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Comment · 4 months ago
Might want to try again, Wine progressed a lot in the past couple years.
Comment · 4 months ago
If I asked you to send me 1000$, would your answer be the same as the answer to this question?
Comment · 6 months ago
Not underestimating, but I've seen first hand how these are made, from my uncles and neighbours as I'm from rural Romania. The equipment may not be clean, people tend to get drunk because QA is literally drinking it and that affects the next batch, the precursor fruits could be half rotten, etc. I appreciate homemade spirits because of the genuine taste, but be aware of the conditions they're made in.
Comment · 6 months ago
How's your eyesight?
Comment · 2 years ago
Maybe you could try a chargeback. Having to pay for a Linux license and not have such a basic feature (because everyone has touchscreens in 2024) is outrageous. I heard they don't even accept code contributions to fix this mess.
Comment · 2 years ago
Very compelling argument. I'm moving back to Windows since it doesn't have any CVEs.
Comment · 2 years ago
Terminator really is great, infinite scroll is what really sold it to me ~9 years ago and I've been a happy user ever since.
Comment · 2 years ago
An executable from a nightly build kept crashing and I got tasked with fixing it. I was a novice back then and spent most of the day trying to figure out what was happening, and when looking at the disassembly I saw it was crashing at a 'hlt' instruction, which shouldn't have been there.

Next day, after another nightly build, no more crashes. I did a binary diff between the crashing version and the new one, it was a single bit. A bit flip on the build server.

Comment · 2 years ago
In a few words, Cobalt is a de-bloated Chromium designed to run YouTube TV. It's smaller and faster than launching it in the platform's browser.

If you have a smart TV/set-top box/streaming stick/etc bought in the past few years, the YouTube app is most likely running inside Cobalt. You can develop HTML5 applications that can run in Cobalt, but it supports only a subset of html/css/js stuff you'd expect from a browser.

Comment · 2 years ago
How do tax changes from a few years back affect the current deficit? Shouldn't they be already "priced in" the budget?
Comment · 2 years ago
Wait until you realize almost four-fifths are dead, immotile or slow moving. Only around 5% are actually viable.
Comment · 3 years ago
Maybe you should sue them at your local court. That'll show them!
Comment · 3 years ago
SVB should have learned from some of their depositors - just throttle withdrawals and blame "technical difficulties" or "systems update" or "scheduled maintenance".
Comment · 3 years ago
I fondly remember playing fy_iceworld and minor variations of it in netcafes 20 years ago. What made these maps special was that they 1) removed all game strategy - just walk 2 steps to pick up a gun and go fight the enemy, and 2) there were no hiding spots - so no more campers. For kids who could only afford 1 hour of computer time in a netcafe, fy_iceworld was the obvious choice.
Comment · 4 years ago
> billions of devices in the wild which will become e-waste overnight

Not just e-waste, they can also become a huge liability. In a presentation, the authors mention that one of the CPU families which have this vulnerability were used in Tesla cars. Tesla apparently switched to AMD APUs around December 2021.

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