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by gdwatson 1y ago
“They convinced a bunch of developers that their definition of Open Source that was specifically crafted to protect business interests is canon.” They adopted the existing Debian Free Software Guidelines as the Open Source Definition. The
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by gdwatson 1y ago
The point isn't that the developer should disable text selection whenever he thinks it's unnecessary, which would indeed be silly. It's that sometimes the user interface rules for navigating selectable text conflict or inter
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by gdwatson 1y ago
I agree. The closer to a traditional desktop U.I. you get, the jankier selecting clickable text becomes. For a simple web form, leaving labels selectable is no big deal and probably a win. But for something trying to behave like a tabbed
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by gdwatson 1y ago
Which motherboards enable PBO out of the box? That’s crazy! I know that motherboard manufacturers set some sketchy default turbo durations for Intel CPUs back when Intel was cagey about the spec and let them get away with it, but I though
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by gdwatson 1y ago
It sounds like their lawyers have done the appropriate counter-challenge with YouTube, so the video will go back up unless Bloomberg sues them in the next so many days. And this is Gamers Nexus, so I presume they will fight to keep it as i
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by gdwatson 1y ago
My Logitech G603 runs quite happily on Eneloops, for the best of both worlds.
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by gdwatson 1y ago
This is one of those cases where the left–right spectrum just doesn’t capture the interplay of various economic, social, and cultural positions.
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by gdwatson 1y ago
That didn’t placate the UK government, because it didn’t just want access to British users’ data – it wanted access to any Apple user’s data from anywhere in the world. I suspect that disabling advanced data protection in the UK was meant t
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by gdwatson 1y ago
BSD has had funopen(3) since 4.4, so it has an alternative. FreeBSD has implemented fopencookie(3) since v11, but FreeBSD is the BSD most willing to implement Linux interfaces for various reasons.
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by gdwatson 1y ago
As an American, my reservations about European privacy laws are related to jurisdiction, and none of them applies here. I welcome this decision.
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by gdwatson 1y ago
If unethical behavior is more lucrative than ethical, it will always be tempting. But that doesn't make it ethical.
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by gdwatson 1y ago
Yeah, I think the dream was more like, “The compiler looks at a map or filter operation and figures out whether it’s worth the overhead to parallelize it automatically.” And that turns out to be pretty hard, with potentially painful (and n
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by gdwatson 1y ago
Historically, different Unixes varied a lot more than they do today. Say you want your program to use the C library function foo on platforms where it’s available and the function bar where it isn’t: You can write both versions and choose
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by gdwatson 1y ago
Superscalar processors (which include all mainstream ones these days) do this within a single core, provided there are no data dependencies between the assignment statements. They have multiple arithmetic logic units, and they can start a
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by gdwatson 2y ago
“DOGE = Curtis Yarvin's RAGE from his butterfly revolution blog post.” I rarely have the patience or temperament to read Yarvin, so I can’t say whether you are right or not. But I can say that his critique of progressive institutions
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by gdwatson 2y ago
He’s been interested in how taboos influence our thought and speech for a long time: https://www.paulgraham.com/say.html .
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by gdwatson 2y ago
Arguably 1440p is the sweet spot for gaming, but I love 4k monitors for the extra text sharpness. Fortunately DLSS and FSR upscaling are pretty good these days. At 4k, quality-mode upscaling gives you a native render resolution about 1440
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by gdwatson 2y ago
This is in large part an OEM issue. Dell or HP will definitely have an Intel version of the machine you are looking for, but AMD versions are hit and miss. I think this is partly because big OEMs doubt (used to doubt?) AMD’s ability to con
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by gdwatson 2y ago
And he loses his page state if there is an error. You have to do server-side validation regardless, but client-side validation can be a lot more pleasant for the user. I used to think it doubled your workload to do both, but if you are usi
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by gdwatson 2y ago
> Is Cuba a dictatorship? No. Would you clarify what you mean by this? Does the first secretary of the Communist party no longer have de facto dictatorial power?
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by gdwatson 3y ago
If the language standard leaves some behavior undefined, other sources (e.g., POSIX, your ABI, your standard library docs, or your compiler docs) are free to define it. If they do, and you are willing to limit your program’s portability, y
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by gdwatson 3y ago
Thanks for laying out the C++ situation. Your concern makes practical sense.
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by gdwatson 3y ago
C++ solved this by shipping something that are not coroutines and branding it coroutines anyway. … They aren't coroutines, and by squatting on the name, make it borderline impossible that C++ will ever have coroutines. I am not a C++
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by gdwatson 3y ago
Too late to edit, but I was thinking of the lorem ipsum screenshots when I said the thesis. That'll teach me to reply off the cuff.
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by gdwatson 3y ago
https://imgur.com/a/5UebhP4 Something about taking a screenshot on a scaled display makes my first image (at 125% scaling) look bigger than it should be; at 80% magnification it looks about the same size as it does in
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by gdwatson 3y ago
I'm usually a fan of Windows-style font rendering that snaps on-screen text to the pixel grid. But for this typeface it seems to heavily exaggerate the roughness as the different serifs snap all over. The pictures of the print pages
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by gdwatson 3y ago
Computer Modern is okay on paper, but I find it very frustrating to read on screen. I wonder if the Fell types are similar ‐‐ the scan of the thesis, where the letters aren't fit to the pixel grid, looks a lot nicer. I do like Baskerv
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by gdwatson 3y ago
Historically English-language typography, in contrast to French typography, used a larger space between sentences than between words. Typists imitated this traditional style. The single-space style gained typograhic ground through the twe
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by gdwatson 3y ago
OpenType fonts can define ligation pairs. If the editor implements OpenType ligatures, it will read the instructions from the font and implement them. There will probably be a setting to enable or disable ligatures entirely, and there may
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by gdwatson 4y ago
There are coding fonts that make the "-" look more like a minus than a hyphen. I know that Iosevka and its variants do.

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