LocutusOfBorges

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by LocutusOfBorges 4y ago
The way I’ve seen senior 86box project staff behave towards the developers of the project they forked away from really surprised me - a lot of emulator projects tend to be prone to silly rivalries, but this instance stuck me as unusually in
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by LocutusOfBorges 4y ago
Profoundly sad that PCem ended up being abandoned while this hostile fork continues. It deserved a better fate.
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by LocutusOfBorges 4y ago
Seconding this. I cancelled my subscription quite a few years ago in light of the low quality of analysis in the UK section of the paper - it felt like tabloid journalism aimed at people who thought too highly of their class status and leve
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by LocutusOfBorges 4y ago
> women are highly encouraged to leave their men, get abortions, etc. Why is this a bad thing? People should be free to live their lives as they choose.
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by LocutusOfBorges 4y ago
For the sake of a counterpoint to this essay, which widely derided at its time of publication - this is an example of the contemporary backlash it received. I’d urge anyone taken by Fisher’s essay to consider giving it a read. https:/
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by LocutusOfBorges 4y ago
It’s a situation where developers joylessly insist that a user’s preferences and control over the interface of the computer they use for hours each day aren’t a worthwhile thing to consider in application development, leading to efforts lik
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by LocutusOfBorges 6y ago
The XPS line had some of the worst speakers I’ve ever heard on a laptop up until the 2020 revision- and some of the worst build quality issues I’ve ever experienced with a laptop. My 2019 XPS 15 went through eight at-home repair visits afte
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by LocutusOfBorges 8y ago
For anyone less than enthused by that webpage's anti-HN redirect to a photograph of a testicle in an egg cup, here's an archive link: https://web.archive.org/web/20180322163944/https://www.jwz.o
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by LocutusOfBorges 8y ago
Given the sheer inefficiency of animal agriculture, this argument doesn't hold up to even passing scrutiny. For every 100 calories of grain fed to cattle in industrial (meat) factory farms, the result's equivalent to ~30 calories.
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by LocutusOfBorges 8y ago
Yes, unfortunately. "The Independent" isn't a newspaper anymore- the print version was shut down in 2016, and most of the staff were laid off. The "i" has replaced it in print (highbrow tabloid)- independent.co.uk h
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by LocutusOfBorges 9y ago
Eul seems like it might fit that requirement: https://eul.im/
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by LocutusOfBorges 9y ago
This is particularly noticable on iOS- AMP pages break iOS' standard page scrolling ballistics, for some reason. It makes them feel non-native in a particularly egregious way.
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by LocutusOfBorges 9y ago
Storage space isn't generally the bottleneck on older devices- it's the CPU/RAM. On that count, native apps are usually overwhelmingly preferable. If these catch on a big way, it'll be catastrophic for more underpowered
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by LocutusOfBorges 9y ago
For what it's worth, Irfanview's generally a better solution for quick cropping: http://www.irfanview.com
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by LocutusOfBorges 9y ago
Telegram Desktop comes pretty close to this ideal.
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by LocutusOfBorges 9y ago
Livingstone was Mayor of London- not Lord Mayor. The Lord Mayor's a completely different, ceremonial role. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Mayor_of_London
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by LocutusOfBorges 9y ago
Things like no swipe down to refresh This is the thing that made me switch to it from Chrome. Something as experience-breaking as refreshing the page isn't something that the user should encounter just through energetic scrolling.
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by LocutusOfBorges 9y ago
Banking on web apps to save Firefox won't work out while the browser continues to not support CSS styling of scrollbars. It's so fundamental to so many modern web apps- and a major part of why they tend to feel slightly worse on F
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by LocutusOfBorges 9y ago
Mozilla gave extension authors multiple years of notice. I don't see what else they could have done, realistically speaking.
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by LocutusOfBorges 9y ago
I don't expect an Electron-style system to ever arise around Firefox while the engine continues to not support custom skinned scrollbars. They've become such a fundamental element of modern web apps- that so many of them just fall
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by LocutusOfBorges 9y ago
Discord, overwhelmingly. Every IRC community I used to be a part of even a year ago has made the jump. It's just more convenient for all concerned- the only holdouts are people clinging to their CLIs and people objecting for ideologica
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by LocutusOfBorges 9y ago
As far as I'm aware, the user you're thinking of is JMC4789- they do some fantastic writeups. They've recently started a side blog ( http://emucross.com/ ), as well. If you're curious, their reddit submi