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Re:Valve Is Running Apple's Playbook in Reverse
on Thursday December 18, 2025 @05:28PM (#46319715)
Oh, grabbed the wrong link.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/12/steamos-vs-windows-o...
Re:Valve Is Running Apple's Playbook in Reverse
on Thursday December 18, 2025 @12:52PM (#46316086)
Why do you link that article but not this one?
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2015/11/ars-benchmarks-show-s...
Re:Rubio Deletes Calibri as the State Department's Official Typeface
on Wednesday December 10, 2025 @10:37PM (#46227364)
It's not like the State Department would ever mention Kim Jong the Second in documents.
Re:Slashdot Effect
on Wednesday November 26, 2025 @01:01PM (#46060413)
Stories were selected by site mods (editors) and that's censorship, man!
Re:Internet Archive's legal fights are over, but its founder mourns wh...
on Wednesday November 05, 2025 @04:54PM (#45828586)
Why not? The Wayback Machine predates the National Emergency Library by many years, suggesting it is possible for one to exist without the other.
Re:Could the XZ backdoor been detected with better Git/Deb packaging p...
on Sunday October 19, 2025 @10:20PM (#45639687)
Why not? This wasn't found by source review. The computer was slow, somebody looked into why. The bug was discovered via analysis of binary artifacts, and only then traced back to the source. Bruce Dawson does this all the time on Windows.
Re:How America got hooked on ultraprocessed foods
on Friday October 17, 2025 @02:22PM (#45620106)
That article is very confused. They're saying that transglutaminase, street name meat glue, extracted from bacteria is literally the same thing as pink slime. Lean finely textured beef, street name pink slime, comes from cows. However processed, it's still beef. You can't squeeze it out of bacteria.
Reading the Wikipedia articles it's pretty clear these are different things, even if both are added to beef in some way.
Re:How America got hooked on ultraprocessed foods
on Friday October 17, 2025 @02:32AM (#45613863)
Do you have a source for transglutiminase used to put the pink slime back together? This is the first I'm hearing it. I thought they just stirred it into the ground beef.
Re:Apple M4 Series Feature Support
on Thursday October 16, 2025 @07:28PM (#45611901)
> Note that as these machines have not been released for general availability yet, supported and missing features are predictions based on what Apple has changed on a per-SoC and per-machine basis in the past. This page will change rapidly once work begins on support for these machines.
These machines have been available for quite a while.
Re:How America got hooked on ultraprocessed foods
on Thursday October 16, 2025 @05:56PM (#45611176)
Are you confusing pink slime and meat glue?
Re:A CarFax for Used PCs; Hewlett Packard wants to give old laptops ne...
on Monday June 30, 2025 @07:37PM (#44429078)
So... 0.5? Thanks. :)
Re:I write type-safe generic data structures in C
on Monday June 30, 2025 @06:00PM (#44428363)
Quote a different standard.
Re:I write type-safe generic data structures in C
on Monday June 30, 2025 @04:32PM (#44427543)
This is incorrect. In a function definition, an empty list means it takes no parameters. 6.7.5.3 Function declarators
> 14. An empty list in a function declarator that is part of a definition of that function specifies that the function has no parameters.
Re:Senate GOP budget bill has little-noticed provision that could hurt...
on Monday June 30, 2025 @04:24PM (#44427442)
Extremely hard working "could".
Re:A CarFax for Used PCs; Hewlett Packard wants to give old laptops ne...
on Monday June 30, 2025 @03:27PM (#44426949)
"People" could really use a number attached to it.
Re:Most ints are not floats
on Sunday June 29, 2025 @06:12PM (#44416987)
I'll take the contrary position and argue that most ints are floats, because ints are not uniformly distributed. 0, 1, 10, etc. are far more common.
Re:BusyBeaver(6) Is Quite Large
on Saturday June 28, 2025 @02:33PM (#44407000)
Can you elaborate on what's wrong with this post?
Re:"Why is the Rust compiler so slow?"
on Thursday June 26, 2025 @06:32PM (#44392132)
I just ran cargo check on nushell, and it took a minute and a half. I didn't time how long it took to compile, maybe five minutes earlier today? So I would call it faster, but still not fast.
I was all excited to conduct the "cargo check; mrustc; cc" is 100x faster experiment, but I think at best, the multiple is going to be pretty small.
Re:Some bits on malloc(0) in C being allowed to return NULL
on Thursday June 26, 2025 @01:53PM (#44389671)
You can copy from a zero sized pointer with memcpy, but not NULL.
Re:Defending the Internet: how Cloudflare blocked a monumental 7.3 Tbp...
on Tuesday June 24, 2025 @02:44PM (#44369421)
I ran a qotd server for a while, only retired two months ago actually. It wasn't very popular.
Re:How fast are Linux pipes anyway?
on Sunday June 22, 2025 @06:56PM (#44350985)
Shared memory, like shm_open and fd passing, would be even faster and fully portable.
Re:Compact Representations for Arrays in Lua [pdf]
on Sunday June 22, 2025 @04:22AM (#44345035)
This seems likely to create some inexplicable performance elbows where you have 1000 strings, but there's one code path that replaces one with a number, and now the whole array needs to be copied. Tracking that down won't be fun.
Re:Using Microsoft's New CLI Text Editor on Ubuntu
on Saturday June 21, 2025 @06:12PM (#44341109)
The funny bit is the other six control codes are mapped ctrl-2 to nul, and ctrl-3 forward to the five remaining.
Re:Chromium Switching from Ninja to Siso
on Saturday June 21, 2025 @03:12AM (#44335346)
Is this consequential for a project the size of chromium?
Re:AMD's Freshly-Baked MI350: An Interview with the Chief Architect
on Friday June 20, 2025 @07:36PM (#44333125)
A solid 40% of George's questions were deemed great. (Not counting some fluff like what's your job.)
Re:Libraries are under-used. LLMs make this problem worse
on Friday June 20, 2025 @06:45PM (#44332803)
Is it your assessment or the LLM's that it's a good library? There have been many times I looked at the API for a library, said this is bonkers, and bailed. The weird contortions needed to use something should be a signal.
Re:Using Microsoft's New CLI Text Editor on Ubuntu
on Wednesday June 18, 2025 @01:53AM (#44307003)
That sound you hear is all the old men yelling at clouds that a full screen terminal editor is not a CLI editor.
Re:Why JPEGs Still Rule the Web After 30 Years (2024)
on Tuesday June 17, 2025 @04:37PM (#44303666)
Apple CPUs have AV1 support in hardware.
Re:Meta ignores RFC 2920; ZuckMail can't send mail to servers running ...
on Monday June 16, 2025 @03:12PM (#44292529)
Not supporting pipelining is a somewhat effective low effort spam filter. Spammers don't have time to wait for response codes, just blast the message and move on to the next sucker.
Re:Debunking HDR [video]
on Saturday June 14, 2025 @09:23PM (#44279955)
That said, I appreciate thumbnails while scrubbing, and critically need playback speed multipliers. And key controls to skip ten or twenty seconds. Plenty of room for browsers to improve.