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Inityxon Modern Object Pascal Introduction for Programmers

Not to be That Guy, but it's been over 20 years since FL Studio was called Fruity Loops

Inityxon Why can't you combine .tar.gz files with cat?

Nothing says "handwritten" quite like omnipresent groups of 3 bullet points, all with bolded item headers.

Inityxon How does IKEA come up with names for its products?

No joke, I came across a cosmetics brand recently called "Pooplunch"

Inityxon The Life Cycle of Money

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46273466

Inityxon OpenClaw is changing my life

> My answer is: become a “super manager.”

Honestly I'd rather die

Inityxon Wikipedia: Sandbox

> so we’ll basically reinvent Lisp expressions, but worse

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenspun%27s_tenth_rule

Inityxon Ask HN: Is your email inbox also filled with Zendesk reply spam?

I'm on Gmail and getting flooded with it... About half of it is going to the Spam folder, which makes me wonder how it decides which of them are likely spam, since they're all very similar content-wise.

Inityxon As AI gobbles up chips, prices for devices may rise

> Compute keeps getting vastly cheaper and more capable; AI speeds that up.

???

Inityxon Is Mozilla trying hard to kill itself?

For me:

- Enable Color Management and HDR display on non-MacOS platforms

- Play HDR video

- Support common and rising media codecs and container formats (HEVC, MKV, JXL)

- Support WebXR properly on desktop

Inityxon I ignore the spotlight as a staff engineer

Do they even do cost-of-living raises anymore? When I was at FAANG, my raises in the same role didn't even match inflation.

Inityxon Rust in Android: move fast and fix things

Not to mention out-of-bounds access, uninitialized memory, invalid type casting, and a ton of insidious sources of undefined behavior

Inityxon Rust in Android: move fast and fix things

I don't think materially contrasting yourself with your direct competition quite constitutes a "feud war"

Inityxon You will own nothing and be (un)happy

Congratulations, I guess? Not everybody is lucky enough to be in your situation.

Inityxon Affinity Studio now free

If you're not paying, you are the product.

Inityxon Nano Banana image examples

"Solved" is a strong word...

Inityxon John Carmack's arguments against building a custom XR OS at Meta

I'll offer a different interpretation:

If a professional can't give critical feedback in a professional setting without being rude or belittling others, then they need to improve their communication skills.

Inityxon StarDict sends X11 clipboard to remote servers

> But the plugin actually reaches out to its backend servers — dict.youdao.com and dict.cn — over unsecured HTTP.

What year is it?

Inityxon Ultrathin business card runs a fluid simulation

My defaults are sans-serif Helvetica or Roboto, serif Roboto Serif, and monospace Fira Code

Inityxon A new PNG spec

Asset pipelines for media creation benefit greatly from better compression of lossless images and video

Inityxon Jonathan Blow on Removing Dependencies

This sure does attribute a lot to malice what could be adequately explained by stupidity.

Inityxon Perverse incentives of vibe coding

If you consider your marriage or your kids to be a gamble, that's a sign that you shouldn't get married or have kids.

Inityxon I asked police to send me their public surveillance footage of my car

If we haven't managed to stop them brutalizing and killing unethically yet, then I don't think we'll stop them violating privacy unethically any time soon.

Inityxon Linux kernel 6.14 is a big leap forward in performance and Windows compatibility

Well, one of the biggest drivers of consumer Linux adoption in recent years has been the Steam Deck, and compatibility with Steam games. The article explicitly calls out how this improves performance for this use case. I think your opinion is an unpopular one.

Inityxon FFmpeg School of Assembly Language

Now that's what I call an unpopular opinion.

Inityxon Windows 7 boots slower if you set a solid background color

I use Middle Gray at work, and everyone thinks I'm weird for it

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_gray

Inityxon Former Google CEO blames remote work for company's struggles

> Never have I, in my development career, been so overloaded with assignments as to be continuously engaged with actual work.

You must not have been working for Amazon then.

Inityxon Riven

I'm not sure that holds anymore, since that article is 6 years old now and Obduction is coming up on 8... Better to compare it to the upcoming Riven remake: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1712350/Riven/

Inityxon Real-time map of every Starlink satellite in orbit

Bringing certainly would be. Selling, however...