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pmarin

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About pmarin

Stop the World -- I Want to Get Off!

pmarin DOT mail AT gmail DOT com

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    It used Maxima many years ago.

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    Comment #48475719

    The arena is replacing the javacript garbage collector not memory managament.

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    Comment #47464782

    WHy not just add a hardware switch to allow Android sideloading? Are these multibillion companies so incompetent to not think about it?

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    Comment #47390577

    I am sorry if I mistaken you for a bot but the model you are describing have not been implenented by any graphic driver in decades.

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    Comment #47390433

    Just to be clear the hardware abstraction layer used by wayland and any current Xserver is exactly the same.

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    Comment #47389881

    >i don't think it has a huge impact on the discussion here. but this is such a key difference versus X, that i think is hugely under-told: Wayland compositors all rely on lots of k…

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    Comment #46698277

    I don't think is about China, it's more about Winnie the Pooh's legacy.

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    Comment #46617816

    The C way is to avoid abstractions in first place.

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    Comment #46617760

    C++ compile time execution is just a gimmicky code generator, you can do it in any language.

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    Comment #46585355

    That sound more like software pseudo-engineering to me.

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    Comment #46261187

    How many people know about https://lite.duckduckgo.com/lite/ ? Is a version of DuckDuckGo without Javascript. Very fast and compatible with minimalistic web browser like lynx.

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    Comment #46229946

    That sound more like a demake than a port. Very cool anyway.

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    Comment #46048808

    20 years on Debian. Not a single crash with apt

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    Comment #45825203

    I don't use a compositor in XOrg.

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    Comment #45667634

    Win32 has already a pretty good opengl 1.2 software renderer.

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    Archive.org because jwz doesn't like HN. He updated it later on: "Update: On June 8th, 2024, I submitted this privacy policy to Google, and on June 10th, they accepted it. I take t…

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