cout970

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[–] cout970@programming.dev 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I don't use Windows anymore, but I understand if you have to. Recently I found this alternative to the windows explorer build from the ground up to be as efficient as possible https://filepilot.tech/ It's a cool project from a great programmer that has a presentation on the Better Software Conference showing how it works underneath. It uses older windows API functions that apparently are way faster than the modern alternatives.

[–] cout970@programming.dev 17 points 1 week ago

Reminds me of Serial Experiments Lain, an anime released in 1998 that talks about the power of social networks and how companies will compete to gain control of the internet. Some of the predictions are outstandingly good.

[–] cout970@programming.dev 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

1000x over a really inefficient type of solar panel, no comparison with the modern silicon panels, that article is trash.

Modern solar panels are cheap and efficient enough, the issue is energy storage, still expensive and unviable for large scale.

[–] cout970@programming.dev 7 points 11 months ago

Thats an issue with the time library, not with timestamps. Actually timestamps are always in UTC, you need to do the conversion to your local time when displaying the value. There should be no possible off-by-one errors, unless you are doing something really wrong.

[–] cout970@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You should check out Ladybird browser, it's an impressive piece work, it's definitely no ready for everyday use, but it is proof that a small community can develop and maintain a project as complex and large as a browser.

It is probably the only browser in active development that is not being paid by Google, even Firefox gets most of its income from defaulting the search engine to Google

[–] cout970@programming.dev 13 points 1 year ago

"Improve performance by removing a function that never did anything" the story of my life

[–] cout970@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

so are we a mixture of experts too?

[–] cout970@programming.dev 20 points 2 years ago

"Some of you will die, but don't worry I have plenty to spare"

[–] cout970@programming.dev 10 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Kotlin without a doubt.

Gives you more flexibility and freedom that most scripting languages. The syntax is clean and concise, the tooling is amazing and can compile to JVM, JS, Native and WASM.