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by arp242 4y ago
If you bombastically claim something then don't be surprised if people are going to test that claim.
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by arp242 4y ago
Well, the first Playstation sold about 100 million units; the NES about 60 million. Of course they had longer to sell those units, this is offset by the lower population, lower cost, and a smaller market (less Chinese people were able to af
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by arp242 4y ago
In my experience if works then it works; I can't recall any specific instance in almost 20 years of wine usage where it works fine for the first hour and then stops working at some specific point, although I'm sure there are insta
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by arp242 4y ago
Steam Deck sold about 3 million units; Playstation 5 about 30 million, X-Box about 20 million, Nintendo Switch about 130 million. Steam has about 120 million active accounts. I mean, it's successful I guess, but also not exactly taking
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by arp242 4y ago
The database isn't perfect, for example Kingpin ( https://www.protondb.com/app/38430 ) is listed as "unplayable" but it does work with the latest patch without problems, at least in Wine and presumably w
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by arp242 4y ago
I don't really know what the standards on that subreddit are, but in my reading the author of this post is looking more for a "community discussion" rather than "promotion" here. Trying to promote your product can d
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by arp242 4y ago
It's a bit different now, but in the early 2000s everything had to be 3D, everything had to be a shooter, and everything had to be an action game. I'm exaggerating here, but entire genres all but died out for a decade or so; ~2000
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by arp242 4y ago
Pale Moon has no relation to Mozilla at all; other than being a fork of Firefox of course. It's a pretty small niche project, and I found the Pale Moon people in general to be rather, ehm, off-putting, to put it nicely, and that Tobin
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by arp242 4y ago
git didn't appear until much much later; and maintainers who can pull in code is not so different than a "core clique" with a commit bit: it's till a relatively small group of people who decide what does and doesn't
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by arp242 4y ago
> He’s clearly a smart guy… but also has some hot takes. I'm good with that as Penrose is very clear where the uncontroversial science ends and the hot takes begin; he doesn't try to "peddle" anything. "Here is m
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by arp242 4y ago
Essentially any specification that includes any kind of image support will include this kind of chain of specifications; just as any system that does networking will eventually end up with TCP, any system that does text ends up with Unicode
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by arp242 4y ago
Isn't that true for any system that's been around for a few decades? Try implementing XMPP; which XEPs do you pick? It's a long list.[1] Try implementing email: there's probably more RFCs to exclude than include at this
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by arp242 4y ago
The question is what exactly is needed for a useful and functional browser. You certainly don't need all features from Chrome, but you do need more than, say, Lynx or Dillo. Is WebGL needed? I've browsed the web for years with i
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by arp242 4y ago
The HTML 3.1 specification is essentially irrelevant for implementing a modern browser; and you certainly don't need HTML 5.0, and , HTML 5.1, and HTML 5.2, and HTML 5.3, and , HTML 4.0, and , HTML 4.01, and , HTML 3.2, and ,
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by arp242 4y ago
I did a quick check, and most of the errors it reports are "unknown attribute" or "element such-and-such not allowed here". Those "errors" would be allowed anyway for forward compatibility, and aren't real
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by arp242 4y ago
It's not clear to me if those are due to shortcomings in WebKit, the site, or if it's to be "bug-compatible" with anything else. Either way, 1,600 lines of code doesn't seem a lot to me.
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by arp242 4y ago
Like most people I gave up on the whole semantic pedantry a long time do. Correct header ordering, basic semantics like <nav>: sure, that's great. But "no <p> inside <dt> allowed!" just makes no real sense a
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by arp242 4y ago
Those replies are handwavy and offer no convincing defence at all. In just a few minutes I was able to reduce the 1,217 URLs to 434 by simply excluding outdated or non-applicable stuff. That's about a third and includes some pretty lar
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by arp242 4y ago
> Web browsers are a moving target It moves slower than people assume; I installed Opera 12 last year for the craic – the last version built on their Presto engine, released almost ten years ago – and it works surprisingly well with many
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by arp242 4y ago
All this "quirks mode" stuff is part of the specification, no? It makes it all a bit more complex than it has to be, but I do believe it's specified. I'm not really sure if "you need to be bug-compatible" is st
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by arp242 4y ago
My old x270 got that kind of battery life, on Linux, and that was 4-5 years ago. Granted, it was an Intel i5 and not AMD, but AMD had a negligible presence on the laptop CPU market at the time. Every laptop I've run with Linux in the l
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by arp242 4y ago
Those are not all the tests for SQLite: https://sqlite.org/testing.html#harnesses Only the TCL and SQL Logic Test are publicly available; it's one of the ways that the SQLite developers get paid.
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by arp242 4y ago
Government stepping in with regulations and fines is of course not "market-supremacist" :-) Or: I think you and GP actually agree that we can't "just" leave it up to the market 100% and that we also need someone to
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by arp242 4y ago
Shouldn't have flown in that telepod.
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by arp242 4y ago
We are already awash in more articles and information than ever, and how long it takes to produce them isn't very important outside of a "quantity over quality" business model.
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by arp242 4y ago
> "Free Speech" in most cases is not really free -- in that there are rules and regulations to how speech can be conducted. Of course; absolute freedom rarely exist, as exercising absolute freedom tends to infringe on the freed
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by arp242 4y ago
I'm reasonably sure that taping stuff to church doors – or other doors you don't own – won't be looked on kindly either in many cases. There are countless of other examples; playing my thesis in a public place on speakers 24&
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by arp242 4y ago
It's literally in the title with and first highlighted paragraph. "We're going to be just like China and ban speech we're afraid of" is hard to interpret as any other way than "this is limiting free speech&quot
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by arp242 4y ago
Please hold while I go nail my thesis to a church door. Should that also be allowed? It's also a valid and historically relevant method to disperse speech. There are countless of possible methods that are restricted. I don't know
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by arp242 4y ago
I left because of "incompetent nice" people as I was tired of the never-ending torrent of incompetent nonsense I had to deal with and I felt the end-product just wasn't very good or something I was proud of. "Jerk"

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