KerrAvon

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931.
by KerrAvon 3y ago
I think that’s a myth. (a) the timing is wrong (b) The people who worked on the IIgs seem to think WDC couldn’t deliver enough of the faster 65816 parts to meet Apple’s volume, and that’s why they never shipped a faster IIgs.
932.
by KerrAvon 3y ago
Your questions don't make sense. LLVM is a framework for building compilers and tools. C is a language specification.
933.
by KerrAvon 3y ago
Your questions are not well founded. You're both asking for people to compare two things that aren't comparable _and_ you're admonishing people not to explain why they're not comparable.
934.
by KerrAvon 3y ago
Twitter has been slow since Musk took over and fired all of the competent devops people and then shut down most of the data centers. It's reasonable to assume that he's either been lied to or is lying about the cause of this.
935.
by KerrAvon 3y ago
Musk has also been deferential to catturd2 and banned journalists for imagined crimes.
936.
by KerrAvon 3y ago
It doesn't, though; this is a myth propagated by journalists, who are Twitter addicts and are the only reason it survived Musk's initial incompetence.
937.
by KerrAvon 3y ago
Asahi seems like a counterexample to your last point: you need incredibly deep knowledge of several technologies to do what they're doing.
938.
by KerrAvon 3y ago
You had a P4 mouse in 1982? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Mouse https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Logitech_products
939.
by KerrAvon 3y ago
has video, usb & ethernet. missing price & benchmarks, though
940.
by KerrAvon 3y ago
OMG, Paul Graham actually released Arc in some form? I thought he never finished it. I was going to make snarky comment about how between spez and PG, Lisp must actually be extended-release brain poison for people in executive management po
941.
by KerrAvon 3y ago
One takeaway should be: avoid credit card debt unless you’re really in dire straits. But also: while remote employment is the future, whether employers like it or not, it’ll continue to be bumpy as long as all the C-suite fuckheads idolize
942.
by KerrAvon 3y ago
just gonna leave this here: https://kbin.social
943.
by KerrAvon 3y ago
If I were on the board, I’d be engaged in discussion with my fellow board members right now about whether spez is demonstrating the temperament befitting a good CEO. Even if you think the shit coming out of his mouth to be the right attitud
944.
by KerrAvon 3y ago
I think you’re missing the point, which is that it’s the fault of the executives who created and incentivized that culture. Attack from another angle: if it’s the scale of their success that causes the issues, why doesn’t Apple have these p
945.
by KerrAvon 3y ago
The io_uring finding is the only novel tidbit.
946.
by KerrAvon 3y ago
What's insane is that it's not actually how they stay rich. They'd be rich anyway. Most humans could live very comfortably with only the interest from one of their cash holding accounts. It's just arbitrary cruelty to ot
947.
by KerrAvon 3y ago
Instant Pot just got knifed by PE. https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/12/23758602/instant-pot-bank... > The other reason it’s absolutely got to keep growing is that there are expectations placed upon it
948.
by KerrAvon 3y ago
No -- the companies in question aren't usually basket cases -- if they were, they wouldn't have the assets to make the PE takeover profitable in the first place. In most cases, they're growing at a fine, steady rate, or even
949.
by KerrAvon 3y ago
It's literally the legality of the strategy that enables the players to behave like assholes in this particular incredibly destructive way. The use of debt financing needs to be made illegal or have stronger constraints, for the health
950.
by KerrAvon 3y ago
It's not actually that different or complicated if you're already doing proportional plaintext rendering -- you need to store style attributes for a range of text, and you need to support different heights per line. The real compl
951.
by KerrAvon 3y ago
Moderation is actually your core challenge. Since you believe that it's something other than moderation, I don't think you are familiar with Masnick's moderation article. Anyone hoping to build a social site needs to read it.
952.
by KerrAvon 3y ago
I don't buy the criticism of Swift. Swift is not "Objective-C without the C". It's a new language with Objective-C runtime bits grafted on because they're necessary for the Apple ecosystem to transition to it. It&#x
953.
by KerrAvon 3y ago
depends on the compiler implementation. modern compilers may be able to treat equivalent switch statements, gotos, and if/else statements pretty much the same
954.
by KerrAvon 3y ago
haven’t read the article, but there are no single threaded use cases on Apple platforms that Apple cares about, so I’d take any claim that Apple is optimizing for single threaded performance with an enormous bag of salt
955.
by KerrAvon 3y ago
You can get ventilated seats on Hondas and Hyundais. You don’t need to pay high-end BMW money.
956.
by KerrAvon 3y ago
The original formulation of this theory (in Car and Driver iirc) was that it’s harder to make a water pump for a Chevrolet than a Mercedes, because you had to meet a tight cost objective for the Chevrolet. In practice, it just meant Chevy o
957.
by KerrAvon 3y ago
Corolla is a terrible example. It’s not a nice car to actually drive compared to almost any other. In that price range: Subaru and Honda will be as reliable and much better cars.
958.
by KerrAvon 3y ago
They could have reduced the info density and still not made it completely unusable, though. The implémention is the problem — it’s a labyrinth of barely functional JavaScript.
959.
by KerrAvon 3y ago
Yeah, but the thing is, you've broken a lot of trust with your employees once you pull shit like this. Places like Apple and Google, who have been shitty in different ways with their RTO plans, are never getting back that trust, not fu
960.
by KerrAvon 3y ago
This, right fucking here. Bingo. Add activist investors pressuring them for no particularly good reason other than social domineering to push people back into the office.

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