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> None of this is particularly controversial Judging by the fact that most maths degrees are listed as science degrees, it's pretty clear that "mathematics is not science" is a con…

Assembly offers just as much capability for abstraction as any other language, and I think that it demands more "ability to grasp abstraction", because you pretty much have to buil…

How can this make anyone feel safe if they won't even admit that it's happening?! Moreover, the people are forced to compromise on just about every issue when voting, so they natur…

Firstly, it's not unjustified to say that someone who thinks vanilla JavaScript is "bare metal" obviously doesn't know what they're talking about. Secondly, as a software-engineer-…

No, but the right way should at least be easier than the wrong way.

> orders of magnitude harder They seem to be at about the same difficulty to me; it would be nice if you could elaborate.

I suggest you try asking on Workplace.StackExchange, too, since the people there have more experience answering this kind of question.

Rust takes a similar approach. For unit tests, you use the #[cfg(test)] attribute (/ pragma / directive) for conditional compilation, and #[test] to mark a function that is a unit …

That, I sort-of agree with. Layering isn't unique to 3D, so it's debatable whether the incorporation of a depth buffer makes OpenGL a 3D API.

Metal is actually not that bad to live in. Vulkan, on the other hand, is micromanagement hell. I definitely agree with the people saying that it's for "building your own OpenGL".

Yes! I'd suggest learning OpenGL, then Metal, then Vulkan/DX12, which is how I'd rank them from high to low level.

It would always be possible to project a 3D world onto a 2D plane in any 2D graphics API, which is exactly what the projection matrix does in OpenGL.

Will AV1, or even VP9 for that matter, ever be suitable for realtime encoding, or is that just not their target market?

Hi Byuu! You're a cool guy and I hope I can be like you one day!

But look, if I started a company called McDonald's, everyone would be confused and it'd probably be illegal. Complaining on forums about names is the open source community's altern…

A single box?! Do we know its specs?

Oh no, someone's going to MITM my shitty blog posts. "Secure" is a word that only makes sense with context, and without that context it only serves to cause irrational panic. I won…

The App Store is closer to the official Arch repos, since it is vetted by Apple. The AUR is closer to just downloading stuff off the Internet.

This article talks about two issues at the same time: the first is Facebook's insidious "free basics" plan, which I'm 100% against, but the second is Facebook's role as an "acceler…

There have been talks of adding a GC to WASM for a long time, so there's hope yet

> The entire web ecosystem is a closed platform. Please clarify what this means. Standards are open access and browser engines and JS engines are for the most part (Edge, Safari, C…

Familiarity and consistency across platforms are two obvious reasons that come to mind. Another is that it's easier for those unfamiliar with a terminal.

> I would rather they go out of business if they can't figure out another way to make money. Only for some other unscrupulous company to replace them? Ideally, the most profitable …

I don't remember what, but there is already something fairly popular in the Rust ecosystem with the name crust. Edit: I think it was https://github.com/maidsafe/crust .

Gmail is by far the most popular email service in the world. I assure you that plenty of "non-tech users" have no trouble using it. But while I, too, am sad that skeuomorphic desig…