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by RunSet 3mo ago
"Better to rush to do the right thing than to invest the necessary time determining what the right thing might be." could be the Wayland motto.
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by RunSet 5mo ago
> There is no "religious oligarchy" dictating anything. You might inform Peter Thiel. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/10/peter-thiel-...
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by RunSet 5mo ago
Adobe is a notable holdout in refusing to go native.
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by RunSet 6mo ago
> Does anyone else have the feeling they run into this sort of thing more often of late? Simple pages with just text on it that take gigabytes (AWS), or pages that look simple but it takes your browser everything it has to render it at w
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by RunSet 7mo ago
He *did* really do OSS. But he don't really do OSS. > id Tech 4 is licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v3.0 or later, and is to date the last id Tech engine to be open-sourced. https://en.wikipedia
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by RunSet 7mo ago
"Uneaten food" <CHOMP CHOMP> "is wasted food." <CHOMP CHOMP>
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by RunSet 7mo ago
Correction: The illustration in the article labeled "Sony’s original Playstation" does not show the original playstation controller. For comparison purposes that is shown in the following image: https://en.wikipedia.org
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by RunSet 8mo ago
Cool Hand Luke, which I prefer, has its protagonist sentenced to a work camp for an absurd crime. A more recent prison movie which made me feel similarly to Cool Hand Luke and Shawshank Redemption while watching it is "I Love You Phill
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by RunSet 8mo ago
> I started programming over 40 years ago because it felt like computers were magic. They feel more magic today than ever before. We're literally living in the 1980s fantasy where you could talk to your computer and it had a persona
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by RunSet 8mo ago
No, it packages open source game data (which can't be distributed because it is copyrighted) so that it can be installed and will work with the games that already have debian packages. So in the case of quake (for example) it makes a
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by RunSet 8mo ago
> If native software was routinely available, launchers might not feel necessary. > But I sure as hell don't want to invest howevermany weekend days figuring out how to make games from other platforms as easy to play as Steam gam
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by RunSet 8mo ago
On the other hand, those who find contemporary game development trends distasteful might find much to like about the fruits of the Debian Games Team's work on game-data-packager. https://game-data-packager.debian.net/av
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by RunSet 8mo ago
> Some cognitive dissonance going on here. The cognitive dissonance I perceive goes like "No one is being paid to work on X11, therefore I should volunteer to work on Wayland."
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by RunSet 8mo ago
> That's just the way the wind is blowing. I trust you understand that some readers may not find (to paraphrase) "I don't like it either but it is what it is." a compelling reason to fix something that is not broken.
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by RunSet 8mo ago
Isaac Asimov, "The Ancient and the The Ultimate", The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, January 1973 https://archive.org/details/Fantasy_Science_Fiction_v044n01_...
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by RunSet 9mo ago
> since it's so easy to scroll, you can always just do a little two finger scroll wiggle to have it appear That changes the effort required to show useful information from zero to more than zero. Which, while it not be a great quant
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by RunSet 9mo ago
The area inside the circles described by cloverleaf interchanges. ;)
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by RunSet 9mo ago
> with every extreme of inventiveness of visualization in its most exaggerated form, what did we have every fifteen seconds? An utter halt to the action, while words flashed on the screen. "The Ancient and The Ultimate" https:
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by RunSet 9mo ago
Wayland being as needful as Liquid Glass itself.
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by RunSet 9mo ago
Raising the question: Where is the beautiful machine-generated code?
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by RunSet 9mo ago
AI bubble will do wonders for used RAM prices when it pops.
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by RunSet 9mo ago
Language models are not like the Classic Theme, which can be relegated to an extension (now defunct). Language models are like Hello, Pocket, and Sync. Core browser features one and all that must silently run by default unless explicitly di
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by RunSet 9mo ago
> This is exactly the kind of boring, unsexy feature that actually builds trust. Though not so much trust as an option to enable AI features would build.
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by RunSet 9mo ago
> Steam came in 2003, created for easy management of updates for their games over the Internet (what today would be called a “proprietary launcher”). I call it that today and I also called it one in 2003, when it suddenly demanded to be
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by RunSet 9mo ago
Firefox has made it so difficult to install and get Tree Style Tabs to work that it feels deliberate.
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by RunSet 10mo ago
I learned how to land in NES Top Gun from Skip Rogers on VHS. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fvj4bInjug&t=660s
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by RunSet 10mo ago
Even 60 years ago that would probably have been the case. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lanterman%E2%80%93Petris%E2%80...
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by RunSet 10mo ago
similar. https://redrazo.rs/
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by RunSet 10mo ago
That setting was removed[0]. [0] https://discussions.apple.com/thread/253315335?sortBy=rank
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by RunSet 10mo ago
What a relief this does not apply to https://uk.LokiList.com

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