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by deaddodo 9mo ago
AI isn’t particularly great with C, Zig, or Rust either in my experience. It can certainly help with snippets of code and elucidate complex bitwise mathematics, and I’ll use it for those tedious tasks. And it’s a great research assistant,
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by deaddodo 9mo ago
Vala is still being developed and used in the GNOME ecosystem. Boo, on the other hand, is pretty dead.
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by deaddodo 9mo ago
Depends on the area/region. But not really. But believe what you like.
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by deaddodo 9mo ago
"De facto" is the keyword there. Only the nation of origin has any say on company management and infrastructure in a de jure manner. The only power non-origin nations/entities have is via leveraging their ability to do busi
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by deaddodo 10mo ago
Have you tried using Manifest V3 adblockers on Chrome? They're not nearly as capable or useful as the old ones.
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by deaddodo 10mo ago
I was oversimplifying for the sake of example, but yes you are correct. Properly managed protobufs don't require an update on strict interface expansion; so shouldn't always require a redeploy.
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by deaddodo 10mo ago
The dependencies they're likely referring to aren't core libraries, they're shared interfaces. If you're using protobufs, for instance, and you share the interfaces in a repo. Updating Service A's interface(s) neces
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by deaddodo 10mo ago
A demake would be a reimagining of a modern game into the style and aesthetics of the time. E.g. taking God of War and turning it into a 2D Shinobi-style platformer for Sega Genesis. Or turning Gran Turismo into a Mode7-style racer on SNES.
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by deaddodo 10mo ago
The game was built for the Saturn and ported to PS1 (versus being built independently for it). During that process, graphical fidelity and effects were lost and audio transcoded in a lossy manner. Sprites were lower quality, the water effec
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by deaddodo 10mo ago
I disagree, and gave the technical reasons. So now we're just going into opinion, which I'm not interested in. Either way, you're welcome to believe what you like.
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by deaddodo 10mo ago
Do you not know that the US is a Federal system and there are (at minimum) 50 different ways that schools are funded? California's schools (for instance) aren't funded by local taxes, they're funded by the state and allocated
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by deaddodo 10mo ago
> To be clear, Win98 was a garbage fire of an OS (when it came to stability); which makes it so much worse that Mac OS 8 and 9 were so bad .
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by deaddodo 10mo ago
And yet, OS 8 and OS 9 couldn't even match that joke.
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by deaddodo 10mo ago
A good chunk of EULAs are partially-completely unenforceable in US contract law as well. It just doesn’t stop corporations from using them as a scare tactic.
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by deaddodo 10mo ago
Yes, but I was specifically choosing the one that is by far the most popular one; at least in American English.
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by deaddodo 10mo ago
Win98 was head and shoulders above System 9, from a stability perspective. It had protected memory, actual preemptive multitasking, a somewhat functional driver system built on top of an actual HAL, functional networking, etc, etc. To be cl
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by deaddodo 10mo ago
Dailian is being overly charitable to Samsung and downplaying Intel. They’re a Korean news outlet with a vested interest in the Chaebol. That being said, take it however you like. Apple is talking to Intel to make their deal with TSMC more
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by deaddodo 10mo ago
If you call it Rock-Paper-Scissors it still follows logically: Rock loses to Paper loses to Scissors
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by deaddodo 10mo ago
Intel’s 18A is closer to availability (functional, ramping to production) than Samsung’s SF2 (still in dev/testing phase); which is roughly analogous to TSMC N2. TSMC is ahead, as usual, but Intel is closer than Samsung (in this specif
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by deaddodo 11mo ago
Notice how that was 6+ months ago, and this newest post is from today? That’s how memos work.
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by deaddodo 11mo ago
This is the memo.
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by deaddodo 11mo ago
You still have XFCE.
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by deaddodo 11mo ago
Me was very experimental with the audio/video processing pipelines and playback capabilities. Many of those were ported over to the XP. That being said, even people at the time knew it was mostly a half-hearted experiment and wondered
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by deaddodo 11mo ago
Problem is, I don’t think it’s a conscious decision by Microsoft. It just happens because they have to make their next versions appealing to buyers with new features. Supposedly, the longer lifecycles of newer versions with large milestone
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by deaddodo 11mo ago
Explorer.exe is not file explorer, it is the Windows UI system. It’s harder to see on modern Windows versions (since Windows will reload it automatically), but if you go into Win98 and kill the process, you’ll see your taskbar, desktop icon
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by deaddodo 11mo ago
Explorer.exe is technically the Windows UI. File Explorer is a part of that, but has additional COM and other components that it consists of. Those are loaded on demand, now the OS is keeping them resident.
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by deaddodo 11mo ago
It’s like they say, only alternating versions of Windows are actually worth using. It’s almost like they follow a software version of Intel’s old tick-tock pattern. A version that’s super experimental, but unstable and flaky (95, Me, Vista,
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by deaddodo 11mo ago
Ok
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by deaddodo 11mo ago
Gotta love this: > Despite the constraints of the Xbox’s single-threaded 733MHz CPU, XBMC 4.0 includes improvements to task scheduling that allow multiple activities to run concurrently. As if the Pentium 3 wasn’t regularly used to run f
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by deaddodo 11mo ago
Just to clarify, the difference on the PS2 is: * CD: 3.6MB/s * DVD: 5-8MB/s * USB: 0.8-1.1MB/s So the disk would almost definitely be the better option.

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