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by jasomill 11mo ago
Short answer: Probably not outright forbidden — but discouraged or constrained — because “I asked AI…” posts usually add noise, not insight. (source: ChatGPT)
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by jasomill 11mo ago
While Cook isn't a product visionary, and never pretended to be, he's also not a mere caretaker: before he was CEO, he was responsible for the design and implementation of Apple's global supply chain and manufacturing operati
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by jasomill 11mo ago
I assume it has as much to do with the fact that Disney and Comcast didn't settle on terms of sale for Comcast's minority stake in Hulu until June of this year.
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by jasomill 11mo ago
I imagine major HBO resellers / direct Netflix competitors Amazon and Hulu (Disney) will insist on HBO remaining an extra-cost option, assuming these relationships survive the merger at all.
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by jasomill 11mo ago
Hulu "no ads" is even worse. Live TV? Ads. Shows available as part of streaming packages for channels included in live TV? Ads. Random other stuff "due to streaming rights"? Ads. At this point I pretty much assume any no
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by jasomill 11mo ago
Integration is the biggest thing. While some desktop VM hosts provide various integration bits like file sharing and rootless window support, the experience is rarely seemless. Drawing a few examples from an old Raymond Chen blog post[1], i
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by jasomill 11mo ago
True, but plenty chase specs like sample rate (beyond 96 kHz) and bit depth (beyond 24) that have no practical benefit beyond the DAC circuit.
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by jasomill 11mo ago
This. I’d complain more about Face ID if Apple Pay wasn’t the first payment mechanism I’ve used that reliably fulfills the promise of being faster/easier than cash, and Face ID + mechanical button is a big part of that.
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by jasomill 11mo ago
For gaming, this doesn't bother me much, given that, even at today's prices, the cost of maintaining a midrange gaming PC with ample storage and "recommended" specs for new releases is probably no more than $200-$300&#x2
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by jasomill 11mo ago
Reminds me of a silly thing that happened when I was a freshman in high school, ca. 1992. We had a dumb "computer literacy" class taught in an computer lab full of PS/2 Model 25s with no hard drives, and were each issued a
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by jasomill 11mo ago
I don't know what it scans in the background by default, but it can custom scan mounted volumes with no visible mount points assigned at all, e.g., my EFI partition containing a copy of the EICAR test file[1]: PS C:\Users\jtm>
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by jasomill 11mo ago
Symlinks also work on NTFS, though mount points have the advantage of not having a canonical path that might be unintentionally resolved and persisted.
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by jasomill 11mo ago
As long as the rotations aren't for more than a month or two, sign me up as well!
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by jasomill 11mo ago
Tastes differ. I personally find the 36U IBM rack in the corner of my apartment more visually appealing than some of my other furniture, and consolidating equipment in a rack with built-in PDUs makes it easier to run everything through a si
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by jasomill 11mo ago
Office 365 is a subscription, not a perpetual license, but the only time I can recall Microsoft ever deliberately removing access to downloadable software I was entitled to was in the late 90's, when they removed Windows 98 and Windows
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by jasomill 11mo ago
Amusingly, download.info.apple.com still appears to serve all the files that used to be on the old FTP site, including a small and somewhat random subset of old system software versions for Mac and Apple II, Newton firmware updates, etc., b
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by jasomill 11mo ago
Funny you mention this, as I've written quite a bit of Python code that works just like this, typically in the form of an evaluator for some random proprietary language I've parsed into an AST in the form of a Python list or tuple
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by jasomill 11mo ago
Before you could assume...null pointer derefs will be trapped by the OS Before when? Microsoft(R) MS-DOS(R) Version 6.22 (C)Copyright Microsoft Corp 1981-1994. C:\TMP>type foo.c void main() { long q = 0;
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by jasomill 11mo ago
I was, but my application was less fun: porting Perl code from Windows NT to MS-DOS to integrate with software that required direct hardware access to a particular model of SCSI card. Worked great, and saved a bunch of time vs writing a VDD
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by jasomill 11mo ago
To be fair, I've seen definitions of AI so broad that they'd probably include the root finder on my HP-15C.
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by jasomill 11mo ago
Not so cheap if your hardware decoder only supports 8-bit color, which is a common limitation of H.264 decoders in particular.
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by jasomill 1y ago
[Fullscreen icon in YouTube is double arrow, not broken rectangle.]
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by jasomill 1y ago
Not sure what you’re asking. You can get fullscreen video in a desktop browser by pressing F or clicking the fullscreen icon (broken rectangle) below the video. You can get ad-free playback by paying for Premium or sometimes with an ad bloc
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by jasomill 1y ago
Now you need both a buggy HDCP 1.4 splitter and an HDCP 2.1 to 1.4 converter.
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by jasomill 1y ago
1000/40 is rather asymmetric and the fastest service available in my area.
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by jasomill 1y ago
Recent Xbox controllers support both Bluetooth and a proprietary protocol; Microsoft sells an optional dongle to use the latter on PC. AFAIK, PlayStation wireless controllers are Bluetooth-only, but the DualSense (PS5) controllers use some
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by jasomill 1y ago
And you can repair an already-paired device by either holding down the power button for a few seconds or flipping the power switch on and off a few times, depending on the model. My biggest annoyance with Apple devices is in software, that
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by jasomill 1y ago
Sure, but janky $30 wireless gaming headsets have even lower latency, with better audio quality, than Bluetooth handsfree, so it's still sad that anything still uses it.
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by jasomill 1y ago
I've used libqpdf extensively from C++/CLI with excellent results, but since C++/CLI is deprecated-ish and Windows-only, I wouldn't disagree with PDF being a pain point, and if I get the time, a cross-platform open sourc
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by jasomill 1y ago
MSC and UAS are SCSI transport protocols and have nothing to do with a device being identified as a removable device, which happens at the higher command set layer. Specifically, flash drives typically set the removable media bit in their r

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