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by Crinus 7y ago
Well you can still buy downloadable DRM-free software and DRM-free (or DRM-freed :-P) ebooks just like your music (which i thin it is much easier and space effective). That is what i do myself - i avoid anything with DRM (exceptions are som
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by Crinus 7y ago
There are always benefits to sweeten the pill :-P
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by Crinus 7y ago
This is just a different deployment and pricing scheme, you still get the same OS with same backwards compatibility. Besides i do not see how they could do a "windows-as-a-service" offer without an OS, unless they convince every c
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by Crinus 7y ago
Asking for software that is not "simple enough" is exactly how you get bloated software with unnecessary features that only exist to justify whatever notion of "worth the price" you may have. Programs should strive to be
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by Crinus 7y ago
When something is given out for free, why are you surprised when people take it for free?
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by Crinus 7y ago
This is how you get bloated apps.
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by Crinus 7y ago
Also documentation, when it exists (not all apps have or need it) tend to actually be useful instead of a half-assed, incomplete wiki. (though some paid software in the recent years also have half-assed, incomplete wikis for documentation..
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by Crinus 7y ago
Considering they have their own hardware and software (well, not exactly their own , but they customize both and work on both before release), is System 76 as problem-free and solid as Mac OS X was during the Snow Leopard times?
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by Crinus 7y ago
I'm not sure how that dichotomy applies, especially when you are -say- a graphics artist who wants to stick with an older pre-subscription model version of -say- Photoshop that you bought in a box, instead of being forced to pay a rent
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by Crinus 7y ago
Well, they did took over when it came to desktop. But in the 2000s the web became popular as a target for applications so their desktop dominance wasn't the only thing that mattered. However in their niches MS Access and Excel (VB not
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by Crinus 7y ago
> But I believe there are some simpler reasons for older people’s aversion to newer music. One of the most researched laws of social psychology is something called the “mere exposure effect.” In a nutshell, it means that the more we’re e
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by Crinus 7y ago
IMO what really went wrong with Voat was that it was simply not very different from Reddit - the same issues Reddit has with the way it works and the way discussions are handled exist with Voat. The main difference between the two is the
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by Crinus 7y ago
Yeah i also noticed this article[1] that goes into more detail (and found interesting that when the article said "Most of the time we lose." i could modify the code to run the entire example 100 times and count the number of times
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by Crinus 7y ago
That looks overall neat, though i'm not sure if i like the "." as a subroutine terminator - "end" would be better IMO. Also if this is meant to be used for teaching kids programming i'm not sure if the gambling
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by Crinus 7y ago
> UTF8 I remember reading that the unicode-enhanced Computer Modern isn't exactly the same as the original (latin) Computer Modern that Knuth designed with the former having a few cosmetic issues. If that is indeed the case, is it
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by Crinus 7y ago
This response reminds me of this meme: https://randysrandom.com/wp-content/uploads/right-wrong.jpg Neither answer may look technically wrong, but only one reflects what is actually happening here. That we don&#x
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by Crinus 7y ago
I never claimed that writing your own engine is the most important problem an indie developer would have. If there is a "most important problem" that would be getting exposure for your game when gamers are drowned by multimillion-
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by Crinus 7y ago
What you see is wrong, i'm not telling anyone not to build things. If anything i wrote > i do not mind Wayland existing (even though i see no point in it personally) as much as i do not mind Arcan existing - or Qt existing, Gtk3 exi
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by Crinus 7y ago
I do not agree with the comment above about the open source part (that is just plain old FUD), but disabling internet access wouldn't protect against transmitting metadata unless you never turned it on again - it could simply store the
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by Crinus 7y ago
They already wrote > The tests would have been a real pain to write in C++ so i guess what the script piece above shows wasn't the entire deal. When you have a custom language you have full control over its syntax you can make it do
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by Crinus 7y ago
As someone mentioned below you could also use OpenWatcom, if for no other reason than it should have a slightly better optimizer (though from my tests i haven't seen much of a difference between the two, at least for code i tried to op
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by Crinus 7y ago
If only the taxes, social security and other expenses didn't demand more than half of your income. And that is ignoring the recent idiocy of paying upfront 100% of your taxes for the next year (hopefully the new government will get rid
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by Crinus 7y ago
You can find a decent 2 bedroom apartment in Thessaloniki for like 300 euros/month. There are cheaper (i've seen something like 120 euro studios for students in Athens near the university which aren't total dumps) and more ex
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by Crinus 7y ago
Haven't you visited a website outside HN the last decade? I doubt most webdevs use anything less than an 8core and 64GB of RAM these days :-P
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by Crinus 7y ago
Mesa drivers are far from fine, they only got rid of the "core only" braindead schism just last year (IIRC) and that was thanks to pressure from AMD to get games working. Even then a lot of Mesa's codepaths are downright awfu
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by Crinus 7y ago
> I guess you don't mind the problem Nvidia has with Wayland. From my perspective of someone who dislikes Wayland, that is a feature of Nvidia's drivers :-P.
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by Crinus 7y ago
XT implies 8086 and there are more real address mode instructions than those available in 8086. AFAIK real address mode can use pretty much any 32bit instructions with a prefix, which is what this project is doing. (this incompatibility bit
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by Crinus 7y ago
This is a common mistake people make. If you make a custom engine you do not need to beat what is already out there since you are certainly not going to use every single feature that the engines out there use. Bespoke engines (that are actu
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by Crinus 7y ago
What is the connection between "well behaved" users and non-racists (or whatever)? Cannot racists be well behaved and non-racists (what is the opposite of racist?) be badly behaved? I mean, sure, people will leave. But if you aren
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by Crinus 7y ago
> So thanks for the insults, I guess. I'm not sure what you found insulting, i was commenting on Wayland itself and the companies that push it. The closest i could think of is the "blame for its state" bit but that was obv

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