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> ... native Delphi apps for Windows, macOS, iOS, and Android.
In early 2000s there was Borland Kylix for Linux. Thus today (25 years later), if I'd use Object Pascal, then with Lazarus.
Classic GTK is (much) better (RSS on Linux):
GTK2 14 MB
GTK3 24 MB
Once it was decided that a desktop application must have fancy animation effects (like on smartphones) and be rendered completely on GPU things got very different: GTK4 98 MBInstead of Raspi I've got a N100 uATX mainboard with N100 (120 EUR). Fortunately it does work with normal 32GB DIMM (55 EUR, those were the days!). But I'm still missing a pico-PSU, which can be powered directly from 220V (for reasonable costs).
Similar happened already with OVH Canada vs France.
> In an affidavit, Xavier Barriere, corporate counsel at OVH in Paris, describes the dramatic situation: If the important proponent of European data sovereignty were to comply with the Canadian order, those responsible in France would be committing a criminal offense. They face up to six months in prison and fines of up to 90,000 euros per violation. However, if OVH ignores the Canadian court, it faces contempt of court proceedings in Ontario, which can also lead to severe sanctions.
https://www.heise.de/en/news/Canadian-Court-OVHcloud-from-Fr...
And one comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46060903
example-0.c (fits both GTK3 and GTK4) from https://docs.gtk.org/gtk4/getting_started.html
I'm watching how with more sun, oeko-energy price keeps growing (despite every summer before it was cheaper):
https://www.naturstrom.de/privatkunden/oekostrom/naturstrom-...
> image
> Energiepreise der letzten 12 Monate
> Grundpreis: 15,54 € / Monat
Interesting, how costly would be hardware acceleration support for Fil-C code.
Looking at e.g. STM32H755: 1x Cortex-M7 480 MHz, 1x Cortex-M4 240 MHz, USB2, 100 Mbit Ethernet, DAC.
Comparing to AM6421: 1x Cortex-A53 1GHz, 2x Cortex-R5F 800MHz, 1x Cortex-M4F 400MHz, 2x PRU, USB3, 1 Gbit Ethernet, PCIe Gen2.
I can hardly believe STM32H755 microcontroller is almost so costly as AM6421 SoC.
> or your real-time deadlines are so tight an FPGA would be a better choice
That's why I'd say Cortex-M fits well for a very-very good soft real-time (99.99+%). But for hard real-time (100%) you need an FPGA.
Is it worth to compare Wayland vs X11?
When I need to compare large text files I use diffuse instead of meld.
Shouldn't it be: no more negligible manufacturing / assembly tolerances instead? I mean, when I turn PC on, the temperature of all components is 20 C, the training is done at almost this temperature. But then the PC can work for months with much more higher memory controller and DRAM chips temperatures.
For a 127 EUR Samsung A17 up to 6 OS and security updates (6 years) are advertised. For a Google Pixel up to 7 updates. How long is it for Apple?
"Debian GNOME team announces intent to remove GTK 2 in Debian 14" (08.01.2026)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46548257
P.S. Still hope GNOME maintainers let other volunteers maintain GTK 2.
lenta.ru ? (aha, management personnel has been replaced 2014 [1])
[1] https://t.me/systemasystema/89 [RU]
and unfortunately increase latency even more with registered DIMMs. Comparing bandwidth increase (50 GB/s) to the stagnated latency (~80..120 ns total, less than ~0.1 GB/s) over last decades, I'm wondering, whether one still can call today's RAM random memory (though sure it can be accessed randomly). Similar to hard disk drives. Up to 300 MB/s sequentially but only up to less than 1 MB/s 4KB random (read).
Considering the level of the API. But it is total opposite comparing a bit deeper. Linux has a famous rule "WE DO NOT BREAK USERSPACE!" e.g. [1].
with all optimizations disabled:
> Even with all optimizations enabled, it outputs less efficient code than GCC with all optimizations disabled.
Implemented like any custom GTK+ 2 widget?
[1] https://github.com/Ardour/ardour/tree/9.0/libs/tk/ytk
[2] https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-list/2002-March/msg00136...
I was glad after discovering [1]. In one of the videos the interviewer explains, why he was not arrested. The channel is for English-speaking auditory outside of Russia. It was enough to "close eyes" for some openly expressed critiques. Though it was painfully to listen to some people who were not against the war.
"Say" in the sense of demonstrate peacefully for this? Then I'm impressed. If someone else can confirm this? Is this because of USA being a federal union? Before Ukraine declared independence, there were voices to make Ukraine a federal state, so that people in the West part of Ukraine can live their way of life and people living 1600 km (!) away in the East and Southern parts would be not much affected from that and vice versa. Voices for the unitary state were stronger because of stability of the state. Would be interesting to see some documentary "what if", whether a federal state would be more stable against pulling from the west (Europe, US) and the east (Russia).
- Ukraine for Donbas
Which is so much weaker than all others. There are Ukrainians, Russians, Chinese, Tibetans. But there is no such ethnicity as People of Donbas.
OTOH in a democratic state you're still have the right to demonstrate peacefully for whatever you want, even if it doesn't make much sense. But would you allowed to demonstrate in Ukraine for Donbas independence if they are considered separatists according to the law?
- US arguing for independence of any of the States for whatever reasons?
- Spain for Catalonia?
- France for Basque?
and many more just in Europe.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_active_separatist_move...