Never heard of Bun or Jarred before today
I enjoyed his blog post about the migration to rust, it is an impressive feat if real ! I didnt see anything bad about Zig in the post, on the contrary it shows respect and that big projects can be done in Zig
Next, I read Andrew's post, and the thing I see is: Jarred looks like an achiever, Andrew more like a butthurt childish whiner
I also can see why Jarred made the migration, it is not only technical, and it was a great call IMHO
You are missing the big picture here
The AI literally was able to do a year's work of a top notch developer team in just 11 days (mainly because of a lot of human intervention, otherwise it would have been faster)
Why do you think its cant or wont be able to replace the lead developer and/or designer's 11 day job !
and btw, if it can write code, it can write tests and test suite
Ai has come a long way, 2 years ago, this task would be impossible ! 1 year ago, it would hit a dead-end in the first hours of the execution
This blog post is nothing short of an amazing and fascinating tale, yet in some aspect very very scary ...
I have a similar generic receiver, with some "not genuine" hardware ID.
I just force select & install the signed microsoft drivers. The trick works in all versions of windows that I tried.
Ive been using Openwith on firefox and chrome, and it works flawlessly
It needs a launcher (aka native host client) to start the 3rd party app, in this case mpv with the correct arguments.
The launcher is technically only started (then immediatly terminates) when you trigger the openwith action, so no memory/cpu overhead.
The official openwith solution is a python script (requires python), for windows there is a native and lightweight launcher: owclauncher
With this setup, you can launch any action with a simple right click: play in mpv, play in low resolution in mpv, download video/audio with youtube-dl, play in 2nd screen ...
I actually tested gnome and didnt like it.(I cant recall the exact reasons)
I also spent considerable time with other DMs (kde5, lxde and unity), and ended up liking xfce
I think its a shame that the linux desktop software is so fragmented.
Sometime, I fantasize about a parallel world, with a parallel linux trovalds working solely and maintaining THE linux desktop manager
I used the default window manager that comes with xfce.
I tried setting up other window managers in xfce, and come to the conclusion it is not straightfoward, and the integration with the rest of the system is not perfect.
Also it was a feeling of imperfection that pushed me back (I am sure you can setup the linux desktop for your liking if you tried enough)
I've tried using linux desktop for daily use multiple times.
Xfce was usually my choice for its simplicity and snappiness.
But, there was this 1 simple thing that made me lose faith in the linux desktop:
For xfce's default folder viewer: Thunar, there was no possibility to adjust a per-folder view settings.
At first I did not beleive it, but there were multiple discussion complaining about the same issue, including a 12-years old bug report(https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3521 )
For a desktop manager endorsed by major distrubitions, I find this to be mind blowing and enraging.
It gave me the feeling that linux desktop is an un-finisehd, unpolished, hacky piece of software
There is much direct and easier way to pass a link or the current page's URL to an external program using "open with" browser addon + owclauncher
(https ://github.com/mbooga/owclauncher)
I've been using a combination of firefox/chrome with youtube-dl/mpv+youtube-dl for a while
This comes very handy for playing high quality youtube videos on low end machines or downloading audio+/-video directly from youtube.
On the pre-webextension era of firefox/chrome , "open with" addon was the perfect fit.
Now, a special native messaging app needs to be installed to launch mpv/youtube-dl
"Open with" addon solved this by a python script (that obviously required installing python, and few other steps)
I decided to create a new tool to make this step easier and faster on windows: owclauncher[1]
Basically a lightweight native messaging host for "open with" addon: it is not running on the background, and only started (and immediatly terminated) by the browser when passing a command to any other program
You can check and compile the source code or the .bat windows installer/uninstaller
Being an old RAC then vWorker freelancer, I totally share weland's view.
Lately, I restarted on freelancer.com, and the amount of WTF moments that I faced are quite substantial. Let me give you a summary (and why I decided to move to elance):
-- The worker being constantly extorted in every corner of the site:
-Pay $5 in order to take a test.
-Pay more $ to get your bid in the first row/highlighted
-Pay some $ to unlock more BidsPerMonth and Skills
-Pay upfront 10% of every job you are awarded, even if the employer is determined to scam you and never pay
-What about a constant Ad to remind you that you can always choose to pay more.
...
-- Milestone payment is not defaulted, if the employer didnt made a milestone payment, we couldn't care less, we wont give you back the initial 10% fee (even if both agree to cancel), and you'll have a permanent "Work in Progress" job in your profile (until you decide to constantly harass the support team and wait few weeks)
--The website is a hassle:
- Everything is dynamically processed, slow loading, excessively simplified, and most pages cant be bookmarked
- Using game mechanism to motivate workers is interesting(levels, badges, XP points ...), but most of it is actually useless/funny (Exp: 78000 credit point to have a 20min call with the CEO)
I'm sure this is not the perfect answer since hotspotshield redirect somehow google search pages and force ads on every page.
But you can get the ads away with a simple rule in .hosts file.
Privoxy can add another layer of ad protection.
I have been using RAC sporadically for 2 years now, but didnt even manage to make the tenth of that number !
Do you have a suggestion/advice on how to boost my business ?
and how do you know about this ?
I use the very same trick with youtube and many other flash based sites.
And flash ALWAYS use the browser's settings (at least in opera and firefox) both in Windows and Ubuntu
Next, I read Andrew's post, and the thing I see is: Jarred looks like an achiever, Andrew more like a butthurt childish whiner I also can see why Jarred made the migration, it is not only technical, and it was a great call IMHO