KerrAvon

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541.
by KerrAvon 2y ago
You too may be laughed out of court, then. IANAL, but your feelings aren't the law.
542.
by KerrAvon 2y ago
We don't have to speculate on his motivations. He's literally bankrolling a competitor.
543.
by KerrAvon 2y ago
In the consumer space, I'm not sure I can think of any examples from anyone ever that are examples of cutting-edge research at the time. It's hard to build consumer products on the bleeding edge. You'd be releasing phones tod
544.
by KerrAvon 2y ago
You're missing Apple Silicon, which has had a huge impact across the entire industry even if random soccer dad doesn't know about it -- if any one thing is responsible for Intel's marketshare collapsing in the future, the M s
545.
by KerrAvon 2y ago
None of these really fit the pattern. Apple invented FireWire, called it FireWire, and other companies chose to call it different things in their implementations (partly because Apple originally charged for licensing the name, IIRC). iSight
546.
by KerrAvon 2y ago
If it's bad enough that you need to bring your own model, (a) Apple is toast, because this is, to some extent, the future; (b) you're hosed, because you can't optimize for battery life as well as Apple can.
547.
by KerrAvon 2y ago
Consolidating everything on VAX might have been logical from a software support standpoint, but I increasingly think it was a serious mistake for DEC to not put out a faster PDP-10 variant in the early 80's. It might not have been huge
548.
by KerrAvon 2y ago
This part is factually incorrect: > The easiest way to set that standard wasn’t just to sell machines; it was to let other companies sell parts, software, and even whole computers that would be compatible with your machine. Unlike all of
549.
by KerrAvon 2y ago
Seriously, your response to this is "I don't use the product. The product doesn't seem any different to me under new ownership." Do you not see the inherent contradiction?
550.
by KerrAvon 2y ago
P U S S Y I N B I O
551.
by KerrAvon 2y ago
If we must make tortured analogies, PE is cancer, not bacteria.
552.
by KerrAvon 2y ago
Pro tip: If you don't connect your LG TV to the internet, it doesn't display ads. Get an Apple TV and you'll be able to stream everything and never see ads from the streaming box itself again. It does make receiver-based setu
553.
by KerrAvon 2y ago
It wasn’t intentional sabotage. (a) MS expected to make money on the Mac, and did for many years with Word and Excel (well before they were bundled into Office), among others. The best versions of Excel and Word were on the Mac for a long t
554.
by KerrAvon 2y ago
I think the idea here is that AI will teach, like in the Asimov story “The Fun They Had” (IIRC). (Not endorsing.)
555.
by KerrAvon 2y ago
Haven’t read through it in enough detail yet to fully understand the language changes, but the authors are absolutely correct on some basic background that other folks don’t always understand: > Memory-safe languages are predicated on a
556.
by KerrAvon 2y ago
Did Amiga use flash memory with a limited number of write cycles for storage?
557.
by KerrAvon 2y ago
why lawsuit?
558.
by KerrAvon 2y ago
tl;dr: let’s replace this arbitrary set of numbers with an arbitrary set of words. Everyone loves rote memorization, but only for words, not numbers
559.
by KerrAvon 2y ago
Yes. There was at one point a software hack for Macs where you could plug a FireWire cable between two of them and write directly from one of them to the video output of the other.
560.
by KerrAvon 2y ago
That used to be the advice. But it doesn't fly anymore when your OS is running on an easily-stolen device like a phone.
561.
by KerrAvon 2y ago
Marc Andreessen also wants you to be heterosexual, cisgender but don't say it or it's a slur, and to be able to say the N-word with wild abandon.
562.
by KerrAvon 2y ago
We need to remember that everyone -- not just Motorola -- thought CISC was a dead-end by the late 1980's. Even Intel! And we also need to acknowledge that everyone was RIGHT! Intel ultimately threw billions into keeping x86 competitive
563.
by KerrAvon 2y ago
Anyone who thinks C is simple is just aiming the gun at their foot. If you want simple, you want something like Scheme.
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by KerrAvon 2y ago
No, you’re going to see insurance become more expensive and/or more difficult to get if you’re in an affected area. Some have stopped writing policies in Florida and California, for different reasons, but both climate change-related. (
565.
by KerrAvon 2y ago
Get yourself a copy of “Linkers and Loaders” — https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/519563 . Explains the history of it all.
566.
by KerrAvon 2y ago
It’s more complex than that in practice. You need to support variable length arrays, which means you need to pass length information with the pointer, which doubles the size of array arguments. And that has ripple effects; you can’t do that
567.
by KerrAvon 2y ago
Tangent, but this new YouTube design where the entire landing page is an ad and you don’t see even the title of the video is awful. I hope at some point they stop enshittifying things, but I don’t know how that happens without government re
568.
by KerrAvon 2y ago
SIGHUP and SIGINT have no CPU-level equivalent.
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by KerrAvon 2y ago
Mastodon has fixed their onboarding process (a bit late) to be much more user friendly. > if your interests include trans rights, furry porn, or romance authors, Bluesky's definitely the place for you. Same could be said for Mastodo
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by KerrAvon 2y ago
There are a lot of people who would disagree with that. BlueSky already has better mod tools than Twitter circa 2014 did. Musk’s transformation may have made it exponentially worse, but for some people it was already very bad.

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