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Mar 8, 2014 at 16:01
The difference between a functional experience and a compelling experience is usually huge.

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Jan 5, 2023 at 16:31
The next version of difftastic will support parsing CSS and JS syntax inside HTML! This makes a huge difference to HTML files. This support for tree-sitter sub-parsers was contributed by Sesse :)
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A patch to Chromium reduced global root DNS requests by 40%! https://www.theregister.com/2021/02/04/chromium_dns_traffic_drop/ It's also impressive how quickly users updated such that the global services saw a difference.
Chromium cleans up its act – and daily DNS root server queries drop by 60 billion
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That’s a 41 per cent traffic relief for all concerned
May 22, 2020 at 03:55
Valve exploring a custom shader compiler on Linux that leads to significantly higher frame rates than native code on Windows: https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2019/07/11/valves-latest-linux-gaming-work-is-boosting-amd-vulkan-performance-by-up-to-44-percent/ (Shader compilers run during the game, so compilation time can make a big difference.)
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