dinkblam

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   by dinkblam 3y ago

   > dark time for fans of the Mac can't agree. yeah you were expecting them to go under each day, and OS-development slowed to a crawl (7.5.x releases seemingly dragged on forever). but things were moving in the right direction, techn
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   by dinkblam 3y ago

   honorable mention should also go to SK8, just to keep memory of it alive: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SK8_(programming_language) the interface was unusual (definitely violating Apple's own HIG) and "futuris
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   by dinkblam 3y ago

   naive question: where is the difference to Instapaper?
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   by dinkblam 3y ago

   stopping to listen to heavy metal because of tinnitus is a really sad story
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   by dinkblam 3y ago

   indeed. even more so, it is already a joke that we have to call it AGI now. back in the day it was just "AI", but then the marketing people came along and called every mediocre machine-learning system or algorithm with more than 1
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   by dinkblam 3y ago

   Apple does not have a market share of 30% of desktops. Even it it had, what matters here is actual number of players. Steam stats come in at Windows 96.94% Linux 1.63% macOS 1.43% [1]. So when they say excluded platforms account for 1%, the
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   by dinkblam 3y ago

   > Video conf still sucks Audio calls also still suck. Commercials in the 90s advertised "crystal clear audio quality" - they stopped talking about it but it never materialised.
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   by dinkblam 3y ago

   better link with less and less offensive ads: https://arkeonews.net/new-discoveries-in-gobeklitepe-and-kar...
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   by dinkblam 3y ago

   can midjourney be used without that propriety and inappropriate "discord" interface?
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    by dinkblam 3y ago

    agreed. the new version (which they obviously view as so much better that this is their one "we made improvements" sample) is just repugnant
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    by dinkblam 3y ago

    from the article: we have investigated this issue after the 6th beta was released and reported the bug to Apple
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    by dinkblam 3y ago

    not surprised. we've filed dozens of bug reports as every new macOS release gets worse and worse. i've given up on filing reports now, since they won't get fixed or even looked at anyway. i see the problem with triaging when
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    by dinkblam 3y ago

    those 4 "food groups" seem like a big nonsense. what people in the UK (and elsewhere to a lesser degree) are eating isn't unhealthy because it is "ultra processed", it is unhealthy because it consists of 80% fat&amp
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    by dinkblam 3y ago

    there seem to be a large number of wrappers around Apple's ARM Virtualization.framework: VirtualBuddy, Viable, Tart, vz, virtualOS, Virtual Machines Hub, Cheetah, etc, etc not sure we need yet another one. a comprehensive comparison of
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    by dinkblam 3y ago

    anyone know a similar resource for europe? ( i'd love to buy as much asphalt for as little as possible… )
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    by dinkblam 3y ago

    rabbit is very tasteless (not unlike chicken) while hare is quite "gamey"
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    by dinkblam 3y ago

    also, his posts on the Apple Developer Forums are also much more professional and insightful than the crap which Apple calls their documentation.
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    by dinkblam 3y ago

    a much worse recent change is documented here: https://www.mothersruin.com/software/SuspiciousPackage/faq.h... basically no experienced Mac user would ever open a .PKG package with the Installer, but rather open i
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    by dinkblam 3y ago

    fully agreed. if you look at e.g. California, those European diseases might start to infect the USA too...
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    by dinkblam 3y ago

    Aaaah Tomacco! Slightly off-topic trivia: there is a reference to Tomaccos in the story-mode of the game CoreBreach ( https://www.corecode.io/corebreach/ ). [Probably cannot be obtained anymore for quite a few years now
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    by dinkblam 3y ago

    there are similar mini-trucks e.g. in Italy with left-hand drive, which could simplify import/usage
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    by dinkblam 3y ago

    not scientific evidence but just one more data point to corroborate this line of thought. i never had even the slightest wrist problems during 26 years of typing and software development - but i've also never stopped exercising, includ
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    by dinkblam 3y ago

    huh? https://www.metal-archives.com/albums/Dio/The_Last_in_Line/1...
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    by dinkblam 3y ago

    it doesn't matter if the adventurer is wealthy or not, people why take extraordinary risks, should pay their rescue themselves (or have special insurance covering that stuff). why does the public have to pay for all those extreme sport
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    by dinkblam 3y ago

    Huh? Swimming pools are definitely something middle class people can afford. Just not in a city centre, obviously.
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    by dinkblam 3y ago

    > There is a quite short timer on not only the entire conversation couldn't agree more and they took like 30 seconds to type a few words. if i really have been talking to a human here, i can only suspect heavy usage of drugs: https
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    by dinkblam 3y ago

    https://github.com/libretro/RetroArch/issues/15332
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    Retroarch Has Been Hacked(retroarch.com)

    1 points by dinkblam 3y ago|2 comments
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    by dinkblam 3y ago

    In many places construction noise is far louder.
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    by dinkblam 3y ago

    > Surely it's worth the expense. you'd think the same about parachutes for everyone which could have rescued lives on some of the plane disasters.