Crinus

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by Crinus 7y ago
Not that many, fglrx's replacement amdgpu was released in april 2015, that is just four years ago. And it wasn't until later that it got usable.
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by Crinus 7y ago
> and most widget sets don't implement scrollbars like Xaw Do you consider Xaw scrollbars a feature? They feel totally inconvenient to use with their weird "the position you click at is the amount to scroll and the button to us
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by Crinus 7y ago
I wonder about the TUIs consuming less resources. Sure, compared to something like Electron, they will, but on the other hand, pretty much everyone is running a TUI in a graphical terminal - often a terminal with unicode support, utf-8 deco
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by Crinus 7y ago
It doesn't matter how it is going to exist, what matters is for it to exist.
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by Crinus 7y ago
I think he refers to the fact that Nvidia's drivers provided excellent OpenGL support for multiple years compared to the absolute dumpsterfire that fglrx was. Before Valve decided to pay attention to Linux and thus prod AMD to improve
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by Crinus 7y ago
Gtk3 is awful and broke backwards compatibility with Gtk2 so you need to have at least those two in your system to run applications (since many still need Gtk2). Gtk2 does not get any meaningful updates anymore. Gtk4 will soon be released a
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by Crinus 7y ago
Why not use the UI designer? It was made exactly for this reason.
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by Crinus 7y ago
What if the people work on FOSS but do not share the same ideals?
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by Crinus 7y ago
> Actual conversations are fairly rare. FWIW this is exactly my experience with pretty much every single IRC server and channel i've been the last 15 years or so. It used to be more... chatty before that, but over time people just j
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by Crinus 7y ago
I like shared hosting, not only it is very cheap, but you do not get to bother with administration stuff. You cannot run everything you'd probably like, like in a VPS, but pretty much every provider has at least PHP support with some d
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by Crinus 7y ago
> how can we make this person love the shit out of this thing for as long as possible "I know! Let's add every feature and bullet point under the sun!"
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by Crinus 7y ago
Based on [1] (where continue is handled) and [2] (the branch statement type), looks like the target is simply passed to the function. This is a recursive descent parser, so passing the target down the statement handling stack is trivial (an
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by Crinus 7y ago
From a quick look at the repository it looks like there are optimizations performed: this code[1] seems to perform function inlining at the AST level, this code[2] converts the AST to SSA form which is generally meant to be used for optimiz
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by Crinus 7y ago
The headers themselves are under copyright, of course, but the definitions inside them can be copied/reused for interoperability reasons (something that is especially protected in EU but i think also in US). So while you cannot distrib
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by Crinus 7y ago
For as far as i remember 'web 2.0' meant replicating Mac OS X's Aqua on the web (very poorly, of course) with gradients and shadows (not necessarily through CSS, thanks to IE6, but it helped) and unnecessary javascript everyw
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by Crinus 7y ago
Yeah i remember reading something similar about a DOS game where the game was crashing when you exited and the developers hexedited the DOS extender to replace the crash message from 'Protection fault at blah' (or something like t
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by Crinus 7y ago
I prefer PC because i have real ownership of the games i buy (i mostly get my games from DRM-free stores like GOG) and no arbitrary backwards compatibility breakage (i have many games on CD from the 90s and 2000s that work on my brand new P
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by Crinus 7y ago
> OpenGL is in maintenance state on all platforms basically. The OpenGL 4.6 spec was released four months ago with new features and extensions come out all the time. > Vulkan opens the whole low-level can of worms on you Vulkan's
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by Crinus 7y ago
These apps are not installed by themselves, someone with physical access to the phone is installing them (if we include remote installs then anything that autoupdates - including iPhone - can also install software). And it isn't a matt
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by Crinus 7y ago
Weak or not, it still is a reason as visual appearances affects readability.
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by Crinus 7y ago
> anyone This "anyone" is you as only you are responsible for the applications you install in your own devices. People need to learn personal responsibility for the stuff they install instead of enabling OS vendors to control w
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by Crinus 7y ago
You can always go to China without a phone or with a throwaway phone (if you really must). You cannot install applications on your locked down iOS device regardless if you go to China or not and the people who go to China are a much small
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by Crinus 7y ago
4K monitors are very rare , in regular desktop stats they are so insignificant statistically that they do not even show up: http://gs.statcounter.com/screen-resolution-stats/desktop/wo... In gaming they are just
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by Crinus 7y ago
No, because if it is mandated by law then it will need to be available region locked in app stores for China. So with this stance (ie. against "side-loading" - what a crappy term) not only you make things worse for everyone (not b
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by Crinus 7y ago
I'm not commenting on the analogy, my comment was specifically the part i quoted since it sounded to me like the poster assumed it was how "boring tech advocates" would react: i confirmed that this is exactly how they reacted
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by Crinus 7y ago
> For example, in 1974 when the new Altair 8800 made the cover of Popular Electronics[2], an excited Paul Allen showed the magazine to a 19-year old Bill Gates. The "boring tech" advocates would tell them they're wasting t
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by Crinus 7y ago
EEE refers to formats and later standards, where an MS product would Embrace a format/standard (e.g. Lotus 1-2-3's macros or HTML) so that people who use competitor products will also be able to use their data with the MS product
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by Crinus 7y ago
> So, it does break gameplay balance. That is one way to see it, another is to add extra depth to gameplay by introducing secret areas only accessible through gaps that you can only cross if you move diagonally. Designers often acknowled
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by Crinus 7y ago
I did something like this a couple of months ago. I wrote a simple firefox extension which adds a button near the url bar which calls youtube-dl to download the current URL on a predefined folder. It needs an intermediate "helper"
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by Crinus 7y ago
And this, ladies and gentlemen, is a great example of FUD.

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