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In a word, yes. While Wine has been an option for decades, Valve and Proton have made gaming on Linux mainstream. You can check compatibility reports from https://www.protondb.com/…

Me too. What good is a status page that's not automated?

Isn't Steam (or more specifically steamwebhelper.exe) using Chromium Embedded Framework for web views? It's already a 64-bit process for me on Windows. I also do wish they'd upgrad…

I wish it supported vertical text and reading right-to-left (Japanese). It's a long-standing issue that doesn't seem likely to be solved ( https://github.com/koreader/koreader/issu…

Another xz case?

Ukraine did have Soviet-era nuclear weapons at the time of their independence, which they let go of in exchange of US, UK and Russia security guarantees in 1994. It is amazing to m…

The essentials for me are private email, calendar & cloud storage. Here is my post-Google setup: https://tuta.com/ is a German privacy-focused alternative that I'm currently using …

Kindle readers are far from the best and completely locked to Amazon unless you jailbreak. ePub is the standard format. I’ve made sure to convert everything I’ve bought back to ePu…

Your web browsing habits reveal a lot more about you than your desktop habits.

My understanding is that it’s because of node-gyp, used to build native addon modules for Node.js.

I see where you're coming from in the general case; I think it has been well established that leadership positions attract people well described by the dark triad. However, I don't…

I don't think you understood correctly. A wise leader surrounds themself with people they can truly trust in. In this message we see a glimpse into the dynamic between Bill Gates a…

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"Dealers of Lightning" by Michael Hiltzik was an excellent book on Xerox PARC. I haven't yet read "The Idea Factory" by Jon Gertner, which covers Bell Labs.

Last time there was a bundle like this ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14791255 ) dsacco wrote an awesome comment with recommendations on which books to pick up. Any chance …

> I've heard that airplane fuel is becoming prohibitively expensive Why not verify what you've heard? Kerosene prices have actually fallen dramatically from just a few years ago. h…

He is parroting a year old clickbait headline ( https://nolanlawson.com/2015/06/30/safari-is-the-new-ie/ ) where the main gripes were that - Apple didn't attend EdgeConf 2015 - htt…

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ClojureScript is a very good tool without any Java commitment.

Definitely an improvement for me. Smooth inertial scrolling on trackpad has been the reason why I still use Safari on OS X.

There is a new wave of fear of strong AI, based on writings by Nick Bostrom, especially his book 'Superintelligence'. Elon Musk has helped to spread the word.

Earlier submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2958108

The authors of HtDP wrote a paper on the differences: http://www.ccs.neu.edu/racket/pubs/jfp2004-fffk.pdf

I am hopeful that Let's Encrypt will do better than StartSSL's SHA-1 and paid revocation.

Apple has allowed running two additional copies of OS X inside virtual machines since 10.7, so juggling multiple Macs is no longer necessary.