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by hotnfresh 3y ago
Sure, but it still makes the pro slightly worse than it could be. One of the things that quickly convinced me I’d been computing wrong, the first time I was issued a MBP, was that I could just pick it up and walk off and be able to work for
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by hotnfresh 3y ago
I regularly wish my work MacBook Pro had a single A port. I understand my personal Air not having one—it’s lacking all ports but C—but it’s the one thing preventing my MBP from being as always-useful-entirely-on-its-own as the 2014 Pro I us
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by hotnfresh 3y ago
The computer accessories shelves at e.g. Target are still dominated by A. Two years after this article.
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by hotnfresh 3y ago
Film and tv studios. Selling is fine, but no rental or subscription streaming. Basically the same as the no-owning-movie-theaters rule. Idea’s to force streaming services to compete on service quality, not content exclusivity.
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by hotnfresh 3y ago
Why would you assume any of that? So it’s easier to dismiss the notion?
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by hotnfresh 3y ago
It would be better for consumers if productions were available through more outlets rather than fewer, so yes.
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by hotnfresh 3y ago
They use a language called BrigthScript that’s closest to Visual Basic. It was originally intended for digital signage. A few years back they “improved” it with XML crap that you have to use to describe public methods of your objects(!) and
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by hotnfresh 3y ago
> The fragmentation is both a flaw and a feature It’d be purely a feature if we banned shared ownership of distribution and production, like we did with movie studios and movie theaters for decades.
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by hotnfresh 3y ago
Hype might die down and some of the hundreds to thousands (yeah…) of doomed (because, even optimistically, most are plainly never gonna be worth the resources going into them) AI boondoggles at various startups and bigcos might get cancelle
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by hotnfresh 3y ago
> if i start going off, the openai board should go after me for the full value of my shares 1) Is not using caps, like… a cool-kid thing now? 2) WTF does this mean?
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by hotnfresh 3y ago
This is what makes me irritated when folks (like, say, on this very site) are all, “LOL just do your job, parents.” Yeah, I’m fucking trying , but all the tech features for this are defective and this is a whole pile of extra crap that pri
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by hotnfresh 3y ago
> This is because software engineers never actually use devices that have parental controls enabled. Yeah, it’s super-obvious. In many cases they’ve put work into implementing crap that’s useless without a lot more work to add more featu
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by hotnfresh 3y ago
It can. The trouble with Minecraft is that it phones home to a dozen IPV6 addresses every time it launches, and it practically never contacts the same one twice. Makes it impractical to apply allow-only address access to the Internet and st
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by hotnfresh 3y ago
One thing I can’t believe about Apple TV is that you can’t require a PIN for all apps but an allow-list—just for all apps. This, coupled with the fact that nothing other than first-party Apple apps respect the age rating settings makes th
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by hotnfresh 3y ago
Serial was my guess, if it was in fact 9-pin. I don’t think I ever had a serial-port keyboard, but I did used to have a serial-port mouse. Game port had more pins.
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by hotnfresh 3y ago
I’m waiting for an update that lets me play it without VR. I’m probably never going to have a VR rig that’ll play it. My wife has a couple for work (not capable of playing that game, though) and we’re both free to use them for whatever we l
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by hotnfresh 3y ago
Mass ecological devastation in the name of profit, complete with displacement of animals and the explicit suggestion that they might die as a result (The Lorax) A sensitive individual takes seriously pleas for help from a vulnerable populat
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by hotnfresh 3y ago
Oh man, no sound on Chrono Trigger is a shame. The music’s great.
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by hotnfresh 3y ago
Chrono Trigger’s easily #1 for me in the 16-bit era, but FF VI is damn good.
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by hotnfresh 3y ago
> This is an issue that exists everywhere though solutions perhaps vary a bit. Usually it is a combination of relay loans (not free) and conditional contracts (tricky and pretty much the same result). We use both in the US. I’m assuming
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by hotnfresh 3y ago
Got a touchbar? I discovered the fingers on my right hand barely brush the bottomed edge of it when I make certain multi-key keystrokes. Right where the play “button” was by default. Took me forever to figure out why Music was opening “ra
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by hotnfresh 3y ago
You can serve tens to hundreds of millions of messaging clients with data centers (plural) that don’t cost billions , even collectively, to build.
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by hotnfresh 3y ago
> It was never about the resolution of pictures and even technical limitations around group chat was just part of it. It can be about both. It’s really nice to know when the images you sent are gonna be potato-quality and you need to fin
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by hotnfresh 3y ago
The small ISP/phone/cable company I worked for in high school had a data center. Maybe 20 racks. It was pretty damn reliable (old-school phone infra techs knew how to make shit stay “online”). I guarantee it wasn’t above the singl
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by hotnfresh 3y ago
DO, at least, has bad peering agreements that will cause you noticeable, unfixable (if you stay on DO…) persistent problems at large enough scale.
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by hotnfresh 3y ago
Java in theory and in synthetic benchmarks: damn near as lean and mean as C. Every actual Java project: “oh, did you want that memory and those cycles for something else? Yeah, sorry, I need them all. Why no, I’m not actually doing anythi
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by hotnfresh 3y ago
The pogo stick jump in Keens 1-3 took a lot of getting used to and one still tended to fail at it quite a bit, on keyboard. I hadn’t thought about it before, but yeah, I bet it’s much easier on a gamepad.
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by hotnfresh 3y ago
The core problem is that we have an utterly idiotic system in which knowing a nine-digit number lets you do any harm whatsoever. We have all the worst parts of a proper national ID system—tracking and data gathering by government and other
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by hotnfresh 3y ago
I did candle-only lighting and no screens at all after sundown for a couple weeks as an experiment one time. Candles (ones that don’t smell like a chemical processing plant, anyway) are expensive, inconvenient, and kinda dangerous, and dema
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by hotnfresh 3y ago
Physical activity at school has been dropping, too, for years—less recess, especially—and it’s hard to fix that at home in the winter when the kids get home at 4:30 and it’s dark at 5. No wonder they have too much energy to sleep.

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