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by serentty 4y ago
It worked ridiculously well before I posted it to Hacker News. ;)
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by serentty 4y ago
Heh, this has an 80 MB hard drive and it is killing me with how small it is. I’m constantly transferring stuff back and forth.
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by serentty 4y ago
It isn’t running modern software. It is running MS-DOS 6.22. If it’s not loading for you, you can try the snapshot.
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by serentty 4y ago
It has gotten pretty busy. In case you can’t manage to load it live from the machine, here is a snapshot of it: https://archive.ph/WUdgc
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by serentty 4y ago
It could be that it is genuinely not working, but it could also be that it takes a while to start loading. The server can only serve 8 clients at once, over a bandwidth of about 4 KiB/s. So maybe try again and give it some time to load
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Show HN: My website, hosted on a 386 25 MHz, 4 MiB of RAM, 38400 baud internet(serentty.com)
234 points by serentty 4y ago|170 comments
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by serentty 5y ago
I am definitely not against the addition of the guesser. It was added a bit before the encoding menu was removed, though, so there was a time when they were both there. I mainly wanted to draw attention to the removal of the menu.
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by serentty 5y ago
I hugely appreciate this! I will definitely install it.
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by serentty 5y ago
The thing is that I do not agree with you that the ends justify the means. You seem to think that people seeing fewer pages in the wrong encoding in the long run justifies making the problem worse when it does happen. I do not. And again, I
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by serentty 5y ago
> So you wouldn't bother to try to get the webmaster to fix the issue, you would just resolve it on your own, letting everyone else be miserable? I mean that I would not be able to. Huge swaths of the web are static content that was
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by serentty 5y ago
I also would like to point out in the context of the issue of “legacy” content that not all web content is some sort of single-page application that gets maintained. Of course, we don’t expect software to remain compatible with other softwa
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by serentty 5y ago
“Should” is not “is”. As a user, I run into broken sites regularly enough. I still want to be able to see them. I get the “let’s bury all broken legacy and hacks as quickly as possible” mindset, but when it comes to the issue of the main te
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by serentty 5y ago
He straight-up said that it’s not as much of an issue because it’s still legible because not all of the letters are borked. I don’t see how this is a misrepresentation of what he said. > Also, removing the encoding override is completely
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by serentty 5y ago
East Asian languages are not the main concern here, actually. It’s the various single-byte Latin script encodings, which are incredibly similar. The issue of these being confused is addressed in the thread itself, where he says that such is
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by serentty 5y ago
So you think that making things miserable for the remaining 1% is good because it gets them to care, and therefore for the website to be fixed? I’m sorry, but most of the time when a website has a borked encoding, it is some website where I
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by serentty 5y ago
> dealing with character encoding and supporting the feature is painful (though the will still deal with it under the hood). Mozilla have limited resources and they (and Firefox users) want the browser to be successful and sustainable, a
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by serentty 5y ago
So now you have to rely on hardcoded heuristics based on the website’s domain name instead of just being able to choose. There are so many complicated heuristics to choose this hard-to-predict factor which it still gets wrong often. Removin
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by serentty 5y ago
I agree that good detection is important and I am glad that he is working on it, but I don’t think that the level of detection which is possible is a good replacement for the menu, based on what he himself has indicated he thinks is possibl
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by serentty 5y ago
A while back, Firefox removed the ability to override the text encoding of pages. If Firefox gets the encoding wrong, you are screwed. The thing is, according to the developers themselves, detecting various single-byte Latin encodings is ve
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Replace the Text Encoding menu with a single override item(bugzilla.mozilla.org)
88 points by serentty 5y ago|128 comments
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by serentty 5y ago
> RISC-V has a bunch of competing vector instructions. There is only one standard V extension. Alibaba made a chip with a prerelease version of that V extension which is thus incompatible with the final version, but in practice that just
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by serentty 5y ago
Once again, you’re comparing the compressed instructions without telling anyone that that’s what you’re doing, because you are convinced that the compressed instructions will never be performant on a mobile or desktop core. The foundation d
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by serentty 5y ago
8-wide is the absolute state of the art. Last I checked, AMD’s fastest core was 4-wide, and Intel’s was 6-wide. I only know of Apple doing 8-wide, and not anyone else. So branding this as the minimum necessary for mobile devices when even m
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by serentty 5y ago
What's the point of posting this now? Pure UWP is practically dead. Microsoft has made most of the new APIs and GUI features originally meant for UWP available to all Windows programs through WinRT/COM. UWP is simply being absorbe
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by serentty 8y ago
Oh nice, this is my post. Feel free to ask questions. I'm hoping to help make Rust more portable through my adventures.