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by TillE 3y ago
I think a lot of nostalgia built up in that ~10 year period where it was really difficult to find a new mechanical keyboard, so the old Model M (and to a lesser extent the Apple Extended Keyboard) developed something of a cult following. Pe
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by TillE 3y ago
Notably, the DMA includes words like "fair" and "reasonable" for which there is no strict robot-like interpretation. Apple's plans will be evaluated as such by regulators, and there are several provisions which ar
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by TillE 3y ago
Yeah it's completely invisible if you use a background that's very dark near the top, I haven't thought about the notch in months.
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by TillE 3y ago
Minecraft is a funny case, because in alpha and beta it was really big on Reddit, the audience was clearly people in their 20s and 30s. The YouTubers making videos about it were adults. Some time after 1.0 it exploded in popularity, especia
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by TillE 3y ago
I had that reaction to Shenzhen I/O, which is literally just tinkering with microcontrollers and stuff, but fake. I've read enough real datasheets, thanks. I love Factorio though, it's much more about building and strategy th
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by TillE 3y ago
It's not an arbitrary ideological decision, it's a legal one. Blame Microsoft for their dumb license on dxil.dll which, as I read it, would require Godot to add some kind of click-through agreement.
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by TillE 3y ago
Of course you have to actually listen. Audiobooks are fantastic when you're driving or washing dishes or doing any kind of manual work. They're pointless if you're trying to read something else with your eyes at the same time
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by TillE 3y ago
Putting a pseudo-MD5 hash in your file header sounds like someone got confused and wound up caught between over-elaborate integrity check and half-hearted security measure. It sort of works if your signing tool is part of a private console
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by TillE 3y ago
He doesn't seem to have any further commentary, so this tweet just reads like a smarmy way to implicitly brag about ChatGPT.
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by TillE 3y ago
> Oh, it wasn't the C++ 11 feature, see, he worked on Project Chrono and they put everything in the std namespace, see. Classic pathological liar stuff. Just keep digging with bigger and more outlandish lies. > He says "obje
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by TillE 3y ago
The platform of course matters less and less as you move into higher-level stuff. The necessary abstractions have already been built for you. Though even in .NET you can still get bitten by assumptions about endianness, for example.
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by TillE 3y ago
I'm particularly interested to see what Apple does to evolve the OS. Better window management, different kinds of interactions, there's a lot of potential. But for now it seems the hardware itself isn't quite there yet. Eve
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by TillE 3y ago
Cache misses will destroy the performance of any CPU-intensive program. You really really want to do mostly sequential reads of RAM if you're processing a lot of data.
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by TillE 3y ago
Same, I use Firefox 90% of the time and I have no idea what all the complaining is about. My only real issue is that fullscreening videos on macOS sucks (ie, it takes forever). I certainly don't personally care about declining market s
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by TillE 3y ago
Yeah I get the instinct to poke at LLMs, they're fun toys, but it's always weird to see so much focus on stuff like logic problems. I've used Bard for creative brainstorming, for real factual questions, for translating .pot f
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by TillE 3y ago
I'm sure "Bard" was primarily a Shakespeare reference (The Bard of Avon, frequently just The Bard), and I liked it too. An appropriate name for a technology that's all about language. Gemini sounds cool and sci-fi though
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by TillE 3y ago
Google does plenty of stuff well, but what's their last big exciting new product or even new feature? Bard is good but they're chasing OpenAI. Same story with the Pixel phones and Samsung. Or YouTube Shorts and Tiktok. It all seem
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by TillE 3y ago
There were plenty of component shortages in very recent memory (eg, FPGAs), but those were all down to the pandemic.
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by TillE 3y ago
That's been their plan in the past, but I wonder if they'll reconsider. You can't do stuff like virtual environments in AR glasses. Apple may never care about games, but there are other VR features which users might really lo
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by TillE 3y ago
Marco could theoretically bootstrap a directory based on user subscriptions (the RSS feeds are polled server-side, not on every client), but then you still have the problem of how new podcasts get added. The iTunes API is poorly documented
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by TillE 3y ago
The front glass exists to protect the sensors and be easily wiped off. If you don't take a knife to it or drop it on concrete, you're unlikely to cause any real damage. It's not delicate: https://www.youtube.com&#x
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by TillE 3y ago
You can't sync your paper note to your phone, your partner's phone, etc. I've seen a bunch of people baffled about why you would want to stick a note in VR space, as if it didn't also still integrate with iCloud as usual
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by TillE 3y ago
That line stood out to me, because it implies that no proper "manufacturing document" was used for the work. If that's true, that's very bad; unapproved maintenance procedures have been the cause of multiple crashes.
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by TillE 3y ago
The iPhone (2007) was essentially what the Newton (1993) wanted to be, and even it was severely held back by the tech available. It was pretty bad until the 3GS or the iPhone 4. I think it's fair to say the Newton was ~15 years ahead o
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by TillE 3y ago
Dorsey isn't running Bluesky, he's just one member of the board.
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by TillE 3y ago
Even those are solvable problems, the real issue is social. There's a reason Flattr failed and Patreon has been a huge success. People would rather personally support a handful of creators at $5/month than put the equivalent money
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by TillE 3y ago
The biggest problem I see with languishing AAA franchises lately (eg, Elder Scrolls or GTA) is that they're not in development for years and years. Management has made the bizarre decision to simply sit out an entire console generati
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by TillE 3y ago
Carbon's approach is to integrate with LLVM internals (particularly the clang AST) and interoperate at that level. I guess Rust could do something similar, but probably with limitations since Rust isn't explicitly designed as a C+
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by TillE 3y ago
As far as I can tell, the capture output is just a crop of the actual display. MKBHD was trying to demonstrate the FOV using his hands, which indicated that the limits of his view were significantly out of frame of the video.
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by TillE 3y ago
Yeah I'm a big fan of aggressively dropping support for obsolete platforms unless someone is paying you a lot of money to do otherwise. Don't run software that isn't getting security patches.

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