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by petecox 10y ago
The Verge have speculated [1] that the new Touch Bar found in the latest MBPs is a gateway to running iOS apps natively, with no emulation. [1] http://www.theverge.com/2016/10/28/13454052/apple-macbook-pr
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by petecox 10y ago
They never provided CPU emulation for that. Their solution for Mac LC was effectively an Apple IIe shrunk down to a PDS expansion card.
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by petecox 10y ago
The Darling FAQ mentions it's Linux-only and that a BSD port would be plausible but a Windows version would take a lot more effort. So I'm wondering how much of the software requires 'Linux' per se or rather just relies
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by petecox 10y ago
Hey google team, Windows 10 reported an error: "NotoColorEmoji.ttf is not a valid font file".
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by petecox 10y ago
Closer to 100%. It's a flagship device released less than two months ago (Aug 19), notable for its stylus (that regular Galaxies don't have).
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by petecox 10y ago
Because it's too much effort to port to Servo and they'd rather piggyback on Chrome's plugin efforts?
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by petecox 10y ago
'aging renderer', aka Gecko? I thought the plan was to get an alpha product based around Servo in the next year or so. Clinging to Gecko is akin to the slow death of Symbian when Maemo was around the corner.
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by petecox 10y ago
That's a good question; I'm in the 'external' camp. But other browsers such as Edge and Chrome have built-in support, so there's a percentage of Mozilla management and user base that would regard a browser as featur
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by petecox 10y ago
OTOH, pdf.js is the first thing I disable in Firefox, since SumatraPDF and Atril render things much more quickly and lightly! :) I can understand customer demand but I'd prefer if it was optional - e.g. the first time a user visits a P
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by petecox 10y ago
They're deprecating XUL and the NPAPI plugin architecture so that they can move to servo relatively legacy free. Importing Chrome's SWF and PDF is a way to stress test their new plugin implementation. Not maintaining pdf.js seems
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by petecox 10y ago
pdf.js and B2G cancellation were probably linked in that one justification for a pure JS renderer was to display PDFs on Firefox OS.
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by petecox 10y ago
I have previously installed shumway but it never seemed to work on the websites I wanted to load. :( So perhaps the remaining effort to get it working was too much.
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by petecox 10y ago
Thanks for the tip. I'll see if it has any affect on my laptop's battery life and fan usage.
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by petecox 10y ago
Perhaps the new 'Pixel' phone is ChromeOS based - yet another platform but like BB10 and Sailfish including Android apps.
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by petecox 10y ago
gopher clients in the early 90s typically ran on a unix terminal with mono-spaced fonts, whose style this web interface is mimicking.
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by petecox 10y ago
Nexus 4, released in Oct 2012, is still better spec-wise in terms of screen and RAM than most $50 devices. I picked up one on ebay for $AU80 and the battery is still okay but the non-replaceable feature the only thing keeping me from using
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by petecox 10y ago
I tried Shumway on a couple of sites with no luck. The browser detection code bumped me immediately to the 'Download Flash' website. So if websites aren't recognising Shumway even as an option, but looking explicitly for the
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by petecox 10y ago
They provided a build of Windows 10 for old Lumias, so it would be a gesture of goodwill to crank out "Windows 10 Mobile for Tablets" for those 'maybe 6 people'. After all, what is a Surface RT except a large screen phon
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by petecox 10y ago
From the screenshot, all this seems to be doing is running an X server, so it should be trivial to switch from Unity to i3, Xmonad or whatever. The next level of integration would be running X11 fullscreen and then launching Windows program
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by petecox 10y ago
-ing is interchangeable here in Australia with to be -ed e.g. "the roses need pruning" vs "the roses need to be pruned" Yet there's a formality typical in passive aggressive notes of using the 'to be -ed'
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by petecox 10y ago
I think it's a question of usage. I went for a hike off the beaten track in Quebec City and asked for directions and a 22yo 'kid' confessed to me he hadn't spoken English since he left school. Further north, everyone in
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by petecox 10y ago
In my part of the Commonwealth, 'route' does rhyme with 'hoot'. "If you go that route, you'll get stuck in traffic". It's only in a computing context that 'router' rhymes with 'doubter&
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by petecox 10y ago
Most alternative firmwares bootstrap AOSP to some degree in some way for hardware support or adb/fastboot to shoe-horn an alternative ROM. Reusing some low level code does not an Android make.
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by petecox 10y ago
I liked the story of Emma Zunz as a grieving daughter. The Garden of Forking Paths is clever and cited as an important work on possible worlds and predestination. Further coverage of the 30 year anniversary of Borges' passing here: ht
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by petecox 10y ago
Well obviously this is a "performance" NUC but it surprises me they don't offer a Core-M model (price?), which would facilitate a fanless 'kit', without specialised 3rd-party housing. I don't need the performan
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by petecox 10y ago
Where do they all come from?
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by petecox 10y ago
I tried the Facebook apps and they were slow, buggy and intrusive. Messaging from the mobile web page was fine... Message to monetizing corporations - Sorry, all I want is a 4.5" web page downscaled from 21". It's all just
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by petecox 10y ago
12 hour shifts sounds very 19th Century! Workers marched in the streets against such things... I thought PRC was founded on the communist ideals of the proletariat? 12 * 2 = 8 * 3. Introduce an 8 hour day and you can hire 50% more workers!
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by petecox 10y ago
Sure but Intel announced back in April that there won't be future Atom phones. i.e. Asus went with Qualcomm for Zenfone 3.
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by petecox 10y ago
>The problem is even worse for local ethno-linguistic minorities such as Gaelic and Welsh in the UK. Ironically France is only as homogenous as it is due to centuries of centralisation and standardisation deliberately driving out regiona

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