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Great explanation! I think you just made a few things about Rust click for me. Thanks!

QtCreator is brilliant, I just wish the Qt company would stop trying to hide it away! It's getting harder and harder to find the download link on their website.

Is anyone out there working to automate middle management?

You can drill down in Diskitude by right clicking. I agree it's not as nice as Daisy Disk, but it's the best I've found for Windows (for my tastes) and you can't beat the price...

Gosh there are a lot of these programs, aren't there? For some reason I find it really hard to read these tree map visualisations. I know the theory and all that, but for me they j…

Interesting! What would you say makes it better than the others? I'm working on something similar but as-yet-unannounced and I'd love to know if we're tackling the right problems..…

Maybe the effort just isn't where you're looking? Intel provides the Threading Building Blocks library for C++; some top notch debugging & profiling tools with multi-threading supp…

In an incorrect sense, yes. :-) SIMD = Single Instruction Multiple Data, meaning the same instruction being applied to multiple different values simultaneously. That's exactly what…

The important difference is that not everything in Unreal is GC'd, only UObjects. Internally the rendering, animation, networking and other high-performance subsystems don't use GC…

I really wish the Qt Company would stop bundling QtCreator as a required component of the Qt SDK. I use QtCreator as my main IDE & think it's great, so of course I install new vers…

> I have long wanted to see programmers experiment with taking this IDE thing much further. Almost every other authoring tool has an opaque file format, manipulated via one or more…

It's so the scanner operators can tell there's nothing hidden underneath your laptop. I'm not sure whether the laptop case (or just the battery?) can actually block the scanners, o…

I think that was true back when he wrote the words, but less so now. Even if you're not noticing a delay, code that completes quicker is generally code that uses less power and you…

All of you complaining about this proposal not being based on Vulkan seem to be overlooking the fact that Vulkan is actually quite cumbersome to use. Metal, on the other hand, is a…

Exactly. Same with %: since we're talking about a number-like object, there's a clear and expected meaning for it and that is NOT cross product.

I've recently had to deal with some code that did this for work (and also used operator* for dot product) and it made the equations incredibly difficult to read. Please don't make …

The term you're looking for here is a depth matte. It's a technique that's been in use for many years now, but of course it's only as reliable as your depth data so it's just one o…

Doesn't it bother you that you can provide the same value to your employer as someone in Brisbane, but only get paid a fraction as much for it merely because you're in Sri Lanka? I…

I like that you guys are being open about this, but the way you calculate compensation leaves a pretty bad taste in my mouth. I very much dislike the idea that you, as an employer,…

> It's hard to refute directly because there isn't any motivation or reasoning presented, only prescriptions (the author cites their "experience" in comments), so the best I can do…

I think the grandparent post is talking about decoding to RGB with a full 32-bit float per channel, which is 12 bytes per pixel rather than 8. The high precision is needed for HDR …

Fair enough, I understand the desire not to bump the major version in this case. It does still kind of suck for users of the library though. The case I was talking about was the Op…

My opinion, as someone whose code got broken by a library micro version update just yesterday, is that the responsible thing to do is add a new function with the new args instead o…

I love my Aorus X3: http://www.aorus.com/Product/Features/X3%20Plus%20v6 Portability, power and build quality are all excellent. Battery life isn't up to MacBook standards, but you…

I thought that too. I found it hard to believe that anyone would write either of the first two versions without having thought of the 3rd - or, you know, just having 2 or 4 separat…