Andrex

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by Andrex 7mo ago
Maybe Stallman had something of a point...
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by Andrex 7mo ago
I was partial to Micro$haft.
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by Andrex 7mo ago
"Installations of new Windows OS tied to pink-eye outbreak nationwide"
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by Andrex 7mo ago
We should start this process early and all start sending our fecal samples to MS headquarters.
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by Andrex 7mo ago
I was more wondering about these emperors, kings, barbarians, and those in their influence who were casting aspersions at Athens. Why are we giving these historically incorrect people the time of day?
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by Andrex 7mo ago
I wonder who those critics were and what they were motivated by. (Rhetorical)
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by Andrex 7mo ago
Maybe most of that is floating between them and nVidia back and forth.
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by Andrex 8mo ago
In high school I tried spec'ing a lang that excluded shift key usage... fun times.
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by Andrex 8mo ago
The dissent seems to be "Ignoring whether or not the President acted lawfully, it would sure create an awful big mess if we undid it. And he's gonna try again anyways, and maybe even succeed in that future attempt, creating an eve
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by Andrex 8mo ago
Snippets were already getting Google in legal hot water (with Yelp in the US and news agencies in Australia in particular IIRC) long before LLMs and AI scraping. It's a debatable gray area of Fair Use growing out of early rulings on DM
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by Andrex 8mo ago
LinkedIn and GitHub, hmm. Wonder if there's a common thread...
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by Andrex 8mo ago
You could say the original author has enjoyed some post-morgem clarity.
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by Andrex 8mo ago
One of the most insightful HN comments I've read in years. Thank you! I'm curious about what you've read and are reading.
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by Andrex 8mo ago
Taking it further, imagine a traditional desktop OS but it generates your programs on the fly. Google's weird AI browser project is kind of a step in this direction. Instead of starting with a list of programs and services and customiz
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by Andrex 8mo ago
Wild, potentially stupid thought: why couldn't a terminal let users supply a user.css like browsers? They'd only have to support the small subset of text styles.
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by Andrex 8mo ago
The other people aren't real unless I'm forced to acknowledge their existence, often through violent but avoidable means.
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by Andrex 8mo ago
OK, I didn't know about this. This is cool.
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by Andrex 8mo ago
I guess it's hard to stop my originalist tendencies from boiling over into other topics... What you're saying to me is like someone saying, well, if the piano had more octaves then existing compositions would have been better. But
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by Andrex 8mo ago
Sony made the SNES sound chip, and the GBA was power-constrained by AA batteries. Those are the two biggest reasons I can think of just off the top of my head.
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by Andrex 8mo ago
The idea that sound designers on old games were totally siloed and ignorant of how their compositions would sound on final consumer hardware is completely wrong. Most of these composers were programmers themselves and knew exactly how to ge
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by Andrex 8mo ago
Imagining how sharp and crisp those pixels must have been at that size... Oh man. If it wasn't so late I'd calculate how big (in inches) an individual pixel is at that size.
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by Andrex 8mo ago
Very weird it happened twice! But that's a kind of a cool factoid to tell people haha. Even with devs and publishers that don't die or are killed, they still lay hundreds off when a game is done. Then the studio limps along in pre
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by Andrex 8mo ago
Wasn't the last one even caused by Azure? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46861842
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by Andrex 8mo ago
Things don't always ramp up after 2-4 years. Sometimes MS just kills the project or company after that period of time. See also their moves in the gaming industry.
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by Andrex 8mo ago
I did have the thought that the SCOTUS ruling against Oracle slightly opened the door to code not being copyrightable (they deliberately tap-danced around the issue). Maybe that's the future: all code is plumbing; no art, no creative i
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by Andrex 8mo ago
We're gonna enter a new age/type of "lost media" as Discord remains popular year over year. It's a complete black hole unless you're manually backing things up. No possible Wayback Machine.
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by Andrex 8mo ago
> The core language of Java is actually super simple, like C. Not being facetious, but couldn't you say that about almost any language? What makes you say it about Java?
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by Andrex 8mo ago
No, it's known as vertical integration, which is legally permitted by default.
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by Andrex 8mo ago
AMP was a good technical solution for a short window of time, deliberately tanked by confusing/centralized stewardship. They kept opening it more and more but by then it was too late.
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by Andrex 8mo ago
They ran it through Copilot which gave it the all-clear.

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