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by rescbr 1y ago
Well, the screen resolutions and pixel densities of that time also made those micro bitmap fonts to be not so micro. I miss it too.
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by rescbr 1y ago
Yeah, if it uses the Win32 API! Thanks to Wine, it’s the most stable API/ABI Linux has! I’m kind of joking, but the main issue probably lies with the libc rather than with Linux itself.
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by rescbr 1y ago
So you do all this work, retrain other users, spend a not-so-trivial amount of time and money and risk breaking stuff, all for not paying $22 monthly per user? I get it, it would be a technically better solution, remove Microsoft lock-in et
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by rescbr 1y ago
In a way, and for a long time, smartphones were/are defined as embedded devices. I still don't see how one can classify a smartphone as a general-purpose computing device, even though they have enough computing power as a laptop.
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by rescbr 1y ago
> But you don't need custom hardware to achieve radiation hardening Citation needed > much less hiring fucking IBM It's an IBM designed processor, what are you talking about?!
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by rescbr 1y ago
Put a 4 nm CPU into something that goes to space and see how long it would take to fail. One of the tradeoffs of radiation hardening is increased transistor size. Cost-wise it also makes sense - it’s a specialized, certified and low-volume
157.
by rescbr 1y ago
IIRC tapping credit cards on London’s underground turnstiles use offline chip authorization to avoid delays.
158.
by rescbr 1y ago
You described orkut on its heyday.
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by rescbr 1y ago
> The average 15yo boy have enough mental hygiene to know everything you read online is false. The website is not a nazi factory. The real problem is when the internet leaks and boomers assume everything they read online is true. Worst p
160.
by rescbr 2y ago
As a previous PTS2 backer, I knew I couldn't hesitate. I had to pre-order both watches at once. But whenever July (and December) comes, I'm very much going to dread the import duty on these things.
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by rescbr 2y ago
Of course foreigners are wary of traveling to the US. If Western European tourists and green card holders are getting arrested and deported after being incarcerated for who knows how long, there is no way I’m going to risk losing money and
162.
by rescbr 2y ago
This is very much location/culture dependent. Where I live is customary for the delivery drivers to wait on the sidewalk while you go down to pick the order up.
163.
by rescbr 2y ago
So it makes you think before typing and compiling the code? Doesn’t look like a con to me :)
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by rescbr 2y ago
I wouldn’t say it’s suspicious. I think it is a good plan to get telemetry from real world usage. Since Apple owns the whole stack, they can iterate faster too.
165.
by rescbr 2y ago
I'd say it's a nice platform to test on before bringing it to flagship models. Same thing with the new modem.
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by rescbr 2y ago
> Am I wrong in holding skepticism here? As somebody coming from a third-world country, it’s a matter of fact that the people view politicians as a corrupt group. They think they are better than the people they represent, they are multip
167.
by rescbr 2y ago
I had two Lumia flagship phones - Lumia 800 with Windows Phone 7 and Lumia 930 with Windows Phone 8 (which I later upgraded to 10). Both look and feel awesome, not cheap at all. At the time, Microsoft were paying developers to port apps to
168.
by rescbr 2y ago
I've seen online travel agencies with better prices compared to the airline/hotel website even with fares at the same changes/cancellation policies. OTOH, I prefer to purchase tickets directly with the airline because dealing
169.
by rescbr 2y ago
> Upper management has effectively replaced real, meaningful work with a game where everybody tries to score points, and the people who don't participate in that game are eventually stackranked out of the company. This. Got managed
170.
by rescbr 2y ago
Paraphrasing somebody: Win32 is the most stable Linux API.
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by rescbr 2y ago
This is great!
172.
by rescbr 2y ago
Exactly. Cracking Denuvo as a hobby is not something a sane person would do, and the downsides if caught are higher when one is fully employed. At least to me, a decade has passed since I left college and had spare time and energy to tackle
173.
by rescbr 2y ago
You can use Zink ( https://docs.mesa3d.org/drivers/zink.html ) to translate OpenGL to Vulkan. I have even used it in Windows to make a legacy proprietary OpenGL application work properly with recent Windows versions + a
174.
by rescbr 2y ago
You can trade money for convenience. People that simply want stuff for free can waste 5 minutes to figure out how to use a torrent client. Hell, 20 years ago I had to invest time and trust to get the connections to proper IRC distribution c
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by rescbr 2y ago
I'm still being offered 17.7.2 as an alternative to 18.1.1. In fact, I just tapped to update iOS in case they drop it.
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by rescbr 2y ago
The most egregious problem that I've found is a GhostScript issue with transparent elements in PDFs that makes the printing process take way too long (and use 100% CPU) to start. https://github.com/OpenPrinting/cup
177.
by rescbr 2y ago
Everybody who isn’t big enough to have an EDP in place. Even then, you give some of the discount back as AWS Enterprise Support charges :)
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by rescbr 2y ago
As far as I understand it, Bluesky's default feed is chronologically sorted posts from who you follow. It is as a dumb pipe as it gets.
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by rescbr 2y ago
I have seen my fair share of data centers and office complexes switching to their diesel generators due to very high energy spot prices. If you have an alternative source of power (even if it is a gas generator) I think a spot price contrac
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by rescbr 2y ago
I had the EXACT same experience as a kid. Found a GW-BASIC book on my parent's bookshelf, found out that QBASIC was bundled with Windows and it ran most sample code that were in that book and it went downhill from there. When I was bor

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