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1k2kaon ReactOS releases 0.4.8 with experimental Vista/7/10 software compatibility

That hasn't always been the case, perhaphs he tried it a few years ago when you had to have silverlight.

Actually looks pretty great to me. What do you consider wrong with it?

1k2kaon Oni: Modern Modal Editing – Powered by Neovim

I don't consider any framework cross-platform unless it also targets TempleOS.

I have the same issue on my Linux laptop. It seems like Firefox always maxes out at least one core when loading pages or rendering pages with certain video codecs. I'm guessing Chrome throttles its performance or maybe it's just more performant.

1k2kaon Who's Missing from America's Colleges? Rural High School Graduates

Does the possibility of needing to fend off some lunatic outweigh all the negatives of loose gun control? Rural residents will still be able to own a gun but maybe they should pass a psych test first and maybe that gun shouldn't be military grade.

1k2kaon Show HN: HNCute, a pretty pink Hacker News theme

Anyone know of a similar extension for Firefox?

1k2kaon Everything That's Wrong with Hackintosh

Seems like you're making a lot of assumptions about programmers who write native code.

1k2kaon Text-only news sites are slowly making a comeback

The links would still be blue, "text-decoration: none" will just remove the underline.

1k2kaon Documenting the Web together

If you use DuckDuckGo as your standard search engine you can also prepend "!mdn" to your search query to search MDN.

This also works with any website wich supports search I think. Other good ones include "!hoogle", "!hn", "!yt", "!g", and the list goes on.

1k2kaon Creator of cURL wins Polhem Prize 2017

I love the last quote of the interview which roughly translates to:

"But this prize might contribute to my family understanding that I do something of value while they sleep."[0]

Spoken by a person who has created something that has probably been used by hundreds of millions of people. Obviously the quote is very tounge in cheek, but still.

[0] http://www.polhemspriset.se/aktuellt/arets-polhemspris-till-...

1k2kaon Creator of cURL wins Polhem Prize 2017

It seems prizes where the winner is awarded without competing or without giving a presentation are tax exempt [0].

[0] http://www.privataaffarer.se/fragor/ar-nobelpriset-skattepli...

1k2kaon I Bought a Book About the Internet from 1994 and None of the Links Worked

As a student at liu who had no prior knowledge about lysator it's always interesting to see lysator links in the wild, they seem to pop up when least expected.

How come the site is hosted at lysator and how come it's still up?

Sidenote: The man hosting the site has a very on-topic profile page[0].

[0] https://www.ida.liu.se/~davby02/

1k2kaon JSC loves ES6

I have the exact same experience. Firefox on macOS is sluggish but on the same machine on Linux it's very responsive.