SirMittens

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by SirMittens 2y ago
This is not a fine, tho. It's just the amount that Apple would have paid in taxes, if the special deal didn't exist. The EU is not imposing any fines on Apple. They're just ordering Ireland to collect the taxes owed to them (
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by SirMittens 2y ago
One solution you could use to get around this weird design decision, is to use the reader mode in Firefox (I'm not sure what is the alternative for other browsers).
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by SirMittens 2y ago
I think that's the wrong analogy. A more correct one would be "Should we blame a car company for a broken engine, that was modified after it was sold to you?". A kernel level driver from a 3rd party is something that you will
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by SirMittens 3y ago
I assume parent probably meant that the worse you can do in rust (e.g use of unsafe... etc) would just put you back at C level of memory safety.
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by SirMittens 3y ago
> Google: promises Google is not promising this out of the goodness of their heart. They're just getting ahead of what the EU is planning to mandate [0], and doing that to get some good marketing while they're at it. So, while
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by SirMittens 3y ago
Microsoft could still work with their partners to implement this. Yes, the PC market tend to be fragmented, but what I assume would happen is that some ARM PCs will have the hardware acceleration, and for those it would lead to a much bette
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by SirMittens 3y ago
There is Turing Complete [0], although it's still somewhat in development, but it is very much playable. [0]: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1444480/Turing_Complete/
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by SirMittens 4y ago
That is very true for the the consoles before the Xbox One and PS4. However, since the release of those 2, seems like Microsoft and Sony use an off the shelf OS + their Shell and APIs (graphics, networking, matchmaking ...etc), which makes
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by SirMittens 4y ago
Afaik, - Xbox is basically using Windows Core + the xbox shell and runs the games in virtual machines. - The PS4/5 use FreeBSD with their shell and libraries on top. - The Steam Desk ships Linux and a shell on top of it (Steam Big Pict
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by SirMittens 5y ago
Even if Intel was using "nm" like everyone else, Intel's naming was closer to reality then the rest of the industry. TSMC and Samsung's "nm" is more of a marketing term. Intel's 10nm is relatively close to