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by brianush1 6y ago
This loads fast and is very responsive, unlike other browser apps I've used that try to offer an alternative to native apps (Google Docs comes to mind). I like it!
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Squaring the Circle(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by brianush1 6y ago|0 comments
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by brianush1 6y ago
As for SMTP, most people use Gmail nowadays anyway. Google might be able to kill SMTP if they wanted to.
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by brianush1 6y ago
Brave's made a big mistake in the past, so I'd hold out on using it until there's no other non-Chrome option: https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/8/21283769/brave-browser-aff...
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by brianush1 6y ago
Microsoft has made two working browser engines: Trident and EdgeHTML. They've killed both in favor of Chromium; I don't see how it would cost them less to develop Servo than to have kept working on EdgeHTML.
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by brianush1 6y ago
I understood the "Why do you need OSes" as "Why would you use Windows when you can use ChromeOS, since the only thing you'll ever need to open is Chrome" And all of these opinions are obviously not held by the poste
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by brianush1 6y ago
They hide the fact that it's a Google domain in Chrome.
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by brianush1 6y ago
Winkey + . to open the emoji picker
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by brianush1 6y ago
Pre-loading instructions doesn't mean they're actually getting executed. It sounds like it's talking about branch prediction.
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Terry Davis' TempleOS Brutal Take Down of Linus Torvalds(youtube.com)
6 points by brianush1 6y ago|2 comments
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'Excuse Me. May I Have Your Seat?' (2004)(nytimes.com)
3 points by brianush1 6y ago|0 comments
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by brianush1 6y ago
Apps can still read the clipboard at any time they want on Linux. A pure Linux OS is definitely better, but for other reasons.
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Using Zig to provide stack traces on kernel panic on bare metal (2018)(andrewkelley.me)
141 points by brianush1 6y ago|10 comments
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by brianush1 6y ago
Seems like it still falls under the condition that "you can get to recovery mode after the PC fails to start 3 times," as parent mentioned. Just a more explicit way of forcing the PC to fail to start.
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by brianush1 6y ago
Also, if there's any way to incorporate machine learning algorithms into it, please try to find a way to do that.
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by brianush1 7y ago
Well, the whole idea is to keep it simple. Look at Lua for a language that can be implemented in a weekend and is still a very serious language. Admittedly, you would probably end up spending a lot of time in the design phase if you were to
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by brianush1 7y ago
There's also https://cancel.fm/ripcord/ which is pretty good.
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Centralized Memory Management(sasluca.github.io)
2 points by brianush1 7y ago|0 comments
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by brianush1 7y ago
I use VSCode with Laurent Tréguier's Dlang extension[0], which provides support for autocomplete, linting, and formatting code, and dub for building, testing, and managing packages. The reason for choosing the Dlang plugin over code-d
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by brianush1 7y ago
You're confusing backcompat with forward compatibility. Old code still works, since old code doesn't use [[ ]]
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by brianush1 7y ago
In this case, it would be "Who did the Mayan Sacrifice?" instead of "Who did the Maya sacrifice?" The lowercase "s" indicates it is not part of a proper noun, and "Maya" is a Native American group, an
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by brianush1 7y ago
The point is that Linux distros are customizable by default, whereas you need to work against Windows to customize it, and all your changes will probably be reverted in the next update.
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by brianush1 7y ago
I'm curious, how does the OS tell Chrome to free memory? Because as far as I know, there's no API to check if another program needs memory.
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by brianush1 7y ago
Odin[0] is very new and has a pretty small community, but it's promising and very well thought-out. [0]: https://github.com/odin-lang/Odin
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by brianush1 7y ago
If we're being pedantic here, destructors don't manage memory at all, they only free resources. Memory is freed by the caller of the destructor, either automatically if the memory was allocated on the stack, or manually by the del
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by brianush1 7y ago
To be fair, Wikipedia has some themes that look very nice and modern, it's still accessible, and the visual editor makes it easy to edit as well.
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by brianush1 7y ago
> If you use the appropiated hash functions (PBKDF2, bcrypt, scrypt, not "AES-256") you are not rolling "your own crypto". Hash functions are useless in a password manager; you can't retrieve the password after
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by brianush1 7y ago
Microsoft explicitly states[0] that they do not support Monaco on mobile browsers, since it's just too much hassle to maintain and, frankly, nobody codes on mobile. [0]: https://microsoft.github.io/monaco-editor/
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Open and Efficient Type Switch for C++ (2012) [pdf](stroustrup.com)
4 points by brianush1 7y ago|0 comments
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by brianush1 7y ago
I don't know much about the law, but wouldn't reverse engineering Widevine be illegal, as it is protected by DRM?

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