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Very good point.

I had better comprehension on the Bionic text right off the bat, personally.

What's the thing where you have to license your patent? Like when it's used in a standard or something?

Plus without a patent it would be very easy to capitalize on this without compensating the guy for all the research and tuning his put into it. I think patents are ideal for new ideas that are super easy to steal/copy, right? Sure Academics working at the bleeding edge should patent for example but they're likely to have a little advantage by being the expert and actually knowing how to do the thing. But in this case the result may look simple but took ingenuity and time to produce just the same.

That latency really is the killer. The web needs a fast UI layer separate from the DOM. I’m waiting for WebGPU to roll out and build a UI library on top of it, forgoing the DOM. But then this is just another “hack”. I wish the web had something a bit better.

Well, there are a number of “selling points” to electron/NW.JS or similar: reuse JS code/skills/libraries (npm) to build desktop apps; use Node.JS to build desktop apps; cross-platform. It clearly lowered the barrier and from a company’s perspective front-end talent’s “reach” is expanded.

Even way before they came out I wondered why more native apps didn’t just reuse HTML/CSS at least (many did).

Of course we all know of the downsides of Electron (basically Chromium + An App in every app; ridiculously heavy-weight.

I’m fond of the webview project and Tauri, being built on top of it. It reuses the available system browser view and doesn’t bundle Node, so it’s very light.

Woah. Much better comprehension reading the first example text.

When will I be able to run Linux on my M1 iMac and should I? I read about Asahi Linux supporting it, but I don’t know about performance.

Thank you for all the tricks you've supplied me over the years. Here's to many more.

Very, very nice from a code golf perspective though.

As others mentioned, you could add to the plethora of HN browser extensions. Another idea would be to allow people to specify an avatar in their bio and load it in, though that would entail a lot of web requests I guess. Also, I just realized that it's not random... wow!

They're definitely still thriving in bigger cities. It's the smaller ones like mine (~100k) where the business is no longer viable.

Maybe see if he likes sour candies? Or bitter things like grapefruit? You could make grapefruit candies. I think the best thing to do would be to find a substitute because continuing with "battery fakes" isn't a long-term solution.

You know... I think our's has a planet fitness as well! But same; Macy's, JC Penney, Old Navy, MC Sports, GameStop, Sears -- all gone. Only Kohl's remains.

What an epic blunder by Putin which we can only hope leads to some kind of change in Russia.

The mall in my town is 75% empty, and frequented mostly by older "mall walkers" such as my father, who does four laps a day. Was still cool when I was in high school (circa 2012). I have no idea how they're still open even after COVID. Dave & Buster's was supposed to open a location there but that fell through.

It’s replaced ScaleForm (the Flash powered UI option) in many places it seems. I’d love to know what kinds of techniques are used for really flashy UIs. There are a few companies solely focused on this middleware (web-based UI in video games).

Every year I age I respect good teachers more and more. I think it’s one of the hardest jobs. And at the risk of getting some blowback I think much stems from our broken and outdated public education system.

There has to be choice and freedom, both for the students and the teachers. I know I’m speaking vaguely but that’s because I myself can’t articulate a solution. But I know there’s a better way.

I think so. They talked about some of the engineering around the fusing of the two but who knows how that would translate to Geekbench points, lol.

Also, more SPA framework logic needs to become part of the web platform; APIs beyond pushState, service workers, etc. You have to integrate it into the browser to really remove the confusion and the boilerplate.

But there's a cost savings, right? JSON requests for just the data necessary vs. sending the whole HTML page each time.

Personally I'd prefer to develop a website the old-fashioned way, but I see that the bandwidth savings is a major point for SPAs and if you're running a business...

Here's the thing: so-called "JAM stack" apps are the cheapest to run, right? I realized this while I was thinking about how to create the cheapest site possible. Mainly, you want to minimize bandwidth. Well, SPAs are designed to do this. The site gets cached on the first hit, and runs usually JSON requests in the background after. So I think a big motivation for building SPAs is because they're cheap to host/run.

Yes, a big boy indeed. Way too big, though to be fair it is that way simply because what it hopes to give developers takes an executable that big (Chromium + Node). I'm not sure how node-webkit compares in size. The webview library, which uses the system's available browser, is obviously minuscule. Though I guess you have to hope that the user hasn't deleted the default HTML5 browser of the OS (not sure if this is an issue; Win32 has chromium-edge-based webview included, right?).

However it's safe to assume that this browser would have a significantly lighter footprint given that it's built "embedded first".

The only problem is that the engine is proprietary. I'm not sure about licensing when it is released. Regardless, I assume there would be nothing stopping people from bringing it onboard for tests/whatever else they dream up.

Wow. I'm so, so sorry for Satya and his family. Zain seems like he was a beautiful person. What an absolute titan of a father, who not only has achieved incredible success, but who also made sure to share proudly with the world of technology all the lessons he learned about accessibility from Zain and the perspective of the disabled. Zain and Satya, you've made such an impact. God bless you.

God, I just want this to come out (for desktop platforms, linux at least). Even though their niche is embedded it looks like this browser will be competitive with the other modern ones. A new engine would be great for the web. They also have an advantage in architecting their browser for today's web. I hope they release an end-user browser.

You can download it for Raspberry Pi. They're a British company. I've been following it for while now. Definitely not vaporware.

If everything is a service, you have no actual control. You may feel you do, but you only have control within the services' matrices of operation. If you have no control, you're not free. You may feel the freest you've ever felt, but you're a slave.

So long as we still have the right to own a patch of this earth, not an apartment or a timeshare or etc. etc., but a lot of land, we will be able to talk about some kind of actual freedom. Because land doesn't depend on anyone or anything except the earth's outer mantle, and so whatever you put on your plot you control, including your person, and so you are free.

Thanks. I never played the original.

Seriously. How do you get a fresh one?

I want a new Worldle!!!