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[ssokolow]

That's what PyPy is. Improvements to it have levelled off around 4.25x CPython speed because Python, as a language, has a level of dynamism to it that's...

[ssokolow]

For free? Probably not. I know the makers of MoltenVK sell an OpenGL ES 2.0 translation layer called MoltenGL....

[ssokolow]

That's like saying that using OS APIs has inherent unsolvable overhead over twiddling hardware registers directly. OpenGL is a significantly higher-level...

[ssokolow]

I'm considering switching to Debian for my KDE desktop because Ubuntu is getting too "exciting" with things like pushing Chromium as a snap...

[ssokolow]

How's it "paradoxically"? There are plenty of things that are rock-solid but API-unstable (especially in languages like Rust and Haskell) and...

[ssokolow]

The concept behind efforts like Dbus-Broker and BUS1 is that we shouldn't need a lot of different IPC solutions to meet our needs if it's just inefficient...

[ssokolow]

It's called combining quality assurance and features which meet market demand in the same product... something GNOME doesn't seem to understand.
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[ssokolow]

When people feel the need to keep repeating stuff like that, it usually means they have issues. (Even if it's because they're trolling... that's just...

[ssokolow]

Makes sense. I think I read what I read somewhere between 2005 and 2007....

[ssokolow]

I vaguely remember it having to do with some TrueType software patents. (Source: Vague memories of instructions on how to compile your own builds to fix...

[ssokolow]

It looks like Windows 10 still requires third-party utilities to unlock in-use files so they can be moved/renamed or deleted. UNIX is superior here, they...

[ssokolow]

How did they reinvent the wheel? This is literally an article about how, first, the Linux kernel had to add a syscall to expose this information, then...

[ssokolow]

I guess it's time for someone with access to one of those "costs as much as a Ferrari" high-bandwidth signal analyzers to step up and begin...

[ssokolow]

Didn't you hear? In some countries, it's illegal to sell hardware unless it has this. I'm pretty sure those people want the option of buying said hardware,...

[ssokolow]

They open-sourced the parts that run on Linux. I'd be more worried about the fact that PowerShell is ugly and annoying to write compared to the alternatives....

[ssokolow]

If you'd actually read the GPL, you'd know that the GPL's terms are such that once someone who legitimately receives GPLed source (eg. paid for binaries...

[ssokolow]

It depends on personal taste. When I started poking at it years ago, I found I preferred Python's design philosophy more....

[ssokolow]

I don't let myself get emotionally invested in these things and I stopped caring a reply or two ago, so I'm just going to let you have the last word while...

[ssokolow]

You're not listening. The issues that nVidia has on X11 don't inconvenience me. Having to shell out for a new GPU does.



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[ssokolow]

Let me know when PyQt gets joined by NimQt as a memory-safe way to write a QWidget-based GUI or whatever a Nim equivalent to Django would be called for...