VelesDude

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by VelesDude 2y ago
Yeah that part is weird. He did clarify later on that it wasnt meant to just be them but more of an example of over socialisation. 27 years in the slammer to clear up some ideas means there is A LOT of additional reading material from him i
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by VelesDude 2y ago
A great example. Chromebooks also managed to also take the better ideas of Netbooks and go with them.
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by VelesDude 2y ago
Donald Rumsfeld — 'You go to war with the army you have, not the army you might want or wish to have at a later time.' In that context; Android is mediocre but I don't mean that in a nasty way. It might not be the best design
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by VelesDude 2y ago
It is such a simple thing but it works so well.
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by VelesDude 2y ago
BeOS/Haiku are surprisingly modern considering their age. They made a lot of technology choices at the time that short term were limiting (multi threading everywhere) but long term were very nice. It was just that the short term issues
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by VelesDude 2y ago
The NC is one of those things that feels like it was simply to far ahead of where the technology and the mind set of users was. Nowadays it would have much more traction thanks to SaaS. In tech, one step ahead is an innovator. Two step ahea
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by VelesDude 2y ago
Old joke but - Two engineers can do in two months what one engineer can do in one month. But this sort of goes with the African proverb, "If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together."
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by VelesDude 2y ago
I haven't had Windows in the home for a good 10-ish years now. While that is good for my personal use. It is bad when others need help with their computers and my skill set of windows support has atrophied. My experience of Windows is
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by VelesDude 2y ago
Yep, the meaning AI of is always changing. Search used to be considered AI because it could interpret human input.
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by VelesDude 2y ago
That is the core of it, the spirit of the communication made it out as thought this was entirely the work of Sora.
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by VelesDude 2y ago
I mean technically rasterization means taking any vector data and plotting it in a 2D space... so I guess it is correct. But yes, I know what you are getting at. This would normally be done via a software/shader pipeline rather than a
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by VelesDude 2y ago
To that last note, it is always astounding just how costly subway systems are. I am amazed any of them make it to completion simply because the up front cost is so high. But once they are in, the improvement to transport standards in the sy
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by VelesDude 2y ago
Mint is one of those distros that have walked the middle way between ease and power remarkably well. They have proven that they can be restrained in a manner that makes for great results. To fork these things and make them fit in more with
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by VelesDude 2y ago
Yeah, that would also be pretty cool.
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by VelesDude 2y ago
Or Steve Gibson... https://www.grc.com/sn/sn-195.htm Steve Gibson: Well, man about Starbucks. Leo: Man about Starbucks. Yeah, that's a good... Steve: I don't really get out on the town. I'm pretty much a
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by VelesDude 2y ago
Yeah but I do like that Nintendo for the most part lives that philosophy. Recent example I came across was Mario Odyssey. It is 7 years old, never had a patch because it was just considered done. Very cool to see.
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by VelesDude 2y ago
There is a Russian saying "There is nothing more permanent than a temporary solution."
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by VelesDude 2y ago
I suspect that the marketplace still has a little bit of an inherent cost. That said it is in a weird sort of zombie state nowadays. Demos for games you cannot buy, loads of apps that have had their API's move on many years ago. Intern
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by VelesDude 2y ago
I have suspected for a little while now that starting this year we are going to start moving from a state of raising prices to keep margins up and share holders appeased to dropping prices to ensure their is still customers willing to buy.
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by VelesDude 2y ago
Depending on what you are going for in terms of gameplay experience, that can be a reasonable trade off. Say an RPG where you page in/out assets as needed but doesn't break the flow is probably going to be a bigger issue on gamepl
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by VelesDude 2y ago
In the manufacturing industry we called Frozen and Canned vegetables "Fresher than fresh". Because they are essentially processed within a few hours of the harvest, where are the stuff we usually get at super markets are a few day
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by VelesDude 2y ago
The closest modern example of round displays would be smart watches.
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by VelesDude 2y ago
The area I feel this difference the most is when you use software that didn't fall into this trap. Things like MYOB EXO/CRM, SAP ERP systems have code bases stretching back decades that innovate at a glacial pace. As such it is ba
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by VelesDude 2y ago
Both Japan and China's economy has going to implode worse than anyone else for the last 20-30 years. Q. What do you call an economist that makes a prediction? A. Wrong.
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by VelesDude 2y ago
Years back I remember Trump saying something like "Amount of money and debt doesn't matter so long as folks still buy oil is US dollars". And I can't really disagree with him on that. The issue is when that golden goose
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by VelesDude 2y ago
My daily runner is a T400 Laptop with 4GB RAM on a fairly slim Linux distro. But in the last 6-12 months it is starting to feel a little tight when it comes to anything web browsing. Even things like Thunderbird are getting very bulky in ke
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by VelesDude 2y ago
I am based in Australia. I am not sure if it is the quantity has increased, but their size definitely has. I usually have to scroll a full screen down before I start seeing non-paid results. I am on a desktop machine, mobile has been absolu
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by VelesDude 2y ago
And that is a beautiful thing to watch from a far. :D
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by VelesDude 2y ago
I routinely speak with said creator of website). I have let him know this thread is here to appreciate the wide conversation on here. I do genuinely love that I write 13,000 words on issues with AI on the site to little response. But some o
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by VelesDude 2y ago
This was something that was always seen as inspiration in Apple, while they were small. Once a company of that nature gets to a certain size, it becomes far to powerful as any movement in the core business, intentional or otherwise, can inf

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