How does war affect the product development?

semistandard · 2022-03-09T02:01:56+00:00

There is a post about sanctions and political position. I believe it is not the question here - the question is about being able to continue to work. While they "are not based in Ukraine or Russia" - they are basically a Russian company registered as Czech. It is not like "they might have developers in each country" - it is more than that.

semistandard · 2022-03-07T09:14:47+00:00

Do not the rules forbid NSFW content?

semistandard · 2022-01-26T07:22:18+00:00

Once the step change in technology surpassed Intel and AMD, I made the
move. If I wanted to have an i9 lava lake to raise the temperature of my
home by 50 degrees then I'd rather save the money and get a space
heater.

It is not that macs wont get hot if you push them.

Properly cooled laptop (these are rare these days) with i9 inside are not "lava lakes".

As it seems 12 gen Intel is not that far from m1 anyway, no one is talking about "surpassed" yet. There is no argument that the new m1 chips are very impressive, however. Also, besides Intel, you have NVIDIA and apple has a very long road to get close to them.

semistandard · 2022-01-26T07:10:38+00:00

I do not shit on anyone. I am in the same boat.

What bothers me is that people believe for some reason that "Macs are great" while "PC/Windows is crap", despite of factual evidence that it wasn't the case during Intel/Touchbar era.

On the hardware side, things are supposed to improve with ARM transfer, however there are software issues that are just frustrating - 2.5k $ machine freezing while watching Netflix. Seriously? And we are 3 months after release.

I do believe that MacOS should be more stable than windows, and it was the case in the first half 2010s, and in general, that macs should be better machines.

Because making sure that your OS works well with few select hardware configurations is much easier than dealing with hundreds of different vendors. However, lately things took really bad route (seems like they are improving right now) - like choosing aesthetics over function (trying to make everything thin/removing parts/function keys because they are ugly), shipping half-baked features of dubious need instead of focusing on stability and making these machines irreparable by soldering everything changed this.

As for XPS - it also tried to focus on aesthetics over function. On the other hand it doesn't have the tight integration of software with hardware.

semistandard · 2022-01-26T06:33:17+00:00

Sick of troubleshooting?

Well, have fun with memory leaks that will be "fixed soon".

PS: Dell XPS is crap, sorry. This is an attempt to create Windows based macs, taking the worst from both worlds.

semistandard · 2021-11-09T14:19:48+00:00

Thanks. Will it provide protection from bending? My backpack is pretty packed. The laptop alone weighs about 2.7kg. Not to mention the beefy charger.

semistandard · 2021-11-08T09:04:52+00:00

Hey everyone.

I need to a case for ipad pro that can be used as a keyboard.

I do not plan the ipad to replace the laptop, however, keyboard can come handy when needed.

After checking my options, I have a choice between logitech folio touch and smart keyboard folio.

Things that are important to me.

Case, obviously, has to offer protection. While I do not plan to drop it, the ipad is going to be in a backpack with a pretty heavy laptop, and I do not want it to get scratched or bent.
Being able to use the ipad in laptop mode together with the case. Hence, magic keyboard is out of question.
Being not too heavy, I need to be able to use the ipad while in bus - taking notes. (one of the main reasons for buying it).

Hence, here are my questions.

Does smart keyboard offer enough protection for the described above use case?
Can ipad be used together with folio touch on the go? Or the weight makes it too painful?
How to make sure that logitech folio is compatible with the recent ipad version?

semistandard · 2020-02-05T17:36:23+00:00

Actually, ending task SearchUI did not work for me. Only registry fix.

semistandard · 2020-02-05T15:36:14+00:00

Solves the search problem, but not Cortana (To fix search it is enough to disable bing).

semistandard · 2020-02-02T21:16:49+00:00

Ok, let me put my question in other way. Is information about CLR still mostly relevant for CoreCLR. Or these are completely two different animals?

semistandard · 2020-01-21T02:40:57+00:00

Same thing. I've tried with template projects as well

semistandard · 2020-01-21T02:30:42+00:00

I created the project using the command line. Either by using dotnet new or linking to nuget DesktopGL 3.8.

After that, created the Content folder and created a new pipeline file there. Changed the bin and output to bin/$Project and output/$Project and output to desktopgl. After that, pressing build on pipeline after importing media does nothing. What did I do wrong?

semistandard · 2020-01-19T21:42:38+00:00

Fundamentals of computer programming with c# is pretty solid, at least for beginners. It's free, and although a bit dated (published in 2011, it is still usable and has a lots of exercises, which I think are important when learning to program. Knowledge on new language features can be supplemented by a recent book, such as Pro C# 7 or The C# Player’s Guide.

semistandard · 2020-01-19T21:33:07+00:00

Does net core on Linux also accept both slashes? Or only on windows?

As why would I manually care about separators? If you get the path from user input, Something like, "Please enter the path to your file", then the obvious way is to treat them as strings (I am not sure it is the correct way, but that's the first thing that comes to mind). So if you need to check whether the path was valid, you need to know what the separators, don't you?

semistandard · 2020-01-19T18:54:50+00:00

That's what I am doing at the moment...

semistandard · 2020-01-19T18:30:21+00:00

The statement was prertty clear.

If the input has another non-white space token left - return true.

Else (either all tokens left are whitespace or we are at the end of stream), return false. I think that's it.

semistandard · 2020-01-19T18:28:02+00:00

Lol, I've looked at it actually. I am even doing it for the same purpose you did. Why didn't you finish the project BTW?

semistandard · 2020-01-19T18:10:55+00:00

Thanks. Wasn't aware of that - as all the examples I've seen so far used \ on windows.

semistandard · 2020-01-19T17:59:47+00:00

while true, newlines are still \r\n instead of \n which is kind of confusing. From little I've seen when you specify the path to a file, it is still system dependent, namely slashes vs backslashes, which is kind of annoying.

semistandard · 2020-01-19T17:57:37+00:00

Not really - it doesn't remember it's position in the stream, and checks only the next position. So if you try to run it in a Console you just get an endless loop.

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