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ninepoints commented on Dev Fonts devfonts.gafi.dev/... · Posted by u/Liriel

freetonik · a year ago

Tangental, but I'm wondering if I'm the only one who really dislikes ligatures? I mean, some people say they simply don't prefer them, but I actually struggle to read and edit code with ligatures. Looking at a single character, pressing Backspace, and seeing it cut in half and transform is very disorienting, it breaks all my intuitions about text editing.

ninepoints · a year ago

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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ninepoints commented on Zig's (.{}){} Syntax openmymind.net/Zigs-weird... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

ninepoints · a year ago

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 syntax conventions _masquerade_ as control flow instead.

ninepoints commented on Patent troll Sable pays up, dedicates all its patents to the public blog.cloudflare.com/paten... · Posted by u/jgrahamc

pfisherman · a year ago

Heard an interesting counterpoint to this from a patent attorney. In the IP ecosystem patent trolls serve as a sort of check on the big companies - the apex predators - to stop them from willfully infringing on your patents and then bankrupting you in litigation.

While you as a startup may not have the resources to go after them in court; your IP assets in the hands of a competent and aggressive patent troll could be a very big problem for Big Co.

So in that sense they are also kind of like a parasite that infects the apex predators who eat tainted meat.

ninepoints · a year ago

> 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 they somehow contribute.

ninepoints commented on How DWARF Works calabro.io/dwarf... · Posted by u/jcalabro

flohofwoe · a year ago

VSCode is 'quite ok' on Linux as gdb frontend. The main limitation is the really bare bones variable view panel. With the MS C/C++ and CMake Tools extensions debugging pretty much works out of the box and feels 'IDE like' (in that you can select the build and debug targets instead of writing a launch.json and tasks.json file, and starting into the debugger for the current debug target is just pressing F5).

The other debugger frontend that works quite ok is QtCreator.

ninepoints · a year ago

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.

ninepoints commented on OpenAI to become for-profit company reuters.com/technology/ar... · Posted by u/jspann

feoren · a year ago

Sam: "I'm not in it for the money. I have principles."

World: "But what if it was like, a lot of money?"

Sam: "Oh alright you convinced me. Fuck my principles."

ninepoints · a year ago

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

ninepoints commented on Coding Font by Typogram – Find Your True Love of Coding Fonts codingfont.com/... · Posted by u/rootforce

ninepoints · a year ago

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

ninepoints commented on Radiance Cascades: A Novel High-Res Sol. For Multidim Non-LTE Radiative Transfer arxiv.org/abs/2408.14425... · Posted by u/jasonjmcghee

pornel · 2 years ago

Radiance Cascades is a technique for rendering real-time soft shadows/global illumination.

This paper uses it in the context of astrophysics, but it has a good up-to-date explanation of the algorithm in general, not limited to astrophysics.

ninepoints · 2 years ago

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

ninepoints commented on Roblox is the biggest game in the world, but is unprofitable matthewball.co/all/roblox... · Posted by u/mfiguiere

itake · 2 years ago

why is it wild? Microsoft keeps 30% of xbox store sales. Apple, Google, MS, etc. play a massive part in attracting users to the platform.

ninepoints · 2 years ago

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

ninepoints commented on Verso – Web browser built on top of the Servo web engine github.com/versotile-org/... · Posted by u/pabs3

ChocolateGod · 2 years ago

I'd like to see Swift adopted more on non-Apple operating systems, some of the recent GTK apps written in Swift are pretty cool.

ninepoints · 2 years ago

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

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