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by KerrAvon 3y ago
Is this a response to some specific set of proposals? I know there's been a lot of general angst / misunderstanding over C++ memory safety.
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by KerrAvon 3y ago
Article's paywalled, so apologies if this is out of context, but it seems like a legit point in this case. From the 1950's through the 90's IBM was familiar to consumers. You'd probably have used multiple IBM products at
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by KerrAvon 3y ago
Have you looked at a Pentagon budget lately? It's entirely welfare for defense contractors.
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by KerrAvon 3y ago
I’ve been pretty impressed with the Bolt for the price. It’s a shame the next generation one won’t be on my list due to lack of CarPlay.
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by KerrAvon 3y ago
All car infotainment systems are essentially garbage. But BMW and Porsche both have excellent CarPlay support.
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by KerrAvon 3y ago
Pooh as a concept is already in the public domain. Disney's rendition of Pooh doesn't happen until I think sometime in the 1960's, so it'll be a while.
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by KerrAvon 3y ago
Cell-based internet in the US often doesn't work well in practice -- cell coverage tends to be incredibly spotty away from major roads. In populated areas, enough people are irrationally frightened of cell radiation to NIMBY additional
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by KerrAvon 3y ago
Apple needs better critics. Senator Warren would be a lot more effective if she or her staff understood how technology actually works. Senator Markey is another person who cares about this stuff but is also incompetent to regulate it.
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by KerrAvon 3y ago
Giving your Apple ID to a third party is an incredibly bad idea for your security, full stop. Do not ever do this. Any argument that this helps user security because your messages are now E2E is completely undermined by the risk to your ide
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by KerrAvon 3y ago
Interesting. The seminal personal computer history book __Fire in the Valley__ blames IMSAI’s downfall on EST. Basically substituting wishcasting for business sense.
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by KerrAvon 3y ago
> I am reasonably sure that their main driver is profit which really means exploitation of people; What phone do you use that does not have the same issue?
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by KerrAvon 3y ago
But this is the case to some extent for all of the extremely wealthy. Musk doesn't have billions lying around in a Scrooge McDuck vault somewhere; it's mostly on paper.
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by KerrAvon 3y ago
Message passing in some form dates from at least as far back as the 1970's, possibly the late 60's. Generally, BSDs were influenced by Mach to the extent that they've adopted some microkernel ideas. I'd be surprised to l
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by KerrAvon 3y ago
Rhapsody was an unholy mix of NeXTstep implementation with a bastardized version of Apple's Platinum theme, which wasn't designed to support NeXT's UI and display technologies. Steve hated it and continued to use OpenStep on
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by KerrAvon 3y ago
No, they didn't. They figured out a workaround. Since they didn't find the root cause of the problem themselves and apparently didn't take it up with the Chrome or Grammarly development teams, they don't actually know wh
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by KerrAvon 3y ago
I'm not sure about that. The Unixes that the book complains about have been completely out to pasture for a couple of decades. NeXT existed at the time and was specifically excluded.
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by KerrAvon 3y ago
the linked website seems completely unusable for me in Safari
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by KerrAvon 3y ago
The core of UltimateGuitar is the content from OLGA, which is why this particular enshittification is so ludicrous.
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by KerrAvon 3y ago
Second "Pentium Chronicles." It can be a slog in parts if you're not _really_ into silicon validation, but the anecdotes are worth it.
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by KerrAvon 3y ago
I think the poster (maybe someone’s AI experiment?) is on a tangent about replacing the standard Apple ROMs with your own versions? That wasn’t really a thing, but it wasn’t illegal either. What was illegal was copying Apple’s ROM code to s
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by KerrAvon 3y ago
> slow but have you tried bitbucket? Omfg is it slow
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by KerrAvon 3y ago
Phabricator was awful. It loaded commit messages with irrelevant boilerplate and allowed people to post patches that you couldn’t build for testing because they were just diffs and not actual branches in the repo. Not sad to see it go.
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by KerrAvon 3y ago
There was no significant uptake on any letter at Apple. One reason is that retaliation is very possible. The opacity of the executive team was not a feature of Steve Jobs’s Apple, but the Time Cook-era opaqueness combines poorly withthe si
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by KerrAvon 3y ago
No, the failures at NeXT weren’t due to a lack of money or personnel. He took the people he wanted to take (and who were willing to come with him).
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by KerrAvon 3y ago
He would have been almost immediately fired for insubordination. Jobs needed the wilderness years.
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by KerrAvon 3y ago
You’re missing a lot of context. Try here for starters: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/05/elon-musk-...
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by KerrAvon 3y ago
Everyone is still laughing at Tesla for their vision-only approach.
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by KerrAvon 3y ago
What’s Waymo’s path to profitability?
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by KerrAvon 3y ago
A typeface designed for programming should have _very_ visually distinct bracket and parentheses {([])} characters. Intel’s new typeface and the GitHub family that was just released both do this very well. I’d advise the Victor Mono author
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by KerrAvon 3y ago
Keep in mind the Apple II was designed in 1977 by a cash-strapped college dropout from off-the-shelf parts. Fast RAM for video didn’t exist. Classic Apple multimedia parsimony was a thing, but it came later.

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