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by _mlbt 3y ago
Frankly they are getting more. Apple Silicon outperforms budget Intel and AMD processors.
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by _mlbt 3y ago
Why is Apple getting singled out for this? I just checked, Dell and HP sell consumer-grade computers with 8GB of RAM and 256GB SSDs. The reason they do so is that for most users it's plenty. My M1 Mac Mini with 8GB of RAM runs Xcode,
723.
by _mlbt 3y ago
CPI doesn’t properly account for these factors that I mentioned.
724.
by _mlbt 3y ago
That's great, but how much has the price of housing, food, cars, energy, and a college education increased during that time frame?
725.
by _mlbt 3y ago
Not exactly what you asked for, but in my humble opinion Stroustrup’s Tour of C++ is one of the best books for getting up to speed quickly with C++ if you know other languages… https://www.stroustrup.com/tour2.html
726.
by _mlbt 3y ago
It actually has pretty decent support on Linux. It’s in Fedora’s official repos and Apple provides official builds for several other popular distros. The biggest issue seems to be that much of the larger ecosystem assumes Apple platforms.
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by _mlbt 3y ago
We put several men on the moon and have sent unmanned spacecraft past the solar system with base 10. I think it gets the job done as far as astronomical calculations are concerned.
728.
by _mlbt 3y ago
Ads, mail, search, Android, Chrome, and Docs are about the only things I trust them not to kill.
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by _mlbt 3y ago
WindowMaker is great if you enjoy the NeXTStep look and feel.
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by _mlbt 3y ago
Party supplies
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by _mlbt 3y ago
Yeah, it's kind of like forgetting to report winning a $5 scratch off lottery ticket to the IRS. Boeing had nearly $77.8 billion in revenue last year. https://investors.boeing.com/investors/news/press-release-
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by _mlbt 3y ago
> LG released a patch for the security issues as part of its latest update on March 22. Most LG devices should have downloaded this update automatically. Not much to see here. If you own an LG WebOS powered smart TV make sure you update
733.
by _mlbt 3y ago
I don’t know about you but my MacBook Pro is the computer I dreamed about as a geeky 90s kid. It’s a ridiculously fast RISC-powered UNIX workstation in portable form with all day battery life that looks sexy as hell and has a beautiful UI.
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by _mlbt 3y ago
https://www.nbcnews.com/business/economy/inflation-report-ma... “Since the start of the pandemic, Americans have seen average prices increase more than 20% overall.” Inflation has been absolutely devastating to th
735.
by _mlbt 3y ago
Have you looked into an M1 or M2 Mac Mini? They are excellent performance for the money and you could either use macOS (it’s a genuine certified BSD-flavored UNIX) or Asahi Linux. They also appear to support OpenBSD and NetBSD, although I
736.
by _mlbt 3y ago
Has there been any consideration of possibly spinning the Flutter project out of Google and into a non-profit foundation? I think right now the biggest thing holding Flutter back isn’t technological, but rather the stigma that is attached t
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by _mlbt 3y ago
Trinity is actually a fork of KDE3, not 2.
738.
by _mlbt 3y ago
I haven’t had any issues with it or needed to revert to UiKit, but I’m still fairly new to developing for the Apple ecosystem, so your mileage may vary.
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by _mlbt 3y ago
Is there a reason you want to learn Objective-C instead of Swift? My advice would be to swim with the current and choose Swift and SwiftUI unless you have a good reason not to. Some of the newer frameworks don’t support Objective-C and I on
740.
by _mlbt 3y ago
It’s in Fedora’s repos. “sudo dnf install swiftlang” is all it takes to get started. https://developer.fedoraproject.org/tech/languages/swift/swi...
741.
by _mlbt 3y ago
What other platforms provide what Apple provides at 0%? As a hobbyist I love having international commerce largely papered over and abstracted away. There’s no need to worry about exchange rates, taxes, hosting, or bandwidth. This is well
742.
by _mlbt 3y ago
That’s great news. It sounds much better than I remember it being.
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by _mlbt 3y ago
You have to make a lot of money not to at least qualify for a loan. The issue is that this should be a very simple process. They could import most of the information they actually need from the IRS to make a determination based on financia
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by _mlbt 3y ago
I think it will just shift away from relying on cloud providers for the underlying infrastructure.
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by _mlbt 3y ago
Even paid developers are vulnerable to a nation state bribing or blackmailing them into accomplishing their objectives.
746.
by _mlbt 3y ago
$499 a year per seat is a bit steep for Indie developers until they’re pulling solid revenue. I prefer other pricing models where it is free until you hit enough revenue to be able to easily afford it.
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by _mlbt 3y ago
Only a fool would have trusted them in the first place. They’re spies with little to no oversight.
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by _mlbt 3y ago
On the other hand working on mainframes could be a lucrative option for the over 50 crowd that is being age discriminated against by Silicon Valley.
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by _mlbt 3y ago
I don’t know how the technical details would work, but how great would it be to have email portability in the same manner that we can port our phone numbers between cell providers?
750.
by _mlbt 3y ago
I agree about the CD-ROM drives, they were definitely only in higher end machines. However, by 1994 5.25” floppies were long obsolete. You would have had to go out of your way get one at that point, which means that yes, in 1994 a machine

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