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by eschaton 2y ago
When far suburbs and exurbs have to pay their own way they often wind up not being able to. Those that don’t have an equivalent to California’s Prop 13 cap on property tax increases will have to raise property taxes substantially to continu
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by eschaton 2y ago
Excuse me, but this is incorrect: > Concepts originated at FHI that are now influential: existential risk, astronomical waste, information hazards, differential technological development, crucial considerations, exploratory engineering,
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by eschaton 3y ago
Everyone, are you sure? Seems like you’re forgetting someone in this statement: The enslaved people.
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by eschaton 3y ago
LCM's trouble was entirely caused by LCM not being completely spun off with an endowment prior to Paul Allen's untimely death and the inheritance of his estate by his sister Jody. Jody Allen doesn't care about LCM, so she &qu
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by eschaton 3y ago
Look which comments are being flagged and downvoted though. There's obviously some brigading happening by people who buy Jason Scott's story.
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by eschaton 3y ago
And you can also care whether what he says is actually accurate.
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by eschaton 3y ago
Capital.
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by eschaton 3y ago
If you work in a field that’s built around intellectual property law, as any creative field including software is, it behooves you to be sufficiently familiar with it to understand that MTG’s tap mechanic was patented not covered by copyr
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by eschaton 3y ago
Yikes! So even the A3000 was hobbled by decisions made in 1983-85!
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by eschaton 3y ago
Or you dual-port the VRAM. Or you have a division between RAM banks managed by the OS, e.g. “slow” and “fast.” Or you have the custom chips mediate access to the VRAM entirely, but offer a DMA feature for, say, block transfers of bits. Or…
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by eschaton 3y ago
Sounds like all of these should be the default for print-like output devices.
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by eschaton 3y ago
The reason they didn’t do a full 640×480 was because they were focused on TV-compatible video hardware, not because an 8MHz 68000 couldn’t handle it. Even without Commodore’s terrible corporate structure they would have had a rough time imp
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by eschaton 3y ago
Maybe people are getting what they pay for.
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by eschaton 3y ago
Yeah. Every time a pundit, even an Apple-focused one, complains that macOS “hasn’t changed” I have to shake my head at such ignorance from people who should know better. The interface changes relatively slowly, all things considered. (Whe
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by eschaton 3y ago
They were not. The early Mac operating system and Toolbox were written in assembly, with a Pascal API . MacApp was ported to C++ in the late 1980s and went C++ only in the very early 1990s, about 1991-2 with MacApp 3. MacApp was the framew
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by eschaton 3y ago
It also could be that interstellar travel is possible but never inexpensive enough to be casual or useful for ever-expanding colonization. Or it could be that civilizations stabilize before the point where ever-expanding colonization become
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by eschaton 3y ago
I think it depends on what you mean by “last,” a star might “last” even longer than 5×10^12 years before the last component nucleons of its remnant evaporate. If you consider how long a star lasts to be how long it emits around the same amo
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by eschaton 3y ago
The author is *completely wrong* about recapping. You can either proactively replace electrolytic capacitors that will leak sooner or later, or you can replace them after they leak and also have to repair traces, replace components, and so
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by eschaton 3y ago
One great thing about this is that the Flash support isn’t a feature of the QuickTime container format—it’s just another type of track media! The container or overall structure didn’t have to change to accommodate it, it could just be add
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by eschaton 3y ago
> I’m still not sure exactly what I would do Use statistical modeling to determine the likely need for various generic drugs over time, and hire generic producers to make enough to accommodate that need, leveraging feedback loops to adju
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by eschaton 3y ago
To my knowledge, RIFF is comparable to the lowest levels of the QuickTime container format in that it’s made up of chunks with a tag and a size. Lots of file formats have done that back into the 1960s and probably even before, it’s one of t
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by eschaton 3y ago
The only significant rough edge in the QuickTime container format that I know if is the means for extending atom sizes and data offsets to 64 bits. Otherwise it’s extremely clean, especially given that it was designed almost 35 years ago.
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by eschaton 3y ago
Thanks! QuickTime’s not proprietary, it’s been well-documented and open since it was new and being 30+ years old there’s not a lot of encumbrance to worry about.
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by eschaton 3y ago
I suggested it because I’m more familiar with the QuickTime container format from 30+ years as a Mac developer, the QuickTime container format is straightforward to implement, well-documented and unencumbered, it’s the basis of ISOBMFF whic
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by eschaton 3y ago
I meant in the ideal sense, not practical—every bit of tape essentially corresponds to a timestamp because the medium is essentially one-dimensional. Of course the physical reality of tape is much more complex, but when considering some
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by eschaton 3y ago
Thanks, I’m glad someone understood my post. :)
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by eschaton 3y ago
Why does a web page need GL?
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by eschaton 3y ago
But the specific reasoning of the arguments in the suit, and the arguments in the decision and dissent, will very much be of a liberal or conservative bent.
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by eschaton 3y ago
You say no one wants that, then you describe doing exactly that. If your “app” runs in a browser window—a window presented by a browser engine—it’s fundamentally a web page. (They’re two distinct words.)
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by eschaton 3y ago
So there’s no real use case. Got it.

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