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[–] tal@lemmy.today 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

And always tend to load previous tabs?

Process termination can happen relatively silently on mobile environments, and apps are expected to save and restore state much more than desktop apps do. That's part of the paradigm that these OSes promote that users shouldn't need to understand or manage whether a process is running or not, especially on the relatively-memory-constrained hardware on which they run on. I'm not entirely sure that I agree with that as a goal, but I have seen people using Windows or MacOS who do not understand the concept of a process running, and never close anything, have a ton of programs open, with their machine slowly grinding along. If you figure that part of the idea behind mobile OSes was to be more usable to people who had trouble with personal computer OSes, it kinda makes some sense. In any event, it's the OS rather than your web browser that made that design call.

In Firefox Fennec, you can close all tabs by tapping the button by the URL bar that brings up the list of tabs and then tapping the three dot menu in that, and choosing "Close all tabs".

[–] tal@lemmy.today 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

The blank line between the two actually -- well, I suppose some clients might act differently than others, but certainly in the Web UI on lemmy and IIRC Reddit -- produces a different effect, has a larger horizontal space, and is intended to be a paragraph break rather than just a line break.

foo  
bar

(with two spaces trailing "foo") Gives:

foo
bar

And

foo

bar

Gives:

foo

bar

It's not normally a massive difference, but suppose you're writing poetry, say, you'd probably rather have paragraph breaks between verses and line breaks after each line in a verse:

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.

My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.

He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake.
The only other sound's the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

In Markdown, you want to put two spaces at the end of a line if you don't want it to be treated as a single rewrapped line.

So:

foo
bar

Gives

foo bar

And with two spaces after "foo":

foo
bar

I generally use bulleted lists instead to make it clear that it's a list.

* *00: Space Marine*
* *Call of Duty: Black Ops*

Gives:

  • 000: Space Marine
  • Call of Duty: Black Ops
[–] tal@lemmy.today 1 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I have no idea why people do this.

I mean, I like a number of old Nintendo games too. But I just cannot imagine putting this kind of work into something like this, where it's almost certainly going to get taken down.

The worst is when people do things like create unauthorized sequels to games and that gets taken down. Like, you could have gone and created your own game with your own setting.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Metroid/comments/winq8r/what_are_some_of_the_metroid_fan_games_you_know_i/

Like, I like the Metroid series too. But if all the people who like the series enough to have created unauthorized sequels in the series had just used a different setting and characters to make their Metroidvania, we could have had a fantastic unencumbered series.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 2 points 1 month ago

There has got to be some kind of simple compression that the Game Boy processor can handle in real time that will let it push a typical frame in the datarate available. Maybe use run length encoding, as it looks like most of those images have large flat color areas.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 7 points 1 month ago

OpenAI's Latest Model Shows AGI Is Inevitable. Now What?

The question is no longer whether AGI will arrive, but whether we'll be ready when it does.

I'm also confident that sooner or later, we will wind up with AGI.

I am, however, a lot less confident that this has much to do with any model that we have today.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

A good reason to try to avoid being deeply dependent on a product that a single company controls that's hard to transition away from. Even if you're happy with that company, someone else might manage to get control of them.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 29 points 1 month ago

The council also said that in the past other decorations like Santa hats and wreaths have been added but that this was different.

"While we don't condone the wreaths... and Santa hats, let's stay away from adhesives, graffiti and all things that can damage the art" it said on it's social post.

It sounds like what they don't want is adhesive on the thing, which I'd say is probably a legit ask.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 130 points 1 month ago (3 children)

the only way to get that link back is by using a slightly different player that pays us less and YouTube more.

Add a "watch on YouTube" link above or below your embedded videos?

[–] tal@lemmy.today 10 points 1 month ago (21 children)

Depends upon how you measure "well".

The Kim dynasty is still going strong, three generations in. Odds are that the Kims and probably a number of people at the top would be worse-off if things changed. From their perspective, things probably are going pretty well in North Korea.

Of course, the standard of living of the North Korean public is pretty horrendous, the economy is undeveloped, and North Korea doesn't have a lot of international clout. If your metric is whether the typical person in society is living well or whether the country is powerful, wealthy, or secure, then things aren't going very well.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 11 points 1 month ago

If you put two spaces at the end of each line you want a line break after, it'll make a new line in the output.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I think that the larger message there is more that he feels that recreational drug use isn't a great idea.

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