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Maybe whatever RedHat is working on. Last I read there are only 2 people paid to work full time on GTK. I'm not sure if they are looking though.

And for people who took this to the "next level" just look at GTK.

I don't necessarily disagree with you but on the other hand, we gotta start somewhere, and why not with the low hanging fruit?

> Of course, it's a sometimes repeated joke that the Linux GUI toolkit with the most binary compatibility is the Win32 API (via Wine).

Motif is pretty good here too.

A lot of distributions are trying to remove GTK2 though so it's only a matter of time until that breaks. Slackware will probably still have it though (and they still ship GTK1 which is fantastic!)

The "is" seems to be used confusingly here. This reads better as either:

* GitHub's Packages Service is down

* GitHub Packages are down

20% is fine for a haircut. It's perfectly acceptable.

My biggest problem with .NET, is how fast it's moving. Slow down! Also increase LTS support timelines. Default is 3 years, which is just not enough. Ubuntu LTS is the model to follow.

https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/platform/support/policy/d...

We've still got code running on .NET Framework 4.8 (supported, I think?)

We've still got code running on .Net Core 3.1 (now out of support)

We are moving to .NET 6, but given our own 6 month release cycles, and layoffs, I'm not sure we can keep up.

I'm doing something similar with a $5 VPS, but with fastcgi/c++/sqlite3. I then have a cronjob that then aggregates error logs, generates an summary and posts to a Slack channel. Personally I wish I didn't have to write it, but it works.

I've heard that native a11y support only works on GNOME, although I don't know for sure since Orca is just another GTK application. I believe a11y support was available starting back in GTK 2.x but I don't know ATK's full history.

I would recommend replacing the commute with a walk every day, get a little bit of exercise, clear your mind, and optionally listen to those podcasts again.

You end up mastering a subset of the language. Typically whatever you use at work or in your free time. Whether that subset is 10% or 90% is kind of up to you.

There was an old joke about everyone using a different subset of C++ but like most jokes it's mostly an over exaggeration.

C++ (and C) have amazing backwards compatibility and there is a strong chance that code written 30 years ago will still compile, link, and run as long as the dependencies haven't also changed too much (I'm looking at you Win32, X11, Motif). That gives you the time to migrate code bases over time without the fear of being left behind and unsupported.

Even if, for some reason, you were writing C++98 for the last 30 years, it shouldn't be too difficult to make the jump to newer standards. The biggest change, in my opinion, is lambdas and move semantics, and it's not to difficult to apply those to an old code base (if you want to) and start modernizing it. Some people say C++20/23 is a new language but the fundamentals of C++ haven't changed too much and I'd say it's easier to learn C++23 coming from C++98 than it is to learn Rust coming from C++98.

Maybe it's fine?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwNthD-LRTQ

Yeah... writing web apps in C++ will do that. No time.

> Now that Twitter is on a downward spiral I’m rewriting my favorite tweetstorms in a more permanent medium

Thank you!

It was comedy though, right? Making fun of "Day in the life of..." videos.

Consider yourself lucky. I had a 2400 bps modem in 1995, my first year on the internet. The ISP recommended 9600 bps but everything seemed ok for 14 year old me. IRC was fine and most websites didn't have too many pictures.

Is it time to retire C89/C90 and C++98 in new programs? Sure, yes, probably. Using C99 or higher or C++11 or higher is fine.

I'm curious if non-competes were a thing at this period of time. I'm not sure if something like this could happen today (although I'm sure it still happens).

Well on school lunches, California is at least trying to make things better: https://www.schoolmealsforall.org/

Maybe near-zero but not zero. They said that they watch content from 10 (out of the 100) creators they are subscribed to.

I'm in a similar position. I'm subscribed to 78 channels but typically will only watch content from a fraction of these due to preferences on quality and time (some creators have good content but end up putting up an hour video, which I am less likely to view).

> My codebase(s) already has a standard formatter / package manager / whatever; what do I get by changing?)

I guess you don't get much for yourself, but you get closer to some form of community standard. This ultimately helps your codebase "grow" when you need help from, or need to hire, other people. Other people that know those standards.

Does Apple make anything at half the price of a competitor? Nothing is impossible in the future but past behavior indicates that an Apple console would likely not be "half the price". Also, Apple has sometimes been considered a "luxury" brand in tech, and that probably also means it's unlikely to push a reduced price console without diluting the brand or their image.

> How much would one packet of contact info+metadata sell for, if the subject has signed on to be contacted by advertisers?

LendingTree.com was charging $70 per "lead", this was 2018 or so, not sure how prices have changed since then. However this was on the high end, zillow.com, also sold leads but for quite a bit lower (although you got what you paid for).

More mobile friendly link:

https://nitter.net/HayekAndKeynes/status/1541760176826499073

I've heard good things about ASUS. I wonder if it also makes sense to buy from Costco considering their return policy.

I suppose this is because it's written in FreePascal using Qt.

> Possibly an unpopular opinion, but personally I wish the C++ Standard Library was kept separate from the C++ language and have the C++ committee focus on the language features instead.

This is not an unpopular opinion.

I always wonder what the early c++ compilers looked like. Something that targeted AT&T 2.0 or 2.1 C++, so predating C++98.

I guess all we really have to go on is cfront or early gcc (1.15.3 was the first version with a c++ front end). We also have Walter Bright's Digital Mars compiler but how different is this from Zortech?

Given that it's Nvidia, no Linux support. That's the catch.