Until there's a viable solution for desktop native GUI, this trend will continue.
Qt?
Readit Newscoldacid commented on Mozilla's abandoned web engine 'Servo' project is getting a reboot news.itsfoss.com/servo-ru... · Posted by u/worez
To me, The 6502 kind of represented best-of-breed but a bit of a dead end. I couldn't see a 16-32 bit story. It's like it hit the spot, and stopped growing.
The 6800 begat the 68000. It had virtual memory management. That launched ten or more models of workstation and hit the magic '3M' window: a MIP, a Megabyte of memory and a Million pixels. 68000 led to SPARC because Sun decided to go into the RISC business itself.
I used Motorola workstations alongside Sun, for a Cray-1 project I was on the periphery of: they were the ones Cray shipped to us, passing the Cray-1 on from another customer (Boeing) and they were fine, if remarkably (physically) large machines. Like they'd got the idea of "this is a workstation" in the Microvax era, and never quite shrunk down.
I had a 6502 box (the Acorn Atom, a precursor to the BBC micro) and I used others, But I kind of wished the 6800/0 series had been bigger, and we'd been in that world more than Intel. it was nicer. it felt nicer. It felt like an instruction set Gordon Bell would have liked. It made sense if you came from a pdp-11.
Maybe I'm addicted to network byte order computers.
>I couldn't see a 16-32 bit story. It's like it hit the spot, and stopped growing.
And yet WDC (Bill Mensch's company post-Commodore) put out the 65816, a 16-bit expansion of the 6502 that was the core of the Super Nintendo. So it still grew even if not to 32-bit level.
coldacid commented on Ask HN: What do you feel about ditching Steam for GOG? twitter.com/_vkaku/status... · Posted by u/vkaku
It's not merely an _assumption_
I wish Valve actually spoke up against this EOL date, yet what they've done is just follow that date so far.
Steam's end of service on Windows 7 and 8 is based on CEF, just as it was for XP and Vista. I don't see Google/Chromium dropping Windows 10 support at Microsoft's EOL especially given how much market share Win10 still has -- it would be shooting themselves in the foot.
In the meantime, instead of ditching Steam, ditch Windows. Steam works amazing on Linux, and with Proton, the vast majority of Windows games Just Work(TM). You don't even need SteamOS (although it helps).
No link to EAB?[0] Amiga Future?[1]
coldacid commented on Ask HN: What do you feel about ditching Steam for GOG? twitter.com/_vkaku/status... · Posted by u/vkaku
They dropped Windows 7/8 support earlier this year. It is likely they'll do the same when Windows 10 is EOLed next year.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/announcements/wi...
In other words, you're simply making an _assumption_ that Valve will instantly drop support at Microsoft's EOL date.
coldacid commented on Modest: A fast HTML renderer implemented as a pure C99 library github.com/lexborisov/mod... · Posted by u/seansh
Project is deprecated in favour of the same developer's lexbor project[0].
coldacid commented on Ask HN: What do you feel about ditching Steam for GOG? twitter.com/_vkaku/status... · Posted by u/vkaku
I was deeply troubled with the fact that Steam does not really offer any options to get older games running on very capable computers, and with them stopping Windows 7/8 support early this year, and Windows 10 support going away in a year, people will add their computers to the landfill soon.
However, being able to run old applications and games, whether from Archive.org or GOG.com could prevent it. Even an ESR version coming from Valve could really help mitigate this issue.
How do you think people could prevent/slow down this disaster from happening?
This is the first I'm hearing that Steam's dropping Windows 10 support, got a source on this?
We need orphan work legislation to clarify the law in this area
We really do.
coldacid commented on Ancient City Found in the Amazon bbc.com/news/science-envi... · Posted by u/mvdwoord
How can they just claim the city's been "found" when it's been known about for half a century? All they did (that's relevant to the article) is a recent LIDAR survey of a site they've been digging on for 25 years.