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by bzzzt 1y ago
I don't know if actually being able to afford real estate is 'doing better', it's more a 'not doing worse' situation imo.
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by bzzzt 1y ago
> I don’t know many assembly programmers. They’ve been “wiped out.” There never where enough assembly programmers to create all the business and leisure software we have in assembly anyway. There are quite a few left, but they do foundat
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by bzzzt 1y ago
Seems like an overgeneralization. I get it when FPS players want the best performance: players have FOMO of the best reaction time and the games are more built for fast action than contemplative scenery watching. I wonder if players of sing
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by bzzzt 1y ago
It would also be an enormous undertaking, requiring man-centuries of work and has the risk of falling into the 'second systems effect' trap...
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by bzzzt 1y ago
I recall reading about it in a Spectrum magazine in the 80s. While interesting, there was not much you could do with it since most software didn't need it.
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by bzzzt 1y ago
I agree with you in the general case, but considering the number of bids above average I'm not sure it's such a burden to be the one who has to deal with it in this case ;) I don't think David Lynch really needed that 'b
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by bzzzt 1y ago
I didn't have to be '4K', it just should be sharp - Apple was right in 2012 with the 'retina' concept. TV manufacturers doubled the resolution and those panels trickled down to PCs. Games and movies don't need
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by bzzzt 1y ago
Reading the video RAM directly to generate an HDMI signal gives you about the same image an emulator does. Loses a bit of the 'fuzzy retro' appeal imo ;) The same approach is also used by the 'ZX HD' expansion for the ZX
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by bzzzt 1y ago
> Apple's guidelines pertaining to banning developers from linking to or communicating alternative payment methods were illegal. If those guidelines were always clearly illegal, why has it taken decades to take Apple to court? I don
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by bzzzt 1y ago
No, I just have the opinium "my house, my rules" is applicable for companies too. Build your own phone if you want to sell porn to people.
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by bzzzt 1y ago
Don't know about the rest of the world, but the EU requires e-call (automatic emergency call after an accident) for all new cars now so you can't sell cars without an LTE chip.
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by bzzzt 1y ago
I can't recall any car that didn't have any 'teething problems'. Some cars I've owned had multiple recalls. Of course it doesn't look good, but often it's to fix the probability of a problem occurring: it&
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by bzzzt 1y ago
If that's the bar you're setting nobody would buy Microsoft or Google since they also got convicted of monopolistic practices.
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by bzzzt 1y ago
> Basically a “hate on Obama” hit piece. Fucking snore. Seems a bit disingenuous blaming a president who had heavy opposition from a republican majority for most of his tenure. Doing nothing would also have been frowned upon. Compromises
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by bzzzt 1y ago
There's the law of conservation of energy. If you want a nice bright big screen there's no way around consuming a lot of electricity. If your baseline is a 32 inch LED screen it's not surprising a 65" OLED will have a wo
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by bzzzt 2y ago
Nintendo isn't changing, the world around it is. 15 years ago there were no youtubers who built a business around pasting a talking head over a video game stream. It seems nobody even asks Nintendo if they are ok with that and now peop
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by bzzzt 2y ago
Ferrari and Lamborghini predate Koenigsegg by a generation so my guess is it's about the history.
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by bzzzt 2y ago
Apple changed the design to make the phones more serviceable. Why is that hostile? https://www.ifixit.com/News/100693/more-modular-than-ever-be...
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by bzzzt 2y ago
Revenue is meaningless without considering profit margin.
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by bzzzt 2y ago
> Valve really likes to support everything I believe Valve is still sour from Apple discontinuing 32 bits x86 support and killing a big part of the Steam game catalog with macOS Catalina. It's not impossible to port Portal 2 to late
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by bzzzt 2y ago
Because it's not water resistant anymore when the battery is swapped? My slightly more expensive watch requires new sealing rings to retain guaranteed water resistance after opening it up. Could be a warranty thing but I wouldn't
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by bzzzt 2y ago
Are you worried about your SSD or the data on it? Making a backup will probably significantly reduce your anxiety ;)
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by bzzzt 2y ago
RJ45 is just the plug. Ethernet cables are labeled with category 5, 5e, 6 etc.
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by bzzzt 2y ago
It's not Java, it's the programmer. There are lots of non-hacker types churning out inefficient code using inefficient abstractions. There are also people using Java for high-frequency trading application with realtime performance
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by bzzzt 2y ago
EJB was not invented by Gosling but adopted from IBM. It combined over-engineered concepts from the mainframe world combined with objects and too much XML configuration. Nowadays we've got Kubernetes with YAML for that.
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by bzzzt 2y ago
Here in the Netherlands the bus companies are required to buy by tender which has led to the purchase of lots of cheap Byd busses. While they are fast enough and silent they are not that great: there are software problems, heaters don'
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by bzzzt 2y ago
It's the difference between 16 bits per pixel and 32 bits per pixel in VRAM. A screen using 18 bits per pixel (6 bits per color) would need the 'millions of colors' mode unless Apple designed some clever hack.
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by bzzzt 2y ago
VW didn't key components for a long time, but a VW Golf was uninsurable in certain cities in the Netherlands because airbags and navigation units were stolen multiple times per year in some instances. Sometimes the thieves waited just
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by bzzzt 2y ago
Which all could be caused by a broken HDMI implementation (refresh, synchronization and audio are all encoded and synchronized). But of course I could be wrong and every M1 Mac has severe issues connecting to HDMI TV's.
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by bzzzt 2y ago
That's annoying but could also be caused by the monitor or TV HDMI implementation.

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