Re: Beerconf March (dconf online)

2024-03-21 Thread Ethan via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 18 March 2024 at 22:15:49 UTC, Richard (Rikki) Andrew Cattermole wrote: Perhaps we can do the usual end of month time as well, I'll give you a ping if I can do it. At this rate I could very well be on a plane again, to more southern destinations this time.

Re: Beerconf March (dconf online)

2024-03-18 Thread Ethan via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 9 March 2024 at 13:34:50 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: # BEERCONF! And here I was getting on the newsgroups to see if BeerConf was coming up sometime soon. I was on planes last weekend anyway so it would have been quite impractical to jump on.

Day 3 BeerConf update

2023-08-31 Thread Ethan via Digitalmars-d-announce
The Travelodge is no longer accepting card payments thanks to broken machines. Therefore, we're moving just up the road to Gibney's. https://maps.app.goo.gl/JSooxcWRcF2mVooB9

Re: Beerconf July 2023

2023-07-21 Thread Ethan via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 17 July 2023 at 01:09:07 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: # BEERCONF! I have a real-life BBQ on the 29th, I think I might aim a webcam at the shenanigans.

Re: Beerconf for Dconf

2021-11-20 Thread Ethan via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 20 November 2021 at 14:04:49 UTC, Steven Schveighoff My understanding is that Iain is currently unavailable, so I created a Beerconf instance in Jitsi. I'll be there but muted as I'm watching the first talk. BEERCONF This is my setup. Is this hacking?

Re: Beerconf September 2021

2021-09-25 Thread Ethan via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 25 September 2021 at 07:14:58 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote: Hi all, Beerconf is inviting you to a meeting. BEERCONF

Re: Beerconf August 2021

2021-08-28 Thread Ethan via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 28 August 2021 at 06:05:32 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote: # BEERCONF! Beerconf is inviting you to a meeting. BEERCONF (I have no shirt, I am a beerconf failure)

Re: Beerconf June 2021

2021-06-26 Thread Ethan via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 26 June 2021 at 12:51:46 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote: Beerconf is inviting you to a meeting. BEERCONF

Re: BeerConf May 2021

2021-05-29 Thread Ethan via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 29 May 2021 at 14:05:12 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote: Beerconf is inviting you to a meeting. BEERCONF

Re: Beerconf March 2021

2021-03-27 Thread Ethan via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 27 March 2021 at 13:39:59 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote: Let's kick things off then... BEERCONF

Re: Beerconf February 2021

2021-02-27 Thread Ethan via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 27 February 2021 at 14:11:14 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote: I've started up a meeting for people to come and go as they please. BEERCONF

Re: BeerConf Mid-December Edition

2020-12-19 Thread Ethan via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 19 December 2020 at 15:15:16 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote: I've started up a meeting for people to come and go as they please. BEERCONF

Re: DConf Online 2020 #BeerConf

2020-11-20 Thread Ethan via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 20 November 2020 at 17:53:57 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote: It's that time of the month again, and the DConf Online Edition of BeerConf has begun. BEERCONF

Re: beerconf September!

2020-09-27 Thread Ethan via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, 27 September 2020 at 00:48:34 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: Here is day 1's notes. https://gist.github.com/schveiguy/ba5532fa64822113a8877ae4be37eeeb Beer thread! Where are the worst beers created? We have some contenders: Ethan: Finland I also followed on and said Finnish

Re: beerconf September!

2020-09-25 Thread Ethan via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 24 September 2020 at 13:23:08 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: Beerconf Spetember will be upon us soon! I knew there was something I forgot to get at the shops.

Re: combindings and directxbindings

2020-09-07 Thread Ethan via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 7 September 2020 at 19:35:41 UTC, Dennis wrote: Have you considered publishing it to code.dlang.org? Not yet. Pretty busy at the moment, should probably wait for them to be actually designated usable before doing so. I noticed there's already

combindings and directxbindings

2020-09-06 Thread Ethan via Digitalmars-d-announce
https://github.com/GooberMan/combindings https://github.com/GooberMan/directxbindings I needed some DirectX 12 bindings. Autogeneration was out of the question. The .idl files Microsoft uses internally is full of plain C++ code that is inserted in to headers without additional parsing, and

Re: DConf 2019 Pictures

2020-01-07 Thread Ethan via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 7 January 2020 at 09:04:04 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote: This one is Laeeth introducing Andrei at Symmetry Investments: http://acehreli.org/photo/dconf_2019/DSC04839.html Ali And if you start here you get to the important bits: BeerConf!

Re: When will you announce DConf 2020?

2019-11-08 Thread Ethan via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 8 November 2019 at 10:09:32 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: Except that we like your talks, Ethan :-) Well, I'll be trying to arrange my schedule so I can raise my hand for emcee duties again at least. So I won't be _completely_ invisible. If I was submitting, given the success of my

Re: When will you announce DConf 2020?

2019-11-07 Thread Ethan via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 6 November 2019 at 19:20:04 UTC, bachmeier wrote: While I encourage you to submit a talk, I'll point out that there were only six regular talks per day this year, and a lot of those were core contributors, Andrei's students, and prominent members of the community. So hope for the

Re: Blog series to teach and show off D's metaprogramming by creating a JSON serialiser

2019-11-01 Thread Ethan via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 1 November 2019 at 12:50:09 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote: It's an alias, but what it's aliased to is a built-in type. A *slice* of a built-in type *with qualifiers*. The only way to simplify that description is to call it "syntactic sugar". "Built-in type" to describe the entire

Re: Blog series to teach and show off D's metaprogramming by creating a JSON serialiser

2019-11-01 Thread Ethan via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 1 November 2019 at 10:39:42 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote: FYI, string is a built-in type. string is immutable(char)[], as we all know. Syntactic sugar, not exactly a built in type but treating it like one is often valuable. To follow on from this, I'll share my experience with

Re: D at 20: Hits and Misses, and what I learned along the way Oct 19

2019-10-20 Thread Ethan via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 18 October 2019 at 01:37:01 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: Slides: https://digitalmars.com/articles/hits.pdf Tangent time. In regards to floating point: Unable to convince people that more precision is worthwhile I'm actually waiting for quad floats to have hardware support.

Re: New Funding Initiatives from the D Language Foundation

2019-10-05 Thread Ethan via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 4 October 2019 at 10:22:56 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: The latest post on the blog details some new funding initiatives from the D Language Foundation. This includes putting some of the HR Fund to use and seeding the first two of a set of forthcoming Bugzilla bounties.

Re: D GUI Framework (responsive grid teaser)

2019-05-25 Thread Ethan via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 25 May 2019 at 23:23:31 UTC, Ethan wrote: So. On a 4K or higher desktop (Apple shift 5K monitors). Let's say you need to redraw every one of those 3840x2160 pixels at 60Hz. Let's just assume that by some miracle you've managed to get a pixel filled down to 20 cycles. But that's

Re: D GUI Framework (responsive grid teaser)

2019-05-25 Thread Ethan via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, 19 May 2019 at 21:01:33 UTC, Robert M. Münch wrote: Hi, we are currently build up our new technology stack and for this create a 2D GUI framework. This entire thread is an embarrassment, and a perfect example of the kind of interaction that keeps professionals away from online

IRC and Discord - I'm asking DConf questions for you

2019-05-09 Thread Ethan via Digitalmars-d-announce
If you have a question and want me to read it out for you, my many phones are connected to IRC and Discord. Just tag me with your question and I'll get a notification for it. --- Discord: https://discord.gg/YFujqFZ - click on this for the invite My nick is set to Ethan but by username is

Re: DConf 2019 Livestream

2019-05-08 Thread Ethan via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 8 May 2019 at 07:57:40 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: The venue uses WebEx for livestreaming. All the information is available in this PDF: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1yekllbfOmxHqJNuuWIVeP9vNeROmfp1I Good news everyone! A Youtube stream will be arriving after the lunch break.

Re: intel-intrinsics v1.0.0

2019-02-14 Thread Ethan via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 14 February 2019 at 21:45:57 UTC, Crayo List wrote: Please re-read my post carefully! Or - even better - take the hint that not every use of SIMD can be expressed in a high level manner.

Re: intel-intrinsics v1.0.0

2019-02-14 Thread Ethan via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 13 February 2019 at 23:26:48 UTC, Crayo List wrote: And that's precisely why I posted here; for those people that have interest in vectorizing their code in a portable way to be aware that there is another (arguably) better way. All power to the people that have code that

Re: DConf 2019: Shepherd's Pie Edition

2018-12-27 Thread Ethan via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 22 December 2018 at 12:18:25 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: Thanks to Symmetry Investments, DConf is heading to London! That's a funny typo you have for BeerConf there. BEERCONF