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by zeta0134 9y ago
Chrome and Firefox on Android, on my Pixel XL, don't rise above 32 FPS. Chrome is a bit more performant than FF but not by much. I think you're right in your assessment; the iPhone's GPU is much stronger than you might think.
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by zeta0134 9y ago
Aye, I agree completely. When approaching a given rewrite, I'm very hesitant to go through with it unless I have a strong understanding of all the files I'm about to have to touch to fix the resulting compiler errors. Ideally this
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by zeta0134 9y ago
In rewriting projects, I often find that as I rewrite them, I can knock out requested features along the way. I've taken this approach when fixing up some of my old personal codebases. It's a two birds one stone approach; it takes
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by zeta0134 9y ago
I'd be okay with a very minor change for clarity. Prefixing the title with "Study finds" would make it far less sensational, while staying otherwise faithful to the original article's headline.
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by zeta0134 9y ago
I've found this to be true in practice though. I almost exclusively carry a decent set of sealing ear-buds for form factor reasons (they slip into my pocket) and the sound quality is just fine. Something about the way the little rubber
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by zeta0134 9y ago
Maybe it's because of how young I was at the time, but I remember media outlets reporting on the Y2K problem, and showing video of hundreds of older computing devices that were being retired (thrown in landfills) because they wouldn&#x
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by zeta0134 9y ago
Sure, in theory, but how do you solve a problem like this in practice? What is it about a given URL that makes it suspicious? Is there a whitelist? Because then the press and the rest of the internet will cry censorship and stifling of inno
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by zeta0134 9y ago
There are several existing and excellent x86 emulators floating around. In the open source space, QEMU is quite fantastic and well supported. I'm not surprised at all that Microsoft managed to either develop one in house, or acquire on
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by zeta0134 9y ago
I personally run syncthing on several devices, and don't worry about the cloud. It's self-hosted, devices replicate files between themselves, and there's no real limit other than hard drive space. It runs on just about anythi
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by zeta0134 9y ago
I'm not sure I agree here; a lot of consumer cases that I've worked with are just barely deep enough to house a card of this size. Putting the power connector on the end of the card would add some extra room to make the case slimm
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by zeta0134 9y ago
I feel like the primary reason this is pointed out that way in the article is to defend their stance on removing the older DirectX backend. For a very long time, DirectX (9 and 12) was the fastest backend on Windows, and I believe it still
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by zeta0134 9y ago
As much as Uber seems to be a shady business all around with their recent legal troubles, one major benefit I've seen is that my family is able to rely on fewer personal cars. There are 7 of us living in this house, all working differe
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by zeta0134 9y ago
Oh, huh! I missed that entirely, now I'm curious too. HTTPS should make that difficult, but China has been known to employ all sorts of weird shenanigans-- perhaps they're running a "trusted' MitM as part of the great fi
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by zeta0134 9y ago
That's just it; they can't! When you visit Wikipedia over HTTPS, the only thing actually visible in plain text is wikipedia.org, and that's only if your browser is using Server Name Identification (SNI). Since the rest of the
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by zeta0134 9y ago
Throwaway, this sounds like a classic case of burnout, and I don't know how to say this in a way that isn't going to sound rough, so here it is: You're doing your company a disservice by staying in your current state. If you&
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by zeta0134 9y ago
I use Chrome / Chromium with uBlock Origin, and am basically ad free. uBlock Origin works great on Firefox too, and I'm a Firefox user on Android solely because this extension exists, and Chrome for Android refuses to run extensio
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by zeta0134 9y ago
I work at a hosting company, and I can attest to throttling at the ISP side being somewhat common. My own company will throttle or null route customers almost immediately if enough traffic comes through that it starts to affect other custom
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by zeta0134 9y ago
And this is why you always... aww hell, who am I kidding? That was one complex series of events, and I would have done no better. Grats to the Let's Encrypt team for figuring it out, and thanks for writing up the post mortem. It's
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by zeta0134 9y ago
I think Facebook and Twitter work presicely because they take the free form content mode of an email (often a rich text document) and severely restrict it to a handful of more readily digestable options. On any of the platform, there's
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by zeta0134 9y ago
I've been working with IPFS a lot more recently thanks to their efforts to snapshot Wikipedia to get around censorship in Turkey. This immediately made me realize the advantages of learning the system, and once you wrap your head aroun
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by zeta0134 9y ago
Quickly drawing tiles is one of those sections that's really only going to make sense if you've ever done development work on a tile-mapped videogame console, as the mode is quite rare in other applications. A "tile" is
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by zeta0134 9y ago
Honestly, if Windows Update worked like Linux updates tend to, I would leave them on 100% of the time. On just about every Linux system, I can upgrade the entire operating system and all the packages all at once without a reboot. Sure, the
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by zeta0134 9y ago
I'm curious why these ads are even allowed to get through the network in the first place. Is there just NO content reviewing taking place? That's seems negligent on Google's part. There is no reason for an ad like that to exi
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by zeta0134 9y ago
I feel like this is in response to the pushback against Windows RT honestly. They put the cart before the horse on that one, trying to get everyone to use an app store with no apps, and quickly realizing that the base Windows experience was
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by zeta0134 9y ago
I think your natural composition skills are unusual, but not unique. I also begain to compose music at a very early age. My knack for picking melodies up out of the air and playing them on a piano when I was 7 years old was how my parents k
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by zeta0134 9y ago
I wouldn't call this trivial, but yes it's certainly possible. Well, it's possible for network traveling over the public internet in the first place. One of the main benefits of IPFS is that it's decentralized. If your f
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by zeta0134 9y ago
I understand that I have a brain, and I decently grasp the mechanics of how it works. What I don't understand is why I'm trapped inside it.
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by zeta0134 10y ago
I think it's because the "bad" taste of water (bitter, sour, or kind of metallic) in the areas where I live is so very strong, that "good" water is tasteless to me by comparison. I'm sure there's something
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by zeta0134 10y ago
I live in south Texas, where the water is quite hard, and therefore somewhat bitter. There's no mistaking the difference. I've always described bottled water as being more pure; to me it has no taste (as it should), and filters se
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by zeta0134 10y ago
I don't disagree with the statement in its intended context. He's speaking to startups here, who don't have an established product yet, and don't know if their product even reliably solves a business need. In that cont

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