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by ashleyn 9y ago
It's a cool stunt, but nothing more. The days of using assembly language in everyday business applications are long gone. Questions of portability immediately come to mind, as well as productivity losses relative to other companies&#x2
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by ashleyn 9y ago
Among those with mental challenges, "microchip implant" allegations were more popular in the 1970s and 1980s. Remebmer that Boomtown Rats song about the school shooter? I suspect it was because both IC technology was becoming wide
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by ashleyn 9y ago
I remember reading about this in Popular Science when I was eleven years old. They compared it to the difference between laser light and conventional light.
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by ashleyn 9y ago
Qbasic is something that simply has no modern-day parallel. It started very simple, PRINT and GOTO were enough to get you started. It had the tools to expand along as you learned, and a great community of amateurs who would make cool games
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by ashleyn 9y ago
I was floored to see shopkeeps still open while they moved the building . Today, OSHA would have a heart attack.
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by ashleyn 9y ago
Perhaps some rocket scientist can explain why this seemingly-obvious error even happened? Shouldn't it be possible to calculate the precise amount of fuel used, and therefore required?
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by ashleyn 9y ago
And with higher quality will come higher labour costs.
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by ashleyn 9y ago
From the standpoint of a designer, skinning deprives a product of a unique identity.
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by ashleyn 9y ago
There's a world of a difference between VAX and today's modern operating systems. Twenty years in the future, I predict user interaction will largely be predicated on artificial intelligence. I can certainly see an older version o
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by ashleyn 9y ago
Microsoft in the 1990s had a strong penchant for striking the right balance between power users and the average user. Their products remained full-featured but most of things you didn't use day-to-day were quietly tucked away in areas
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by ashleyn 9y ago
It wasn't until relatively recently that software engineers took the opinions of artists and designers seriously. Apple was probably the original and first to do so, with Jobs' own background in artistry. It's why Mac OS look
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by ashleyn 9y ago
Correct. Win32s was a brief stopgap between home/low-cost user support for 32-bit APIs and the release of Windows 95.
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by ashleyn 9y ago
The installer also uses a pared-down version of Windows 3.1. If you look carefully, you can notice the older Win 3.x window styles.
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by ashleyn 9y ago
I was a little after that and grew up with Qbasic and later Visual Basic. By that era, at least I was doing the same things managers were trying to do.
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by ashleyn 9y ago
Remember the earmouse? I suppose we're finally seeing practical, useful medical applications of what was developed.
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by ashleyn 9y ago
Perhaps I meant to say image processing. The ability to point the camera at something and make sense of the picture (FaceID, AR).
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by ashleyn 9y ago
It depends on the API implementation, really. The criticism back in the day was that Cell was difficult to program for. I would imagine this was because its functions were at a lower level, which buys you power at increased development cost
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by ashleyn 9y ago
If they want a sacrificial goat, take a look at the people who both commissioned and developed that terrible user interface. I saw it on Twitter. It wasn't much better than that Far Side cartoon that put "Wings Fall Off" next
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by ashleyn 9y ago
We've already seen the resurgence of heterogenous computing on the iPhone. The SoC inside offloads video and voice processing to dedicated ASICs. When you call these functions on the API, they run on the ASIC, not on the main CPU.
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by ashleyn 9y ago
Forget HTTPS: why doesn't apt support any form of threaded installation? On long updates it looks so wasteful to see one package installed at a time, probably when it doesn't always need to be that way.
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by ashleyn 9y ago
A saturation of rich media ads. 2% of CPU to render the news article. 98% to play 3 malfunctioning videos of Santa having a Coke, complete with loud audio.
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by ashleyn 9y ago
Yes and no. As someone who once called herself "conservative" I really feel like the modern definition of the term moved considerably without me changing a thing over the years. In my personal observation "conservative"
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by ashleyn 9y ago
This is seriously what came to mind first when I saw the EAS screenshot
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by ashleyn 9y ago
It was this book: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/ca/Way_things_wo... Had pretty cool drawings of a wooly mammoth around a bunch of inventions
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by ashleyn 9y ago
Growing up I got the impression that a fallout shelter was a purpose-specific room deep underground. So every time I saw the "Fallout Shelter" sign on a building, I figured it was built with one of these "secret underground r
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by ashleyn 9y ago
I'm giving it one to two generations of CPUs before I do a new build.
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by ashleyn 9y ago
The question that can't seem to be answered consistently is, what are these so-called obligations and responsibilities? Who determines them? Autocratic, selfish leaders and/or misinformed and uneducated masses? The notion of socia
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by ashleyn 9y ago
Soudns like a parenting mishap to me.
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by ashleyn 9y ago
What technology was this filmed with? D-VHS wasn't commercially available until 1998. Was this made with a prototype?
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by ashleyn 9y ago
This is just the continuing misconception among "trendy" consumers that anything "natural" is better for you in every capacity. It bears mentioning that if cynaide were marketable in any capacity, it'd be fully lega

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