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541.
by bzzzt 3y ago
Problem is some people make an 'informed decision' and forget to tell that to a buyer when they sell their phones...
542.
by bzzzt 3y ago
And AirPods, AirDrop, Apple TV Remote, carkit etc. I think we’re well past the point of Bluetooth being optional.
543.
by bzzzt 3y ago
The late 90s Sun Sparcstation machines at my uni lab also had keyboards with mouse passthru connectors.
544.
by bzzzt 3y ago
The cloud providers that also sold local software (Microsoft, Oracle) push people to the cloud by increasing the price of local software and discounting their cloud offerings (for a while at least).
545.
by bzzzt 3y ago
Some Chromebooks go far in the 2030's with update support so it's not a given anymore.
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by bzzzt 3y ago
The Pro controller has drift issues as well (although less often) Did you use/abuse the xbox/ps4 controllers as much as the Switch controllers? My guess is the amount of hours played is a big factor in wear and tear. Since the Swi
547.
by bzzzt 3y ago
All mainstream console controllers experience more or less stick drift. Nintendo still replaces Joy-cons (even out of warranty) for free in the EU.
548.
by bzzzt 3y ago
Depends on what you expect. I've got an almost launch day original Switch and have played dozens of games on it and feel I'm still getting my money's worth. The Lite and OLED models are just slight variations on the same mach
549.
by bzzzt 3y ago
I'm actually glad my Volvo uses coded parts. Makes the airbags less valuable so there's a smaller chance they get stolen. (last time I was at another car dealership there were dozens of cars lined up for repair with the airbags ri
550.
by bzzzt 3y ago
That suspicion will surely be a problem for people of certain nationalities. (here in the EU there have been a few cases in the news which tends to make people more suspicious)
551.
by bzzzt 3y ago
> I don't think it's that amazing - if you were working on it at the same time you probably would have come around to it. Then why there were so many 'top tier' scrolling platformers at the time that ran so choppy? W
552.
by bzzzt 3y ago
While I have a fondness for that game it really didn't come close to running as fluent as Keen on my 8MHz EGA machine at the time ;)
553.
by bzzzt 3y ago
If the result of making hardware inexpensive is people getting careless about damage that's a loss imo.
554.
by bzzzt 3y ago
Last time I took a big car ferry the car decks were off limits for passengers. On a smaller ferry it's more of a problem but the risks are also lower.
555.
by bzzzt 3y ago
Probably someone just read about the Hindenburg...
556.
by bzzzt 3y ago
So make sure the electric cars are loaded last.
557.
by bzzzt 3y ago
So it's easy to cut off the oxygen supply to the fire?
558.
by bzzzt 3y ago
The bathtub curve says electronics fail more often early on in life or at the end of their lifespan. Maybe one of the vehicles had a bad battery? Probably those EV's are charged at the factory for testing, transport and to prevent the
559.
by bzzzt 3y ago
Probably upvoted due to the vehicle carrier that's currently on fire in the Netherlands? https://www.dutchnews.nl/2023/07/putting-out-cargo-ship-fire...
560.
by bzzzt 3y ago
Just like you don't want to support tens of different databases you shouldn't build your solution on lots of bridged message busses. If stuff goes down at 2 am you don't want to have to find out which message queue was the pr
561.
by bzzzt 3y ago
I don't believe it's got anything to do with talent. The wiser programmers I know don't get emotional about 'training wheels' but try to prevent errors by systematically and automatically fixing weak spots. It'
562.
by bzzzt 3y ago
If those people who 'actually write code' wouldn't have sprinkled their code with race conditions and buffer overflows maybe C would still be used widely for business apps, but reality is C code, while highly efficient, carri
563.
by bzzzt 3y ago
If you want the 'good old days' you can just take an old computer, emulator or 'simple' game engine which just exposes a few drawing primitives. Vulkan or DirectX are made for current high-performance applications. Not s
564.
by bzzzt 3y ago
There's no business case in making sure those old titles persist and publishers mostly forget about them after initial sales are made. You can play the MS-DOS port in QEMU, so I presume there will eventually be some emulation layer cap
565.
by bzzzt 3y ago
Depends on what you consider 'full game VM'. Adventure games from Infocom ran all game code on a VM, and so did the graphical adventures from Sierra and LucasArts. The latter two used some native graphics primitives of course.
566.
by bzzzt 3y ago
It's 2023 and there are stable graphical operating systems that don't make you check 'if the GPU driver bailed out' every 15 minutes...
567.
by bzzzt 3y ago
The experience of a low-end memory mac configuration is mostly ok, but lots of people are used to comparing storage and memory directly and have the impression you get 'less for more' when shopping Apple. In a sense, that's t
568.
by bzzzt 3y ago
> Why "not equivalent"? The Mac pro is just a Mac studio with a "PCI express expansion chassis" bolted on which is of no use to most people. The price says Apple doesn't want to sell a lot of those machines, they
569.
by bzzzt 3y ago
Yeah, the industry is pushing new standards just a bit beyond what makes sense in a normal living room. On the positive side, you can buy good high-end stuff from a few years ago for less ;) I hear a bit too often about burned out HDMI boar
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by bzzzt 3y ago
Speakers deprecate a lot faster financially than functionally (and are subject to a lot of interesting dynamics such as 'wife acceptance factor' and other fashion like the current trend for small soundbars) Your $40 used amplifier

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