amaranth

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by amaranth 12y ago
So what we really wanted was Java?
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by amaranth 12y ago
It grew to be our primary form of news and entertainment nationwide. The internet has now mostly replaced it for news and appears to be replacing it for entertainment.
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by amaranth 12y ago
Even better, your custom memcpy might sometimes result in working code and sometimes be replaced with a call to memcpy[1] and then break. When this happens will depend on the compiler and optimization level and even if you manage to write o
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by amaranth 12y ago
Firefox already uses an external process to run Flash so leaving that on GTK2 while the browser uses GTK3 isn't an issue. The equivalent of XEmbed (to put the flash content in the page) in Wayland is writing a nested Wayland compositor
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by amaranth 12y ago
Union filesystems are (finally) supported in mainline Linux as of the most recent (3.18) release. https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux....
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by amaranth 12y ago
To delete a project you simply delete the directory using your OS file manager. This is not a common operation and your file manager likely has options for undo and such that are OS specific.
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by amaranth 12y ago
Sounds like you're looking for the checkpoint/restore functionality that has been in the works for a few years now. Check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CRIU for more details, seems they have things mostly
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by amaranth 12y ago
This is how the Wii works but the Wii U has a more traditional kernel model. This is required due to the system's multitasking abilities (run "mini" apps like the browser or download manager along side a normal app/game)
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by amaranth 12y ago
Of course since processors are out of order and superscalar reducing instructions isn't always a worthy goal either. You might end up with less instructions but less things happening in parallel. And then of course you have to balance
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by amaranth 12y ago
Doesn't Firefox use IonMonkey for general method JITing and TraceMonkey for hotspots?
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by amaranth 12y ago
Since Spout never really existed as a working Minecraft server and SpoutCraft was a vanilla client mod I'll assume you mean they were doing selling while being vanilla mods. In that case, the most likely reason they got away with it is
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by amaranth 12y ago
Back in 2012 there was actually talk of them doing an app store like model to host mods/plugins when they got the API done. However, they were doing it for the opposite reason: to ensure no one was making money from the mods. The idea
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by amaranth 12y ago
But you can't replace the GPU and Apple has full source code to the driver stack (and probably wrote most of it themselves instead of using the source from ImgTec).
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by amaranth 12y ago
During Steam Dev Days when Valve talked about Source 2 (which, if HL3 ever ships, will almost certainly be the engine used) they were almost always talking about their OpenGL backend or how they manage Direct3D and OpenGL without having to
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by amaranth 12y ago
The 'lore', if you will, around this decision is that 3dfx pushed for GLSL being handled in the driver instead of a bytecode model because they had the best driver developers so would have a clear advantage. Who knows if that was
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by amaranth 12y ago
At least for large customers of PowerVR the GPU design includes the source code for the drivers. This is why you can't even rely on the same GPU model or even exact same SoC working similarly in the Android world because they come from
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by amaranth 13y ago
Safari is the reason Webkit exists. Apple forked KHTML for their browser project and called the result Webkit.
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by amaranth 13y ago
The folks at Microsoft Research who worked on Singularity claim the so called "Unsafe Code Tax" from the existing system is a 30-40% performance hit. http://webcourse.cs.technion.ac.il/236376/Spring2013/h
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by amaranth 13y ago
Replaced with what? IPv6 has problems, sure, but the main problem is that IPv4 and IPv6 aren't compatible with each other. You're going to have that problem with any other replacement for IPv4 as well.
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by amaranth 13y ago
> one entry point - a VPN on IPv4 is just great thanks, secure and easy to manage. want to access my other devices, jump on the VPN. There are 4 billion IPv4 addresses and 7 billion people on the planet. Before we even get into business
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by amaranth 13y ago
If you mean Netscape that was a different group of people at a different time with different goals. Some of those people carried over to the Mozilla project but the goals have always been different.
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by amaranth 13y ago
This is just the same basic enablement work they used to do with the "nv" driver. This will just make it possible to use an unaccelerated framebuffer and they go out of their way to mention they aren't going to do any open so
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by amaranth 13y ago
I know you're trolling here but I'm pretty sure Apple has gone through at least two similarly large changes in their toolchain since launching the iPhone. And this isn't the first change Android has had. Over time you figure
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by amaranth 13y ago
I'm pretty sure at least one of those tests Racket does better at is essentially a GC benchmark. Go's GC is still fairly weak.
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by amaranth 14y ago
Low latency audio is actually really hard to do on a mobile device because low latency and low power use are literally the exact opposite. I wonder if Apple dynamically adjusts things to only have low latency when requested or if they just
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by amaranth 14y ago
Google is a data company. Their best work is all around capturing, processing, and doing useful things with large amounts of data. This also happens to make them really good at doing targeted advertisements too.
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by amaranth 14y ago
"The company was founded as Advanced RISC Machines, ARM, a joint venture between Acorn Computers, Apple Computer (now Apple Inc.) and VLSI Technology." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_Holdings Apple have been involved with ARM since the