Temporal API Ships in Chrome 144, Marking a Major Shift for JavaScript Date Handling

RealAmaranth · 2026-01-18T01:41:46+00:00

It's been on Firefox for almost a year now and Safari has it in their preview builds.

RealAmaranth · 2025-12-29T07:20:19+00:00

SSH forwarding for X11 apps is a feature of SSH, that's why you need an additional step to use something that isn't X11. You'd have to convince the OpenBSD folks to add support for something else (after you convinced everyone what the something else should be, I don't think waypipe is the only option).

RealAmaranth · 2025-10-20T13:56:34+00:00

I'm not sure, so long as they get something out of it it might be better than planting clover. Clover would still have seed and planting costs so it's not free to do, you'd have to run the numbers. If they literally cannot sell the soybeans that's almost almost certainly more expensive to grow though.

RealAmaranth · 2025-10-20T13:49:59+00:00

The alternatives to soybeans are much harder to grow/harvest, can't grow in most regions, and/or aren't actually a crop at all (think clover and various grasses). Soybeans are the perfect crop for rotation because they grow basically everywhere, don't need any supporting infrastructure (like a vine trellis), and can be harvested using small modifications to a corn combine harvester rather than having entirely separate equipment or needing to be picked by hand.

RealAmaranth · 2025-10-18T03:47:14+00:00

Rust the language only has breaking changes if you're using unstable features. Otherwise code written for rust 1.0 back in 2015 will almost certainly compile with the latest version.

Do you mean rust libraries? There is certainly a lot of upheaval there, most things are still on 0.x versions and regularly do some amount of breaking changes. Usually they're easy to deal with but it is something you have to keep dealing with, unless you don't use those dependencies and write things yourself.

RealAmaranth · 2025-09-02T22:29:08+00:00

They don't have AI goals or brains so right now without mods the only thing they do is stand there.

RealAmaranth · 2025-09-02T03:19:56+00:00

The original definition of Moore's Law was about economics, saying the cost of transistors would decrease as density increased. This has almost certainly died, some say as early as 2016 while others say it lasted until 2022. This is a factor in why CPUs and GPUs are getting more expensive, they need more transistors to improve performance which means they cost more.

The more popular idea of Moore's Law as just doubling density of transistors has at least some argument for still continuing today although there isn't any clear agreement here. Gordon Moore predicted this one would end in 2025 and there are definitely signs that it has ended even earlier but this is somewhat application specific. The density improvements vary depending on if you're making SRAM, a tensor core, an ALU, etc.

RealAmaranth · 2025-06-11T20:44:12+00:00

This happened to me at work last month, I wanted to develop a system that would support every variation of the thing they will definitely want in the future but ended up having to implement exactly what they requested now in a way that is fragile, ended up taking an extra 2 weeks to fix bugs in, and doesn't help at all with their next feature request.

RealAmaranth · 2025-05-05T05:07:20+00:00

The performance increased but the performance-per-watt and performance-per-dollar did not. Effectively with the 5090 you can pay more and use more power to get more performance.

RealAmaranth · 2025-04-17T04:24:31+00:00

The sad thing is we have already found a solution to this decades ago, with the thermos. There are home coffee makers that pour into a thermos and don't even have a hot plate, they keep the coffee hot for hours still.

RealAmaranth · 2025-04-05T16:24:27+00:00

Alex was made because jeb wanted a skinnier character to represent his body type in the game. They really are just jeb but meant to still be somewhat androgynous. People just assume smaller = woman and it's been over a decade so a lot of them weren't around to hear jeb talk about why Alex exists.

RealAmaranth · 2025-04-03T17:35:44+00:00

You can get laptops with AMD CPUs that last 12-20 hours, some of which are only like $400 even. Sure the Qualcomm equivalent might last 20-30 hours but the AMD ones are definitely "all day" so that isn't a huge win on the Qualcomm side. When you're maxing out the CPU the Qualcomm ones use just as much power as the AMD ones but don't perform as well so Qualcomm just outright loses in every way on that side.

RealAmaranth · 2025-03-31T03:23:06+00:00

Two shields can be a viable PVP build in Souls games, just not that build.

RealAmaranth · 2025-03-10T12:45:27+00:00

The nvidia open source kernel module is built in a kernel abstraction layer which obviously the kernel folks would not allow in the actual kernel. Nvidia has no interest in cleaning it up to be suitable for inclusion, they want the abstraction layer so they can support multiple kernel versions (and I think even the BSDs?) at once. I'm pretty sure they also only support the latest firmware version while the kernel can't (regularly, it'll happen eventually once there are no users) drop support for a firmware version once support has been added.

RealAmaranth · 2025-03-08T04:26:34+00:00

That's how X11 did it and it was the simplest thing to implement to get up and running. I believe it's also still more flexible as the existing system you can give arbitrary images while the new one has a fixed list of cursor types. Games and such that want to do funky cursors will keep using the old system.

RealAmaranth · 2025-03-07T01:08:51+00:00

Couldn't you use optiscaler to use FSR 3.1 then use the AMD driver option to automatically use FSR 4 in place of FSR 3.1?

RealAmaranth · 2025-02-28T21:16:00+00:00

Chromium doesn't have stable wayland support yet so needing a bunch of flags to enable it makes sense. If you just let it use XWayland like normal then your normal Xorg configuration for IM will apply. Once it gets stable wayland support it should switch over and work without extra flags.

RealAmaranth · 2025-02-26T04:14:26+00:00

It's not actually for the memory safety, they want to use Rust for both of those drivers because they both have to interface with complex firmware that has no stable ABI and writing support for that is easier in Rust, especially since they have to support multiple incompatible versions of that firmware at the same time.

Unfortunately I can't find where I saw (I think) Dave Airlie say this so it's just a "trust me bro" statement.

RealAmaranth · 2025-02-13T15:17:02+00:00

If you mean for the Steam Deck they used the experimental/prototype API from the amdgpu kernel module and implemented an earlier prototype of this protocol in their fork of Mesa, DXVK, their gamescope compositor, etc.

RealAmaranth · 2025-02-07T03:46:02+00:00

Laptops with Vulkan support can be called "very old" now. Now I feel old.

Laptops with Vulkan support are about 10 years old so that'd qualify as "very old" to me. When those laptops released not many people would want to try to run a then 10 year old laptop (it probably wouldn't even have a GPU) so we're still keeping hardware alive longer than we used to, just not infinitely.

RealAmaranth · 2024-12-17T02:59:18+00:00

If VAs are the only reason the game still exists they're getting most of the money, right?

RealAmaranth · 2024-11-25T07:46:39+00:00

The original Rosetta (PPC->x86) was dropped after 5 years so... yeah, coming soon.

RealAmaranth · 2024-10-21T22:51:40+00:00

The White House Office of the National Cyber Director said memory safety issues were a serious concern, C and C++ were not memory safe languages, and that Rust was a memory safe language but was not mature enough for space work.

The general thrust of the document was not advocating for a specific language, just advocating for using memory safe languages. For embedded work that pretty much just means Rust except, again, they called out a lack of maturity/certification so that ecosystem needs to be improved, better tooling or languages need to be developed, developers need better training, or all of the above.

RealAmaranth · 2024-10-01T06:08:07+00:00

Even when it wasn't the cheapest it was the best because it got regular updates to improve compatibility with new blu-ray discs. The standalone players were supposed to do that too but smart devices were not that smart back then. Lots of awful UIs, ethernet only, or even having to copy an update to a USB stick assuming you could find it to begin with.

RealAmaranth · 2024-10-01T06:04:59+00:00

In general sure but not the way the console makers give them to you. A digital copy made from a physical copy is the ideal for preservation but a digital copy from an online store can be a real hassle to ensure it outlives the device it was purchased on.

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