> I feel the opposite - so many people prefer KDE, what the hell am I missing?
Many people use their computer for a use case that's not "single application taking up the entire screen.", and KDE works better for them than GNOME. I'm not sure what's hard to understand about that. There's no objectively correct way to use a computer, it's a preference thing.
After Visual Studio 2008, they rewrote the UI in WPF and started writing large components of the program in C#. This dramatically regressed performance, especially on a cold start (it runs decently if you've had the program open for a while). I'd probably still be using Visual Studio 2008, except it limits you to C89 and C++03.
C# is working hard to be Rust-like in certain areas of performance. Part of Visual Studio's problem is that they can't yet take advantage of it in some key areas because they are still dependent on the Legacy Framework and Legacy WPF and have to migrate to modern .NET.
Sure but after a few decades of packing we'd eventually end up with a direct democracy where every adult citizen is a Supreme Court justice and the legislative branch would be sidestepped entirely. Seems better than our current system IMO.
> I used 'assembler' back in high school, when I was learning about the 80x86. I remember because I was 'corrected' by fellow student who had never touched assembler, assembly language, machine code mnemonics, or whatever you want to call it.
Wow, you got the Hacker News experience 30 years in advance!
The author didn't link to the actual PR so I can't see the full context, but I don't see the point in setting up a bot to make contributors agree to copyright terms if the maintainers just ignore it when someone does a PR and then doesn't engage with the bot. It seems like a waste of time for all parties.
The extra useful context I spotted at the top of the blog post was that the project falls under the auspices of the .NET Foundation [0]. The .NET Foundation like several of the other FLOSS foundations/conservatories/archive/consortiums requires a CLA as a CYA in extra part because of the legality concerns that for a project in the Foundation they want to make sure that you understand you are contributing not just to that specific project, but in general as a collective effort towards the Foundation.
This may be an interesting discussion for the author to have more directly with Foundation leadership and legal on what the expectations are.
There's also yes, the larger discussion on if Foundations such as this are possibly too conservative in their FLOSS bureaucracy/red-tape for smaller contributions to smaller projects. Under the good for the goose/gander assumption it's easy to add the same bots to every project and assume that's good enough, but does it stifle innovation or bug fixes on projects with fewer eyes?
Mechanical punch-card voting machines fell out of use after the 2000 election showed that they're more error-prone than either electronic voting machines or paper ballots.
I'm not sure how the laws are in all states, but where I am it's illegal to use a camera or cell phone within 100 feet of a voting booth so if you tried to take a picture of your ballot, you'd likely get asked to put the camera away by a poll worker. This was done with the specific intent of protecting the privacy of people's votes.
It's fairly similar, but the Gameboy CPU supports a few opcodes that the E-Reader doesn't (DAA, HALT, DI, EI) and the E-Reader has a few custom opcodes (there's a couple for waiting a specified number of frames, and a couple used for API calls). I think it's better to say that both are 8080 supersets.
Great article! I think the tiny size of the cards, the Z80 VM, and the high-ish level "scripting" API make the E-Reader a really interesting platform. I might try writing something for it if I ever get around to it.
It was .. bearable .. back in those days I wrote a lot of database recovery software, and mostly worked on an undelete tool for the Progress 4GL Database which I customized for the customer needs - so all I really ever needed to edit on the Portfolio, while on a cross-country tiger-team flight, were the constraints/extents/geometry of the deleted databases, so it was never a full strain .. back at HQ, I of course just used my dumb terminal and MIPS machine for 'real development', but it was always fun to arrive at the catastrophe, wire up the Portfolio, and either run the DOS binary or do a recompile on the target recovery machine ..
I did write a few games for it, entirely on the machine, in-between flights .. that was fun. Still out there somewhere (swar.c, a space-war game..)
Many people use their computer for a use case that's not "single application taking up the entire screen.", and KDE works better for them than GNOME. I'm not sure what's hard to understand about that. There's no objectively correct way to use a computer, it's a preference thing.
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