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Re:Dcmake: A new CMake debugger UI on Sunday April 12, 2026 @02:10AM (#47736609)
One of the challenges with using ImGui is that it is designed for game engines which always render a new frame each update of the game loop.

You can setup your ImGui program to only render new frames when there are new input events or your UI changes, but that’s not what the AI generated.

As it is now, it will max out one CPU core at 100% redrawing the same frames since glfwPollEvents() was used in the main loop.

Re:Copilot Edited an Ad into My PR on Monday March 30, 2026 @06:11AM (#47572470)
I just started using it last week. So can’t comment on the reliability yet.
Re:Copilot Edited an Ad into My PR on Monday March 30, 2026 @03:12AM (#47571337)
Check out https://codefloe.com for private repos hosted with Forgejo. It is also free and hosted in the EU.
> when every data structure is COPIED on every function call

Swift structs use copy on write, so they aren’t actually copied on every function call.

Re:A programmer's guide to leaving GitHub on Wednesday February 04, 2026 @03:07AM (#46882918)
Hmm, so where he moved his repos to is S3, which is owned by Amazon, also one of the companies in the targeted in ICE Out of My Wallet boycott.
> Antitrust pressure has slowed consolidation, opened app distribution, killed the anti-competitive iMessage and AirDrop moats

iMessage is still only available on Apple hardware. Apple’s malicious compliance has made developing apps for third party app stores a no-go. I have AltStore installed but there are no apps worth installing.

Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025) on Monday December 15, 2025 @02:11AM (#46271306)
Is this only data for new rental contracts and doesn’t reflect data from older/existing contracts?

The prices match ImmoScout, but are insanely high above the Mietspiegel, and therefore not actually a legal rent.

Re:Engineers: Stop trying to win other people's game on Tuesday December 09, 2025 @01:09PM (#46208306)
You should learn whatever field you are interested in, doesn’t matter if others are already masters in that domain. You life shouldn’t be oriented around how you can be most appealing to capitalist companies, but instead what interests you.

Imagine telling students in school to not bother learning physics or calculus, as others have already mastered those fields.

Re:Programming peaked on Thursday December 04, 2025 @11:49AM (#46149690)
Now it’s about how the device can be programmed to spy and manipulate you so the company can extract more value for the shareholders.
> In Germany if you’re mid to high earner, a private insurance can cost you less than half than the public healthcare system and you get much better service. Starting with appointments with specialists, who always give preference to privately insured people.

The solution here is to get rid of private insurance in Germany and only have public. It creates a two class system and private is a terrible choice once you are older, as costs will skyrocket.

Re:Molly: An Improved Signal App on Friday November 28, 2025 @02:19PM (#46081850)
Molly is the American slang, Mandy is the UK slang for MDMA.
Re:Silicon Valley startups: being evil, again and again on Sunday November 23, 2025 @10:28AM (#46024270)
I think the main argument that it is theft, is that they contribute nothing to the continued surplus generated after their loan was repaid. So they effectively steal the profits like a parasite.

Why should they get ownership of the business? When you get a mortgage for your house, the bank doesn’t permanently own part of your house after you pay it off.

High quality hand made clothes still exist and people do want to pay for them. Mass produced clothing made in sweats shops are what the majority of the people buy because that is where the capitalist companies drove the production.
Re:Why Local-First Apps Haven't Become Popular? on Monday September 22, 2025 @12:12PM (#45335507)
Local first isn’t limited to web apps. It’s a style of application development in which you locally store and operate on the data rather than fetching it from a cloud backend every time. For native apps that means a local database or individual files on the file system.

> phoning home, telemetry, and other privacy violations; forced upgrades; closed source, etc.

This describes proprietary software developed by capitalist companies. This has nothing to do with local first.

Re:macOS becomes iOS: Safari video controls on Sunday September 21, 2025 @03:39AM (#45320847)
Mojave was the last macOS version that had any features I cared about. Now each release is about how bad did they trash the macOS UI. Switching to Linux has been great.
Re:Leaving Gmail for Mailbox.org on Sunday August 24, 2025 @02:39AM (#45001913)
You can turn this off in the settings and the spam will go in a Junk folder.

https://kb.mailbox.org/en/private/e-mail-article/customizing...

Re: on Tuesday August 05, 2025 @06:29AM (#44796363)
This is really bizarre, the decline of western quality life is caused by capitalism and wealth inequality. Coinbase is a massive Silicon Valley capitalist company.
Re:A brief history of Mac primary coding languages on Tuesday July 22, 2025 @02:34AM (#44643802)
You should check out Darling if you like Objective-C and Apple/macOS development. It is implementing a macOS translation layer on Linux. There is lots of work needed implementing Apple’s frameworks in Objective-C.

https://www.darlinghq.org/

Related to the LG TV size, isn’t the size the length of the diagonal? The author seemed to think it was the width of the screen.
Re:Unpopular Defaults for High-Performing Tech Organizations on Saturday March 08, 2025 @01:13PM (#43302149)
I never really understood company hackathons. Usually they involve people submitting their own ideas and trying to implement them in a crunch mode for some meager reward. This just comes off as the company trying to exploit people for new ideas rather than have a proper R&D department work on coming up with innovations.
Re:Americans Are Heading for the Exits on Sunday February 23, 2025 @04:12AM (#43147962)
Did he actually claim that? Would be a big win for American’s living aboard.
The solution is that banks should support any TOTP client for authentication and not just their proprietary app. So you can use open source software or a hardware key.
Apple could have disabled iCloud completely for UK users. This would protect both UK users and other users who’s data would also been captured in an iCloud backup.

They would lose some money on services, but would have been the better choice to stand up to the UK government and protect the UK users.

Actually I think you can backup and restore your iPhone on Linux using libimobiledevice. They reverse engineered the protocols for the backup and restore service running on your iPhone.

https://libimobiledevice.org/

While the salary will be lower, the cost of living in Europe is much cheaper than in the US. You also get much more via the social services and safety net (Public transportation, public health care, better worker’s rights and protections). In Europe there is also a much better mindset around work and it’s place in your life. Leading to a much better work life balance.
Re:Authoritarian Coups Are Gradual Then Sudden on Saturday February 01, 2025 @03:50AM (#42896931)
This reason is the same as everywhere in the west. Capitalism has created a massive wealth inequality where the normal person have less and less, with increasing costs they can’t afford.

Right wing parties come in and blame the immigrants as the reason for the decline. They offer simple answers rather than the hard truth that the system is inherently unfair and unjust.

The real solution is to move to a post capitalism economic system but no politicians from the mainstream parties are pushing for this as companies have to much influence and power in society.

Re:Why is Big Tech hellbent on making AI opt-out? on Thursday January 23, 2025 @10:57AM (#42805174)
I’m pretty sure AI won’t be crammed into any Linux distros against the wishes of users.
Or because for simple uses cases a 10 year old PC works just fine and there is no reason to upgrade.
Re:App Should Have Been a Website (and Probably Your Game Too) on Tuesday December 31, 2024 @08:40AM (#42558626)
Do you not have to search for the app on the app stores? How else is the app found?
I believe the Signal desktop app is an electron app. That’s probably why the updates are so big, has to update the bundled browser.

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