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by hsivonen 8y ago
Like Intel graphics, AMD graphics now work with Free drivers. The kernel just needs to be new enough to contain new-enough version of the driver, so in the case of Ubuntu 16.04, it was necessary to use the "hwe" package variants.
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by hsivonen 8y ago
This document is missing the XMLHttpRequest/Fetch JSON profile. ECMA operates on a sequence of Unicode code points (really code points, not scalar values!). WHATWG defines how you go from bytes over HTTP to something you can pass to th
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by hsivonen 8y ago
> Japanese and Korean do too. Japanese yes. Korean historically but not really these days. If you try browsing Korean Wikipedia or Korean top newspaper sites, it's Hangul and some Latin characters and no Hanja in sight.
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by hsivonen 8y ago
https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/parsing.html#adoption...
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by hsivonen 8y ago
Marquee works for me in Gecko and Blink. Didn't test the other two engines.
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by hsivonen 9y ago
> Wouldn’t it have been easier if all tags were either ending in /> or followed by a closing tag? Not really. > Wouldn’t it have been easier if the syntax was formally defined as ABNF, and could be translated into code in a ma
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by hsivonen 9y ago
font still works. isindex does not. It's extremely rare for a cross-browser HTML element to get removed but isindex is one of those.
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by hsivonen 9y ago
Parsing isn't the difficult part and above the parser both XHTML and HTML involve the same complexity. You can get an HTML parser off the shelf. A browser vendor (Mozilla) even funded one for non-browser purposes before adopting it for
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by hsivonen 9y ago
A number of folks involved in WHATWG work bought into the XML vision initially, but reality has a strong text/html bias and we've been able to adjust views as experience has accimulated. See https://annevankesteren.nl&#
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by hsivonen 9y ago
> If you're choosing to nitpick about the fact that most sites published would not have worked if served as application/xhtml+xml, I'd invite you to do a survey of sites currently being served as valid HTML5. Completely di
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by hsivonen 9y ago
Technically not but in terms of company practices or legal environment it can change a lot. For example, are $US_ISP and F-Secure in the same bucket in practice?
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by hsivonen 9y ago
> They know which IP addresses you connect to. Many of those host large numbers of websites. And SNI reveals which one of the Web sites you are accessing.
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by hsivonen 9y ago
How you mean "even in Finland" and "edged out"? Finland resisted Russification when under Russian rule and was more on the Swedish and German language orbit before English took over after WWII.
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by hsivonen 9y ago
Turns out that of various difficulties that languages can pose, English spelling is much less of a barrier than some difficult features that other languages have and that English notably doesn't have. (E.g. copious verb conjugations or
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by hsivonen 9y ago
Indeed, Nordic cooperation, both in business and in civil service, switches to English when the Danes get involved even though some cooperation between Swedish and Finnish entities may be conducted in Swedish. People from Finland, especiall
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by hsivonen 9y ago
Even before something like Scratch, Scottie Go is a great way to teach kinds algorithmic thinking. The game on a mobile device gives an assignment and the player programs it by arranging cardboard instructions and then takes a photo of the
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by hsivonen 9y ago
It's pretty sad that even a "premium brand" like Sony does this. Last year, Sony's privacy policy for their Digital Paper app (without which the Digital Paper device is useless) and Headphones Connect (not required for t
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by hsivonen 9y ago
The client sends SNI, so how could the server opt out?
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by hsivonen 9y ago
How (if at all) does using this affect e.g. what Netflix content server gets assigned to you?
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by hsivonen 9y ago
> You can check it out in nightly here https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/std/arch/ https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/std/simd/ deserves mention, too, because it leapfrogs C
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by hsivonen 9y ago
> The bar for C++ competence in that regard is RAII. If it was that simple we'd never need kungFuDeathGrip in Gecko. Yet, we need it a lot: https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/search?q=kungfu&path= (KungF
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by hsivonen 9y ago
Considering how hard it is to write truly exception-safe C++ and considering how major C++ code bases don't allow exceptions, adding exceptions to C does not seem like a good idea.
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by hsivonen 9y ago
Is there a cloud provider that allows a EU-based natural-person customer buy a little Power 9 time for testing? Last I looked, Power cloud offerings required the customer to be a big company that buys a lot of compute.
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by hsivonen 9y ago
There are way more than 4, but each one makes sense and has a purpose. Trying to conflate them would make things conceptually less clear. Also, somehow people seem to object less to Vec<T> vs. &[T] than String vs. &str. It&#x2
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by hsivonen 9y ago
> The compilers probably aren't as good. This statement looks uninformed. The is just the one Rust compiler. (Yes, I'm aware if the other one that only works on valid Rust, so you can't use it without the first compiler.)
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by hsivonen 9y ago
In practice, use cases don't justify strings precalculating their number of code points or grapheme clusters. Pixel width isn't a property of a string alone, since it depends on font and the container to render it in (for line bre
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by hsivonen 9y ago
Yet, people find static Go and Rust binaries a useful feature, so clearly there is some notable problem with the Linux ecosystem that static linking addresses. In particular there's tension between running enterprise distros on servers
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by hsivonen 9y ago
As a programmer using the compiler, how does the IAR compiler quality feel in practice compared to GCC or clang?
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by hsivonen 9y ago
> This feels kind of entitled, to be honest. Entitled to the name perhaps, but _not_ entitled to indefinite support by the core devs. > The core devs don't owe you indefinite support for your chosen version. Absolutely they get t
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by hsivonen 9y ago
The notion that the Python core devs get to decide when Python 2 should stop being used is not cool. Under the freedoms provided by Free Software licensing, users who have a need to continue to use Python 2 should be able pool their effort

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