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New comment by sunflowerdeath in "Gyroflow: An open source advanced gyro-based video stabilization tool"

sunflowerdeath — Fri, 16 Jun 2023 20:07:00 +0000

Just tried it on some random GoPro footage and was very impressed! First - by the quality of stabilization. It is if not better then at the same level as in Gopro itself (which is considered having best e-stabilisation on the market). And second, that now I can shoot with disabled stabilization and choose amount of crop in post. I know that Sony offers similar thing with Catalyst Browse, but it is very unconvenient to use additional application to render stabilized footage, here I can just use plugin for Davinci and have seamless workflow.

New comment by sunflowerdeath in "You might not need an ORM"

sunflowerdeath — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 15:49:56 +0000

I saw arguments against ORMs a lot of times, but what about the opposite - you might not need raw SQL and ORM might work just fine?

New comment by sunflowerdeath in "Replace the “very” in your sentence"

sunflowerdeath — Fri, 14 Oct 2022 13:22:24 +0000

No, I'd rather spend my time doing something useful than looking for replacements for words.

New comment by sunflowerdeath in "OCaml 5.0 Alpha Release"

sunflowerdeath — Wed, 15 Jun 2022 14:41:37 +0000

But wait, OCaml is not just a functional language, even the "O" in its name stands for "Objective".

New comment by sunflowerdeath in "OCaml 5.0 Alpha Release"

sunflowerdeath — Wed, 15 Jun 2022 11:49:53 +0000

For almost as long as I've been programming, I find Ocaml a fantastic language, which just lacked some development tools and improved concurrency. I still believe that under the right circumstances it could become a mainstream language.

New comment by sunflowerdeath in "I want an iPhone Mini-sized Android phone"

sunflowerdeath — Tue, 17 May 2022 22:09:20 +0000

And I want IPad Mini-sized Android tablet, but for some reason all compact tablets have terrible performance, and because of this you have to use a large phone to watch videos or play games.

New comment by sunflowerdeath in "The Unlicense is an inferior license wrapped in an atrocious name"

sunflowerdeath — Fri, 04 Mar 2022 17:39:17 +0000

"You can't dedicate something to the public domain in my country" - that's the whole point of Unlicense. Yes, I can do it, in my country, in your country, in any other country, and even on Mars. And I don't need an approval of any authority to be able to do it. The problem is not that I can't do it, the problem is that countries refuse to acknowledge that fact.

New comment by sunflowerdeath in "The Unlicense is an inferior license wrapped in an atrocious name"

sunflowerdeath — Fri, 04 Mar 2022 14:22:04 +0000

In the License section I write this text - "Public domain, see the LICENCE file.", and in the text of the license itself the word "unlicense" is also nowhere used.

New comment by sunflowerdeath in "The Unlicense is an inferior license wrapped in an atrocious name"

sunflowerdeath — Fri, 04 Mar 2022 14:12:37 +0000

I use it and will continue to use it because it most accurately reflects my intentions for my software. If some organization can't comply with it, it's worse for them. They should change, not me.

New comment by sunflowerdeath in "Make Linux look like Windows 95"

sunflowerdeath — Sat, 26 Feb 2022 07:00:15 +0000

Now I regret a little bit that I have switched from linux to a macbook

New comment by sunflowerdeath in "Why the West is reluctant to deny Russian banks access to SWIFT"

sunflowerdeath — Fri, 25 Feb 2022 16:27:34 +0000

People fear being jailed, tortured and having their lives ruined by its own government much more than any consequences of economic sanctions.

New comment by sunflowerdeath in "Why the West is reluctant to deny Russian banks access to SWIFT"

sunflowerdeath — Fri, 25 Feb 2022 15:46:14 +0000

For me it looks like all of those banking / swift sanctions will mostly affect regular russian people and small businesses, who will not be able to work with foreign markets. Russian goverment will continue to trade oil and gas like nothing happenned, and will find way to trade other goods through non-Western countries like China. And sanctions regarding high-tech export will take many many months to have an effect. Honestly, it looks like western countries try to decieve people, that they are actively helping to solve this situation, but actually want to leave everything as it is.

New comment by sunflowerdeath in "Ask HN: Why is there no small Android phone?"

sunflowerdeath — Sun, 20 Feb 2022 13:44:15 +0000

Same reason there is almost no phones with clean android - manufacturers focus on marketing and follow easiest path, instead of really caring about users needs.

New comment by sunflowerdeath in "Apple M1 Max Geekbench Score"

sunflowerdeath — Thu, 21 Oct 2021 01:46:16 +0000

Also, the 3090 costs almost like the whole macbook

New comment by sunflowerdeath in "Parcel 2 Beta 3 – improved build performance"

sunflowerdeath — Thu, 20 May 2021 17:19:10 +0000

Obviously, it's great that we get tools that provides such improvements, but somehow I feel that JS should not be that slow. I expect it to be about 3 to 5 times slower than lower-level languages, but when the difference exceeds 10 times, it means that the Babel's code is not written very efficiently. Another thing, is that usually you only need to optimize a few critical places, and that will give the biggest improvement. So I wonder if it is possible to optimize or rewrite some parts of Babel into a faster language, but keep all of its extensibility and ecosystem. Maybe projects like esbuild or swc will provide insights for Babels' team.

New comment by sunflowerdeath in "Why we switched from Webpack to Vite"

sunflowerdeath — Wed, 28 Apr 2021 20:04:11 +0000

I have tried to use esbuild, and over the past 3 months I had at least a dozen times when it has compiled incorrect code that doesn't work or doesn't do what it's supposed to do. So despite the performance benefits, I was forced to go back to webpack, babel, and terser.

New comment by sunflowerdeath in "How Safe Is Zig?"

sunflowerdeath — Mon, 22 Mar 2021 16:00:03 +0000

I think, it is very important, that people started to actually discuss and compare different approaches to safety, instead of just saying that since Rust is safer, we should throw out all of c/c++ code and rewrite everything in rust.

New comment by sunflowerdeath in "Apple Silicon M1: Black Magic Fuckery"

sunflowerdeath — Wed, 25 Nov 2020 01:25:45 +0000

This is not only Apple. All modern mobile ARM processors, ones that are used in Androids, too, they all are far ahead of Intel in TDP to performance ratio, almost by order of magnitude. Just make bigger ARM chips with more high-perf cores, and they will destroy Intel.

New comment by sunflowerdeath in "C++ Lightweight, cross-platform, HTML rendering engine for desktop apps"

sunflowerdeath — Fri, 28 Aug 2020 09:52:12 +0000

Revery is fully native and doesn't use parts of web platform. It uses ReasonML, that is dialect of OCaml and has its own implementation of platform and renderer.

New comment by sunflowerdeath in "C++ Lightweight, cross-platform, HTML rendering engine for desktop apps"

sunflowerdeath — Fri, 28 Aug 2020 09:44:36 +0000

It looks strange to me that it tries to use HTML, because then it should be compatible with Web APIs and should render the same. Then it would be basically a browser, not very different from what is used today in Electron. But if it will differ from Web platform, why not to just make lightweight alternative DOM-like API.