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That assumes that they are using the telemetry to create a better product for the user rather than the developer.

glibc, not glib. That's a different library.

Probably because of the original clickbait title, which seems to have been changed by the mods to be more accurate.

It is.

What's wrong with the official book?

> It's like the difference between a 80286 and a 80386: The latter added the hardware support for true multitasking that the former lacked. I'm not sure this is a good comparison. The 286…

The limitations nowadays for game development are more on the budget side than the hardware.

It plays fine for me in Firefox.

I don't even bother using scripts, I just manually paste the URL of the video I want to watch into mpv. It's not slow enough for me to have to deal with the garbage Youtube interface.

For me the content is not the main problem, rather the consistent bloating and enshitification of the player and interface over the years. Nowadays I don't bother anymore and just use mpv and ytd…

Google has been doing that for you since they bought Youtube.

Not that surprising, Rust folks are more likely to be familiar with C than the reverse.

Same, except it's Word and Excel 97. I run them in an NT4 VM and the whole thing still starts faster than newer versions.

AppImages still leave traces in your home directory. If you're luck it's just a dot file or folder that can easily be deleted but I've seen some that pollute a lot more.

It may be technically space inefficient but they only added the RISC-V cores because they had area to spare. It didn't cost them much.

AFAICT donations to Mozilla aren't used to fund Firefox development.

See, if they had written FF VII in rust this exploit wouldn't have been possible. /s

Yes? How is that a problem? If you're interested in learning the RISC-V ISA, which is what I gathered from OP's post, the specific CPU doesn't matter much.

You don't need new hardware for that, you can just use qemu.

> much better quality texture mapping too Debatable. I always preferred the crisp look of the software renderer to the washed out GLQuake. Same with Quake 2. I think it because textures back then w…

Were those benchmarks with the DX-50 or the DX2-50?

You're wrong. The 486SX had a 32-bit bus, just like the DX version. The difference between them is that the DX had an integrated FPU while the SX had it disabled and you had to add a separate 487…

Doom was developed on NeXT machines, not Windows.

Run on slow hardware or save power if you're on a battery.

> Also Firefox seems increasingly buggy -- I have had to switch to Chromium for 2 particular sites, so I guess I need to find a new browser ... Is it Firefox that's buggy or those websites tha…

The same thing is happening in Rust. Try to compile any random app and it pulls dozens if not hundreds of dependencies.

The PC version was funnily enough also long-lived because version 4 was too bloated so 3.3 was often offered as an alternative up until version 5 was released in the early 90s. The only major feature …

IME, auto-vectorization is a fragile optimization that will silently fail under all sorts of conditions. I don't like to rely on it.

> Problem is, you have to take care to look at the compiler output and compare it to your expectations. Maybe fiddle with it a bit until it matches what you would have written yourself. And keep re…

I don't know if it's their reason but I myself avoid them because I find them harder to read than assembly language.