bitcrafter

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[โ€“] bitcrafter@programming.dev 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I did it again. ๐Ÿซค

[โ€“] bitcrafter@programming.dev 38 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Have you really not heard of it? It is a new architecture that is a bit better than x64_64.

[โ€“] bitcrafter@programming.dev 3 points 6 months ago

Yeah, I miss living in Australia where you didn't have your own waiter but on the other hand that meant that it wasn't rude to flag down any of the wait staff if you need anything rather than being restricted to having to go through a single person.

[โ€“] bitcrafter@programming.dev 1 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Iโ€™ve only met one other person that knew who/what Dvorak was/is, and also reportedly used that keyboard layout.

I experimented with it in University--I actually got a screwdriver and pried up and rearranged all of the keys on my keyboard within a week or so of starting--but after graduating I noticed that I was still slower at typing on Dvorak than I was on QWERTY so I gave up and changed back.

[โ€“] bitcrafter@programming.dev 10 points 8 months ago

A truly fantastic update for our times!

[โ€“] bitcrafter@programming.dev 5 points 9 months ago

Wow, when I went to bed yesterday it was only December 28, but now it is somehow already April 1!

[โ€“] bitcrafter@programming.dev 113 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

Alternatively, instead of reading a Phoronix article that has a couple of short snippets from a much longer blog post, you can read the original blog post yourself to see the full context.

Edit: Also, it is worth noting that the author of the original blog post had previously written another relatively recent post criticizing the way in which Wayland was developed, so it's not like they are refusing to see its problems.

[โ€“] bitcrafter@programming.dev 2 points 9 months ago

No, if anything the way you can tell you are in a dream is because the top spins forever and never starts wobbling; the way he got his wife to eventually concede that she was in a dream was by setting the top in a perpetual spin so that she stumbled upon it still spinning.

The significance of the ending is not that he is still in a dream but that he is so content with the situation that he stops caring whether he is in a dream or not. (Actually, in fairness that is not quite true either; I've heard that basically the ending is more Nolan trolling the audience than anything of narrative significance.)

[โ€“] bitcrafter@programming.dev 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, which is why I thought that the original ending to Return of the Jedi, which was just a local party with the Ewoks, was much better than the immediate galaxy wide celebration that Lucas insisted on adding in the re-release.

[โ€“] bitcrafter@programming.dev 1 points 10 months ago

I think that much of the disparity is explained by the fact that the Apple case was decided by a judge but the Google case was decided by a jury, so the people making the decisions had very different perspectives.

Also, because the decisions were so different despite the similarities between them, Google probably actually has a pretty good case it can make in the appeals process, so I wouldn't consider this outcome to be the final word just yet.