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Exactly. Windows Cairo was planned to be a competitor to NeXTSTEP, and later, parts of it made it to Windows 95 and NT.


I've read that before, it doesn't change anything. They're free to work with Yandex and I'm free to not pay for Kagi.

It doesn't support basic code/monospace blocks using backticks:

> Unsupported Syntax Detected

> This file contains syntax that isn't fully supported in formatted view. Some content may not render as intended, and switching views could modify parts of your original Markdown. Do you want to continue?


When has MS ever implemented someone else's standard or even convention (MD is not really a standard)? They only ever implemented their own incompatible parody. They're even incompatible with themselves, because backticks do work in MS Teams. This software is probably vibecoded slop.

So custom implementation, then? How very Microsoft.

Even funnier when you remember that they own github, the place where arguably markdown was popularized.

> markdown was popularized.

That was before MS started vibecoding all their software.


I don’t want lithium-ion alternatives for better range. Quite the opposite, I’m actually okay having slightly less range if it means my car won’t spontaneously combust. This one apparently improves the safety of lithium-ion batteries too, so it’s great, but I hate when headlines focus on one thing that matters the least.

> Quite the opposite, I’m actually okay having slightly less range if it means my car won’t spontaneously combust.

Modern LFP LiIon (LiFePO4) batteries are pretty damn safe now, and is also the dominant chemistry in new EV batteries and energy storage systems. The fire risk is nothing like what it was, arguably your wish has already been granted.

The Chinese market is mandating this year that EV batteries prevent fire or explosion for a minimum of 2hrs after a cell enters thermal runaway, and LFP is the main driver to achieve it.


True, but they are not as common as they should be.

Do you worry about spontaneous combustion of ICE cars? They are far more likely to burst into flames than EVs.

Is this true when adjusting for vehicle age? The average age of an EV is quite a bit lower than the average age of an ICE vehicle, and I assume there is at least some correlation between a vehicle's age and how likely it is to explode (based on degradation, type of use, type of owner, etc.).

> They are far more likely to burst into flames than EVs.

There’s a substantial increased risk only with ICE cars that are at least 10 years old and poorly maintained. Li-ion EVs carry that risk from day one.


Neither EVs nor ICE cars spontaneously combust unless there's a design flaw. Even when this happens it tends to be very rare, but the Chevy Bolt fires for example were fixed with a recall. Similarly a Ford recall last year fixed a problem where fuel injectors could leak and cause an engine fire.

EVs and ICE cars can both catch on fire in a bad enough accident, but this is true regardless of the age of the vehicle, and tends to be more sudden and violent with gasoline explosions vs battery fires.


> unless there's a design flaw

No. They can happen with manufacturing flaws, wear and tear, or with a dent to the underside of the car in case of EVs too.


> I dunno, if you type "download 7zip" into Google, the top result is the official website.

Until someone puts an ad above it.


Sure, but the answer to "How can the average 7zip user know which one it is?" would then be "do a Google search and use uBlock Origin".


How does the user know they are using the official uBlock Origin?


The Mozilla extension store doesn't have ads, so it's the top item. It has clear download counts and a "recommended" icon.

So the advice is to install it from the extension store.


> to Commodore 64 level

That’s unfair to C64 which can smooth scroll very well.


Exactly! The C64 could control where the beam started painting. To move the screen a pixel you just wrote the the x and y offsets to two 8-bit I/O registers. Only after scrolling 7 or 8 pixels you had to copy memory around. I was relatively easy to get this right smoothly and since everything was in sync with the beam it was easy to make tear free.

Shaking effects that did not require memory copy were even easier.


I owned a C64. Remember how buttery smooth the interfaces of those '80s computers were?


Not Apples. But Amigas, omg those were smooth.


I was green with envy, when I saw how fast and smooth a C64 scrolled some text (iirc it was some machine code monitor). My Amstrad CPC464 had no text mode and the Z80A CPU was clearly overwhelmed with shifting the whopping 16KiB RAM of the graphics buffer or even just rendering a line of text.


CPC allows some level of smooth scrolling, albeit not as good as C64. Lack of a text mode is a problem too as you said.


fewer layers between software and hardware...


Not by repainting the whole screen every frame!


Modern browsers don’t repaint the whole screen every frame either.


Eh, the NES is better because you get two entire screen buffers. The C-64 gives you only one offscreen row or column to repaint every coarse scroll, and the colormap is fixed so you gotta move all of its bytes while racing the beam.


The term "disc" for storage predates optical media. "Disc" was the common spelling for a disk (like a floppy disk) on British 8-bit computers like Amstrad CPC or Sinclair Spectrum.[1][2]

It seems like the distinction simply comes from British and American preferences.[3]

I have no idea how Apple jumped to such an arbitrary conclusion.

[1] Kempston Disc Interface manual: https://k1.spdns.de/Vintage/Sinclair/82/Peripherals/Disc%20I...

[2] Amstrad Disc Drive Interface manual: https://www.cpcwiki.eu/imgs/3/3f/DDI-1_User_Manual.pdf

[3] Etymonline entry for "disk": https://www.etymonline.com/word/disk


Disk was already the standard spelling in the UK by 1984 (in a computing context), just as program was used in preference to programme. But Amstrad mistyped it as disc on the plastic mouldings for their first CPC, and were too cheap to change them. Consequently CPC 3in disks were always called discs even into the 90s.


Did Acorn also misspell it in BBC Micro manual in 1984?

https://archive.org/details/BBCUG/page/n19/mode/2up?q=disc


That's "Akorn" and "BBC Mikro"



Taycan relies too heavily on touch. Not even vent directions are manually adjustable on a Taycan. BMW i4 interior is much better in that aspect: many physical controls. I hope Porsche fixes its mistakes soon.


The web site also makes that distinction: living wage, poverty wage, and minimum wage.


GTA I was so much fun with friends on LAN despite looking basic at the time.


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