Here, have a rainbow kitty to see you through these trying times
(Nikon Z6, Macro f2.8 90mm, processed in Darktable)
Every once in a while, I come upon a web browser for Android that has interesting and appealing features, usually to do with UI.
But then I find out that it's not a proper Chromium browser, as it first appears, but rather it uses WebView. Which makes a lot of sites load with really broken/hard to use page formatting.
And each and every time I struggle to understand why Android WebView, although it's clearly based on the same Chrome/Chromium everything, is so bad at being consistent at this one thing, and it keeps rendering some things insanely different from even a bare bones Chromium.
>"Twitter is not politically biased against conservatives, don't be absurd"
I think I had one of the best dreams for a nerd.
I had gotten my hands on a vintage CPU, one that my cousin owned back in the day, an old AMD Duron 700mhz. Probably came out somewhere around 2000. But that's not the good part. The good part was that I put it as a secondary CPU in my system, and I could dualboot an old Windows on it and play old games perfectly.
This made me think, could this become a thing? People speculate a transition to ARM PCs, and while the idea seems decent, there's the problem of legacy x86 software, especially games, and how difficult it would be to attempt emulation for them. Sure, you can emulate Notepad without being bothered by the overhead, but something that is CPU bottlenecked is out of the question for many generations.
So what if instead, your ARM motherboard had the ability to attach a daughter board that contain a x86 CPU, that allowed your PC to boot into a x86 mode. Or maybe have the OS be smart enough to be able to use it for x86 programs directly, instead of sending them to an emulation layer.
So we have confirmation that DXVK is much better at translating dx9 to vulkan than whatever translation layer Intel came up with for their ARC GPUs.
The flight of NASA's Artemis (purple) uses two very close encounters with the moon's gravity (green) to changes its trajectory to get back to the earth (blue.) Amazing.
More details: https://www.nasa.gov/artemis-1
Linux development still depending so much on Linus Torvalds' leadership scares me, even more than what Microsoft is doing with Windows.
With the current political environment, when Linus finally retires (or dies), if he's replacement isn't basically a clone of Torvalds himself, Linux is ripe for a potential collapse.
When NASA chose to use Linux and ffmpeg on the latest Mars mission, the open source community celebrated.
So here's something that came to my mind. If we found out the US military used Linux, or some other popular open source project, in the workings of the next-gen weapon of war, something that surpasses nukes in destruction ability, how would the community react?
Just another random person passing by.
The Alyx Vance must go this way anyway.
Gordon Freeman dies in All Dogs Go To Heaven 2.
I wasn't designed to be carried.
En Taro Igel!
Lift me up, let me go...