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by deaddodo 3y ago
Yes, Americans invented populace relocation (and the abuses that come with it). Nice to know the Roman Empire had a time machine to pull a major component of their imperial edict from. But let's pretend your warped view of history is
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by deaddodo 3y ago
Linux Distros, these days especially , are a paint of coat and tire size difference between each other. You make it sound like someone running Fedora (a significant slice of those in the "Other" category) is having a drastically
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by deaddodo 3y ago
In what way? There are plenty of blue-collar fields where this applies. In many of them, when the workers outgrow the competency of their bosses, they just strike out on their own and become another competitive force (GCs/SCs, carpet w
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by deaddodo 3y ago
EA has quietly condoned tons of modding projects in the past. Command and Conquer: Generals had a massive modding community and EA allowed them carte blanche, as long as it didn't allow piracy. I mean, I know "urggh, EA" and
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by deaddodo 3y ago
They still exist and are easily installable on current phpBB instances: https://www.phpbb.com/customise/db/styles/smilies-13
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by deaddodo 3y ago
Deeply/truly threaded forums are definitely computationally intense. You have to leverage something to recreate the necessary tree from it's database structure (preorder tree traversal, adjacency lists, etc) while applying ACL met
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by deaddodo 3y ago
I wouldn't personally say it's better, so I can't speak for OP; but generally people that use FASM prefer it for two reasons: 1) it's self-compilable (vs NASM, which is C) and 2) they like its macro system.
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by deaddodo 3y ago
I used to commute 2-3hrs/day living in LA. It was just normal. Now that I can work from home, it irritates me even more that companies want to force that back on us.
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by deaddodo 3y ago
It hasn't been since LiteStep that I found myself so appreciative of some random Windows engineers' work. But this is actually awesome. The only thing I would change is to remove the reliance on .NET Desktop.
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by deaddodo 3y ago
With EyeOS, you certainly could. It would just open an iframe, however.
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by deaddodo 3y ago
It was tedious, sure. CSS2, especially, was just powerful enough but unstandardized enough that nothing worked quite right universally. Now, I can jump into CSS3 and throw a flexbox down or a grid and just tell it exactly what I want, in 1&
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by deaddodo 3y ago
EyeOS was doing this around the turn of the millenium: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EyeOS The initial release of OS.js was around 2015, over a decade later.
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by deaddodo 3y ago
I think you'll find that the deeper you go into "traditional" computer scientists, the more you'll find the problem-solvers, hackers and tinkerers that post these types of blogs. Especially in odd cases where a random pr
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by deaddodo 3y ago
I still miss the Windows Classic theme. It was simplistic enough while being streamlined enough for most workflows, now I have to hover icons to find specific windows in an application group or deal with the internet-connected Search/R
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by deaddodo 3y ago
> Windows applications had to run within the first 640K of RAM. In reality, around that time most corporate machines were 80286 machines and as I recall a high specced machine usually had 2MB RAM. There was a protected mode version of Wi
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by deaddodo 3y ago
Lazarus still looks like the classic versions of Delphi, albeit with the version of Windows you run it on's UI elements. So something a little more modern looking for Windows 10/11: https://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org&#
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by deaddodo 3y ago
I sort of agree with this. But I will say, mentally I've always distinguished between an engineer and a programmer. A software engineer builds/architects complex systems in an efficient manner that utilizes a set of standards to d
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by deaddodo 3y ago
> If apps followed SemVer properly they should be bumping the major version for most UI changes (let alone overhauls), as they all break user workflows. This is just reiterating my entire point. People follow the rule/strict interpr
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by deaddodo 3y ago
Great. Then route notifications to a headset and willfully ignore them to yourself.
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by deaddodo 3y ago
SemVer is more useful in Apps if you use feeling vs strict rules. A massive UI overhaul (but without breaking features) is almost definitely a major version bump but SemVer says it's a significant minor jump (5.0->5.5), at best. The
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by deaddodo 3y ago
It's annoying, period. You're forcing me to listen to your life events in an annoyingly prodding manner. However , I can tolerate it if there's reasoning. If you simply don't care and let a device make incessant irritat
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by deaddodo 3y ago
If you don't care about the notifications anyways....then turn them off/silence them. Switch from an event-based model to a polling one, since you're treating it that way anyways. I couldn't care less how quickly someone
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by deaddodo 3y ago
I code C pretty extensively and am pretty involved in the community. I rarely hear inline asm (itself, not the invocation) referred to as C; in fact it's pretty explicitly made clear by the general community that you should clearly del
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by deaddodo 3y ago
> The 6502 was great for it's economy and simplicity. But it wasn't some architectural marvel compared to it's peers.
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by deaddodo 3y ago
> First year warranty is usually included in the product Warranties don't usually cover damage on the part of the user/negligence. > I'd suggest renewing the warranties until EoL of your laptop as these service trips wi
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by deaddodo 3y ago
They were kind of forced to. WoW (classic, not WoW64) relied on the CPU being able to switch to a 16-bit context, in much the way modern WoW uses amd64's compatibility mode. OTVDM's project page directly mentions this as a core co
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by deaddodo 3y ago
Yeah, this was removed from the Blink engine. They've also done a lot of work removing namespace hacks (--opera-foo or --webkit-bar). Not that I think the Google/Blink monopoly is a great thing, especially with their recent move
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by deaddodo 3y ago
Here's the link, for those interested: https://techreport.com/review/how-atis-drivers-optimize-quak... Personally, I don't believe this is a good example; as this was ATI purposefully crippling the experience
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by deaddodo 3y ago
Yes, clock for clock on the single-register subset of instructions you could directly compare. But A) z80s usually ran 4-8x faster, B) they had more registers which closed the gap on more complex instructions and C) they didn't have a
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by deaddodo 3y ago
Fine. There's no systematic dance, like more socially stoic cultures. New England and Southern cultures being the prime contrast; but you could use the caste system of India as an extreme contrast, if you like. Every interpersonal re

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