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by jfb 3y ago
Yeah, it's true. And Emacs would be a very poor substrate for this.
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by jfb 3y ago
I have long wanted something that was basically a modern~ish Smalltalk environment, that spends more energy integrating with the rest of the world. Emacs is as close as we can get to a system that is inspectable, plastic, and open; I want t
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by jfb 3y ago
We heavily used `sips` when I was at Apple, because it was quicker than writing code against QuickTime or the other rendering subsystems.
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by jfb 3y ago
This is exactly what I do, save with natural keys.
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by jfb 3y ago
They're a business, that the users of their services pay money to. The only differences between them and Google is who their users are, and who is significantly more likely to shoot useful products in the head.
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by jfb 3y ago
I doubt that the HW engineers at Clevo or wherever are categorically that much worse than those at Apple or Lenovo, and the differing places their machines sit in the quality manifold is very much more a question of margins than ability.
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by jfb 3y ago
I'm very interested in seeing what they come up with. The existing laptops are, IIRC, rebadged Clevo (or some other OEM). It's a big risk, pulling more of that design in-house, but I'm hoping they can do it.
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by jfb 3y ago
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. It is much more likely that crypto will end up where most VC backed scams end up; with a stubborn and shrinking remnant of diehard fans who never realized how they were being used, and th
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by jfb 3y ago
What's to choose? Postgres all the way.
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by jfb 3y ago
If they can get a good type checker in ruff, or produce one as comparably better than mypy than ruff is from pre-existing tools ... well.
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by jfb 4y ago
I imagine you could find someone to sell you the panel from a Samsung or LG OLED with a custom controller in a bezel-less case for 10x what the commodity set cost you. But that's the issue -- it's a question of economics, not mali
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by jfb 4y ago
I have never been prouder to have become a Canadian citizen.
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by jfb 4y ago
Heh, I mean, sure? I liked it all, but I feel like the feel of it is what's missing, more than any one specific implementation, if that makes sense?
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by jfb 4y ago
I would like to see a system that acts like classic System 7, too. Less Unix sludge, more focus on a single interactive user. More explorability, more hackability. A computer that feels like your computer. I'm not sure that the Spa
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by jfb 4y ago
It works great on the iPad. In fact, it is a superior experience to keyboard/mouse.
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by jfb 4y ago
I always wanted a Toshiba 3200. That sexy screen!
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by jfb 4y ago
I'm not the OP, but I was around for this stuff at the time (my first exposure to ~Unix was Andrew at CMU in like '88) and while I definitely look back at some of it nostalgically, most of my nostalgia is for the contemporaneous M
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by jfb 4y ago
I didn't know this. The level of effort involved there is just staggering.
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by jfb 4y ago
I remember learning that when Pixar did a pan-and-scan version of one of their movies, they wouldn't just use a floating 4:3 frame over the 16:9 original -- they'd re-render the movie , moving items around as necessary, to get a
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by jfb 4y ago
There really isn't one. The laws about manufactures not owning dealers are left over from a very different era, and the existing model is a product of pure rent-seeking from the very powerful dealership lobby.
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by jfb 4y ago
I mean, Apple makes the whole stack, more or less, and I have trouble there, too. So, honestly, yeah. Software is a goddamned disaster.
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by jfb 4y ago
Well, sure. But that ship has sailed as well.
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by jfb 4y ago
I mean, language is descriptive, and while it's useful to be able to maintain a distinction between what the world called "cryptocurrencies" in 2015 and what we call "cryptocurrencies" today, that ship has sailed.
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by jfb 4y ago
I love be a cyberdeck, but the idea that we'd all be running derivatives of '70s game firmware after 50 years of putative progress kind of puts lie to Gibson's futurism, which required a certain panache and optimism to tech
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by jfb 5y ago
Safari for Windows was a side effect of the porting work that was happening on the Store to move away from a custom renderer to just using WebKit. And the reason iTunes on Windows was the way it was, and indeed, why iTunes on Mac stayed in
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by jfb 5y ago
I get around this by using a desktop computer. I appreciate without wanting the engineering that goes into modern laptops; but they're solving for a problem that I just don't have. USB remains, of course, a donkey circus. Everyone
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by jfb 5y ago
Emacs is a reflection or a rhyme of a great operating system; it has the critical feature of total inspectability/hackability, but the implementation is poor. There is no other system in use today that has that kind of total transparen
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by jfb 5y ago
This is very true.
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by jfb 5y ago
I had to go bug people I knew who had worked on QuickTime frameworks BITD to get anything done when I worked at Apple the first time, in 2004 . It's not and never has been simply an external problem.
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by jfb 5y ago
... of Shadow of the Colossus , sorry. I've already bought it four times.

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