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by bzzzt 4y ago
It's not like they can just click a new one in place. $50 for a quality battery and $40 to pay someone a living wage to mount it in half an hour doesn't sound excessive to me. Oh, I almost forgot Apple replaced one of my earlier i
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by bzzzt 4y ago
I kind of like that behaviour. You're comparing object references and get exactly the expected output instead of some magically overloaded equality operator. If you want that, just use 'equals' ;)
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by bzzzt 4y ago
Those are also the printers that track in software if the 'waste ink reservoir' is full (which happends after a certain number of printouts) and brick when they reach the limit requiring you to send the printer to the manufacturer
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by bzzzt 4y ago
There are workloads where a high-end PC outclasses a Mac for the same money (think top-end GPU or lots of memory, Apple doesn't have the first and wants a king sized markup for the second). For most entry level stuff performance is not
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by bzzzt 4y ago
Is there a true 'native' resolution for 3D games? Seems the display resolution is arbitrary since the content is projected and filtered regardless. I'm surprised you consider retina 'non native' since it originally
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by bzzzt 4y ago
Depends on the game, it's difficult to draw a perfect circle with non-square pixels. It was possible to achieve 320x240 though, problem was you needed more than 64Kb of memory for that and couldn't get the graphics buffer in a lin
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by bzzzt 4y ago
Here in the Netherlands Macs were outrageously expensive in the 90's. I only knew a few people who bothered to buy them (mostly because they wanted something simpler than a PC or because of Adobe stuff). Macs also used 'better&#x2
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by bzzzt 4y ago
> There's a lot of java 8 out there. And it's not going to get upgraded without costly effort. There's a Java LTS version for people that don't want to upgrade every 6 months. Almost all Java 8 code will run on Java 1
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by bzzzt 4y ago
Probably cost a heck of a lot more than a comparable PC gaming setup in those days. Not to say it's not a great game, but Marathon uses a Doom-like 2.5D raycasting engine which doesn't need a 3D accelerator, just enough memory spe
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by bzzzt 4y ago
I think the difference between sound cards was made irrelevant when CD-ROM games started using digitised audio instead of MIDI soundtracks.
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by bzzzt 4y ago
Problem with a GUS (or any 30 year old PC part) is it's more likely to break which means you'd have to invest time and/or money in keeping it running. I sold off mine when I didn't have a working machine with ISA slots a
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by bzzzt 4y ago
If data transfer bottlenecks are the issue, would using a hybrid CPU/GPU (Intel IGP, Apple Mx) setup not solve the issue?
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by bzzzt 4y ago
Most open source development is the result of people 'scratching their own itch', not randomly selecting a project to 'help'. So if I, hypothetically, was to contribute it probably would be to an engine I was actually us
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by bzzzt 4y ago
In this context it's nice to know Godot supports that use case as well: https://godotengine.org/article/csharp-wasm-aot/
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by bzzzt 4y ago
The dutch greenhouse tomatoes were so sad and pale in the 90s our eastern neighbours called them 'holländische Wasserbombe' (dutch waterbombs). They're better nowadays. As it turns out it's more profitable to plant tomat
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by bzzzt 4y ago
The OpenJDK project releases all Java code under a GPL license. You can make use of Java 19 without having any kind of relation with Oracle.
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by bzzzt 4y ago
Shouldn't be a problem, they're already eating snails ;)
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by bzzzt 4y ago
"Modern Java" is not formally defined, but most people seem to associate it with Java for Microservices (small runtimes instead of ancient Java EE), functional programming, streams, reactive programming and generally using newer (
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by bzzzt 4y ago
The issue with Oracle JDK is you _have_ to pay even if you don't use it. If there's just one person in the company using Oracle JDK they bill you for the entire company headcount. Earlier licensing practices were not much better;
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by bzzzt 4y ago
Sun did release their Java implementation under GPL in 2006. There are lots of OpenJDK builds from different companies so you don't have to touch anything 'Oracle' to use Java.
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by bzzzt 4y ago
If your Java app takes half a minute to initialise it's the app's problem, not Java. Modern Java frameworks have moved from a dynamic deployment model to statically compiled and can start in milliseconds. (for example, see the ben
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by bzzzt 4y ago
Relying on people not being dumb doesn't work out in practice. There's lots of stuff you're not allowed to do because we figured out the average person can't do it without endangering others.
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by bzzzt 4y ago
Louis Rossman built a business/cult around criticising everything Apple does for exposure and is not a credible source of unbiased information about Apple's policies.
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by bzzzt 4y ago
Then they have no reason to be in the used computer business.
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by bzzzt 4y ago
Your car is also registered by the state, but you don't have to give your keys to a politician.
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by bzzzt 4y ago
Being given an old MacBook (by the original owner) is legal, but if you don't have a receipt Apple won't do a thing...
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by bzzzt 4y ago
Because delegating it to the manufacturer produces a conflict of interest (said manufacturer can't be bothered to unlock a device which is legally yours, prefers to sell a new one). Registering possessions (house, land, cars etc) is al
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by bzzzt 4y ago
Maybe supply chain issues? Or just because having different parts is a hassle (possibilities for mix-ups etc).
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by bzzzt 4y ago
While the whole signature verification thing sounds water-tight in theory there are lots of holes still being patched so I don't buy it this will 'change everything'. Making everything tamper-proof could even prevent some hol
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by bzzzt 4y ago
It would be greater if they could make one that didn't need a minute to boot up...

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