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by fidotron 5mo ago
> The main thing is that the keys still work like on day 1. And I've never seen a calculator with keys like this, with such feedback that you never need to worry about double-presses or missed-presses. This is also the thing I'
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by fidotron 5mo ago
Aside from the other problems the emergent trend of shoehorning window level tabs into apps kind of indicates a failure of OS level window management. If people really want tabs in everything then have the windows enable tabbing between mul
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by fidotron 5mo ago
You can do some related tricks to this in browsers too: https://github.com/atomirex/fishtank-js (example https://atomirex.github.io/fishtank-js/dist/index.html ) There is a greatly cleaner ve
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by fidotron 5mo ago
> And yet where are the native games for the platform? My Steam library is full of old win32 games that run better on Linux than they do on Windows 11. There are some native games appearing because of the Steam Deck, but the fact is they
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Canada's AI strategy is set to fail before it even launches(theglobeandmail.com)
3 points by fidotron 5mo ago|0 comments
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by fidotron 5mo ago
This is, admittedly, the great anomaly. In truth if AMD or nVidia put their mind to having decent profiling tooling on Linux, and the AI wave suggests they will have no option, then this could readily become a thing.
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by fidotron 5mo ago
At this point Valve look more capable of running a platform business than Microsoft do. Microsoft have spent the whole Nadella era in "oooo cloud" inspired wonder and actively screwed up everything else.
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by fidotron 5mo ago
Honestly this looks like Microsoft must have thrown a pile of money at them to not mention it, as it's just too obviously the main question. No one seriously cares about this running Windows. We want Steam and CUDA/Ollama, and Win
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by fidotron 5mo ago
Rosetta on Mac was obviously impressive. There was also impressive Arm->Intel translation in the mobile ecosystem at one time. One reason it works surprisingly well on modern systems is how much is offloaded to the GPU. You aren't g
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by fidotron 5mo ago
A better solution would be to make webgl, webgpu and (especially) webrtc have some sort of prompt before they can be in any way used in that fashion, but this will absolutely destroy web ux Windows Vista style.
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by fidotron 5mo ago
> ...in the age of AI, does anyone have an actual solution for keeping out bots while preserving the privacy of humans? There isn't one, and pretending otherwise is nonsense because humans will always provide their credentials to so
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by fidotron 5mo ago
That's not really the point: the key question is why HN is so out to lunch on this and closely related areas. It's clearly somewhat structural. Look at the state of discussion just in this thread. I minimized my contribution for t
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by fidotron 5mo ago
It's legitimately surprising how off the pace HN is when it comes to discussions of this type. You won't get useful thoughts on this around here.
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by fidotron 5mo ago
My experience of it, which is quite substantial both as dev and overseeing whole teams at it, is people do not pay for GPU programming, they do pay for integrating it into their framework, optimizing what the artists did already, and develo
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by fidotron 5mo ago
European consumer focused businesses do not scale easily the same way US ones do, which is a major contributor to their problems developing tech businesses generally. OTOH such things can be quite defensible, they just rarely become anythin
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by fidotron 5mo ago
Supply/demand. For example, GPU shader programming is something people will practically fight over doing because it's so non obviously utterly addictive. I would say dev roles in tech in general that lack an operational component
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by fidotron 5mo ago
Human only "safe spaces" will be a thing. Where they draw the line will be the question.
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by fidotron 5mo ago
The future of SRE will be the company putting some amount of money on a prediction market against the site going down and you get to take home the winnings as long as the site stays up.
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CRTC to require streamers pay 15% of annual rev to support Canadian content(nationalpost.com)
3 points by fidotron 5mo ago|0 comments
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by fidotron 5mo ago
As others have pointed out at the time she absolutely did get attention. What the modern UK has memory holed is just how bonkersly pro-Russian it was in the 90s; everything from Tetris, Newton handwriting recognition, software generally, ro
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Fairlight CVI (Computer Video Instrument) Demo Video (1984)(youtube.com)
5 points by fidotron 5mo ago|0 comments
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by fidotron 5mo ago
Surely they have their reasons, but if they made Linux support work I suspect a lot of the dev community would jump. This household certainly would.
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by fidotron 5mo ago
AI apes that because it's been status signaling american corpospeak for a while. Almost like they're trained on LinkedIn or something.
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by fidotron 5mo ago
It's entirely plausible Google won't tell Railway without an NDA to prevent them disclosing exactly what set it all off. The bigger point though is Google really need to flag any business account as not subject to these suspension
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by fidotron 5mo ago
> I disagree, Alta Vista had excellent an excellent search UI with Boolean logic. Google discarded that because it thought it 'knew better' in terms of Page Rank. This is precisely what all the extreme LLM haters have memory ho
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by fidotron 5mo ago
From the point of view of the RISC-V architects the "users" are the chip designers who are engaged in a sort of build-your-own-instruction-set situation, and this kind of makes sense, but does contribute to it being a mess. They a
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by fidotron 5mo ago
Objecting to this from the user end seems a bit like complaining the original Google was trying to be too magic when what you wanted was AltaVista. This has been the inevitable direction the whole time. The real problem here is assuming thi
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by fidotron 5mo ago
At FAANG it has been huge. Whole departments/products/divisions level, including many of the most expensive employees. There are reasons so many products get made to go precisely nowhere, because no one ever seriously intended for
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by fidotron 5mo ago
For a long time this was compounded by a "better inside the tent pissing out than outside the tent pissing in" strategy, where you hired people to deny them to your competition and then invented things for them to do. If it turns
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by fidotron 5mo ago
> There isn’t the resources to watch all of this cctv. Sure someone could spend weeks watching all the feeds in the city to track the thief down. But the cost quickly exceeds the value of the bike. Precisely. So why exactly did they depl

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