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by II2II 3mo ago
We need to be careful with our comparisons here. Even though the Disk ][ was significantly faster than the 4040, the 4040 was significantly faster than the 1541. Apparently the difference was largely due to a bug in the controller used for
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by II2II 3mo ago
The trouble with that is you cannot operate a business where you pay your suppliers for a product then give everything away. I am saying that as a reflection of reality, not to absolve Sony. Someone at Sony must have understood that their l
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by II2II 3mo ago
> They must feel free to do as they please since they know consumers are trapped. My take is somewhat difference: Sony is offloading the cost of their prior decisions onto consumers. For things like movies, they should have negotiated a
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by II2II 3mo ago
I'm sorta in the same boat there. There are plenty of people willing to give their work away, sell it DRM free, or sell it at a lower cost (offsetting the fact it is licensed). Plus you have things like libraries and the public domain.
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by II2II 3mo ago
> The problem is that its unethical The article is basically a list of examples of how companies that offer legal options often use unethical business practices (sometimes to the point where they should be illegal). I don't agree wi
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by II2II 3mo ago
The thing is, those dealers can end up in jail for selling drugs. More to the point, if a kid walked into a convenience store and the clerk sold them a pack of cigarettes, the clerk wouldn't get off the hook by claiming, "well, th
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by II2II 3mo ago
Every time I see something interesting about nuclear power, comments like this pop up. Which makes me skittish. We need responsible growth. We need to acknowledge that there is no magic bullet for power generation, just managed risks. We ne
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by II2II 3mo ago
> Companies are increasingly filtering resumes/candidates in a sufficiently aggressive fashion to the point that they're strongly incentivizing, if not actively selecting for, people that are gaming the system in some way or an
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by II2II 3mo ago
If it is a formal policy of the store, then it's a different story. They could also manage it in a way to minimize costs. That said, I have run into people who are proud of "discovering" the lifehack version.
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by II2II 3mo ago
> I don't go to libraries very often anymore because so often they're effectively homeless shelters. If someone doesn't go to the library because of homeless people, the problem is with the person who doesn't go to th
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by II2II 3mo ago
While I understand some people think this is clever, all it does is increase costs for businesses which ends up increasing costs for honest consumers. Worse yet: it tends to increase the cost for local businesses, or at least businesses emp
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by II2II 4mo ago
> I swear the anti-AI crowd would all be picking to die if you each had a choice between immortality and living to 85. It really depends on the cost of immortality. At the very least, it would have a psychological impact that some people
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by II2II 4mo ago
The article seems to be fairly clear about this: it is Google focusing on Google phones (so unlocking the bootloader should not be an issue) and they did mention that the kernel would have to be replaced (albeit for other reasons). I would
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by II2II 4mo ago
Manned missions would still have constraints. In some cases, they would be far greater (e.g. due to the necessity of keeping the astronauts alive). Where there are fewer constraints, it would be intertwined with the cost of sending people t
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by II2II 4mo ago
Different people are going to have different experiences, based on what they had and what they used it for. If you've ever used a 68000 based Macintosh, you were limited to 4 MB RAM and 1 MB seems to have been more typical. It's i
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by II2II 4mo ago
If I recall correctly, for Commodores, the equivalent of the disk operating system was handled by the drive itself. If you wanted to do anything beyond a LOAD or a SAVE, you were effectively opening the device then sending a command to the
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by II2II 4mo ago
It doesn't always work that way. A personal example: I don't drive. I use public transit a couple of times a year. I am in private cars maybe once every two year. I haven't flown in about 15 years. Clearly this is a contrived
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by II2II 4mo ago
Wouldn't it depend upon context? If it is an emergency, it is a voice call. It is both immediate and conveys urgency. If it is something that you need to talk through, it is a scheduled voice call. Asynchronous communications may demon
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by II2II 4mo ago
Early on, sure. I seem to recall Apple having their Human Interface Guidelines early on, which helped, yet there were developers who were either unaware of them or experimenting with different ideas. Other platforms tried to improve consist
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by II2II 4mo ago
If you're talking about the modified web pages, then disabling the licenses is intentional. If you're talking about the original decision to use certificates around 2019, it is more doubtful. Sure, they would have known the certif
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by II2II 4mo ago
Assuming the Mac folks had no interest in converging the platform in favour of the Lisa is somewhat unfair. While it sounds like some code was shared between the two platforms, the Lisa's operating system was quite different. It woul
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by II2II 4mo ago
> The Canon Cat is a good text editor. That's about all it does. Everything I've read suggested that Raskin intended it to be programmable from the beginning, using Forth. Other descriptions suggested that, while document orien
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by II2II 4mo ago
The corrections may not amount to much, but there is no reason to believe that his version would be a failed experiment like the Apple III or the Lisa would have taken it's place. Part of the magic of the Macintosh was the simplicity o
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by II2II 4mo ago
There are various reasons to avoid a fork. Having the resources to maintain such a site, spreading resources thin, and moving over or rebuilding a community of trusted editors are among them. That said, I am one of the people who downloaded
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by II2II 4mo ago
> I attribute people returning AI answers to a desire to feel valued and to feel that they contribute something to the person asking the question. At least with the example in the article (with the ChatGPT screenshots), I don't thin
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by II2II 4mo ago
With free trials, I can understand revoking the benefits once the subscription has been canceled. While I can understand the consumer's perspective of not wanting to be billed for future months (say if they forgot to cancel), free tria
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by II2II 4mo ago
Imagine, perhaps. Stepping up and doing it, that's more difficult. Then consider this scenario: two young men taking in a child when they did not have financial or social security. I'm not sure what the situation was like for gay
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by II2II 4mo ago
When editions changed and problems were assigned from the books, most of the profs at my university would gladly provide copies of the updated questions. I even had a course where students would bring in photocopies of the prof's textb
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by II2II 5mo ago
I could live with Mars attacks. The portrayal of Colossus' inhumanity was unbearably sadistic. I can understand why it was never made into a movie.
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by II2II 5mo ago
I have a tendency to tote around a trackball since I cannot stand using a trackpad for extended periods. I would imagine there are people who think similarly, but would want to use something more compact.

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