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Narishma

4,048karma·2,386submissions·April 7, 2013
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In my case I have a couple of first gen 32-bit Atom netbooks that I use regularly for the same things I've always used them for. The hardware still work just fine so I see no reason to replace th…
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> Users running i386 systems should not upgrade to trixie. Instead, Debian recommends either reinstalling them as amd64, where possible, or retiring the hardware. What I did is switch to NetBSD.
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Don't those issues only apply to odd number of bits, rather than non-power-of-2? For example, 12 isn't a power of 2 but doesn't suffer from any of those things you mentioned.
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But Pi Zero has a GPU, so why not make use of it?
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Your comment makes it sound like he started the company to make Tycoon games, but those came like a decade later.
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No, it's like Qt and QML.
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I don't know about the others but C and C++ certainly did. They had a number of commercial compiler vendors advertising them in the 80s and 90s when they established themselves.
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When a quarter or more of the front page is stories about those themes, you'll be doing a lot of whacking.
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I feel like 10 answers is too few to generate a good profile. I tried it and it marked a lot of stories as 'skip' that were pretty interesting to me, presumably because they didn't fit …
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Because they can.
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What delay are you talking about?
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I just use this ublock origin filter: www.youtube.com##ytd-rich-item-renderer:style(--ytd-rich-grid-items-per-row: 6)
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> There really isn't any similar UX decision by any other reputed company that would be comparably stupid as this. Let me introduce you to reddit.
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With the amount of dumb UI decisions these past few years, I don't think they do much, if any, user testing.
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I'm not sure I agree. Open source software also regularly drops support for old hardware and OSes.
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Yes if the better alternatives are worse.
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Is this one of those things like phones or banking where the early adopters are stuck with old tech due to inertia while late adopters are using newer technology?
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> Like gee I wonder why they want to drink cool delicious clean water from a tap, not dank stagnant water from puddles. What a mystery for the ages! Tell that to my cats. If they got the chance the…
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Mobile Wikipedia to normal Wikipedia.
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> Luakit even ran under a netbook. Single page bound, ok,, but not bad from an n270 with 1GB of RAM. I have one such device and Firefox and Chrome also run on it. They're slow but still usable…
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I'm sorry but that is not very playable even when it only renders to a quarter of the screen, especially compared to Wolfenstein 3D on similar hardware. It was also quite clunky in terms of inter…
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It has relevance to the game it discusses, Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri.
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I think that's because it had such high system requirements that very few people could run it, unlike Wolfenstein 3D and Doom.
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> The first 3d console games started to come out that year, like Rayman. Rayman was a 2D game.
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> It featured lots of things you'd typically find in a game (3D rendering with all the bells and whistles, an adaptive UI framework inspired by flexbox, skeletal animation, a save file format,…
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> So instead of focusing on release by that time, you will now focus on reinplementing that needed functionality that just stopped working. That makes no sense. A library being abandoned doesn'…
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It doesn't on Firefox ESR.
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I have the same problem as OP on regular Firefox ESR.
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Can't tell if this is sarcasm or not.
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