NetMageSCW

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1621.
by NetMageSCW 1y ago
Hey, that was me at one time! But the iPhone’s technology advantages put me in the road to bigger and thicker phones.
1622.
by NetMageSCW 1y ago
People who have held it have said the slightly lesser weight and the slightly lesser depth combine to make it feel like a much bigger difference.
1623.
by NetMageSCW 1y ago
I’d go with the 5S - the 5 with the first 64-bit phone CPU and some other improvements (especially TouchID). In black, of course. (I think I still have one somewhere.)
1624.
by NetMageSCW 1y ago
No one would buy it (by Apple standards) because no one is asking for an over half pound phone. I bet a 17 Pro with a flat back that was all battery would approach a pound.
1625.
by NetMageSCW 1y ago
But an awful lot of people have a sous vide cooker in their kitchen.
1626.
by NetMageSCW 1y ago
That’s not how Lion charging works - degradation and lifetime (to a first approximation) depend on full charges. If you charge daily from 80% to 100% or charge every 5 days from 1% to 100%, your battery degradation and lifetime will be the
1627.
by NetMageSCW 1y ago
When I started college my computer was an Atari 400 I had purchased with money from my after-school job programming commercial software. I had replaced the membrane keyboard with a third party “real” keyboard and had the Action! cartridge.
1628.
by NetMageSCW 1y ago
I think a bigger problem for recursion support is the 6502 being limited to a 256 byte stack by its 8-bit stack pointer.
1629.
by NetMageSCW 1y ago
Exactly. Aside from the hardware specific journals and articles, I think Byte is the magazine that had the best articles still relevant today, I still have a couple of the August issues (Threaded Interpretors and Smalltalk).
1630.
by NetMageSCW 7y ago
Google Safe Browsing transparency report lists 40k new bad URLs per week - how large do you think the list is now? It is far, far too large for local processing but k-anonymity is perfectly trustworthy when used with cryptographic hashing.