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royjacobs

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Used to be a demoscener: http://www.pouet.net/user.php?who=171&show=credits

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Postcards from the Peak of Complexity [video]

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github.com 2y ago

Doom port for DOS, optimized to be as fast as possible

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smallcultfollowing.com 2y ago

Claiming, Auto and Otherwise

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github.com 2y ago

Wild is a linker with the goal of being fast for iterative development

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www.youtube.com 2y ago

McKinsey: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

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popey.com 2y ago

Go Manic for Mantic

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blog.jetbrains.com 2y ago

Compose Multiplatform 1.5.0 Release

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www.youtube.com 3y ago

'Juggler Encore' real-time hologram of a 1986 ray-traced animation

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github.com 3y ago

Runtime Executor (asdf rust clone)

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dev.epicgames.com 3y ago

Unreal Engine: Verse Language Quick Reference

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www.poshbrolly.net 3y ago

Posh Brolly, an online shader editor

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www.ft.com 3y ago

Made in Eindhoven: the small Dutch city that became a tech powerhouse

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blog.vuejs.org 3y ago

Volar: A New Beginning

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twitter.com 3y ago

Twitter is cutting employee benefits starting this quarter

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nymag.com 3y ago

The Final Campaign

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www.youtube.com 3y ago

High Performance Rust UI

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raphlinus.github.io 3y ago

Minikin retrospective

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www.tomshardware.com 3y ago

Raspberry Pi Drives Pharmacy Sign Demo

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www.youtube.com 3y ago

Melrōse – a language and runtime to program music

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www.videowindow.eu 3y ago

Transforming Windows into Screens

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www.nrc.nl 3y ago

How the Netherlands facilitate the most hated websites in the world

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www.youtube.com 4y ago

Segmented Displays

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mail.openjdk.java.net 4y ago

JEP proposed to target JDK 19: 425: Virtual Threads (Preview)

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holub.com 4y ago

Don't track bugs, fix them

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www.youtube.com 5y ago

Dynamo Dream – sci-fi short rendered in Blender

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www.aaldert.com 5y ago

Outrun SDK – C/C++ SDK for the Outrun arcade machine

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github.com 6y ago

UnFTP: When you need to FTP, but don't want to

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www.pouet.net 7y ago

Eon – Amiga 500 demo that won the Revision 2019 demoparty

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blog.google 7y ago

Google Shuts Down Allo

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lippincott.com 8y ago

The customer of the future

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JSON Patch 2 years ago

Because that would require consumers to have a Javascript interpreter to use it.

I only recently discovered Densha De GO! and apparently the most recent game in the series is based around this very line. Very interesting to see these photos, I love the vibe, and it makes me appreciate all the detail that went into the game.

That's a shame, but there's heavy competition from companies like PCBWay, I suppose.

Incidentally, I read it the title like Shapeways provided some files to somehow 3d print bankruptcy. I'm not sure why.

"Should all array types be Copy but not Claim? If not, where is the cutoff, and does it depend on the element type?"

I think it was mentioned that something should be considered Claim'able if it can fit in a cache line. So I would guess that a heuristic could be used to determine which array sizes are valid to automatically implement Claim for.

I really like this proposal. It's fairly concrete, makes day-to-day coding much more ergonomic and, more importantly, doesn't introduce a great many esoteric concepts that are just going to clutter the language.

I'm assuming not everyone will agree with this, since it's more 'magic' but I'd argue it's the right amount of magic to help you with common patterns that you'd otherwise have to spend time manually implementing anyway (like the Dioxus Labs 'context' example).

"Yes, it's more complicated than server development in that it is a real-time, multi-point input, multi-output (rendered elements on screen) environment with synchronisation and concurrency needs."

I would argue that most backends typically also deal with more than 1 user at the same time (and in real time).

I'm wondering why the lifetimes as described in steps 2 and 3 need to be so explicit. Why shouldn't the borrow checker be able to infer them?

It's probably good to know that the focus in the demoscene has shifted away from 64k more towards 4k/1k intros and 'regular' demos. The amount of work required to do a high quality 64k is so huge that, especially now that the demoscene is not as big as it used to be, a lot of people don't think it warrants the time investment anymore.

(Btw, the best way to prove me wrong is to write a 64k intro about it)

As skyyler pointed out, my gripe is not with pacman but the fact that the author of TFA asserts that an OS is user-friendly even though it ships with a broken package management GUI out of the box.

I don't have a horse in the pacman/apt/rpm race since life is too short for those kinds of arguments and I'm sure they all have their pros and cons. Having said that, I'm not sure why having a preference for apt or rpm would be elitist though.

It's user-friendly if you think having a package manager that's broken out of the box is user-friendly.

I get that Linux is about choice, but if you're trying to make something that's user-friendly maybe also don't provide a dozen window manager options if your user can't meaningfully decide between them.

This reads as an article by someone who knows their way around Arch and has wildly different opinions about friendliness than most regular users would have.

Btw, nothing against RebornOS itself, I just don't understand the tone of the article.

I worked with ARRI for a few years when they were working on the predecessor to the ARRI Alexa, called the D-20. That was already an awesome camera but they didn't really take it into production because they wanted to make it simpler, easier to use and basically "better". They could've shipped, but they waited multiple years because they wanted their flagship digital camera to live up to their reputation. It's extremely well-deserved.

I believe so. Although RED was always being super mysterious and hype-y about it their RedCODE codec is ultimately just JPEG2000 so hopefully Nikon can relax this situation somewhat, which would be a benefit to all manufacturers.

It's consistently been impressive to me how thoughtful the Java language is being steered. Especially the explicit choice to NOT have an async keyword where other languages were all falling over themselves to add it, with all the complexity it entails (and in Rust it's a pretty awkward fit).

Once projects Valhalla and Panama land Java will be transformed again. Exciting times.