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by bzzzt 4y ago
The CLP line is from Yamaha ;) Just to give a +1 to the CLP-775, I also chose that one and it's a joy to play. While the CLP display looks a bit more 'dated' than the Kawai models it starts up a lot faster and response is ins
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by bzzzt 4y ago
I've still got one of the last (NeoPDP) plasma displays. While it uses a bit more energy than OLED it's not 'a few hundred watts', but tens of watts. Also, since TV's have become cheaper a new TV will probably be a
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by bzzzt 4y ago
> The core WordPress is one of the most secure software in the world: there are thousands of people trying all the time to find exploits and the codebase is public. Go take a look at what CMS whitehouse.gov (one of the highest-profile ha
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by bzzzt 4y ago
While Bootcamp worked admirably I hardly ever see it used at work. I don't think 'professionals' would be buying Macs to run Windows native very often while Windows laptops exist and would be providing much more value for the
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by bzzzt 4y ago
The Java "GC" also contains the memory allocator and handling for out of memory conditions, so if you want to use Java there needs to be 'something' there to call.
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by bzzzt 4y ago
Beat me to this answer ;) - I presume you can just allocate objects but you have to keep those allocations in check to prevent the JVM from terminating when going out of memory. Maybe object pooling (which helped performance in old JVM&#x27
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by bzzzt 4y ago
Because there's no need? There the 'epsilon' no-op GC in OpenJDK: https://openjdk.org/jeps/318 If you keep your object allocation in check you can use this to guarantee no GC pauses.
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by bzzzt 4y ago
I had a 3rd generation iPad which became borderline unusable after updating to iOS 7 or something like that (they added the custom keyboard function then and after that update the onscreen keyboard took seconds to appear) That was before th
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by bzzzt 4y ago
I'm perfectly capable of writing correct code by hand (be it XML or YAML), my problem is with the contents of the configuration files. Especially for the legacy Java EE servers there's loads of boilerplate stuff that has to be the
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by bzzzt 4y ago
Dealing with the XML spaghetti from most Java EE containers isn't much better though.
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by bzzzt 4y ago
Looked impressive until I saw the guitars ;)
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by bzzzt 4y ago
> If something visits us from another star system it's also likely to be an AI. Let's hope it's not programmed to make paperclips ;)
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by bzzzt 4y ago
Those are a bit more modern devices which have enough memory they could (an probably do) use a signed firmware image so it's not possible to brick them by flashing random garbage to the eeprom.
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by bzzzt 4y ago
Your 'ugly gap' is another man's 'characterful sound'.
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by bzzzt 4y ago
The MIDI 2.0 spec was released in 2020 and is being adopted but that will take time. Think how long it takes for a new USB generation to be widespread and multiply by 5 (people are not buying a new piano or synthesizer every 3 years like th
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by bzzzt 4y ago
Nope, people bought a PC because it was good for learning/office and they were even subsidised here. Amiga had a reputation for being more a kind of fancy game machine in the EU.
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by bzzzt 4y ago
I wouldn't underestimate the amount of PC enthousiasm generated by piracy in the late-80's and 90's, especially here in the EU where imported games were priced way above something kids could afford with pocket money. Didn&#x2
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by bzzzt 4y ago
Of course PC's were expensive, but most people at the time bought PC's for those fancy new word processors and spreadsheets. A small price increase for added sound capability is an easier sell than a dedicated gaming console which
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by bzzzt 4y ago
Fact that PHP was built-in on virtually every Linux distribution and hosting was dirt cheap since one server could easily host hundreds of customers helped too I guess. Java and .NET never were after the $5/month hosting market.
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by bzzzt 4y ago
> The only real issue with it is that the current generation of their smartphones doesn't come with enough memory. Only 8GB (S22) or even 6 (S21FE). You need more for decent multitasking. Since we're fantasising about future co
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by bzzzt 4y ago
BotW also had framerate problems that were fixed in an update after release. They just were limited to a few areas where it didn't hurt overall game enjoyment very much.
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by bzzzt 4y ago
Maybe because Android just allows the privacy invading stuff iOS tries to limit?
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by bzzzt 4y ago
> Touring is the biggest source of revenue for the musician. Not since Covid. Lots of headliner-class bands have cancelled their tours the last few months.
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by bzzzt 4y ago
Seems the setting screens are loaded on-demand, maybe using some plug-in architecture that results in overhead. Also, some panels require network communication which makes them even slower. But even then, I agree there's no excuse.
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by bzzzt 4y ago
There are lots of Intel macs with good GPU's, but most of the base consumer models didn't. (Macbook pro has reasonable Radeon graphics, Mac pro even better but that's a lot of money to play games and beside that some games ar
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by bzzzt 4y ago
I'd expect RISC-V to make that problem worse since you don't even need a license to vertically integrate it.
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by bzzzt 4y ago
Of course they do. But looking further I also don't like the idea of Chrome being the only tested/supported browser everywhere and giving Google even more dominance over the web than they already have.
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by bzzzt 4y ago
Don't forget they want full Unicode support with all the complicated layout and composition rules.
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by bzzzt 4y ago
OOP hype was peaking in the mid-90's when TASM 5 came out. Probably some manager's idea to capitalise on that.
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by bzzzt 4y ago
The webcam described in the article is so old, it has PAL/NTSC video out. Later generations switched to HDMI, but not all of them have a 'clean feed', so some information regarding exposure settings, battery level etc will re

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