They couldn't use it as anything else than a toy. The reason they couldn't because they didn't have the metallurgy and the machining to create pistons, valves, etc.

There's an important lesson that can be applied to every technology, I think: technological progress is always iterated, never revolutionized. If your novelty - a programming language, a framework, a methodology, whatever - doesn't stand on the shoulders of the giants, then you have simply nothing to apply this novelty to.

2) WebAssembly, compiling the leaked HL2 code. The graphics stack is WebGL.

3) Absolutely illegal, it exists until a cease&desist comes from Valve. We may see it taken down even today. They aren't.

>Have you ever tried to write HiDPI-aware Win32 code?

I haven't. I don't think there's any reason to, I'm more of a wxwidgets fan. I don't think even Microsoft makes applications in raw WinAPI.

>I suggest enabling HiDPI in Control Panel sometimes and marveling at how many Win32 apps just don’t notice and draw as postage stamps.

The default behaviour of a DPI-unaware app in Windows is to scale everything by the scale factor. Which - yes, looks completely awful and blurry, but that's not what you describe.

To me, it's more about what I'm used to. I have a perfectly fine several years-old monitor, so why should I throw it away?

It looks like this hinter will be used only in rendering PDFs, because that's where they test the performance.

In London, it's illegal to shake rugs in the street. If police actually starts prosecuting people for that, and not all people but just bald ones, it's natural that people won't be happy and start asking questions about the anti-bald bias.

NYC on the other hand has the biggest number of jerks per capita I ever seen. (No offence to all nice people from NYC, which there are still plenty.)

Or the argument is that NaNs are not actually the values themselves, but the representations of the facts of different failures, and because we can't compare the facts, we shouldn't compare NaNs? Well, I guess one could say that numbers in general are also such incomplete representations; 2 is 2, I could get 2 by adding one crayon to another crayon, or by taking 10 crayons and removing 8 of them. That doesn't stop me from comparing these 2s.