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by bla2 9y ago
Poor Rob Pike. He always tries to make things simple, and over they time entropy always does its thing. You can hear his frustration in his cited comment.
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by bla2 9y ago
Rewording your comment (and not commenting on its veracity), it sounds like you're saying that women can differentiate between what their consciousness and what their reproductive glands want better than men. That's a pretty commo
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by bla2 9y ago
The bottom of https://danluu.com/cpu-bugs/ suggests that AMD isn't any better, so this is likely just short term.
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by bla2 9y ago
Depending on the hack, I’ll be using Haskell or C. Why mess with the things in between? (What’s up with everyone nowadays using a misbegotten child of the browser wars as their main language?) What is it with so many Haskell folks being s
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by bla2 9y ago
Sounds like a descriptive non-combative sentence to me. Why do you perceive it as an attack?
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by bla2 9y ago
Sure, but they pushed way fewer pixels with way fewer colors.
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by bla2 9y ago
In short, with the iPhone X Apple took a platform with two primary means of interacting with the apps — a touchscreen and a home button — removed one of them, and created a better, more integrated, more organic experience. [...] Android
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by bla2 9y ago
Fast scrolling of prerendered layers is what I mean with throughput. You can move layers around quickly as long as their contents don't need rerendering.
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by bla2 9y ago
People demand 60fps, so systems prioritize throughput over latency. See all the layer-based systems like coreanimation.
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by bla2 9y ago
One thing the article doesn't mention is that modern devices push two orders of magnitude more pixels with one order of magnitude more color bits per pixel. That requires much higher throughput, which causes much of the added latency o
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by bla2 9y ago
> The nice things we want to do in native code are complicated to implement in C because cross-platform C is hard. The standard library is inadequate compared to modern languages. While modern versions of C++ are nice, we still support P
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by bla2 9y ago
This article is on The Verge, which is probably interested in the net staying around.
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by bla2 9y ago
Great pr, but Quantum sounds like they finally ported some of chrome 1's tech over. It's great that they're multiprocess now, but it seems more like they've caught up after 9 years, not like they're ahead much. And
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by bla2 9y ago
Chrome used to do lanczos filtering, but moved to bilinear because it needs less energy and looks good enough, especially in high-dpi. Seems like an ok engineering decision.
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by bla2 9y ago
Meh, it's still open office. The campus looks nice, but design is how it works.
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by bla2 9y ago
Those are on the stack, and the stack grows down.
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by bla2 9y ago
You're describing the equity situation at startups. Big tech has fairly stable stock prices, so stock performance means the difference between taking home 400k or 600k total tops. 400k us still more than 300k. On the flip side, this al
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by bla2 9y ago
I liked Raph's writings on CRDTs: https://medium.com/@raphlinus/working-code-for-operational-t...
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by bla2 9y ago
Mirror: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:XksJ5T...
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by bla2 9y ago
It'd be nice if they made it open source too. And it'd be nice if iOS allowed real browser alternatives instead of requiring everyone to use WKWebView.
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by bla2 9y ago
If the result here is cast support for Amazon video and YouTube working again, I'll take it. It's not like Amazon isn't doing the same thing.
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by bla2 9y ago
What a mess. My condolences to the Apple engineers who had to implement this. The notch is probably something that marketing thinks is really important for branding reasons, but I'd guess most engineers dislike it. Yet some of them had
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by bla2 9y ago
See http://utf8everywhere.org It talks about Windows quite a bit.
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by bla2 9y ago
ActiveX meant downloading and running arbitrary binary native code. This is about supporting a small-scope standardized JS API.
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by bla2 9y ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10906232
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by bla2 9y ago
I'd wager the feature required fewer than 8.8 million lines of code :-)
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by bla2 9y ago
I watch all my video over Chromecast. Making the TV just a screen controlled by my phone is a model that works really well for me. Alas, I've never watched any Amazon video because of that. You'd think Amazon would be more interes
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by bla2 9y ago
Pretty sure all WebKit-based browsers (including chrome) do this. I'd guess they block if needed, but I'm not sure.
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by bla2 9y ago
What's missing?
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by bla2 9y ago
Either this guy was phenomenally stupid, or he's angling to become some kind of fringe reporter "personality". After this petition, Kickstarter for starting an online publication about "real diversity", culminating

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