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vinkelhake

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About vinkelhake

I am but a simple imperative programmer who mostly writes C++ for a living.

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    Comment #49245822

    And there's also [[clang::musttail]] and [[msvc::musttail]]. As well as an effort to get it standardized: https://isocpp.org/files/papers/D3939R0.html (in C++).

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    Comment #48889392

    Give me a ping Vasily. One ping only please. Sad.

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    Comment #48626714

    I've seen variants of this comment for many years. The alternative to "web UI slop" would presumably be one of the many native toolkits. I see it in a different way. The fact that …

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    Comment #47657301

    I grew up with and absolutely adore The Last Ninja series. I'm not going to comment on the size thing because it's so trite. Instead - here's [0] Ben Daglish (on flute) performing …

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    Comment #47357242

    This is "just" about providing the official Chrome binary to ARM64 "desktop" Linux. You've been able to build and run Chromium on ARM Linux for a long time (I'm running it right no…

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    Comment #47289231

    I did something similar a few years ago. I put together a Pimoroni Interstate 75 (which is an RP Pico with an integrated LED matrix connector), a 32x64 matrix, a NES controller por…

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    Comment #46984860

    FWIW, and errors aside, I think I agree with the general sentiment. Things added to the C++ library ossify. The ABI concerns, and the general unwillingness to do anything about it,…

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    Comment #46918805

    Is there an equivalent to Godwin's law wrt threads about Google and Google Reader? See also: any programming thread and Rust.

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    Comment #45986917

    I recently had my Framework Desktop delivered. I didn't plan on using it for gaming, but I figured I should at least try. My experience thus far: * I installed Fedora 43 and it (to…

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    Comment #45962386

    This felt like a blast from the past. At a few times reading this article, I had to go back and check that, yes, it's actually a new article from the year 2025 on STM in Haskell an…

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    Comment #45882081

    That would depend on your idea of "good". It would be an upstream swim in most regards, but you could certainly make it work. The Asahi team has shown that you can get steam workin…

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    Comment #45640295

    Besides the box art, I miss the days when 1) the graphics card didn't cost more than the rest of the components put together, 2) the graphics card got all of its damn power through…

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    Comment #45563374

    Which format are you saying the Chromium team made and wants to push in favor of jxl?

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    Comment #45281652

    You can write a WASM program today that touches the DOM, it just needs to go through the regular JS APIs. While there were some discussions early on about making custom APIs for WA…

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    Comment #45262998

    I first watched it back when it came out. At the time I was living in a different country and San Francisco was just another US city to me. I just happened to re-watch it yesterday…

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    Comment #44987373

    I live in the bay and occasionally ride Waymo in SF and I pretty much always have a good time. I visited NYC a few weeks ago and was instantly reminded of how much the traffic fuck…

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    Comment #44791671

    A simple example is `toJSON`. If an object defines that method, it'll get invoked automatically by JSON.stringify and it could have arbitrary side effects. I think it's less about …

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    Comment #44718199

    It's unfortunately not (yet) as good as in MacOS, but acceptable.

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    Comment #44702373

    An alternative that is available right now is to get an M1/M2 MacBook Air and run Asahi Linux on it. The older models are pretty cheap, but still quite fast. There are some missing…

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    Comment #44526769

    I used yaml for some things back in the stone age (shout out to why the lucky stiff and syck). The more I used it, and the more I came in contact with it I started to dislike that …

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    Comment #44481867

    That kind of reasoning makes sense if you have a single publisher controlling the entire market and they don't want to undercut their own business. But that's obviously not the cas…

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    Comment #44405629

    While reading this, the old ARexx (Amiga Rexx) popped into my head. It was a scripting language that in itself wasn't very noteworthy. However, it also made it easy for application…

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    Comment #43989870

    LIDAR pulses are in the order of a few nanoseconds.

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    Comment #43872076

    One reason which matters with libraries is that slapping constexpr on a function is, in a way, a promise by the author that the function is indeed meant to be constexpr. If the aut…

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    Comment #43776242

    > It’s too bad you still can’t cast a char to a uint8_t though in a constexpr expression. Uh, what? That has worked fine since the introduction of constexpr in C++11.