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Or, you know, most steam deck users aren't using them constantly and so they don't get picked up in the survey.


The average Linux gamer is likely to have a very different setup to the average Linux user in general. It's a subset of a subset.


As far as I'm aware it keeps a history of the frequency you visit each directory so yes it will select the one you've visited more often (assuming you don't always start at the base one and work your way down).


No the issue is that the one I want _isnt_ the most recent. Because 90% of the directories I visit contain the string 'src'


There's nothing inherent about C++ that makes it more suited than Rust for game engines though, Rust supports careful management of memory too. Of course, nothing besides inertia (i.e. Libs, existing code, etc.). And that of course is more than big enough of a reason to stick with it.


Rust supports careful management of memory at the expense of unsafety, at which point that particular area of the code offers no benefit over C/C++, let alone value in a rewrite. There is no type system for reinterpreting bits of memory.

And for the safe parts, the posts that I've read from people who have spent a non-trivial amount of effort with the language do not paint a clear picture either on whether there was really a benefit to the language overall.

So to say that "the world has moved on" in light of all of this is pure hubris.


There are. The count is gotten by extrapolating from randomly selected areas of sky. This is more like another detailed picture of a small patch of sky.


Can I inquire as to why you feel so negatively about Firefox?


burn a lot of fcking goodwill for measly 4% web user, turn out eating google money literally make you the next "google"

chromium edge literally surpass firefox and with new policy it would eat more to the marketshare


Is it that surprising that Edge is surpassing Firefox given Firefox doesn't have the onboarding ramp of Microsoft and Google? Microsoft shoves Edge in your face every chance it gets, as does Google. What can Mozilla do to compete against that? Unfair to use market share as an argument.


"What can Mozilla do to compete against that?"

well if only Modzilla foundation spend money given to them to actual firefox development instead of ehm ehm DEI policy (lol) and pay executive millions of dollars

at this rate even brave,opera browser would surpass firefox


While I agree they shouldn't be putting their money towards political causes, the scrutiny of the budget is also political in nature. Of the $400 million in expenses, only around $15 million went to executives, and around $1 million went to the DEI stuff. The rest was split evenly between developing and marketing Firefox, which is basically what you were criticising them on not doing.

If they got rid of all the executives and DEI, they could increase the other budgets by 2%. There is 0 chance that the 2% extra budget could help the market share and development in any significant way.

And if you don't pay executives enough, you get worse executives who make worse decisions because the good ones will go to other companies. So you'll be complaining even more if the $15 million executive pay got dropped.

So in short: I agree Mozilla shouldn't get involved in politics. Despite this, no reasonable person could look at the numbers and conclude it's having a material effect on the destiny of Firefox.


ok my past response is mostly for laugh, this is my serious response

Firefox is literally default install in most if not all linux distro os, while I agree that situation is far from ideal but nothing is can be blamed other than themselves

for the longest of time firefox always playing catch up with chromium to achieve parity, maybe just maybe we don't need more browser

Microsoft literally give up their browser (IE), given how much resource MS has do you think firefox is doomed?? especially with DOJ force google to breakup chrome and cut off their spending on modzilla

I mostly critize about firefox place in the market, Opera found an niche with Opera GX for gaming, Brave with adblock and privacy focused etc while firefox is what??? inferior of chrome???


I can't reply further to this thread without this devolving into a flame war so I'll just observe that you've moved the goal posts claiming you were just joking, and refuse to engage further until you acknowledge you're either getting defensive for no reason or arguing in bad faith.


Yeah because you didn't have argument for it, good try tho

it would work with other people but not for me

edit: I'm not joking, I said laughing because firefox state is pathetic that deserved to be laughed at


Black holes need not be dense. The black hole at the centre of galaxy M87 has the density of air in our atmosphere. The larger the black hole, the less dense it is. So that alone doesn't preclude us existing inside of one.


That’s news to me, I was taught that the mass collapses into it self it creates more gravity and more matter gets sucked in because the mass is so dense. So at which point does it become less dense?


Keep in mind that my own knowledge of physics is very rusty, so some of this is definitely making bad assumptions.

The density in the singularity (centre) of the black hole is in theory infinite. But the event horizon (the part where light no longer escapes) is not the singularity, it's simply where the gravity becomes so strong that light can't escape.

Think of it as the sun vs the planets - we're not in the sun, but we still feel its effects. The density of the solar system isn't the same as the density of the sun. This is bad analogy because the same mathematics/physics doesn't apply, but it should help you get the general picture based on your original assumption.

In general, the heavier the black hole, the less dense it is when measured from the event horizon. So in theory, it's possible to have a black hole so heavy that the event horizon contains the entire universe. In fact, the known universe is heavy enough to be a black hole 3 times the known radius of the universe. But as we know from stars that turn into black holes, just because something is heavy enough to be a black hole, doesn't mean it is one yet.


As long as it’s dense enough that light can’t escape, it’s a black hole. You can achieve that with extreme density or huge volumes of mass. The more massive an object, the less dense it needs to be to be a black hole.


That's the case in Australia too although the quality of the food varies.


Not sure where you people are getting these multi decade toasters, I need to replace mine every 5-10 years. Obviously not the worst case of e-waste either way but 1 or 2 seems like a severe underestimate but that could just be my own experience.

Usually a heating element dies or similar. If it were easier to replace the heating elements I'd think it'd help reduce waste, but as you and others have noted, that wasn't the point of the article.


I've only bought two toasters in my life.

The first was a two-slice Kenmore (RIP Sears) which still works. It cost $20 and was purchased close to 25 years ago. I only used this a couple times a week and now the usage is very sporadic, but it always works when I need it to.

The second was a Cuisinart toaster oven, which is not exactly a toaster but has ended up being our primary toaster. I have no idea how old it is since we bought it at a garage sale for $5 about 5 years ago. This is used almost daily, sometimes multiple times a day, and for a lot more than just toast.

I can see buying one more toaster, meaning a toaster oven, in my life, but it will probably be to get new functionality (e.g., air fryer, larger capacity, etc) instead of replacing something broken.


I, too, would bet that your Cuisinart is likely to outlast you and me. That's what I have, and it's been in daily use for close to a decade now. Other than the silkscreened buttons losing their labels (easy fix: cut out some clear labels made with the P-Touch) it's as good as when it was new. We like it so much that we still kept it when we got a drawer-based air fryer 2 years ago which is my favorite kitchen purchase of all time.


We have a toaster with a built in FM radio. That thing is pushing 15 years now. Obviously adding an FM radio to a toaster is idiotic and we don't use that feature, but the toaster part just works. It was a Christmas present from my wife's employer, so I can't imagine it being all that expensive.

But I see your point, we've had multiple other toasters, some toasted themselves to death by melting their own plastic casing.

The saddest failure was a Krupp coffee maker, that thing was amazing, made the best coffee. Sadly I melted the power cord on a stove top. This was before I had a proper set of tools, so I gave up trying to remove the "security" screws, that would have let me open it and replace the cord.


This came from the less competent conservative government to be fair, although the current one is still very flawed.


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