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by Alphasite_ 10y ago
From what I remember the address bar change was for a very good reason to do with protecting the user from phishing etc.
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by Alphasite_ 10y ago
My own impression is that for a modern developed economy looking healthy is far more key than being healthy.
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by Alphasite_ 10y ago
Or pbpaste | sh
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by Alphasite_ 10y ago
It's not linked by default.
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by Alphasite_ 10y ago
Yes, but he entry level has halved in cost, rather than the upper levels.
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by Alphasite_ 10y ago
You could argue the poor battery life and lack of third party apps as a significant detractor.
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by Alphasite_ 10y ago
1. GPUs certainly have halted in price. 2. Mobile VR will probably be the vehicle for mass adoption. From what I remember GearVR has hit over a million units.
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by Alphasite_ 10y ago
There are definite points of contention on this. The Vive headset doesn't face nearly as significant a glare issue as the rift, it is far better for glasses wearers than the rift and for some people the improved brightness is a signifi
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by Alphasite_ 10y ago
Race to the bottom absolutely screwed the PC industry. It's why laptops stagnated so heavily for years.
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by Alphasite_ 10y ago
Apple provides support and funding to Mac ports when I last checked.
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by Alphasite_ 10y ago
From what i have read about both neither has a huge sweet-spot.
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by Alphasite_ 10y ago
Its mostly because CGFloat can be of different sizes (float or double) depending on architecture, so can be assumed to be neither a double nor a float exclusively.
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by Alphasite_ 10y ago
Well oculus was well on its way after its Kickstarter, but the they sold out. Good for them, but it sucks for the rest of us.
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by Alphasite_ 10y ago
Becuase most people struggle with multiple tabs, imagine how painful multiple tabs in multiple windows may get.
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by Alphasite_ 10y ago
It may, or may not, have it but I very much doubt there isn't room to retrofit it where appropriate.
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by Alphasite_ 10y ago
Because you want to be the one holding the factories when the end game hits.
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by Alphasite_ 10y ago
Electron is the current fad for web devs creating desktop apps, so he's saying its a nic change to see someone actually implement a desktop app actually using the native desktop toolkit and metaphors and not what ever ill conceived pla
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by Alphasite_ 10y ago
There are definitely plenty of public Apis as well, for example: rbs.openbankproject.com
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by Alphasite_ 10y ago
The US is a lot more right in many regards than the UK, so it likely co Es across as more extreme there.
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by Alphasite_ 10y ago
Chrome OS is to Linux what iOS 1.x was to Mac OS.
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by Alphasite_ 10y ago
Honestly, they've been cutting government expenditure pretty heavily across the board (to the best of my knowledge) and military expenditure is way down.
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by Alphasite_ 10y ago
There are already headset only solutions, but who knows how well they run.
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by Alphasite_ 10y ago
Does their exist a JVM with an OS level shared heap, to reduce GC overhead? Obviously each can be collected independently of one another so pausing shouldn't be a significant issue and IPC becomes a Normal heap reference which may aid
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by Alphasite_ 10y ago
Just to demonstrate an example of invalid code?
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by Alphasite_ 10y ago
Hot spot is based on a relatively old paper at this point from what I remember and there are alternatives which purportedly perform better.
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by Alphasite_ 10y ago
I would suggest a positionally tracked headset as the absolute best test case.
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by Alphasite_ 10y ago
There are consumer oriented research GVS headsets currently under development, Samsung had one at CES this year. From what've heard it's not hugely accurate, but the general sensation should be enough.
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by Alphasite_ 10y ago
Is Graal not only faster than the Client JVM, but slower than the server VM?
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by Alphasite_ 10y ago
Escape analysis is pretty damn capable if you can give it enough time to run.
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by Alphasite_ 10y ago
I think the test may have bugged out. The minimum recommended spec is significantly higher than what you have.

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