Software rotation of test is cool but cpu heavy (at the time)

Given the lag the current wx11 start menu animations illicit in slower machines, I'm not surprised they used to value speed over complexity.

I'd think for a relatively modest use case like the menu title bar, you could rotate the necessary glyphs once and cache them.

In a photo editor and use bitmaps

Seems like a localization nightmare though. :)

then you have to deal with cache invalidation, you need to have triggers in all places that change the look of the menu, for example when you install a new program, change the OS language, etc.

This is talking about the Windows NT Workstation (or Windows 95 etc.) banner on the left of the original start menu. It doesn’t change when you add programs, and I don’t think the edition branding changes between languages (at least the French versions are still Windows NT Workstation / Server, and if the French didn’t force Microsoft to localise the edition names, I doubt any else would manage). So you could just render once on startup / first menu draw then cache the bitmap. Or just prerender the bitmap as a graphical resource and store it on disc…

the rotation would only happened once and would then have been written to the device context. once its in a DC you can manipulate it with memcpy. A device context is a pointer to the window "surface" and maps a memory area.

I write this from memory so its possible that i misremember :)

Story seems suspect. 1.There are far less expensive trackers that aren't easily recognizable as an airtag... Think matchbox car sized... 2. Airtags are easily traceable. 3.Iphones announce nearby Airtags immediately and Airtags disable themselves when they detect they are traveling in a foreign vehicle.

I'm surprised it has taken this long to gain popularity. I remember restaraunt servers looking at me sideways beccause I'd rather walk out than scan qr codes to access a menu.

I agree with your sentiment. It's like asking a 3 year old to compose a symphony because they learned to play twinkle twinkle little star on a casio keyboard reasonably well.

I don't see it as a "judgemental piece to anyone that i am alluring to" (I think you mean alluding) but I do think it's an honest assesment of those who are attempting to rely heavily on AI.

It is a judgemental piece because the writer is putting a value judgement on people who use LLMs to code and those who don't. Its right after the piece you quoted.

> please don’t take this as a judgemental piece to anyone that i am alluring to. it’s fine to not find programming enjoyable. it’s fine to just want things to work. i am just disappointed at how the ones who care appear to be an ever dying breed.

I'm not saying the author shouldn't write that, write whatever you want. But you should own what you write.

A better solution is to self host jellyfin.

No. It's already broken and breaks a ton of legacy software.