raubarno

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Context: there was a Flash game called "Bloons Tower Defense" where you put monkeys to shoot down invasive balloons with darts.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Real telephone users use wired connection

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Add a user agent checker to your website and add tag: 'Your browser, Google Chrome, is not supported. Please open this website on Firefox.'

Thic could attract masses.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Then reject it.

EDIT: I accidentally thought it was written on another thread.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The true solution is... build from source.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I used to use Arch Linux. It's really good, honestly, especially if you want to know how the OS components work from inside or make something custom. For anything else, I would recommend Debian and its non-snap-based derivatives (Linux Mint Debian Edition or Tuxedo OS, or KDE Neon).

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

IDK, I used to have a dedicated software for playing with CUDA. Most of the image-specific AI stuff from the internet require 8 GB of VRAM or more, though.

Nowadays, I don't feel the need for GPU-accelerated computing, though. If I needed, I would write Vulkan compute shaders for that thing.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (4 children)

There are programs (LyX, TexMacs) that implement WYSIWYG for LaTeX, TexMacs is exceptionally good. I don't know about the standards, though.

Another problem with LaTeX and most of the other document formats is that they are so bloated and depend on many other tasks that it is hardly possible to embed the tool into a larger document. That's a bit of criticism for UNIX design philosophy, as well. And LaTeX code is especially hard to make portable.

There used to be a similar situation with PDFs, it was really hard to display a PDF embedded in application. Finally, Firefox pdf.js came in and solved that issue.

The only embedded and easy-to-implement standard that describes a 'document' is HTML, for now (with Javascript for scripting). Only that it's not aware of page layout. If only there's an extension standard that could make a HTML page into a document...

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Gzip is slower and outputs larger compression ratio. Zstandard, on the other hand, is terribly faster than any of the existing standards in means of compression speed, this is its killer feature. Also, it provides a bit better compression ratio than gzip ^citation_needed^.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yes, but only if everyone adhere to CommonMark version of Markdown.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Markdown, CommonMark, .rst formats are good for printing basic rich text for technical documentation and so on, when text styling is made by an external application and you don't care about reproducible layout.

But you also want to make custom styles (font size, text alignment, colours), page layout (paper format, margin size, etc.) and make sure your document is reproducible across multiple processing applications, that the layout doesn't break, authoring tools, maybe even some version control, etc. This is when it strikes you bad.

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