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by II2II 2y ago
> The rise of the touchscreens are an accident. Because MBAs believe iPhone == touch == good. Which they are, given the application. It also goes beyond size and cost. How long will those tactile buttons last, particularly given that the
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by II2II 2y ago
Even though I miss using boolean operators in search, I doubt that it was ever sustainable outside of specialized search engines. Very few people seem to think in those terms. Many of those who do would still have difficulty forming complex
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by II2II 2y ago
A few things to consider here: - This is an abnormal case. Most hardware will work with in-tree drivers. Indeed, few vendors provide out-of-tree drivers for Linux. - Nvidia is an established and reputable source. We aren't talking abou
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by II2II 2y ago
A lot of that depends upon the government in question. Some want publicly funded news organizations at arms length. Others want to dismantle them. Some want at least the image of impartiality (and will take some criticism). Others want them
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by II2II 2y ago
The article provides insufficent data to answer any of those questions, since "don't know" or "undecided" are frequently options in such surveys. Yet they do provide sufficient information for the headline. AI integ
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by II2II 2y ago
It would have been a very different place. In the IBM compatible world, the clones drove down the price then drove forward progress. It is doubtful that much of a clone market would develop in the Amiga/Atari world since the parent com
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by II2II 2y ago
Funny thing is, Apple probably thought the iPod would be a niche product that would only appeal to existing Apple customers when they developed it. If they did not take the risk, they probably wouldn't exist today. While I don't t
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by II2II 2y ago
Oddly enough, the information is just as available to businesses today yet it is less available to individuals. The digital databases have existed for decades. Certainly longer than the Internet as a publicly accessible network. Yet the pho
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by II2II 2y ago
I recall an article comparing CO2 emissions of private jets verses commercial airlines a couple of years back. A bunch of assumptions were made, but the rough figure was five times higher per passenger mile. When you consider that people wh
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by II2II 2y ago
That really depends upon the context. Many learn electronics in a classroom environment. Even for those who learn electronics independently, it has been possible to get new oscilloscopes that work at audio frequencies for well under $100 fo
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by II2II 2y ago
Plenty of people are commenting on how modern microcontrollers are better than the 555. I agree, with a caveat: the 555 is a great learning tool. It is complex enough to be interesting, yet simple enough to be well understood. It is easy to
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by II2II 2y ago
> most software already assumes 8 bit == byte in subtle ways all over the place Which is the real reason why 8-bits should be adopted as the standard byte size. I didn't even realize that the byte was defined as anything other than
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by II2II 2y ago
I realize that there are bad Androids out there and the abundance of choice makes it difficult to sift through the good and the bad, but there are good Android phones out there in the $200-$300 USD range. My current phone is a bit over thre
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by II2II 2y ago
While it may be a staple of human society, I have always found the levels of alcohol consumption that are portrayed as normal in the media as excessive. Even when the alcohol consumption is being portrayed as problematic, it is often treate
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by II2II 2y ago
To be fair, those who go sober likely did so because alcohol was having a negative impact to start with. (Simply using the word sober in that context implies that drinking was a problem to start with. Otherwise people typically say that the
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by II2II 2y ago
One reason: to keep games off of your productivity machine. I have a modern laptop and desktop, so I simply do work on the laptop and play on the desktop. Not everyone has that option. It's also possible to have an old unused laptop wi
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by II2II 2y ago
There are a few reasons to go the route mentioned in the article: - You may want to run more recent games. The 10 year old laptop, particularly one with a dedicated GPU and a lot of RAM, will even run some current games. - There seems to
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by II2II 2y ago
I have heard of alternative game launchers that will take care of launching Windows games (including GOG titles) under Linux. But I usually just end up purchasing Linux games through GOG and Windows games through Steam.
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by II2II 2y ago
If a vendor says that you bought something in the big print, then claims that you acutally paid for a revokable license in the small print, then I (personally) don't have much of a problem with someone pirating a copy to maintain acces
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by II2II 2y ago
Then download the individual game installers. I understand that there is some convenience to the GOG client but, if memory serves me correctly, you have to configure the client to keep the installers. If you do not keep the game installers,
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by II2II 2y ago
In some respects, a modern mobile phone has more in common with minicomputers than minicomputers had with computers before keyboards and file systems. Being able to interact with computers in a meaningful way transformed computers from prog
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by II2II 2y ago
Cripes, that sounds creepy and exploitive. I'm pretty sure it would have raised more than a few red flags in my mind, even as a teenager about to head off to college. (Granted, I was a wee bit uptight at that age.)
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by II2II 2y ago
> This raises an interesting question: should email addresses be private? Addresses of buildings aren't private, and they're somewhat analogous as with many computing concepts. There are several ways to look at that. The organi
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by II2II 2y ago
I don't know what the situation is like in the US, but I was shocked to discover that there are no AM stations in my part of Canada. It is cool in tje sense that I can direct my antenna and pick up stations in Newfoundland and New York
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by II2II 2y ago
You're certainly correct about learning from each other, but I think it went beyond the cross-pollination of ideas. I took several higher level courses in other departments that were intended for majors in the other department, yet att
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by II2II 2y ago
Never underestimate how confused people can get with the unfamiliar. I live a couple of blocks from a fairly standard roundabout and see people trying to exit the roundabout through an entrance to the roundabout or try to go clockwise in th
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by II2II 2y ago
> I wish more CS curricula would start with digital logic and stay there for a little longer before going into the full stored-program computer. That used to be the norm. I remember sneaking[1] into a few of those courses during universi
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by II2II 2y ago
I agree with your points, heck even the classic Macintosh operating system exposed interfaces for end user programmability, but I think the article's author was illustrating that this is much closer to the norm for Unix based operating
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by II2II 2y ago
In some cases, the question is: what are sane defaults? Take emacs or vim. I know a lot of people use them as code editors, and think of them as code editors, but they are really general purpose text editors. It is going to be next to impos
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by II2II 2y ago
> Seems insane to assume that but we see it in tech all the time where someone unknowingly spends a ton of money on reinventing something that already exists. There are a couple of reasons for that. The most obvious is that they did not

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