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by dralley 11mo ago
There's no particular reason for an image format based on video codec keyframes to ever support a lot of the advanced features that JPEG XL supports. It might compress better than AVIF 1, but I doubt it would resolve the other issues.
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by dralley 11mo ago
You can't be serious thinking that IPv4 doesn't have problems
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by dralley 11mo ago
What is the point of this line of questioning? They stated that the proposal as-written would make maintaining projects like Bazzite untenable. That's a valid thing to say and not that much of a "threat", but even if it wer
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by dralley 11mo ago
From personal experience, all of the games that I personally play seem to work at least as well if not better on Linux than Windows. The only exception is FSR4, but that ought to be fixed soon.
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by dralley 11mo ago
Someone on HN really ought to know the difference between a request for comment / change proposal and a dictat. If nothing else, the only way these problems ever get solved is by bringing them up, surfacing the issues and providing an
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by dralley 11mo ago
Converting parsers to Rust is not "pointless". Doing string manipulation in C is both an awful experience and also extremely fertile ground for serious issues.
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by dralley 11mo ago
Half the time this is just because of Google websites having poor performance.
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by dralley 11mo ago
Plenty of online games work fine. Rocket League, Squad, Arc Raiders etc. are just the ones that I play.
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by dralley 11mo ago
Accelerationism never works. There's a long, long list of complete and utter disasters and tremendous suffering inflicted by this moronic logic. Things get better by being made better, not by being made worse.
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by dralley 11mo ago
>Good. I really wish Mozilla would rely less on these shady backroom deals and open up to direct user funding. The Mozilla Foundation accepts donations, but they don't go toward funding Firefox; instead, they fund advocacy campaigns
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by dralley 11mo ago
An unfortunate detail is that the wife of the firefighter (Ignatenko) who was portrayed in Chernobyl was recently killed by a Russian drone which hit her apartment building.
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by dralley 11mo ago
Honestly you don't need Valve hardware or SteamOS to make Proton work really well
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by dralley 11mo ago
Does the IDF issue vibrators to their soldiers?
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by dralley 11mo ago
The pager detonations were weak enough to be effectively nonlethal unless you're especially vulnerable. That's how you end up with such a low death to injury ratio in the first place. So per the KPI metric you've chosen, m
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by dralley 11mo ago
>Four children were killed and dozens of _innocent_ bystanders were injured. Compared to thousands of Hezbollah members. Literally one of the most targeted large-scale attacks of all time. There are effectively zero other military means
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by dralley 11mo ago
If you define "casualty" as suffering some ear pain or a minor scratch, then sure.
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by dralley 11mo ago
I don't even like AI (certainly don't like hearing about it), but I don't really have an issue with AI features. There, I said it. HN spent a year discussing the threat that AI posed to Google Search. Well, if it threatens se
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by dralley 11mo ago
He voted in line with Democrats when it mattered, but was enough of a visible pain in the ass to satisfy his constituents.
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by dralley 11mo ago
1) "intifada" has not historically meant "peaceful resistance". It has referred to events like October 7th, and the 1st and 2nd intifadas which killed more people than the Troubles did in about 1/3rd as much time, e
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by dralley 11mo ago
> Mamdani. Millennial candidate. No dirt. Other that some stupid stuff he said while he was young, his policies are relatively common sense and middle of the road, and are aimed at leveling the playing field. Look, Mamdani ran a good cam
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by dralley 11mo ago
Manchin and Sinema shouldn't be mentioned together in the same sentence. Manchin was genuinely the best Democrats could hope for from West Virginia. Sinema was absolutely not the best Democrats could hope for from Arizona. Manchin was
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by dralley 11mo ago
I suspect this may end up in Mercedes Formula 1 power units, so that may not be off-base. Use whatever ridiculous materials you can to keep the weight and size down.
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by dralley 11mo ago
It's also just a lot easier and cheaper to make an electric motor "overpowered" by 25% or even 50+% than an internal combustion engine.
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by dralley 11mo ago
Also as mentioned by another comment, Mercedes produces Formula 1 power units, and engineers would kill for a savings of a few kilograms in Formula 1. Those savings are not easy to come by.
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by dralley 11mo ago
There have been rumors for quite some time that Mercedes has the best power unit for the upcoming 2026 regulation set. It's entirely possible that this is part of that picture. "Sustained power output between 350 and 400 kilowatts
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by dralley 11mo ago
You're conflating two different things. The purpose of rewriting it is not to change the license. The purpose of rewriting it is to provide a modernized alternative with some benefits from the choice of language -- and the choice of
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by dralley 11mo ago
The primary benefit of FOSS over proprietary software is, in fact, the ability and willingness to change things and open up changes to a wider pool of developers. Fiefdoms are actively hostile to open source principles. Obviously it's
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by dralley 11mo ago
Sure, it's upsetting. IBM was upset about BIOS being cloned, Bell got upset about Unix being cloned, Oracle got upset about the JDK being cloned, etc. Many of them were upset enough to engage in decade-long lawsuits. But we'd ulti
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by dralley 11mo ago
> (including discussion about making sure the RPMs built on all architectures) All officially supported ones. The Debian discussion is not about officially supported Debian ports, it's about unofficial ones.
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by dralley 11mo ago
These are not officially supported platforms. It doesn't seem that unreasonable for Debian to not want to be restricted to "code that can be run on CPUs from the 1990s" in 2025 It's cool that you can run modern Debian o

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