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Re:Rust is Not so Hairy on Tuesday June 19, 2018 @03:04AM (#17344373)
How does it compare against c/c++ in terms of performance ?
Re:Make. It. Simple. Linux Desktop Usability on Tuesday June 19, 2018 @02:57AM (#17344350)
Give it a try to "kde neon".
Re:AMD Zen 2 Update: 7nm EPYC in Labs Now, Launching in 2019 on Wednesday June 06, 2018 @02:50PM (#17249915)
Intel could ultimately try to make their processors using the other foundries until they get their tech sorted out. If I'm not wrong Samsung sells phones with Qualcomm processors and, consumers don't care much about that.
Re:AMD Zen 2 Update: 7nm EPYC in Labs Now, Launching in 2019 on Wednesday June 06, 2018 @02:40PM (#17249833)
Thanks for sharing this story!
Re:Arm unveils 7nm Cortex-A76 CPU on Tuesday June 05, 2018 @01:44PM (#17240172)
I wonder how much can actually be optimized due the reduced number of instructions found in risc processors. Is is the case if they need some special instructions they can still fit them in an arm processor ?
Re:Arm unveils 7nm Cortex-A76 CPU on Tuesday June 05, 2018 @03:27AM (#17235601)
Looking online about this company. Apple has acquired pa-semi for $278m in 2008 which translated in having the fasted arm processor by a wide margin a decade later, definitely paid out very well.
Re:Arm unveils 7nm Cortex-A76 CPU on Tuesday June 05, 2018 @02:17AM (#17235372)
I wanna see a realistic benchmark that compares it against intel's x86 i"X" (6th, 7th, 8th gen) to decide if it can be called a laptop class processor in first place... BTW, it's interesting to see how good apple is in designing their custom Arm processors.
Re:Rumor: Running iOS Apps on Macs on Thursday May 31, 2018 @09:57PM (#17202018)
Most of productive apps are web based these days. It seems like the desktop era has long gone.
I was not aware about this project. Noted!
Re:Using C++17 std::optional on Tuesday May 08, 2018 @02:40AM (#17019264)
c++ has been evolving so fast recently. Pretty sure it's going to be around for the next decades still.
Re: on Monday May 07, 2018 @01:41AM (#17010615)
Very questionable dependency choices used in the project for instance by choosing "wxwidgets, freeimage and xml" instead of "qt, openimageio and "json/yaml" raises a concern about the project. For anyone interested in this subject please take a look at appleseed (https://appleseedhq.net) and cycles (https://www.cycles-renderer.org)
Re:Hello Qt for Python on Sunday May 06, 2018 @11:11PM (#17010154)
Those errors are always related with a bad implementation where there is something holding a reference to the qt python object represented by the bidding therefore keeping it alive even when their c++ instance has been already deleted. The solution is to go back to the drawing board and improve the implementation :)
Re:Hello Qt for Python on Sunday May 06, 2018 @01:59AM (#17005427)
Most interfaces created through web technology would be incredibly hard and slow to do using pyside/pyqt. We take for granted the non-blocking aspect of javasript where in python in order to make a slick interface would require to deal with threads/GIL in a much slower interpreted language compared with javascript running on V8.

Qt (Qt Desktop) bindings for python are welcome. But, it's not a suitable for a viable replacement for electron. Maybe Qt Quick, but even qt quick has some decisions that can make incredibly uncomfortable to use in large applications.

Re:Hello Qt for Python on Sunday May 06, 2018 @01:34AM (#17005366)
more exactly “underlying C/C++ object has been deleted" error.
market saturation ?
Re:From Microsoft to Apple, and Back Again on Tuesday April 24, 2018 @02:47AM (#16910444)
You are creating a case to justify your overpriced windows laptop.

Linux <3

BTW they need to bring back the previous generation keyboard with a descent key travel.