cwyers

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811.
by cwyers 8y ago
They don't make money off the resale price, they make money off the wholesale price. Any money over the wholesale price goes to the retailer (or the distribution chain), not the manufacturer.
812.
by cwyers 8y ago
Why does Greenwald believe that a prominent world leader in a wheelchair attending a conference on people with disabilities is a smokescreen for this Assange business, instead of, you know... _something he actually cares about?_
813.
by cwyers 8y ago
Yeah. If Clojure is functional, then so is R.
814.
by cwyers 8y ago
It seems to me like the machine learning algorithm here is mostly learning how to add JPEG compression artifacts to images.
815.
by cwyers 8y ago
That's not the point of the person you're responding to. They didn't say that the transition didn't happen. They said it's not yet known if it was worth it. All you're saying is that it happened.
816.
by cwyers 8y ago
The last game before Artifact other than some F2P stuff that they farmed out to places like Nexon (and The Lab, which was a pack-in tech demo) was Dota 2, which hit beta in 2011. Seven years is a large gap for a game company.
817.
by cwyers 8y ago
The NT kernel has better hardware support than the Linux kernel (among other advantages), and the design of NT means that you can run Linux apps on the NT kernel without going through the Win32 APIs with WSL. Why do you need to rebase the s
818.
by cwyers 8y ago
> In 1990, Marc Porat convinced then-Apple-CEO John Sculley that the future of computing lay not in desktop personal computers, but much smaller portable devices combining computing power, communications systems, and data located on netw
819.
by cwyers 8y ago
I am reminded of a joke from Rowan Atkinson, pretending to be a conservative member of Parliament: "Now I _like_ curry, but now that we have the recipe, why do they need to stay?"
820.
by cwyers 8y ago
This can be true. At the same time, the Western culinary experience is shaped around the way people cooked in Europe at a certain time period. Lots of fuel was available for cooking and people stayed in one place a lot, so you got a cuisine
821.
by cwyers 8y ago
A lot of this seems to be driven by Android developers who are locked into an older version of the JVM because of decisions Google has made. In other words, Kotlin is taking improvements from languages that target other environments (the CL
822.
by cwyers 8y ago
Almost everything is still supported by mainline GCC. I don't know, it's a weird choice to me, given that BeOS never AFAICT supported Dreamcast either.
823.
by cwyers 8y ago
So, I looked into NewOS, the kernel that Haiku is based off of. It hasn't been updated in 10 years (I gather that Haiku's fork has taken most of the attention, so that's neither here or there). That said, I found this amusing
824.
by cwyers 8y ago
People who really, really miss BeOS.
825.
by cwyers 8y ago
> has the added benefit of creating an opportunity for a company to re-centralize the culture
826.
by cwyers 8y ago
The maple syrup heist episode is amazing. I still can't believe that's real.
827.
by cwyers 8y ago
https://www.wired.com/story/feds-seize-backpagecom-site-link...
828.
by cwyers 8y ago
There's a flashing LED light inside the thing and the driver controls how the light behaves. I grant that this is at best unnecessary, but let's just say that the market for wired mice with decent ergonomic characteristics and hef
829.
by cwyers 8y ago
That's uptime-as-anecdote. Yes, you can throw your entire IT department at your outage instead of waiting on the vendor to fix it. How many of us work somewhere where the entire IT team is as large as the team that works on Slack'
830.
by cwyers 8y ago
> I suspect most people haven't touched Windows since years ago and it's time for a serious second look if so. I feel like this is evidence of living in a bubble. Windows is the dominant OS for anything in a PC form factor (eve
831.
by cwyers 8y ago
That's pretty much why I got it, and now that the original IntelliMouse is back, I don't know if I need the glowing green death mouse of eventual GDPR compliance?
832.
by cwyers 8y ago
It took me a while to find a mouse I was happy with, but now that Razer required me to update my _mouse driver_ for GDPR compliance, I am thinking about switching to this. In general, I like my hardware to come with as little software as po
833.
by cwyers 8y ago
> But the most glaringly obvious drawback to MS-DOS stared you in the face every time you turned on the computer and were greeted with that blinking, cryptic “C:\>” prompt. Hackers might have loved the command line, but it was a night
834.
by cwyers 8y ago
PowerPC had support from Apple, IBM and Motorola, plus it saw use in every video game console for a time period, it got a Windows port... it's still around and has its uses, but I don't know that you'd say it "succeeded.
835.
by cwyers 8y ago
I've seen 20-year-old Marines maintain EA-6B Prowlers, I'm sure they can figure out DARPA's fancy new wheels.
836.
by cwyers 8y ago
I mean, sometimes handling an API failure correctly is failing over. If an API call actually matters, then when the API stops responding, throw an error. Even if you're probably catching that and giving out an error message, I'd s
837.
by cwyers 8y ago
That's a user.
838.
by cwyers 8y ago
In what sense is Blender a customer if they aren't monetizing their videos, though?
839.
by cwyers 8y ago
> Google cannot get enough people showing ads on their videos to support people who choose not to show ads. Or maybe they just don't want to.
840.
by cwyers 8y ago
> In 2007, a comprehensive study of markets around the world found that ones where short selling was legal and common were more efficient than ones where it was not. And a 2012 study concluded simply, “Stock prices are more accurate when

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