douglasg14b

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[–] douglasg14b@beehaw.org 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Like I said, I'm not arguing that many apps are built as electron apps when they're just glorified web apps. Though I'm neutral on whether that's a bad thing or not. I'm definitely against apps being built with electron that don't really have UIs, defeating the entire point of electron and friends...

VSCode is another example you're missing. And they have put a LOT of work into making as many features available in the web-version as possible, the feature parity isn't an accident.

Or Obsidian.

Examples aside, you might be surprised by applications you may not think of as not using native features, that rely heavily on them, expecting to be executing in a Node environment and not a browser one. Especially on the networking and process side. Browsers are extremely restrictive.

[–] douglasg14b@beehaw.org 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

What are you talking about....? Please re-read my comment above :/

An electron app is a natjve application that renders a browser based UI. You appear to be conflating the browser-based UI with the whole "native application" thing.

It comes with all the advantages a native application does, like having hardware access, working natively offline, working with the filesystem, interfacing with the OS and installed OS packages, being able to use other native binaries,, being able to use more native networking capabilities....etc

Sure lots of electron applications that people make could just be a web app, I'm not arguing that.

I am, however, pointing out that you are grossly incorrect that electron (and all other technologies like it, we're not really just talking about electron here) is 'just a web app". It's a native application server and a web-based UI, which means I can write an application in C# with all of the .Net advantages, with a web UI, that runs natively on your device for example.

This lets me ship a product much faster than if I was going to build that UI in QT or GTK, with a significantly upgraded user experience that is consistent across all platforms.

[–] douglasg14b@beehaw.org 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Depression or ADHD?

[–] douglasg14b@beehaw.org 6 points 5 months ago

A bit miserable this week. Got sick, and haven't been able to sleep more than a few hours a night as a result, which is making it worse.

A misery snowball effect.

Hoping I can get a full night's sleep soon 🤞

[–] douglasg14b@beehaw.org 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

It's absolutely mind boggling that the bar for election is "supports a free and fair election", and we've reached that stage in such a short time.

The death spiral is a steep one.

[–] douglasg14b@beehaw.org 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

I have a PC I built a year and a half ago and apparently it "doesn't meet the requirements" for windows 11...

Ryzen 5 5600x and a 3060 TI.

[–] douglasg14b@beehaw.org 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (5 children)

Which is... Also a real desktop app. This shallow take is getting incredibly old, and doesn't even contribute to actual valuable discussion... If you don't see the value in this being shipped, then why try and tear the value down for others?

I main C#, and even I would rather build cross platform full applications with electron than any of the other options available. I'm definitely choosing it over QT or gtk. Why? Because I can actually ship the project with all the necessary features, in good time, and bake in a great user experience.

That's the difference here. Practical problems vs reality. Shipping the project & features vs not.

Yes, there are many successful applications not built with electron, ofc there are, that's not my point. My point is that the productivity difference is such that it's the difference between not building the thing vs building it and successful shipping it to users. You can argue and shit on the difference, but at the end of the day the above is what really matters.

[–] douglasg14b@beehaw.org 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

For most users jmeter is difficult to approach.

Something like autocannon or ddosify may be nicer

[–] douglasg14b@beehaw.org 5 points 10 months ago

I've played around with this a few times now and I talked about getting a trench coat for a good day with my wife and now I just won't stop getting ads for long coats...

Honestly it's ridiculously invasive.

[–] douglasg14b@beehaw.org 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Hopefully without the toxic devs?

[–] douglasg14b@beehaw.org 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Jack.... Fortnight? This hurts. RIP the original franchises.

[–] douglasg14b@beehaw.org 5 points 11 months ago

Incredibly easy to miss, damn.

 

I have ADHD diagnosed in my 30's, and can't seem to remember names even seconds after they are said. Sometimes I try so hard that I can't follow the conversation because I'm focusing on repeating their name over and over so I don't forget.

Inevitably I focus back on the conversation and the person's name is lost.

Texting their name to me tends to work, but others tend to find this odd/annoying/off-putting if I halt an organic conversation to text myself their name. And can even find it quite disrespectful.

So, Title: Have any of you "cracked" how to remember names in active conversation?

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