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by bzzzt 5y ago
I guess you're using Linux? Memory management for desktop applications is really sub-par compared to macOS or even Windows. My 16Gb mac has zero problems with a comparable workload.
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by bzzzt 5y ago
I'd guess most people buying mobile workstations would be savvy enough. But if your company requires the laptop is bought from and gets service from Dell why wouldn't they just pay the premium price? Having worked in a start-up wh
873.
by bzzzt 5y ago
If you want to go the bad car analogy route: it's as if a company was making Mercedes car mats using the Mercedes logo and being surprised they have to pay a fee to sell them via the Mercedes dealer network.
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by bzzzt 5y ago
That would raise up the price of most cheap Android devices that don't come with update guarantees, not even for 3y.
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by bzzzt 5y ago
Why the heck are people hurt by buying luxury brands like Apple? It's like saying poor people can't get the time because they don't have enough money to buy a Rolex...
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by bzzzt 6y ago
>> What always baffles me, truly leaves me flabbergasted and confused, is.....who is going to force you to use any other app store other than the Apple Store?? Think of the new privacy controls: Facebook doesn't like them. So the
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by bzzzt 6y ago
That would be great if stores weren't pushing so much for 'exclusives'. I fear that the endgame of multiple App stores is that the guarantee Apple gives (for instance with the privacy labels) will be sidestepped by businesses
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by bzzzt 6y ago
There's nothing preventing you from running Java based applications on Linux. Probably there's already a JRE bundled with the commercial applications you're using. The problem here is some people thought it would be a great i
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by bzzzt 6y ago
The problem is Java packages are converged around the Maven central repository which is not compatible with the RPM way of doing things. (it's a packaging mess somewhat halfway between RPM and NodeJS...) Since most Java developers use
880.
by bzzzt 6y ago
BS3 contained way too many stupid crate puzzles. The 4th a nonsensical story. I found the 5th to be enjoyable, but sometimes a bit 'fan service' oriented.
881.
by bzzzt 6y ago
Lots of the old point&click games certainly have their charm, but it's not really difficult to see they are lacking in mainstream appeal. Most people don't see solving obscure (sometime maddening) object puzzles as entertainme
882.
by bzzzt 6y ago
A lot of game designers focus on the story and experience they want to bring, not on the technology the programmers have to use to bring it to life. There are a lot of 'tricks' you can use in a 2d game to let it show more depth (l
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by bzzzt 6y ago
They made some more games with the UbiArt engine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UbiArt_Framework
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by bzzzt 6y ago
About memory use: macOS has had quite a lot of optimizations. Transparant memory compression, swapping and given the fact a lot of apps are coded in objective C/Swift and running native code without VM's, garbage collectors etc th
885.
by bzzzt 6y ago
Nintendo Switch cartridges (sd card sized) use the same kind of coating.
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by bzzzt 6y ago
They make the odd resolution because they've committed to a certain amount of dpi ('super retina' resolution) and are marketing it as such. While it would be fun to be able to run a complete k8s cluster locally that's qu
887.
by bzzzt 6y ago
Wrong target audience ;)
888.
by bzzzt 6y ago
> Sufficiently intoxicated people will dance to anything There's an urban legend saying Richard D James (Aphex Twin) threw a microphone in a kitchen blender at a concert and people were dancing to that sound...
889.
by bzzzt 6y ago
Most of the time the synths are not even plugged in ;)
890.
by bzzzt 6y ago
Give them a moment, the judge just handed them the go-ahead to clone Java API's last week ;)
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by bzzzt 6y ago
And that's why you have tests... Having migrated some respectably sized projects to OpenJDK in my experience it's more work to migrate a codebase to a new Java major version than from Oracle to OpenJDK.
892.
by bzzzt 6y ago
There's a national pop festival here which is broadcast on TV; for years I've noticed there's always a high-end Moog synthesizer on the main stage, even when the act only plays guitars... it's just product placement.
893.
by bzzzt 6y ago
Comparing the Octatrack which just had it's 10 year anniversary with newer devices seems a bit unfair. I think it was a nice machine for it's time (and at second hand going rate around 500-600 euro still a good deal). There's
894.
by bzzzt 6y ago
In my experience the collectors and 'gear junkie' crowd are the people buying the vintage stuff now (and obsessing which of the dozens of 303 clones sounds most like the original) while the pro's just make music with whatever
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by bzzzt 6y ago
I believe the web has killed a lot of those 'single user' Excel applications. If they had value, they would probably have been reimplemented in the back-end of new web-based business services (if you're unlucky by 'enter
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by bzzzt 6y ago
Aggressively iterating it would make it too complicated to use for beginners which would also cause it to lose popularity.
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by bzzzt 6y ago
My car currently has no way to deactivate the passenger seat airbag, so a $200 option would be better than nothing. Besides, I get offers from the dealer all the time for an engine computer upgrade (+30hp for about 700 euro), so it's n
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by bzzzt 6y ago
While it's easy to attribute that to the artists, seeing those pictures it seems they got the (thankless?) task to give the EGA pictures a new coat of paint. Sounds more like factory line work to me than 'artistic vision'. So
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by bzzzt 6y ago
Detecting the monitors, negotiating the correct resolutions, setting scaling factors and window positions after coming out of sleep will take some time. Maybe macOS does monitor setup sequentially? (no idea, just got 1 big external screen t
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by bzzzt 6y ago
Apple (and authorizaed repair shops) can and will repair iPhone 12's. Just wondering how often you'd need camera repair. I've never heard of someone needing a camera replacement for their phone, so to me this looks like a guy

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