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by deaddodo 3y ago
I disagree. I kinda hate eGUI as it's so obvious everytime an app is using it (ROG control center on Linux, for instance). I would much prefer a multiplatform native toolkit as a first class citizen in Rust, versus all the ugly homegro
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by deaddodo 3y ago
There's clotted cream (and double cream, treacle, golden syrup, mixed spice, etc) in every major American metro I've ever been in. Look for a British import shop. Or, if you're in New England, SoCal, etc, you might just find
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by deaddodo 3y ago
As someone who's traveled the undeveloped world pretty heavily, you would be surprised at how bad the "raw" food quality is; especially if poverty is very high. Undeveloped doesn't mean "without access to industrial
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by deaddodo 3y ago
When I was in Armenia last year, this was the modus operandi for removing large amounts of trash also. Just throw it on the side of the road and burn it in heaps.
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by deaddodo 3y ago
I mean, it was what everyone had agreed upon previously. Microsoft was the only party to follow through. For all the guff they get for not following standards, it was the one standard they did. You don't have to love a company to ackno
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by deaddodo 3y ago
Sure, but there was a whole other magic era that followed that. That also got to work with low-level assembler and direct framebuffer/video access. But wasn't constrained to 320x200x8 screens with pictograph fonts ("petscii&q
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by deaddodo 3y ago
> but I've moved on to "genuine" retro hardware with the new crop of machines like CX16, Mega65, or my personal choice, Agon Light. I just wish these would move on from the same crop of retro CPUs (z80, 6502, maybe 8080)
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by deaddodo 3y ago
The "Windows way" is the "right way" for a few reasons. This is definitely not one of them.
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by deaddodo 3y ago
> Why does the trash compactor compact trash so slowly and with such difficulty once the resistance of a thin metal rod is introduced? Surely metal Death Star pieces are one of the main items of trash in need of compacting. It thus stand
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by deaddodo 3y ago
While it's true that assembler doesn't quite fit into the same class as compiled/interpreted languages, it would be disingenuous to say it's not a programming language. It's simply a very low-level, machine specific
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by deaddodo 3y ago
I used this book as a primary reference for OS design (along with The Dinosaur Book) when designing my hobby OS. The FreeBSD kernel/world is almost exquisite in it's engineering simplicity. Compared to the sometimes chaotic world
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by deaddodo 3y ago
I was saddened to find that the series numbering was in binary.
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by deaddodo 3y ago
> Most video surveillance systems record to a giant circular buffer Right...because the alternative is stopping recording at a full buffer and losing new videos, instead. Considering recency is generally most valuable (followed by tota
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by deaddodo 3y ago
That's not quite true. There were plenty of 90s game engines. They just weren't as general purpose. So you would end up rewriting a good chunk anyways to get what you wanted.
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by deaddodo 3y ago
Because most corporate investments aren't managed by complete morons. This works when there's an obvious non-profit that has a monetizable product. The latter conflicts with the former, so it requires a disconnect. Meanwhile, if A
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by deaddodo 3y ago
It takes quite a bit of frivolous filing to get hit with any sanctions or fines. A single frivolous lawsuit happens here and there, it's when people/organizations are clearly malicious and abusing the system by filing continuous s
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by deaddodo 3y ago
Yes.
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by deaddodo 3y ago
> it's been because Intel's chip design failed so hard it squandered their fab advantage and gave AMD an opportunity to catch up. Pretty sure you got that backwards. Intel fell behind because their fab advantage dissipated as t
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by deaddodo 3y ago
I think you meant to respond to the sibling comment
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by deaddodo 3y ago
Did you purposefully choose a link that doesn't actually include any working gallery links? Here, here's the actual wiki for betaarchive: https://www.betaarchive.com/wiki/ And here's a link to the first
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by deaddodo 3y ago
I was a KDE mainliner and switched to GNOME2 because KDE4 was too resource intensive for my machine. So our anecdotes are contrary to each other's.
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by deaddodo 3y ago
You can take whatever stance you like. The point being made is simply that menubars work the same in both cases excepting two factors: mandatory existence and location.
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by deaddodo 3y ago
I mean, it's always kinda played off like he turned coat. But if you know the history it makes total sense. He started off with GNOME, got interested in .net and Mono (originally as a means to integrate them into GNOME/GTK) and sh
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by deaddodo 3y ago
> GNOME 3 and up definitely isn’t “mac-like” When many people (like me) use that phrase, we're not referring to the UI/UX. It's instead a comment on GNOME's desire to have a controlled and universal design that is mor
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by deaddodo 3y ago
> One perk of the menubar being this way that I’ve come to appreciate is that programs can’t try to remove it or sweep it into a hamburger menu in some misguided quest for minimalism. Sure, but those same applications just leave a bare a
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by deaddodo 3y ago
KDE is easier to pare down/minimize due to it's classical componentized structure ("KFrameworks"). It's really hard to do the same with gnome-shell, without either forking it or writing a replacement. Not that the l
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by deaddodo 3y ago
Yeah, KDE 4.0 wasn't bad because of its design philosophies or functionality. Everytime people hear that phrase, they instantly jump to that conclusion for some reason. No, it was resource hungry and crashed a lot (mostly due to afor
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by deaddodo 3y ago
> I didn't say they did. You sure as hell heavily implied it then: >> so Red Hat refused to bundle it or support it, and wrote its own environment instead. Unless by "wrote its own environment" you mean "package
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by deaddodo 3y ago
> * It was started by a German living in Germany while a student at a German university Even at the time, he wasn't a sole contributor. He posted to a Usenet board and gathered interest of a multinational group before commencing. To
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by deaddodo 3y ago
Here you go: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39491119

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