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Chrome attacking the privacy and the choice of its users has been happening for years now. And Firefox keeps dying.

Firefox is sitting at 8.3% quota in NA and dwindling. It's reasonable not to support it.

It felt sluggish because they were forced to use the Metro UI toolkit. Had they used Win32, it would have blown Firefox and maybe Chrome out of the water.

Hiding your face in public can be made illegal. This is literally not an issue.

I've been using LTSC/LTSB for years. What's wrong with it?

See, your comment is the typical comment of someone who comes from macOS. The angry posts come from people who've been using Windows since forever.

addons.mozilla.org also contains Google Analytics. And since addons are not allowed to act on addons.mozilla.org, you have no choice but to ping Google every time you load a page there.

Mozilla is either stupid or ill-intentioned. It's 2019 so they've lost the benefit of the doubt for me.

If I had billions in the bank and you gave detailed instructions on how to pick up the breadcrumbs I leave on the table of a restaurant, I wouldn't give a shit. But if they care so much they are welcome to break into my house and take my computer

It does not have Win32 or DirectX, for starters

That one hasn't gone offline in years, so I've never thought of this. Perhaps you are right, but I assume that it should be easy enough to find new ones if you need them. I wouldn't consider this approach to be "high maintenance".

Then pirate it. What do you care? This is like pirating a show they refuse to put on Netflix. They don't give you the option to conveniently buy what you want, so pirate it.

Instructions on how to activate your installation of LTSC here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19420337

A native executable? It's not like the Nintendo 64 was using DirectX

Why can't a GPU power a computer?

kfc.nu ? Why that TLD?

My only experience with OpenJDK is trying to run Minecraft with it at much worse performance than Oracle's JRE

Windows Update, Windows Defender Antivirus, NTFS compression, maybe more I've forgotten.

Also old (and not-so-old) games.

about:flags

Exactly. So single-core performance wins.

Good. I hate lazy loading. I hope they add an option in the browser so I can disable it globally.

>Today, the software _is_ there (well, mostly) and we can all take advantage of more cores.

Disagree. Not even "mostly". If I had a dime every time I saw some software stuck at 100% of one core... well, I'd have a few dimes a day.

...maybe because they were not discovered before or have been introduced recently?

It doesn't stop until *p is \0, so yes

I haven't looked much so I can't comment on the quality of the library but that hairdo is glorious. Props to Salvatore!

The in-game economy of WoW is "real" (only vendor prices are set; there's an auction house where prices are set by the players), but Blizzard has to come up with new stuff for players to burn gold with to control the predictable inflation.

To me the most blatant examples are mounts; in the last expansion they added a mount that costed 2M gold[]--when I thought it was crazy and that they couldn't possibly outmatch it, they came up with a 5M gold mount[] that was released in the next (current) expansion.

[]https://www.wowhead.com/item=137570/bloodfang-cocoon

[]https://www.wowhead.com/item=163042/reins-of-the-mighty-cara...

What's a good library for this kind of boilerplate? A lightweight one if possible, i.e. not fucking glib

I don't know what to tell you. Do you think all compilers should implement all GCC proprietary extensions, basically creating a parallel C standard?

And that's not saying that GCC extensions are not useful, but they should not be considered the norm

Wanting code to compile on something other than gcc is not "caring too much", it's being responsible