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I've been using VSCode for C# daily for a year or two. I'm considering switching to a non-electron editor because of how slow and sluggish it is, including IntelliSense, refactoring, syntax highlighting and the latency and frame rate of actual rendering (huge drain on the battery if you have one). The editor doesn't (seem to) support language-integrated syntax highlighting, so no ambiguous language features get recognized and there's plenty of bugs (such as with around the C#7 ValueTuple syntax feature). The C# extension tends to freeze a couple of times a day. One feature that excels out of nowhere is the search functionality which greps entire folders almost instantly, probably because the functionality is delegated to a separate (native, I presume) process. JSON-with-schema-based configuration is something more software should have. The editor also starts pretty fast but most features are delegated to extensions which load (ultra)lazily and aren't usable for a few (5-30) seconds.

I'd pay extra for a version with a taller screen. I don't understand why there's next to no market for laptops that aren't 16:9

In (recent) games made with Unity, a lot of workloads like scheduling the GPU and such are offloaded to separate threads with (almost) no developer intervention. Future games will extensively utilize the job system which provides safe and efficient multithreading. Not sure how Unreal and the remaining leading engines stand, but things seem to be looking very good for high core count CPU owners.

I'm assuming there wasn't enough written agreement for either side to sue the other. Couldn't it be the other way around, though? If the client thinks this is unfair, they can go ahead and sue the developer. (Or use an NDA next time. Or actually pay the guy for his work god damnit)

> This stuff isn't even worth thinking about.

If more front-end developers have this mindset, I'm beginning to understand how the web (and the desktop, via electron and such) has become the embarrassingly slow and unusable mess that it is nowadays.

As a counterpoint, I find userstyles far less convenient than extensions. In my experience, they are more difficult to install, they work less often and break more easily (because of the "put this thing I hacked together on the internet and forget about it" mindset), don't auto update, are more difficult to find or discover, and the UI for managing/customizing them is horrible.

Sure, there's advantages too, and I like the idea of user styles/scripts, but after wasting some time on trying (and failing) to use them to customize my browsing experience on a few sites, I settled on a Dark Reader + Auto Reader Mode + uBlock combo that makes all of the internet nice and readable with almost no extra hassle.

I've looked it up for you and found this one - a bit dated but it shouldn't matter much on an introductory level and it seems to have the concepts presented in the right order (or maybe that's just how I'd do it).

https://codemag.com/Article/1609071/Getting-to-the-ASP.NET-C...

Having done most of my work in C# and TypeScript the Rust syntax felt weird when I read about it, but on the other hand, I always felt bad being unable to readably chain awaits, least they become

  var result = (await (await obj.DoSomething()).SomeOperation()).SomeValue;

In the end, all syntax is magic that you need to get used to, I guess.

It's also enabled by default on Surface Book 2 (and possibly other Surface line devices). No idea how well Bitlocker (or Windows Hello for that matter) stand up to border control.

Governments come and go, Poland isn't a monolith, and definitely not over a period of 15 years. Lazy thinking.

Certain commenters suggested that the exact partial UA string identifying Edge was blacklisted. I'd love to see a more detailed analysis.

I went to a local video game museum the other day. It was a ton of fun. You simply can't emulate the feel of the Arkanoid controller (a knob which you turn clockwise and counterclockwise to move the platform), or the way games actually looked like on a ye olde CRT (although some might point out that there's decent effort done here and there), not to mention games for vector-based displays.

I don't understand why this kind of support of long-obsolete (and officially unavailable) multiplayer games is met with negative reaction by the copyright holders. These might be some of the most loyal fans of your game that you've ever had. How is this a danger and not an opportunity?

Still using Inbox. Will keep doing so until the servers actually go down. Somehow, it feels intimately sad to have to let go. But when the time comes, Firefox extension please!

What IS the point of video DRM anyway? I can't remember a single instance of a thing I wanted to watch not being available for torrenting over the years, maybe barring some really obscure television episodes I wouldn't find on Netflix anyway. I do pay for (most of) the content I watch these days (now that I can kinda-sorta afford it), but it's not because it's not available one thepiratebay search away. Mainstream stuff usually comes out within hours of the release.

I'm somewhat sceptical because I'm not really seeing this happen anywhere throughout the software development industry. Sure, we get more software than ever, and we get it faster and cheaper, but it's all bloated low-quality (web\electron) apps that are often less usable than their ages-old counterparts. Same thing is happening to games in some extent - most developers choose development speed and convenience over performance.

Rtx really shines when applied to a low-fidelity game like Q2. The difference isn't as profound in modern titles where a plethora of lighting techniques and tricks approximates physical lighting closely, though.

I wonder if in the end (should we eventually see universal adoption) raytracing will prove more of a boon towards developers rather than end users, as it has been with many other hardware advancements.

I liked the way mouth movement was captured in LA Noire. It was a bit low-res, but looked way more organic than any other technique I've seen. I'm guessing the production is complicated and the cost is prohibitory though.

I feel like some people are (unfortunately, expectedly) overinterpreting my statement as "normal > abnormal" instead of intended "extremely abnormal deserves extreme scepticism". Keep in mind that I'm an avid psychedelics supporter myself. Still, I see no excuse for superstition.

I don't think making this about definitions brings anything to the discussion. I meant to appeal to common sense. If your friend starts to see magic auras and find other patterns where there clearly aren't any, that's well past the point where you show concern instead of entertaining his worldview.

Is there any use in removing these automatically-generated tags? They seem like something that might change the second Google's deployment pipeline pushes a new build (or even sooner).

I actually really enjoy the way RimWorld's gameplay is simpler and more focused. Feels more like a game you actually get to play and less like a simulation you feel compelled to tweak every few hundred ticks.

Obviously, you're not going to get "infinite hours of gameplay" out of it the way you can with DF, but it can be a fun ride for hundreds of hours.

There's a vscode extension that does exactly this. Haven't tested it, but it looks like it should work for live coding presentations.

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=jevakall...

What makes you think a mouse (71M neurons) has agency\free will? Does a cockroach (1M neurons), fruit fly (250K), jellyfish (5k) have agency? I don't think we're gonna get far by relying on a phenomenon that we can't clearly define or even (externally) observe.

I've been carrying around my SB2 15" in my backpack's laptop pocket for about half a year. Here's the summary.

- Zero problem with the fatness on my end. Looks kinda sexy tbh.

- The keyboard is really good about from the fn key which acts as a toggle (if you don't combo it with another key). Can never get quite used to that.

- The body paint can get scratched and worn down if you're reckless.

- The hinge itself works fine ~~~97% of the time. Occasionally gets stuck (can't detach) for unknown reason requiring a reboot or two, or some dirt gets in the way of the connectors and it thinks it got detached when you move it around.

- Battery life feels somewhat disappointing, but I haven't done rigorous tests. If you're planning to use the gpu, you better bring that charger.

- The gpu gets thermally throttled pretty easily.

- Performance at the 4k-ish resolution can be disappointing depending on the app (even the browser). This gets worse if you add an external monitor or if you don't run it above the "recommended" performance level. Unfortunately most devs (including MS) seem to optimize for 1920x1080.

- My SB seems to have problems with WMR even with the official adapter (display goes black occasionally).

- There's a driver (?) bug with the screen brightness sometimes being too low. I've filed a report on the feedback thing, but I'm not seeing or expecting any response. Love the screen (and the width\height ratio) otherwise.

Overall, it's a decent and interesting machine, but the edges can be rough.

> Will be: Spend time with people he wants to connect with, perhaps employees or maybe his family.

> Should be: Hire more people of color at the executive level, reporting directly to him.

I enjoy reading some good old Zuckerberg bashing as much as anyone these days, but somehow, this article makes me feel disgusted. Not that hiring people of color is bad (before someone overzerously makes that interpretation), it's just that this is so far removed from anything resembling a rational debate, it's essentially turned into a recitation of political buzzphrases.

Our descendants are going to be seriously confused by our practice of limiting or taking away people's ability to earn money because they publicly used a wrong word. Or so I hope, at least.

Does anyone actually prefer reading text on a bright background? If so, what are your reasons? For me, the choice is obvious to the point that I'm often annoyed at the lengths I need to go to in order to browse the web comfortably. I feel like we should have moved to the sane default of dark-themed UI ages ago.

Can we even prove whether a modern person is conscious? If so, shouldn't we be able to occasionally encounter such unconscious people, either occurring randomly by natural variation (especially given how recently the breakdown is claimed to have happened), or in people who had very little contact with language (hard but not impossible to come by)?

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