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New comment by rootext in "AAA – Analytical Anti-Aliasing"

rootext — Wed, 20 Nov 2024 13:49:21 +0000

Awesome article.

SDF(or mSDF) isn't the future. It's already "good enough" classic.

> This works, but performance tanks hard, as we solve every > bezier curve segment per pixel

This is "the future" or even present as used in Slug and DirectWrite with great performance

https://sluglibrary.com/ https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/directwrite/...

New comment by rootext in "Svelte 5 Released"

rootext — Sat, 19 Oct 2024 23:12:26 +0000

https://component-party.dev/compare/svelte4-vs-svelte5 best format to compare to my mind

New comment by rootext in "PEP 686 – Make UTF-8 mode default"

rootext — Fri, 26 Apr 2024 14:00:15 +0000

It seems you are mixing two things: inner string representation and read/write encoding. Java has never used UTF-16 as default for the second.

New comment by rootext in "Deadcode: Finding unreachable functions in Go"

rootext — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 19:45:45 +0000

Dart compiler does it, as I know.

New comment by rootext in "Aegis Authenticator – Secure 2FA App for Android"

rootext — Wed, 02 Nov 2022 22:09:59 +0000

You can import/export to Google Authenticator only and you must have two phones. You cannot backup QR codes because screenshot is forbidden for security reason. You cannot migrate to another application.

New comment by rootext in "GraphQL kinda sucks"

rootext — Sat, 06 Aug 2022 16:20:16 +0000

> It doesn't support map/tables/dictionaries. This is actually huge.

It's actually easy to implement. Just define custom scalar type: scalar JSON type MyObject { myField: JSON }

https://www.apollographql.com/docs/apollo-server/schema/cust...