glhaynes

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   by glhaynes 3y ago

   I can easily imagine how stickiness helped, but how did wobbliness?
2. 182.▲
   by glhaynes 3y ago

   How would you know?
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   Intel Is in Talks to Be an Anchor Investor in Chip Designer Arm’s IPO(bloomberg.com)

   5 points by glhaynes 3y ago|1 comments
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   by glhaynes 3y ago

   At 1:31:50 in the Keynote video they mention “Bluetooth accessories like Magic Trackpad and Magic Keyboard” and show those on a table and a person typing on the keyboard. I don’t believe the cursor of the trackpad is shown (but I’m on my ph
5. 185.▲
   by glhaynes 3y ago

   They talked about and briefly showed using game controllers and keyboards/pointing devices with it.
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   by glhaynes 3y ago

   I'm certainly not an xnu specialist but from what I understand, you've basically got a BSD kernel (a "macrokernel") running in privileged mode that (roughly) just has a few services replaced by or connected to Mach ones.
7. 187.▲
   by glhaynes 3y ago

   I've never understood how the difference between the editions being just a matter of having different bits set means "marketing is bullshit". How's changing the bits post-install different from, say, having Workstation v
8. 188.▲
   by glhaynes 3y ago

   How interesting! Wasn’t aware such programs existed. Thanks.
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   by glhaynes 3y ago

   The limiting factor for old consoles is largely RAM. The NES only had 2 KiB of RAM, making it pretty infeasible to even run anything CP/M-like. Its 6502 CPU also doesn’t have things like privilege levels/memory protection. Moving
10. 190.▲
    by glhaynes 3y ago

    and has drivers to use Windows GDI so you don't have to mess around with drivers This was a thing? So, would it still run in the "MS-DOS Command Prompt" in Windows but talk directly to Windows for its screen drawing?
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    by glhaynes 3y ago

    Great cover, as always for Byte of that era.
12. 192.▲
    by glhaynes 3y ago

    I wonder if this works by measuring the size of your touch (i.e., how much your finger "splats" when it touches) or using the accelerometers/gyroscope or what.
13. 193.▲
    by glhaynes 3y ago

    I love the Swift Talk video series https://talk.objc.io . They've done a few reimplementations of SwiftUI components that helped me feel more like I understood those things.
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    by glhaynes 3y ago

    Software's pretty cool.
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    by glhaynes 3y ago

    How is it less disruptive than a regular macOS update?
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    by glhaynes 3y ago

    I got my first computer when I was about 6. It would boot to BASIC if there wasn't a floppy disk inserted. I typed something random and got back "SYNTAX ERROR". I wasn't old enough to know what either sin or taxes were,
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    by glhaynes 4y ago

    If you're price-sensitive and not already doing so, include the M2 MBA (or, hell, even the M1 MBA) in your calculations. Great machines, way more than sufficient for most. Though there are some nice, fun luxury (again, for most) featur
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    by glhaynes 4y ago

    MLK is largely seen as a virtuous, wise person. A lot of moral sentiment enters into people's opinions on social economics. Also, people look to group sentiment to calibrate whether a proposal is more extreme than they want to think of
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    by glhaynes 4y ago

    Numbers that seem to show lots of deaths to "kids" pretty much always include age ranges old enough to include gang members. So what if they were? It's pretty damn sad for a person young enough to be considered a child to d
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    by glhaynes 4y ago

    It's strange to me that Apple Maps is the only app I know of that works this way.
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    by glhaynes 4y ago

    I've stayed up hours past when I'd intended to go to sleep several times reading her site. Just constantly interesting and fun to read.
22. 202.▲
    by glhaynes 4y ago

    This the same knowledge that told us we should stone a man to death if he lies with another man?
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    by glhaynes 4y ago

    Kinda reminds me of how the Genesis/Mega Drive’s audio incorporated both the new Yamaha FM synth chip and the Master System’s TI programmable sound generator. Covered backwards compatibility but they also could both be used at the same
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    by glhaynes 4y ago

    That’s an interesting point, and I’m not disputing it, but I don’t recall ever having noticed that similarity.
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    by glhaynes 4y ago

    Didn’t know this existed! Thanks, off to look for it.
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    by glhaynes 4y ago

    https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1589414958508691456 He specifically said he would not ban it as part of his commitment to free speech.
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    by glhaynes 4y ago

    Every company doesn’t ask you to bring screenshots of your source code.
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    by glhaynes 4y ago

    While fixing serious problems, numerous smaller incidentals could be patched, such as having chosen the architectural representation of "true" to be 1 instead of -1. What issues does that cause? Finding it difficult to web searc
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    by glhaynes 4y ago

    As the classic Twitter meme says: "I would simply…"
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    by glhaynes 4y ago

    It just would seem like a more interesting question if this post was a link promoting your private thoughts rather than a generic link to the public blog of one of the largest companies on earth. But maybe the question wasn’t really related