" Altman was always delusional.

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    Comment #41637601

    The trouble with the comparison text is that it doesn't provide a way to quickly filter out fonts that abuse ligatures.

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    Comment #41406988

    Seriously talk about poor naming. Even the start of this paper is the same as the other Radiance Cascades GI paper.

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    Comment #41288189

    Console user spend and user acquisition costs are not even remotely similar to the corresponding values in the mobile ecosystem.

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    Comment #41219773

    I'd really rather not, personally. All my Swift experiences have been fighting the abysmal compilation times.

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    Comment #41065211

    Not having an opaque tech stack encumbered by a patent minefield is another plus.

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    Comment #41032287

    You're missing something. Many somethings.

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    Comment #40510651

    "header only" Aside from template based code, this is a disadvantage in my book usually

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    Comment #40172490

    This is a very brave post to write given how incendiary responses to rust criticism can be, but this matches my experience entirely.

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    Comment #40133164

    You'll have to enlighten me on how Rust makes passing bounds any easier. Spans and views are pretty common in C++ and C codebases these days.

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    Comment #39939005

    You are comparing apples to oranges. Settlement times in traditional credit card transactions are not felt by the customer, and provide safeguards for fraud prevention and charge b…

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    Comment #39930567

    Surely that isn't the only reason

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    Comment #39512224

    Alternative take, scheduling a rejection meeting without providing any indication about the meeting agenda creates an unrejectable obligation without any consideration for the cand…

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    Comment #39485426

    All the criticisms of Bitcoin scalability are completely warranted and have played out.

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    Comment #39317323

    I'm very familiar with congestion trading and was in that industry at one point, but cmon, this is a bad crypto talking point. It's already quite apparent that bitcoin mines actual…

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    Comment #39008753

    None of these limitations have anything to do with an imgui frontend api though.

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    Comment #38881761

    I don't really understand this take. Appkit/Uikit _is_ the dependency.

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    Comment #38855620

    Feels worse than something like dom-chef