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by bnastic 8y ago
it used to cost eye-watering $200 until relatively recently. Big price drop made it an interesting alternative for Mac people over more "modern" alternatives. I've been using it for years (although I'm mostly a Vim perso
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by bnastic 8y ago
The original “wow!” development tool for Firefox wasn’t event developed by them, if I recall correctly - Firebug was just an extension, developed by one guy, but the extendion system and developers’ interest in platform were in place
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by bnastic 8y ago
Pan pot automation is now 8D? ‘Cos I can’t hear anything else going on in there
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by bnastic 8y ago
Hard to read a paper that repeats “legacy languages” many times just on the first page.
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by bnastic 8y ago
> The pricing is not really justifiable especially given the most use cases of the Mac mini (Home Theater, NAS, Backup etc.) are better handled by other OSes. I dont' know about "most", but pros who want quiet, small and f
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by bnastic 8y ago
> you know that plane that costs over a trillion dollars to develop From my understanding, it's the joint cost of the program over its projected lifetime over the next 50+ years. Not the cost of getting it up in the air.
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by bnastic 8y ago
> You don't have to work here; don't push your personal political agenda's into the company and make them front stage Well, that used to be the case. When Facebook employees become as strongly opposed to the shady, borderl
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by bnastic 8y ago
It would never ever work, and it would in fact be all "unelected bureaucrats"
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by bnastic 8y ago
First politician to seriously stand behind breaking up big web/data-collecting giants gets my vote.
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by bnastic 8y ago
Hasn't stopped Hetzner from offering 1080s in their servers.
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by bnastic 8y ago
8210 was incredibly popular, and desireable at the same time, although it was release quite a few years ahead of Motorola. I’d buy one now if I could find a NOS somewhere.
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by bnastic 8y ago
Fwiw, lots of those Nokias on Amazon Prime UK
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by bnastic 8y ago
> With 10ms batches, Calvin was able to achieve a throughput of over 500,000 transactions per second. For comparison, Amazon.com and NASDAQ likely process no more than 10,000 orders/trades per second even during peak workloads. I ha
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by bnastic 8y ago
It’s a big red herring when someone tells you “I have high end headphones and need hp output”, or “I record my guitar into iPhone and need a jack”. - if you are really an audiophile you will have at least a Dragonfly or similar feeding your
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by bnastic 8y ago
Ask Brits who their MEPs are, see if they know (or have even heard of MEPs... modulo Farage for his infamy)
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by bnastic 8y ago
IOKit predates anything resembling wide adoption of those C++ features. Exceptions are a particularly thorny subject when mixed with multithreading and (non-existent) memory model. And not to mention RTTI, which was always just a patch job.
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by bnastic 8y ago
True. As a kid I was eagerly awaiting the first week of the month for that one magazine that carried a column called “C-64 intro service” about low level intro- and demo-programming. But the pace of printed information is terribly slow, esp
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by bnastic 8y ago
> If you had been alive and busy with computer programming back in the day you too would have been clever as hell. Don’t underestimate the power of internet today and the ease of obtaining information - that certainly was not the case in
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by bnastic 8y ago
That was usually the case “back in the day”, people would use their Amigas and Ataris to prep work - I’d use my Atari ST and GFA Basic to generate all sorts of lookup tables which was too tedious to do on the C-64 (esp. if all you had was a
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by bnastic 8y ago
That’s how BMW does it
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by bnastic 9y ago
What a nice, paid advertisement to get the attention away from the current troubles. For shame, NYT
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by bnastic 9y ago
How they managed to survive this long is more interesting than the fact that they eventually folded
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by bnastic 9y ago
So I'm not the only poor sod who got shafted by Virgin Media... my example is probably even worse... VM send their surveyor to assess my flat. "It's quite high, but if you manage to drill the holes yourself and get an RG59 co
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by bnastic 9y ago
LG Ultrafine 5K, same size/resolution
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by bnastic 9y ago
It’s such an unfortunate word to use, “maintainer”... Sounds like a thing that had reached its full potential long ago and the “maintainer” is there to keep it on the road in one piece, for a while yet. It’ll never get better, it’s only eve
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by bnastic 9y ago
Those three points aren't valid for any of the civil wars I witnessed first hand
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by bnastic 9y ago
Just go to Cater Allen next time, thank me later.
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by bnastic 9y ago
Impressive work, Mr Tošić! :)
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by bnastic 9y ago
Mozilla got there first
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by bnastic 9y ago
Software/web devs are such hypocrites, optimising software for production and not for the platform or the user.

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