pmarin

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Stop the World -- I Want to Get Off!

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Comment · 4 months ago
It used Maxima many years ago.
Comment · 4 months ago
The arena is replacing the javacript garbage collector not memory managament.
Comment · 7 months ago
WHy not just add a hardware switch to allow Android sideloading?

Are these multibillion companies so incompetent to not think about it?

Comment · 7 months ago
I am sorry if I mistaken you for a bot but the model you are describing have not been implenented by any graphic driver in decades.
Comment · 7 months ago
Just to be clear the hardware abstraction layer used by wayland and any current Xserver is exactly the same.
Comment · 7 months ago
>i don't think it has a huge impact on the discussion here. but this is such a key difference versus X, that i think is hugely under-told: Wayland compositors all rely on lots of kernel facilities to do the job, where-as X is basically it's own kernel, has origins where it effectively was the device driver for the gpu, talking to it over pci, and doing just about everything. when people contrast wayland versus X as wayland compositors needing to do so much, i can't help but chuckle, because it feels like the kernel does >50% of what X used to have to do itself; it's a much simpler world, using the kernel's built-in abstractions, rather than being multiple stacked layers of abstractions (kernels + X's own).

Are you an AI bot? Modern X11 server using DRM are more than 20 years old. You are talking about how X11 servers worked in the 90's

Comment · 9 months ago
I don't think is about China, it's more about Winnie the Pooh's legacy.
Comment · 9 months ago
The C way is to avoid abstractions in first place.
Comment · 9 months ago
C++ compile time execution is just a gimmicky code generator, you can do it in any language.
Comment · 9 months ago
That sound more like software pseudo-engineering to me.
Comment · 10 months ago
How many people know about https://lite.duckduckgo.com/lite/ ?

Is a version of DuckDuckGo without Javascript. Very fast and compatible with minimalistic web browser like lynx.

Comment · 10 months ago
That sound more like a demake than a port. Very cool anyway.

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