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Chris Maunder wrote: Except for the bits where you used up all my RAM and then kept crashing.
*khm*
(granted it was running for a few days, but seeing this more and more often after upgrading to FF57)
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I like and use Firefox, but I do not like the change form bookmarks to library and the extra step[ necessary to get to a full listing. I also use Chrome and Opera for various projects.
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For me it is te opposite, since FF 57, which is using the new multi-thread rendering in rusty, I get lots of crashes due to OOM. I switched to Chrome and the probem has gone.
I still prefer the rendering quality of FF (like fonts, gradients, etc) but getting OOM with only 4 tabs is really annoying.
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The quantum version is now my default browser simply because its
faster
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Same observation. (Runs in the background even when closed ... probably mining bitcoins).
Also, trashed Edge.
Edge will always (in our case) default to the "last site" (when it crashes); which in the case of a hosed / "end task" web site, means a "deadlock".
Couldn't find any reference to changing that default behaviour (before trashing it).
"(I) am amazed to see myself here rather than there ... now rather than then".
― Blaise Pascal
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Chris Maunder wrote: ..has inexplicably and suddenly become my new browser of choice
If true, that doesn't seem inexplicable.
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Been using FF for years. Chrome is my #2. IE and Edge are not in the equation.
Sometimes the true reward for completing a task is not the money, but instead the satisfaction of a job well done. But it's usually the money.
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Just stumbled upon this book, Making Games for the Atari 2600, Steven Hugg, eBook - Amazon.com[^], and read the first couple of chapters.
It's actually well written and really interesting if you're into hardware and electronics and understanding how computing actually works. Some really interesting info about the 6502 processor and what you can do.
Since I finally finished Petzold's (Code: The Hidden Language of Computers[^]) and started working with Arduino and building my own little projects, this stuff seems extremely interesting to me.
Have any of you read the Atari book?
modified 19-Dec-17 11:57am.
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raddevus wrote: Have any of you read the Atari book?
No, but I have fond memories of writing 6502 assembly for the Commodore PET, C64, and VIC20.
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Marc Clifton wrote: No, but I have fond memories of writing 6502 assembly for the Commodore PET, C64, and VIC20
Wow, that is very cool. Great experience. No wonder you have gone so far in your career and work. 
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You could also have look at NASA Open Source Software used to program spaceships..
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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No, but I still write some stuff for the Atari 8 bit computers from time to time. I still have a few of them in the shelf.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
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I hope it's the 800 and not the 400 with that membrane keyboard.
That thing was crazy impossible to type on. 
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One 400, two 600XL and one 800XL. Only my 130XE has died long ago.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
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I've been playing around with the Master System and both the NES and SNES.
I must be a masochist, since I actually quite enjoy trying to work around the system limitations and playing with scroll registers and bitplanes and memory banks.
Takes me all the way back to being a kid and trying to get TASM and MASM to make the DOS machine do something I considered interesting.
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enhzflep wrote: I must be a masochist
Not at all. Getting the most out of far less memory, processor and no mighty graphics processor at all is slowly becoming a lost art.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
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Sadly, yes.
Though to be fair - it was always a bit painful at the time, the economics have shifted in such a way that it's not really sensible in most cases any more. When you can buy a $5 Ras-Pi Zero that has about the same oomph as a $4,000 machine in the early 90s, the programmer's time is now far more expensive than a little more hardware.
I still remember the week that I first installed DJGPP in dos and had easy access to more than 64kb of memory in one chunk. I think I only slept for 3 or 4 of the nights, such was my excitement at the prospect of being able to do some texture-mapping and meta-ball stuff.
Ahhhh, (magnetic-core) memories...
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Never had the Atari and never had the book, but I programmed my C64 for years... Last time - virtually - a year ago...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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I have a little C compiler that works for the C64, the Ataris and the Apple II.
cc65 - Wikipedia[^]
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
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CodeWraith wrote: C compiler that works for the C64, the Ataris and the Apple II.
Wow. Amazing. 
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: programmed my C64 for years... Last time - virtually - a year ago
That's some serious dedication to a platform.
I had a C128 because I got in late.
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Is claustrophobia the fear of getting stuck in the chimney?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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These are just getting Claussier and Claussier!
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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