Someone with the right mindset needs to be there providing guidance and architectural input.

And even then that's not enough. Something like a super extensive testing set like in SQLite is the best we can do.

Written in C++ and Slint, it was also a testbed of slint as an UI framework. Having used wxWidgets in the past, and Qt recently, it is certainly a different thing. I just wish there was a native C++ alternative to slint.

I need to integrate the CI to produce binaries, but you can compile it yourself for now.

Shit bloated code is one of the reasons Epic Launcher is extremely behind in market share when compared to Steam.

Sure, they ship their product fast. They can iterate faster than Valve. They also add technical debt with each iteration.

Also: we are almost all using a Chrome derived browser instead of Firefox, old IE, old Opera, because of performance and quality. They just won the internet because of the quality of their code. Besides that, all browsers let you browse the internet.

When people can choose, they choose quality most of the time.

Meaning: these 5000 tokens consume tiny amounts of energy being moved all around from the data center to your PC, but enormous amounts of energy being generated at all. An equivalent webpage with the same amount of text as these tokens would be perceived as instant in any network configuration. Just some kilobytes of text. Much smaller than most background graphics. The two things can't be compared at all.

However, just last week there have been huge improvements on the hardware required to run some particular models, thanks to some very clever quantisation. This lowers the memory required 6x in our home hardware, which is great.

In the end, we spent more energy playing videogames during the last two decades, than all this AI craze, and it was never a problem. We surely can run models locally, and heat our homes in winter.

It's comparing cables, which everyone with some experience knows they make no difference.

I expected something more substantial, like a comparison of different IEM price tiers, or a comparison of different DAC chips, or something else that actually matters.

Same as in Windows. It just makes sense.

It's an important idea in computer science. Go and learn.

And people say C++ is dead and everything must be done in Electron because developers are expensive and computers are cheap.

This here, is the reason performance matters and fast development time is not always the answer if the competition is strong and their product is high quality.

(Rust and friends are also good solutions.)

I am using Amberol, it looks just amazing in a modern desktop and plays my FLAC collection.

About using the command line... I just type open musicfile.flac and it works. Opening another file adds it to the reproduction queue.

Oracle is a prime example of this. Stored procedures are the place to put all business logic according to Oracle documentation.

This caused backslash from escaping developers who then declared business logic should never be inside the database. To avoid vendor lock-in.

There's no ideal solution, just tradeoffs.