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PC is the last major open platform.

In the whole history of computing PC is the only platform where buying a computer means crazy number of options and configuration mixes to choose from and expect it to work! And warranty would support it too! You can run any OS of your choice on it and that's also reasonable expectation.

Any other platform (SUN, Be, Amiga, NeXT, Apple) it was always buying it from one company only from its list of products. And even running with a different version of OS means warranty doesn't cover it.

Maybe they moved to YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@CS153Team

If not available on anyplace, such a loss!

I am sure there is going to be an infinite version of this game!

Looks great! I really like how KISS was PS4 interface.

Since you asked about the performance. Its really slow on Linux, tried with Firefox an Chromium. I think its because of the GPU heavy background, it can be made as a video and would run faster.

A suggestion: also when I click on Twitter "game", I should be able to click on the whole bar below to open the link.

The title of the blog doesn't do justice to the content. Its not the ad-blockers but predatory ads that harmed the open web more. People still post content and often the monetary benefit is taken up by the hosting platform.

Consider this: If I go to an electronics store and they try to sell me a new soundbar I won't mind. But if I want to buy noodles and they still want to sell me a TV I checked out I definitely would freak out.

Some of the key milestones for desktop Linux which I can remember:

* Office and PIM apps moved to web, no longer its a requirement.

* You can game on Linux out of the box, same performance or even better.

* Installation and hardware compatibility - it has improved a lot! Even Nvidia and Broadcom chips run easily with no tweaking of config editors.

* Old hardware still runs at same performance (mostly). If I need to upgrade its because I am doing something more like watching 4K movies, running LLMs locally or running MS teams! Not because my file browser or basic text editor is suddenly slow.

There are two major hurdles I see:

* Enterprise IT still prefers Windows or Mac because of MDM (managed devices).

* Niche tools like photo/video editing, CAD software are still Windows only (with Mac ports for some).

The bug reports linked on softwaremill and scala GitHub's are precise and surprisingly small fixes! It does show Scala's power in expressiveness.

Scala is a great language and I really prefer its typesafe and easy way to write powerful programs: https://www.lihaoyi.com/post/comlihaoyiScalaExecutablePseudo... Its a great Python replacement, especially if your project is not tied to ML libraries where Python is defacto, like JS on web.

Thank the fate for PC to exist!

Open nature of PC allowed for truly free/open source software to exist which can be functional without big corporate lockdown. I can fully assemble it with parts I can buy individually and as long as they are compatible (which is mentioned on the box, no hidden knowledge here) I can expect it to work within the mentioned warranty.

My PC based computers can be booted and fully functional with Debain, Fedora and (put your favorite Linux, BSD distro here mine is openSUSE Tumbleweed). There is no parallel ecosystem which yet, which rivals PC in terms of open specs and fully tinkerable hardware and software.

Macbooks are locked down with Apple and forget about your own hardware.

Android seemed like a competitor, but closed nature of its development and lack commodity hardware around ARM based phones means that FOSS layer exists only in user bases apps. We have custom ROMs which require bootable blobs from vendors and its non-reliable and breaks often.

I was thinking same! Apart from "coding the website", the problems are also not so hand-curated.

Most LLM based code-gen are VSCode forks. This reason would have certainly been on the list.

From BSD clause to AGPL, I see it as a huge win!

I don't know, sounds like any week.

Bengaluru/Bangalore has hotspots (PIN codes are postal address codes) where there are lots of startups, mostly in ecommerce, ad-tech, online education etc. and they have incentive to upsell you a lot.

I guess its referring to someone wannabe influencer buying Twitter(X) premium and posting based on half baked info on customers.

Mostly sarcasm, so take with a grain of salt. I can't tell about accuracy, but explaining the cultural context here.

Popularity of streaming services like Spotify and closed clients, I hardly use Amarok.

TIL that GitHub usernames can end with a `-`

I didn't mind some science fantasy like this. And I like how the author took this step to solve for lag in communication and it added to the speed and thrill of the story.

I agree about threads a lot! Process creation and handling APIs e.g. fork, signals, exec etc. are great when working with single threaded processes and command line, but they have so many caveats when working with threads.

A paper by Microsoft on how viral fork is and why its presence prevents a better process model: https://www.cs.bu.edu/~jappavoo/Resources/Papers/fork-hotos1...

Thats per domain, not on any pattern of URL.

especially with the add-on for regex URL matching for container selection

Which add-on is that? It would be quite helpful.

Its refreshing to see that just hate systemd because "its not UNIX way" is not anymore. I see better discussions under this post and in other places around the web.

I actually like Victor Mono. Ligatures, italics and cursive comments are my favorite features. It helps me to visually classify different sections of code, without being dependent on just colour of the text (I find current code themes already way too colourful!).

Bookmarking this! Also this should be in some wiki!

OP, would be nice if you add a license to the repo.

This certainly sounds fun! This is how people realise coding is immensely fun and impactful when you are involved in the results :)

I hope Pharo developers find time to fix this. HiDPI and variable DPIs are way too common and it does put users off to work with fuzzy/tiny UIs.

The sidebar just looks like TreeStyleTabs from Firefox. I wish Firefox would have these as "blessed" or native UI.

AFAIK, the USB internet dongles went out of fashion. Now people usually use hotspot from phone or you can use USB tethering if you dont want to make your phone hotspot.

Awesome! What are other reddit tricks like these?

Learned about these from Rust In Action book. Seems like programmers keep rediscovering stuff now and then.

I find rust and scala quite similar on learning curves. You have to reach a certain level before you can work with the language and library ecosystem.

The benefits proposed by proponents of both languages are there but after the mean of the bell curve.

Also a beginner is asked to work with external interfaces and libraries because the language and its standard library is defined to be minimal in certain ways. The answers to which are supposed to come later. So a lot to take it on the first step itself.

Both languages are still working on some answers and kept options open. So "why" of that is also complicated.