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I believe this is likely the case. Can't say for windows 11, but windows 10 (and specifically Windows Defender) would hammer my hdd so hard the entire os would become unusable for minutes at a time
Re:JavaScript Bloat in 2024 on Thursday February 22, 2024 @09:29PM (#39476226)
I have a connection that might be considered slow by most HN readers (1~2MB/s) and the new github file viewer has been a blessing. So snappy compared to everything else
Re:How Programming Languages Got Their Names on Thursday February 08, 2024 @09:54AM (#39302597)
Lua means 'Moon' in Portuguese, as it is also their logo: https://lua.org
I think the biggest contenders are chicken and bread
even before 2.0 the game was pretty playable and decent, but it's far from everything they promised. RPG aspects are put aside and when I played I felt my impact on the story was less than that of Skyrim missions. The main quest in particular is basically resumed to one option in the end, a lot of side quests are like that, and the factions are very clear "endless enemy" burden. It's not a bad game, but it's a bad role-playing game
I would like to keep a working <email:> tag on my website but doing so seems to attract tons of spam email that goes something like this, or otherwise offers from random web developer conglomerates offering to "better" my website (which I try to keep simple and plain). :/
Re:Twitter has officially changed its logo to ‘X’ on Monday July 24, 2023 @11:45AM (#36849820)
you can still view it through https://nitter.net, which I guess makes the open source Javascript-less front-end to Twitter more accessible for SEO? maybe Google should start indexing that lol
Yandex image search is irrationally good, I've yet to find an image search engine that works as well as it does. I have no idea why
Re:ARM64 Linux Workstation on Friday March 03, 2023 @03:56PM (#35014878)
I believe they're commenting on the fact that the sway Wayland compositor seems faster than i3. Might be due to how Wayland handles frame rendering, but switching between the two I tend to notice a more "snappy" effect from sway