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by KerrAvon 3y ago
Millennials in America apparently actually like the monotone look; it’s not just the resale thing. The process of making the house more bland for resale used to be called ‘beige-ing‘ by realtors (estate agents?) in the US; it’s not new, but
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by KerrAvon 3y ago
Some good discussion of that on The BBC BASIC wiki entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_BASIC (paragraph beginning "Due to a number of optimizations[…]".
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by KerrAvon 3y ago
The two classes of people who broadly buy Android phones are techies (“I want to root my phone”) / politicos (“software freedom! walled gardens! it’s GNU /Linux actually”) and committed cheapskates (“close enough to an iPhone for
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by KerrAvon 3y ago
you need to read up on the history of those regulations. Hint: chesterton’s fence
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by KerrAvon 3y ago
Your context is that US manufacturing was uncompetitive by the early 1970’s? Gonna need to back that one up.
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by KerrAvon 3y ago
based on the audio Techmoan has posted, “not great” is probably an understatement. “fair” to “poor” is what it sounds like.
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by KerrAvon 3y ago
Expected behavior.
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by KerrAvon 3y ago
I wonder what might have been if MOS had shipped a 16-bit 6502 in 1980 instead of WDC shipping one in 1985.
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by KerrAvon 3y ago
Gentle reminder that The Oatmeal is not a reliable source for such information. Dude is far too credulous.
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by KerrAvon 3y ago
(I think conflating JavaScript and Flash with HyperCard is a mistake.)
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by KerrAvon 3y ago
That’s not why it didn’t happen. The Web took off in 1995; Google was the first really good web search facility, and it arrived in 1998. There were earlier ones (I remember using AltaVista), but generally if you wanted to find things before
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by KerrAvon 3y ago
PE is notorious for buying firms with debt and then driving them into bankruptcy by loading them with that debt. It’s the only thing they’re notable for. They’ve essentially killed all traditional US brick and mortar retail — it wasn’t Amaz
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by KerrAvon 3y ago
Terrifying Musk, I imagine. They can shut down or sabotage his ventures in China in a heartbeat if they choose.
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by KerrAvon 3y ago
Sure, but that was intentional: the assumption was that you had already learned C. Objective-C is a great language if you know C and you want a SmallTalk-style message dispatch runtime. It was better before ObjC 2.0; dot syntax makes it har
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by KerrAvon 3y ago
You are almost certainly safer on a 737 MAX than in a car, but that’s a low bar met easily by any modern commercial aircraft.
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by KerrAvon 3y ago
Duolingo is basically the app equivalent of flashcards. It's a little smarter than that, but not much. If you're serious about learning a language, it absolutely has a place. But Duolingo __alone__ is not going to make you compete
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by KerrAvon 3y ago
If you use a trackpad, you can use the scale gesture (pinch-to-zoom, but outwards) to increase the magnification of most web pages. Very useful for those of us past age 40. On iOS, you can also use the same gesture directly on the screen.
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by KerrAvon 3y ago
You’re likely right. Anecdotally: I don’t recall anyone actually using Windows 3.0 as anything other than a temporary runtime for, like, DTP apps, which was also how Windows 2.0 had been used much of the time. Otherwise, they’d be in DOS. W
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by KerrAvon 3y ago
No, it wasn’t a brain drain issue. Apple didn’t hire many PARC engineers; one or two, maybe a few more. Microsoft also hired some PARC folks.
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by KerrAvon 3y ago
There are multiple versions of mainframe Zork available on GitHub. See https://eblong.com/infocom/#zorkmdl for this and everything else Infocom.
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by KerrAvon 3y ago
Yes, it's very rare that something is actually unavailable. You can even use things like `sysctlbyname` in Swift without writing C.
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by KerrAvon 3y ago
Yup; 2015 was not the right time to move to Swift for most people. If I started a new app today, I'd use Swift -- it's mature enough. But in 2015 and for a long time after, it wasn't really a good option unless you wanted to
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by KerrAvon 3y ago
I'm also puzzled by your statement about popovers; UIKit has supported them for a long, long time.
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by KerrAvon 3y ago
I wonder if the right way to sell this is really "CLI for CLI haters" -- if you really find the CLI scary/painful -- distinct from being frustrated with the typical Unix UI limitations -- this doesn't look any less scary
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by KerrAvon 3y ago
Tangent, but I find it illustrative that ChatGPT’s answer is strictly true but doesn’t actually answer the question.
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by KerrAvon 3y ago
Why not something like Sinatra so it’s easy to prototype and move on from there if it’s still not good enough? What you’re describing isn’t that complex and the base Ruby language is so much better than Go.
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by KerrAvon 3y ago
I know it’s a lot of trouble, but if you put them on your local Craigslist or freecycle type thing, someone is likely to want them.
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by KerrAvon 3y ago
There is technology for fast rapid mass transit: high-speed rail. Technology was never the issue here. Political will to fund, approve right-of-way, and build it was always the problem, and Musk never even tried to address that part.
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by KerrAvon 3y ago
being high on their own supply isn't a different story
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by KerrAvon 3y ago
It's not clear to me (the article is paywalled and I'm not giving Rupert Murdoch a fucking cent) how widespread these luxury dorms are -- I wouldn't trust WSJ to report accurately on this sort of thing -- but this kind of exp

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