HerbManic

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by HerbManic 4mo ago
I think it is a mix of both. Grey scale reduces the vividness of everything, but also none of these apps are really designed with grey scale in mind. Greyscale can be very cool and easy to use if built for it. Just look at Mac's before
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by HerbManic 4mo ago
When Covid started, our local government was very clear from the start in saying "If people think we have over reacted, then that means we have done a good job." Alas, that doesn't always fly with the populace.
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by HerbManic 4mo ago
Just remember, the power grid fails in theory but works in practice.
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by HerbManic 4mo ago
I have said it for decades - Basic is easy, Simple is hard. But when someone comes up with something simple but effective, it always looks so obvious in retrospect.
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by HerbManic 4mo ago
This thinking eventually results in The Scream Test. When the screams come as a system fails that is when they act on it. Alas, for many parts of society there is a large amount of people that would rather be reactive than proactive. It mea
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by HerbManic 4mo ago
With a Voodoo I assume you could get it up to 30fps fairly comfortably but they still weren't the most common back then. Still remember the concern when Quake 3 would require a GPU as they were not entirely ubiquitous then. It was the
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by HerbManic 4mo ago
Yeah, I get why people want it to be smooth but when you hear somethings I do wonder if folks could be a little more patient. "My game froze for 100ms on a one time shader compilation dropping... totally unplayable!" I get it, sha
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by HerbManic 4mo ago
I did the same, I do wonder if it holds up as well as my memory remembers. Probably not. Like I remember Doom running fine on my 486 SX 25Mhz, but looking back at it now, it wasn't that great. It took a top end Pentium to really get it
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by HerbManic 4mo ago
I have said it for a while, Microsoft's business strategy was probably the best thing that ever happened to Free/Open software. They were ones pushing for more open systems so that they could sell DOS and Windows to other vendors.
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by HerbManic 4mo ago
The best thing you can do is try to start this by your self. Yes it is hard but once you have even a vague demonstration of an idea that can be the launch pad to getting others in the fold. Linux started Linux by himself, then others came a
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by HerbManic 4mo ago
Been said many times, this is for stationary batteries and it is a great idea. If it doesn't need to move, weight and energy density become practically irrelevant. Cost and charge cycles become much bigger issues and these alternative
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by HerbManic 4mo ago
Mac Nugget. Mac-aroon. SnackBook.
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by HerbManic 4mo ago
I saw a talk about a year back with them arguing that things like N150 platforms are probably a better choice than Pi based machines. Came down to, wide software support with x86, higher performance, UEFI, secure boot and storage standards
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by HerbManic 4mo ago
A lot of things wouldn't even need a RP2350. The original Arduino alone was pretty slick for a lot of cool small scale projects.
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by HerbManic 4mo ago
I would consider Jak 3 to be even better than that BUT the darker art direction really hid a lot of what it was doing. Shame really.
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by HerbManic 4mo ago
I would be more conserned with the laser motor wearing out. That is what killed my Dreamcast. The laser was fine but the motor to move it just gave up from too much use.
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by HerbManic 4mo ago
I find it so funny that somethings coded can crumble if a single bit is out of place, and others are like "No file there, no problem!"
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by HerbManic 4mo ago
Absolutely there are forks, they are what I run. But the majority of the work on the foundations still come primarily from Mozilla. My fear is that, let's say Mozilla falls or shrinks considerably. It would take only a few complex but
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by HerbManic 4mo ago
Just remember that Google is essentially an advertising company and that they were always going to squeeze this opening closed as soon as they could get away with it. I do fear for a future were even Firefox ends up caving in. Ladybird brow
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by HerbManic 4mo ago
I always found it really funny that PC's had these absolute monsters of CPU's relative to the consoles of the time but because of the graphics setup they struggled to do smooth scrolling like Mario on the NES in 1985. But that wea
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by HerbManic 4mo ago
The usual argument of correlation does not mean causation. I would say having the global economic system have a minor heart attack in 2007 would probably have had a larger direct economic impact.
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by HerbManic 4mo ago
As yes the Musk hand wave. We have done some cool things thus we get a pass on other things. I'm sure they can manage heat issues so long as the scale of these satellites are very modest.
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by HerbManic 4mo ago
I am somewhat hopeful for Terafab/Space X's silicon dreams. Google has shown with their TPu chips that there is great potential for stuff like this and having their kind of capital to also provide fabs makes this very fascinating.
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by HerbManic 4mo ago
I too believed Patrick Moore representing Monstanto when he said 'Round up' was safe to drink.
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by HerbManic 4mo ago
One of the stranger theories I have seen is that it is based on Astrology as there is a confluence of Uranus squaring the lunar nodes... whatever that means. There is a saying supposedly attributed to JP Morgan (but not likely) "Millio
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by HerbManic 4mo ago
Pretty much. Many people ignored Brexit because they basically thought it would never get through until it crawled through with a tiny margin. Do not get complacent, once that happens this stuff can quietly grow very fast and suddenly happe
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by HerbManic 4mo ago
I'm not sure if they would be bailed out. The government tends to help with bank bailouts as they are essentially the hemoglobin of the economy, I see this being more like the dot-com bubble were they will just let it fall and have the
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by HerbManic 4mo ago
I like Ed's sense of humor, I also like that he can distill down a lot of messy details into something more cogent, especially with the money side. But, I also think he has missed the mark on a fair few things in terms of out comes. He
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by HerbManic 4mo ago
Pretty much, we don't know what Steve would have done and even if we did, there is no guarantee that it was a good idea. When he had hits, it was brilliant but there were many stinkers as well. I suspect if Steve was doing a new intern
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by HerbManic 5mo ago
This is one of those thing, yes that is a true statement but what do you do with that information? Would you be willing to make that call? Looks like the trolley problem in action.

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