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by hakfoo 3y ago
I think there's probably some room for more diverse options. The last couple of times I went to the cinema were for when they'd do an English release of a popular anime film (One Piece Film Red and the Slime Isekai film). Those a
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by hakfoo 3y ago
That audience is sort of immaterial to the argument. If you have a firm that's committed to a frozen image of the platform on a specific date, they'll stick with existing products or modest riffs on it. The same premise is why we
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by hakfoo 3y ago
> A decapitation, of a head from a body that isn't a very big fan of that head. What's the argument behind this? Yes, there are questions about the quality of polling data you can extract from the Chinese public, but the polls
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by hakfoo 3y ago
I'm not sure that's such a case for STMicro. Microcontrollers are, all things considered, not that much about the ISA itself, especially when we've gotten to 32-bit controllers big enough to program in C or higher-level langu
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by hakfoo 3y ago
We need a stronger system to buy out patents-- not just software patents-- for the sake of retiring them in the public interest. The risk isn't just "we want 10 cents per consumption unit", it's that they have the abilit
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by hakfoo 3y ago
The problem isn't even building NT for ARM/RISC-V/SH-4 or whatever, it's being able to reproduce enough of the surrounding universe that Windows on x86-64 has. Apple has more leverage over devs; they can say "No mor
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by hakfoo 3y ago
Sadly, the world does need one. There are plenty of systems where you might have a $5 million piece of hardware, tied into a $1 million of revenue per day process, that's all driven by a very specific machine with a very specific versi
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by hakfoo 3y ago
My two cents: Open source displaced a lot of propriatery stacks. When you're running commercial software at $$$$ per license, the customers basically have to stick to whatever hardware is explicitly supported. And the vendors are goi
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by hakfoo 3y ago
Maybe the pictures are selected as mementos of the events. I suspect if you have to rely on the photos available through the state sources and news media, most of them will have his face in them. It's probably a social faux pas to arr
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by hakfoo 3y ago
The problem with voting is that the closer you bring authentication to the picture, the harder it becomes to solve the issue of ballot secrecy. Today's "sign the book at the poll, and we give you a ballot, which is one of 500 in t
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by hakfoo 3y ago
From what I understand, early pinball looked a lot more like pachinko. There weren't flippers and there was much less opportunity to consciously guide gameplay. This made it a lot more of a game of chance than a game of skill, so it w
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by hakfoo 3y ago
I can recall using Window Maker on my college laptop in 2003, and it was clean and functional. Sadly, the Dock App ecosystem didn't age well. The media control stuff tends to be like 5 audio APIs out of date, and much of it is very ti
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by hakfoo 3y ago
I wonder if part of it was that they filled a gap that was sort of broken. Low-end Android phones used to suck. Hell, even high-end ones. There was a lot of jank, battery life was mediocre, software looked and felt patched together. Windo
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by hakfoo 3y ago
I have to think there's a fair amount of political pressure these days to not be all-in on China. See: any cut-off-your-nose-to-spite-your-face trade rules. This isn't like dealing with the USSR, where the manufacturing infrastru
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by hakfoo 3y ago
I love that they glommed onto the new terror of the week with "deep faked". Maybe if people would rather watch the deep fake than what you're showing, you have bad programming. Hell, given the trajectory from "TV Star&qu
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by hakfoo 3y ago
That assumes that the data is being used responsibly. Leftover assets that weren't properly cleaned before shipping the build? Uncompressed media that could be? (I recall that even well into the 2000s games often came with basically u
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I expected it to go in reverse. "Charge your car at the supermarket. If you spend $X with your loyalty-club card, we'll deduct $Y from the charging bill." The customer is captive for 15 minutes somewhere , but you can cert
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by hakfoo 3y ago
Last trip, I just packed ham sandwiches and cookies in the carry bag. I feel like a high-schooler on a field trip, but I'm not paying $10+ for box of terrible snacks. Also, never pay the First Class premium on UK railways: it's t
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by hakfoo 3y ago
Amenity discovery is a lot harder than price discovery, so people are going to decide based on the info they can obtain easily. It would probably be very difficult to reliably compare flights on plane-specific amenities (if the plane ends u
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Maybe it's not "social justice engineering" so much as liability avoidance. We've seen plenty of issues with police that wildly escalate a situation, in ways that result in things like "burn-half-the-city-down riots
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by hakfoo 3y ago
It's interesting that if the 386SX wasn't much simpler electronically than the 386DX, but mostly in packaging, that there was never a "386DL" for cost-no-object laptops. I guess its market window might have been too narr
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by hakfoo 3y ago
There's another project that's an interesting read at https://www.homebrew8088.com/ . It uses almost all commodity 74xx parts, except for a 486-era keyboard controller. If you use the NEC V40, a 186-style semi-int
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by hakfoo 3y ago
Fundamentally, I wonder if Microsoft has lost the "spirit" for Windows. If you said "where do we steer Windows for the next 10 years", I'm not sure there's a great answer, one that would please business peopl
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It feels like Premium Economy is what Economy was a few years ago, and Economy is basically anything they can unbolt and sell me seperately. I fully expect my next flight's safety lecture to feature "In the event of tubulence, pl
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by hakfoo 3y ago
There's a reasonable case that Private Browsing and Tor serve different enough use cases that they're not interchangeable. Private Browsing: The goal is to prevent embarrassment. I'm looking at porn or shopping for gifts fo
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by hakfoo 3y ago
It feels like a fundamental paradigm shift. From 14" CRT at 640x480 to 17" at 1024x768 or 1280x1024, to typical widescreen 1920x1080 LCDs, and finally to 2560x1440: most screen upgrades were about more "screen space" so
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by hakfoo 3y ago
I'd expect there's some lost scale opportunities. Outside of the really unique designs (folding, etc.), most phone screens tend to fall into a few basic size classes, but we still end up with wildly varying designs within those cl
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by hakfoo 3y ago
While the Spanish 8 reales was commonly cut, it actually didn't have great affordances for it. There were two common types in the colonial era-- one had the monarch's portrait, and one had two globes between two pillars. Both typ
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The florin was a very late addition to the system (1848) and a very conscious step towards decimalization; the first two major designs said literally "One tenth of a pound" on them. It's surprising there was no obvious press
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by hakfoo 3y ago
TBH, if anyone else brought a remotely competent eraser pointer to market, I'd probably consider them. Even the hyperconfigurable Framework doesn't offer one. Sometimes you can find a random business-line HP or Dell with one, but

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