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Using Google Maps causes Firefox (114.0.2) and the whole OS to completely freeze within minutes on my Laptop. This started happening after I upgraded to Fedora 38. Not sure if this is caused by the same bug. Could be Gnome, Wayland, who knows. Has anyone had a similar experience?

Haiku R1/beta4 4 years ago

Very happy to see boot failure fixes in the release notes. Can't wait to give it another try with beta4!

The article about the Padauk is interesting. Especially the description of the FPPA feature. Multiple CPU contexts? This sounds suspiciously like SMT to me which would be a total novelty for a micro controller (afaik).

This is nice. I recently experimented with OpenBSD on a Librebooted X200. Took some time to figure out how to boot it with Grub. And then it turned out that the particular Wifi chipset wasn't supported. But this gives me some motivation to get a USB Wifi dongle and continue. Any suggestions for one that works?

It's even worse in this case. Following the Github link, you'll get to an archived repository inside an org that the author created as a joke. In his own words: 'This is a joke. You'll only see this org if you are attempting to troll me about repositories I created when I was learning to program.'

It got in there and is now part of the foundation of tons of other projects.

Maybe it doesn't matter but at the very least this ecosystem seems very immature (in the psychological sense).

Is that the real reason why those companies are hired? Judging by the comments here I wonder if there are any success stories at all.

Brown dwarfs are failed starts, something between a large gas planet and a red dwarf. Red dwarfs don't turn into brown dwarfs when they die. In fact a red dwarf's lifetime is so long (up to trillions of years) that its unlikely that we ever see one dying. It is believed that they turn into white dwarfs when that eventually happens.

Very nice. I found some excitement in the topic of game programming patterns after learning about Entity Component Systems. For me it was a huge, well, game changer. I tried for years to build games but always gut stuck and/or lost interest. ECS allowed me to do finally get somewhere. I'm working on a small 2d action rpg [1] and a lot of the requirements can neatly be expressed as entities and components. Even something like a save/load system should fit into this by serializing all entities at once.

[1] https://github.com/pb82/zwei

They are very different in terms of usage. Dear ImGui is an immediate mode UI library which means that rendering and evaluation happen at the same time. You write for example:

if (ImGui::Button("X")) { //pressed handler }

This renders the button and handles its state at the same time.

Qt is a more traditional callback based UI although with their own signal/slot system which has nice features like thread safety built in. I last used Qt a while ago though so maybe it works different nowadays.

Since A and B are also connected by the wormhole, looking through wormhole will show us that clocks are synchronized.

Can you please elaborate on that a bit more? That's the part I don't understand. Why would you observe synchronized clocks when looking through the wormhole?