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by creshal 3y ago
WebKit is five loosely related browser engines in a trench coat. A lot of the code is "platform" specific, and most of the optimization happens in that layer. Apple's Cocoa webkit is a lot more polished than WebkitGTK cou
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by creshal 3y ago
Discord is not working "perfectly fine" on desktop for many people. Usually, the browser version is faster, needs less resources, has fewer platform integration problems (mic/camera access etc.), and crashes less often. And h
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Devices have been doing that since forever, so Plan9 has an mmap equivalent with segment/segattach, where you use file I/O (only) to define a memory mapping and attach it to the current process. Everything from that point on is re
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by creshal 3y ago
Oh, wait, THAT'S what keeps breaking umlauts every time Mac users try to share files with any other operating system? Bloody hell, that garbage just keeps causing trouble constantly.
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…for English, and a handful of other European languages where the problem is trivial. Not for the 70% or so of humanity who isn't European or European-descendant.
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> or is there a deeper problem lurking there? The problem is that organizations don't want to be told by computers to just use sane and logical structures for their meatbags, they'd rather spend billions on making the computers
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> Whose security boundary is also the kernel. It's not that much different. That's the whole point: If you have to chroot/container everything because it violates regular permission models too much, PHP is not multi-tenant
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> This is isn't a problem with PHP. I'd argue it is, since PHP's common runtimes expect you to cross user boundaries all the time: - as Apache2 module, PHP runs as the same user as the web server, so the web server needs t
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by creshal 3y ago
It's a Tang vulnerability, not a LUKS vulnerability. Clickbait.
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Golang makes it very easy, e.g.
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> I'm working on proper API docs (…), these wouldn't be served by Vrite. I struggle to see what makes this a "technical content" CMS then, rather than just a generic marketing CMS. For a generic marketing CMS aimed at
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Not fast enough.
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It doesn't scroll on desktop either, I guess the world still is not ready for people having multiple windows open in parallel.
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> I always had to move back an forth between different editors Yeah, that sucks, it's much easier when you can do everything in VSCode/emacs/vim and don't have to leave your dev environment to write about what you&#x2
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> And scrollbars are completely different in different browsers - they have different sizes, different behavior, different look-and-feels. Yes, and? No matter what it is, it's what the users of said platform are used to. Is there re
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> And if the goal is merely symbolic - a way of showing that Christianity can appeal to people from all over the world It's not just that it could appeal to the whole world, but that early Christianity was not just an European a
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Only on a high quality touchpad, if they're poorly calibrated it's not reliable enough. I don't trust these guys.
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by creshal 3y ago
On a good laptop, I would at most need it for audio (cable connectors break too easily when I'm working in a bus/train/airplane, no thanks). But since the devs can't count to three, I'll need an external mouse, and
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I'd expect the company to pick one that works without firmware. I know a bunch of realteks don't need any; Intel has been hopeless for ages.
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They do offer a BT dongle via USB, so clearly there's at least one. Why not have its chip on the mainboard? Using USB for soldered-on BT is fairly common.
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I don't suppose X62 can still be sourced, so… I'd guess another X220? I've yet to see a laptop with a better keyboard.
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> Well, we've got a model with physical buttons now alongside multi-touch support so you can get the best of both worlds. At least in terms of functionality and usability. A third mouse button like we had back in the late 1980s woul
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by creshal 3y ago
Traditional laptops like the Thinkpad X201 or X220 back from over ten years ago were lighter, had brighter and denser displays, didn't make me pay extra for bluetooth and even had a third mouse button for scrolling.
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by creshal 3y ago
64GB DDR4-SODIMM costs about 115€ including shipping right now, for the T4 the upgrade from 8 costs over 300. It's the same markup you get from companies like Apple. And I don't mind spending money on a convincing laptop, but sinc
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From Wikipedia: > The George Floyd protests and subsequent Black Lives Matter demonstrations in the Netherlands in 2020 appear to have had a significant effect on the acceptance of Zwarte Piet's traditional appearance among the Dut
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My impressions as someone who's been exclusively using Linux on laptops since 2007: Heavy. Intel-only, and not even good for an Intel. Poor display. Designers can't count to three (mouse buttons). Optical drive but no built-in blu
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> Don't paint the kid black Why, other than because Americans have negative connotations with the practice? > I'm sure there's plenty of other better ways We're open for suggestions.
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> White people painting themselves black is not black representation You have a lot of small countryside villages where no black people live. One of the three magi you need in your school play about Christmas is, by tradition, consider
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> For instance, "Woke" has been a huge topic here in Norway the past ~3 months which is funny as it's close to completely irrelevant for the day to day life of 99.9% of Norwegians. It gets worse when American-Left wokeism
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Some learn it, some don't. If your only goal is to get 100% of humanity to spend as much time as possible on your website, no matter if that's good for them or not, you need to make your app addicting even to people with no attent

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