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by ndiddy 9mo ago
> I learned HTML quite late, when HTML 5 was already all the rage, and I never understood why the more strict rules of XML for HTML never took off. They seem so much saner than whatever soup of special rules and exceptions we currently h
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by ndiddy 9mo ago
"Self-closing tags" are not a thing in HTML5. From the HTML standard: > On void elements, [the trailing slash] does not mark the start tag as self-closing but instead is unnecessary and has no effect of any kind. For such void
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by ndiddy 10mo ago
From the MR comments: > If we assume the Linux desktop has 4% market share, and assume the highly improbable fact that all of those 4% know how to use middle click paste and prefer it over the alternative autoscrolling, that's still
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by ndiddy 10mo ago
The whole point of the DMCA takedown process is that it's rubber-stamp on the part of the service provider and all decisions regarding validity are left up to the courts. That's why there's a provision built into the law for
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by ndiddy 10mo ago
Thanks for the clarification! Out of curiosity, do you have any other insight into how/why iOS 7 turned out the way it did? What was the internal attitude towards it like?
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by ndiddy 10mo ago
If I met a paranoid schizophrenic and decided to spend the next few months building up a relationship with him and confirming all his delusions (yes, you're special with divine powers, yes your family and friends are all spying on you
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by ndiddy 10mo ago
I've heard rumors that part of why iOS 7 was so garish is because Dye's background was in product packaging so his team were doing design reviews on paper and didn't realize that the colors would look different on device due
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by ndiddy 10mo ago
"Abandonware" is not a legal concept. It's basically shorthand for selective IP enforcement. Essentially, it's saying that if you're illegally distributing a game or piece of software that the original publisher is
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by ndiddy 10mo ago
Yeah it's fun how Google displays a full-page ad for Chrome every few times I do a Google search on iOS Safari that I have to dismiss before seeing the results.
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by ndiddy 10mo ago
Well the "solution" for that will be the GPU vendors focusing solely on B2B sales because it's more profitable, therefore keeping GPUs out of the hands of average consumers. There's leaks suggesting that nVidia will grad
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by ndiddy 10mo ago
KDE started doing a similar thing in 2024. They pop up a notification asking for donations once yearly. Whether you click "Donate" or "No Thanks" on the pop-up, it will go away until the next year. I don't mind them
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by ndiddy 10mo ago
> It's 2025 and I would have expected the linux foundation or canonical to at least create a label "linux compatible" or "linux tested", so that brands can license it, and maybe spend money to collaborate with ha
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by ndiddy 10mo ago
It may also be due to legacy reasons. Japan was a pioneer in adopting HD TV years before the rest of the world, but early HD cameras and video formats like HDCAM and HDV only recorded 1080i at 1440x1080. If their whole video processing chai
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by ndiddy 10mo ago
> There was a whole cottage industry of folks modding these CPUs as a small side hustle for people who were not comfortable with soldering onto CPU pins if you wanted to put these into a SMP system. When Intel switched from Slot 1 to Soc
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by ndiddy 10mo ago
I think the situation has flipped in the past few years. Since Pipewire came out, I haven't had any problems with audio on Linux and I can dial the latency down to single-digit ms. Meanwhile, on Mac audio has gotten far worse, especial
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by ndiddy 10mo ago
Whenever people bring this up I find it somewhat silly. Wine originally stood for "Windows Emulator". See old release notes ( https://lwn.net/1998/1112/wine981108.html ) for one example: "This is re
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by ndiddy 10mo ago
There's a really good video here that shows that it likely happened. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-y3RGeaxksY Rhythm Nation is unique because it uses a nonstandard tuning that shifts the notes to less-used frequenci
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by ndiddy 10mo ago
Given that they're fine with adding breaking changes to the protocol, I think it's a shame that they're not supporting multi-screen. This will lead to the same problem with Xrandr based multi-monitor where you get screen tear
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by ndiddy 10mo ago
As far as I'm aware, all of the Snapdragon ARM laptops are existing chassis designs with different motherboards. I'm not sure how ARM affects build quality. Moreover, Snapdragon X support on Linux is still heavily a work in progre
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by ndiddy 10mo ago
A lot of computers with OLED displays use PWM for the low brightness levels, and he seems like the type of person who would be sensitive to that sort of thing.
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by ndiddy 10mo ago
I dual boot Asahi and Mac OS X on my Macbook Air, and haven't had any problems with suspend. IMO the two biggest problems are lack of USB-C display output (although this is less of a problem with the Macbook Pro since you can use HDMI)
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by ndiddy 10mo ago
The user VMs are mostly Linux but Azure itself runs on a stripped down version of Windows Server and all the VMs are hosted inside Hyper-V. See https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/windowsosplatform/a...
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by ndiddy 10mo ago
Can you post a video demonstrating you using it?
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by ndiddy 10mo ago
> Our North Star is ‘1 engineer, 1 month, 1 million lines of code.’ How do they intend to accomplish this? Assuming 40 hour work weeks (160 hours/month), and even assuming a developer would spend their entire 8 hour work day solely
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by ndiddy 10mo ago
What would you expect to happen? Photoshop 1.0 is an almost unusably basic image editor by modern standards. It doesn't even have layers (they were introduced with Photoshop 3.0 4 years later). Even if the code was licensed in a manner
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by ndiddy 10mo ago
Still works for me, but here's a mirror: https://files.catbox.moe/0bjogl.pdf
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by ndiddy 10mo ago
This happens whenever the government releases files regarding anything controversial (JFK assassination, aliens, MLK assassination, etc). They have to catalog anything they receive including obviously fake information sent to them by crazy
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by ndiddy 10mo ago
Interesting article on the failure of Darwin as an open source project: http://www.synack.net/~bbraun/writing/osfail.html
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by ndiddy 10mo ago
One of the most interesting things in this release IMO is the internal documents from Sega Channel management. For example, in this binder https://archive.gamehistory.org/item/ef6246e4-79be-4b02-b262... there's a
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by ndiddy 10mo ago
Dell now charges more for RAM than Apple for some models: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/apple-now-beats-dell-at...

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