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by _mlbt 2y ago
Sprint was not going to survive. They were circling the drain and needed to be acquired to be rescued. I was a customer of theirs and they could literally only compete on price. T-mobile wasn’t in much better shape. Post merger the impr
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by _mlbt 2y ago
> Do you write bare-metal Pascal programs in this? I.e., do you write a Pascal program that uses Ultibo libraries to run without a separate operating system? Yes, that's exactly how it works. > How is the resulting program differ
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by _mlbt 2y ago
Ultibo is pretty cool… https://ultibo.org/ It’s a bare metal Free Pascal environment for Raspberry Pi.
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by _mlbt 2y ago
If you have a Mac, Pixelmator Pro is a great alternative as well. https://www.pixelmator.com/pro/
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by _mlbt 2y ago
If you’re on a Mac, UTM is an excellent wrapper around Qemu. https://mac.getutm.app/
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by _mlbt 2y ago
Thanks! I always wanted to learn Metal, but it doesn’t seem like there are many resources on it other than Apple’s website.
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by _mlbt 2y ago
I wonder how feasible a Metal compatibility library wrapped around Vulkan would be? That way you could use Metal on other platforms. Also, what is the best resource for learning Metal if all you know is some OpenGL 1.x from the old “Lego”
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by _mlbt 2y ago
> It begins with a text. > > Faith… I think I want to write a Vulkan driver. > > Her advice? > > Just start typing. I love this part. It is such great advice and it applies to so many things that we want to do in life,
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by _mlbt 2y ago
This is an excellent resource! NASA really does an outstanding job of public relations and outreach. If you ever get the chance, the Houston Space Center is worth a visit. I’m surprised other government agencies don’t do the same. For ex
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by _mlbt 2y ago
What’s helped me a lot is that my phone number is from a different area code than the one I currently live at. So if it’s a local number I know it’s probably legit and if it’s from my phone’s area code I know it’s a scammer.
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by _mlbt 2y ago
To add to that SMS, WhatsApp, Facebook, and other messaging apps are also frequently used by scammers. Oh and in the United States at least, most government agencies will contact you by postal mail if you owe them payment and none of them a
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by _mlbt 2y ago
Another thing I really appreciate about go is how easy it makes cross compilation.
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by _mlbt 2y ago
At this point the problem with EVs aren’t the cars themselves. The problem is finding a way to solve range anxiety. I understand that standard EV range is plenty for the vast majority of trips taken by the vast majority of people, but mos
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by _mlbt 2y ago
Honestly, I would just appreciate knowing up front what they think I owe and letting me correct them if I disagree.
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by _mlbt 2y ago
Just a warning, that the very latest edition of this book is a complete rewrite for WinRT and Windows 8. It’s still a great book, but you’ll probably want the previous edition to learn how to code traditional Win32 programs.
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by _mlbt 2y ago
As a current T-Mobile customer I am looking forward to the improved rural coverage this merger should provide. Not all mergers are bad. I used to be a Sprint customer and service is much better now that T-Mobile bought them. There are sti
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by _mlbt 2y ago
Why wouldn’t regulators allow it? Since the Sprint merger this industry has been a three horse race. This doesn’t meaningfully remove competition for the average American consumer. What it does accomplish is strengthening T-Mobile’s rura
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by _mlbt 2y ago
This deal makes a lot more sense from a business perspective. They simultaneously improve coverage and acquire customers. Building out is much more time consuming with uncertain return on investment.
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by _mlbt 2y ago
What’s the alternative? Continue to have worse rural coverage than Verizon and AT&T and hope for the best?
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by _mlbt 2y ago
To counter the author’s experience, just last week I brought an Amazon return to the UPS store, they scanned the QR code from the email Amazon sent and I was on my way in less than a minute.
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by _mlbt 2y ago
The vast majority of the movies coming out of Hollywood currently simply aren’t worth that price to watch. Especially when you know that you can watch them on streaming usually within a year after release.
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by _mlbt 2y ago
I think a big difference here is that everyone knew that Apple was going to completely replace Intel Macs and eventually phase out Rosetta 2, like they have with previous architecture changes. For Microsoft this is going to be just an addit
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by _mlbt 2y ago
They still haven’t learned from the Gemini diverse Nazis debacle.
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by _mlbt 2y ago
I think they would have to either bundle it together with an existing subscription or have a free ad supported tier in order to make this work. The precedent has been set that the OS just comes with the computer for free. People don’t eve
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by _mlbt 2y ago
You can’t deny that the momentum is moving in the direction of system on a chip designs. Apple showed the industry how beneficial this design is for performance and power efficiency. Plus it’s better for their bottom line. It’s a win for
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by _mlbt 2y ago
GW-BASIC is open source and should presumably be able to run this code with possibly minimal changes. https://github.com/microsoft/GW-BASIC/
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by _mlbt 2y ago
I’m presuming that was a reference to the “trust the science” that was used to silence any dissent against the official narrative during the COVID pandemic.
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by _mlbt 2y ago
The fact is that we are shockingly close to the world of 1984. Two minutes hate, newspeak, and our smartphones are telescreens on steroids. Orwell was frighteningly prophetic.
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by _mlbt 2y ago
> Politicians and police are not subject to monitoring, only ordinal citizens messages’ should be wiretapped Of course, in 1984, their instruction manual, the top members of the party can turn their telescreens off.
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by _mlbt 2y ago
The war on personal freedom in general is on the rise.

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