KerrAvon

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by KerrAvon 3y ago
The nostalgia for Win95 is sick, honestly. If you want to use a really good unstable mid-90's OS, classic Mac OS is right there.
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by KerrAvon 3y ago
There would be an easy fix: pressure Tim Cook to increase the US-manufactured content of iPhones. Trump actually did a version of this with some success; it was the version of the Mac Pro nobody wanted, because Trump has the reverse Midas t
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by KerrAvon 3y ago
Also important for leadership is being a thin-skinned an emerald mine scion who believes in astonishingly racist tropes.
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by KerrAvon 3y ago
He does not understand them. You’ve fallen for his PR, I’m afraid.
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by KerrAvon 3y ago
> the reason the iPhone succeeded is because a lot of people gave apple the benefit of the doubt No. Maybe you're too young to remember, but the iPhone was a revelation at the time. It was clear that everything that had come before
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by KerrAvon 3y ago
I’m a subscriber and I’d be happy to read as much of that as you want to write. There’s not that much biographical or technical history coverage of Control Data and Cray other than what’s in the not-very-technical Supermen book and anecdote
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by KerrAvon 3y ago
Nope. Marathon was higher resolution than Doom and it ran on 68020 Macs. Nothing to do with processor architecture.
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by KerrAvon 3y ago
No, the 68k lineup was competitive or better with x86 for the entire duration of Amiga’s viable lifetime. Apple’s troubles came later, after they had already successfully transitioned to PowerPC.
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by KerrAvon 3y ago
The 68k architecture still had some runway by the time Commodore’s fate was sealed, though. Commodore really needed to be taping out the next generation chipset no later than 1990, and arguably 1988 would have been better.
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by KerrAvon 3y ago
Yes! What killed the Amiga was that Commodore effectively stopped R&D on the chips in the mid-1980’s, and by the time they restarted they had already lost too much time. (It’s possible to argue Steve Jobs was right when he dismissed the
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by KerrAvon 3y ago
Yes; we need to address regulatory capture. That can be done. Saying ‘better things aren’t possible’ isn’t the solution.
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by KerrAvon 3y ago
The point is that fiber penetration is still nowhere near copper/POTS penetration in the US. Not even close, despite decades of subsidies and tax breaks to the telcos to make universal fiber a reality.
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by KerrAvon 3y ago
Sonic is phasing out their DSL offerings.
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by KerrAvon 3y ago
Nope, you can’t the-free-market-will-fix-everything this one. The telco lobbyists wrote the government regulations. Wireless is slow and coverage is spotty. Satellite is unreliable, expensive, and has a fixed latency cost that can’t be elim
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by KerrAvon 3y ago
Were I a musician with control of my output, I’d sure as hell disallow Spotify streaming. Paying this dork $250M and me 3 cents for the same time period? Nope.
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by KerrAvon 3y ago
Cotton is a dumbfuck demagogue. All of the GOP senators are. They're looking for Fox News hits; they don't care about the actual issues in a hearing like this.
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by KerrAvon 3y ago
Yes, just before the iPhone came out and with Apple newly fully engaged as a major Intel CPU customer (for x86 Macs) for the first time ever. Kind of like Decca Records turning down The Beatles.
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by KerrAvon 3y ago
FWIW, production Roombas don't send pictures back to the mothership. The scandal was that pictures from development Roombas -- explicitly expected to be reviewed by humans -- leaked.
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by KerrAvon 3y ago
Yes, assuming this isn't vaporware. They're supposed to start shipping in March. https://maticrobots.com Edited to add this quote from the website: Matic's intelligence is localized on the device, and it never sen
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by KerrAvon 3y ago
Who’s going to pay for that?
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by KerrAvon 3y ago
I really need SF to stop sending idiots to the state senate.
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by KerrAvon 3y ago
I’m not following your logic. How does the malicious-but-unprivileged user have write access to anywhere in the sysadmin’s PATH?
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by KerrAvon 3y ago
“woke” is right-wing dogwhistle-speak for black.
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by KerrAvon 3y ago
You haven't actually read up on this. They're still using Apple infrastructure, because Apple is still providing some security guarantees and the ability to revoke malware. This isn't totally free ride on Apple hardware. You
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by KerrAvon 3y ago
have you verified that they don't?
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by KerrAvon 3y ago
From the developer perspective, that is a big component of store quality.
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by KerrAvon 3y ago
Pro Tip: if you buy an LG OLED and never connect it to the internet, you have the best of both worlds: beautiful picture and no smart features / ads.
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by KerrAvon 3y ago
Lisp should be able to do much better than Electron. It could support a really nice take on declarative UI like SwiftUI, where it's abstract enough to be platform native on multiple platforms, but allows for specialization where needed
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by KerrAvon 3y ago
GM's move isn't about differentiation, it's about more money (no, differentiation alone doesn't == more money). They think they can charge for subscriptions. (They are delusional.)
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by KerrAvon 3y ago
This isn't a streaming box, though. Those services are nice to haves, but not necessary for success.

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