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Wayland Explorer

catfishx — Thu, 27 Apr 2023 10:07:50 +0000

Article URL: https://wayland.app/protocols/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35725801

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by catfishx in "Helix 23.03"

catfishx — Fri, 31 Mar 2023 10:56:09 +0000

I'm very excited about LSP snippet support, I will finally be able to use stuff like emmet on my svelte/html projects.

TextSynth Server

catfishx — Thu, 16 Mar 2023 11:05:33 +0000

Article URL: https://bellard.org/ts_server/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35180429

Points: 274

# Comments: 109

New comment by catfishx in "Disqualified from a National Web Design Competition for Using GitHub"

catfishx — Thu, 23 Feb 2023 11:19:36 +0000

You can also use GitHub copilot outside of a GitHub repository, and there would be no way to verify that

New comment by catfishx in "GitHub staff are required to use Teams by Sep 1, 2023"

catfishx — Tue, 14 Feb 2023 12:11:07 +0000

On my machine teams regularly eats up several gigabytes of ram, even when not interacting with it at all.

I generally don't care about applications using a lot of ram, but this is just too much for a program which I mostly use for text messaging.

New comment by catfishx in "Transmission v4.0"

catfishx — Wed, 08 Feb 2023 08:38:21 +0000

Rust evangelist strikeforce strikes again...

No seriously, I am a rustacean too, but please stop telling everyone to Rewrite everything in Rust (even if its only a joke), its becoming slightly annoying

New comment by catfishx in "Tell HN: Firefox Is an awesome browser right now"

catfishx — Fri, 03 Feb 2023 13:16:17 +0000

I have to use Chromium for MS teams unfortunately (calls and screen sharing are not allowed on FF)

New comment by catfishx in "Tell HN: Firefox Is an awesome browser right now"

catfishx — Fri, 03 Feb 2023 13:14:52 +0000

I think you got confused here, OP had the exact opposite experience

New comment by catfishx in "The Python Paradox (2004)"

catfishx — Fri, 27 Jan 2023 10:15:34 +0000

    > Rust makes enormous binaries

Rust binaries are optimized to be fast (by default, fast != small), this [0] explains pretty well why, and min-sized also has many optimizations [1].

    > and compiles slow

You can have a very slow compiler with all the optimizations and safety checks, or a fast one which doesn't. This however doesn't mean there is no room for improvement.

One thing that can definitely improved on is how cargo manages dependencies, I am tired of each of my project's /target directory using >2GB of disk space, there at least should be some kind of opt-in global cache.

I am also worried about dependencies going in the same direction as the JS ecosystem, many of my projects only have 3-5 top level dependencies, but I end up downloading hundreds. A few are only compile-time, but this makes auditing very difficult and does make compile times a lot longer.

[0]: https://lifthrasiir.github.io/rustlog/why-is-a-rust-executab... [1]: https://github.com/johnthagen/min-sized-rust

New comment by catfishx in "Using {blocks} in Rust and Go for fun and profit"

catfishx — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 13:49:29 +0000

In rust you can use these almost everywhere in place of an expression (if statements, while loops, in function arguments, etc). It can sometimes make code a bit unreadable to some people, but its still a cool feature imo.

New comment by catfishx in "TIPP10 – Free Touch Typing Tutor"

catfishx — Tue, 24 Jan 2023 13:25:32 +0000

Probably off-topic, but I recently made the stupid decision of learning dvorak while I had to get some important work done.

I am currently at: 1) I don't type dvorak fast enough which really reduces my motivation, but I'm getting faster pretty quickly 2) My qwerty typing skills have gotten even worse, I look a bit stupid when I try to fix problems on other computers at ~15 WPM.

Generally I don't regret starting to type dvorak, I just wish I had done it another time where typing slowly doesn't affect me as much.

New comment by catfishx in "Ask HN: Techwise, how did TikTok get so good?"

catfishx — Wed, 18 Jan 2023 09:49:04 +0000

Yes, no server. It runs somewhere up in the clouds!

New comment by catfishx in "Revisiting KDE"

catfishx — Mon, 16 Jan 2023 13:25:08 +0000

> Would really love kmail and the whole korganizer get a refresh

Korganizer is being rewritten as Kalendar: https://apps.kde.org/en-gb/kalendar/

New comment by catfishx in "Valve is paying open source developers to keep Steam Deck playable"

catfishx — Tue, 20 Dec 2022 13:12:56 +0000

Um, what? Is paying OSS devs something bad nowadays?

Do you think they created proton to Extend and then "extinguish" Steam (which they can't because it is proprietary) or what?

New comment by catfishx in "Apple is struggling to build Mac Pro based on its own silicon"

catfishx — Tue, 20 Dec 2022 10:23:56 +0000

Also the intercepting of the back button should be forbidden

New comment by catfishx in "Twitter policy page forbidding links to other social media removed"

catfishx — Mon, 19 Dec 2022 10:26:38 +0000

Is posting links to other platforms not considered free speech Mr. Musk?

New comment by catfishx in "Atom was archived today"

catfishx — Fri, 16 Dec 2022 08:35:57 +0000

AFAIK Typescript has no runtime impact on performance, the transpiled JS should be equally fast as the handwritten code

New comment by catfishx in "Atom was archived today"

catfishx — Fri, 16 Dec 2022 08:32:28 +0000

You are saying an IDE (of which there are many wayyy better) is as equally important as a technology which helped save thousands of lives? Do you really think VSCode is an equally big achievement as building space stations?

peoples lives are more important than a few hours of a programmers life getting used to vim (or any other non VSCode editor)

EDIT: Even millions, and thats only one of thousand technologies that improve our life (expectancy)

New comment by catfishx in "Rust: State of GUI, December 2022"

catfishx — Thu, 15 Dec 2022 10:22:05 +0000

Um, what? Thats like saying "My favourite car is and always be my bike"

New comment by catfishx in "Twitter has re-suspended ElonJet account"

catfishx — Thu, 15 Dec 2022 09:44:24 +0000

I thought this was about following his private jet, not his car, or did I miss something?