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by jfb 5y ago
I mean, it was bullshit from jump street, but if Wisconsin had poured (more) money into Foxconn's pockets, I'm sure they'd have been happy to put something up.
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by jfb 5y ago
Or at roll20.
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by jfb 5y ago
I mean, Elastic was successful because of license arbitrage; to complain about said arbitrage when Amazon does it is ... well, it's hard to feel a lot of sympathy.
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by jfb 5y ago
They could maybe find someone who is conversant with the world of computing we find ourselves in, more recently than 1988?
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by jfb 5y ago
I think it's more complex than one equals the other; the two phenomena are inexplicably interconnected. The duality is a very non-helpful frame to use to analyze, well, basically anything.
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by jfb 5y ago
Do you, though? Like, if he were of pristine character and not repulsive to a significant subset of the people involved, it would still be a useful conversation to have -- given how controversial he is, why fight the fight?
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by jfb 5y ago
Isn't the real problem that the FSF has completely failed at its stated goal of expanding software freedom for the entirely of Stallman's tenure? I get that to many people he is an objectionable creep, but from a purely results
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by jfb 5y ago
Descartes and his duality strike again.
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by jfb 6y ago
No -- I want a phone that is not subject to Google's data vampirism that competes with Apple for the dollars of the actual humans who use them. If that phone runs Linux and is free, great! If not, less good, but still acceptable. I wis
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by jfb 6y ago
The real tragedy is the USB HID spec, which is weirdly extravagant (including dedicated space for golf simulators ) while also being totally parsimonious with the modifier keys.
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by jfb 6y ago
TIL!
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by jfb 6y ago
We used a lot of PyObjC BITD at Apple to explore frameworks that we couldn't get documentation for. That was simultaneously awesome and so so so broken, from an organizational perspective.
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by jfb 6y ago
Saying that something is obsolete isn't a value judgement -- it's an observation of the differences between the state of the world when it was necessary and now. This describes autotools to a 't'. It's not that ther
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by jfb 6y ago
I loved the idea that the OOP world and the C worlds were syntactically different. It made the language significantly more elegant than C++, which doesn't even take into account the beauty of its Smalltalk message passing semantics.
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by jfb 6y ago
Part of it was licensing. Probably more of it was the personalities involved at e.g. Microsoft or SGI.
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by jfb 6y ago
They're not losing money fast enough on x86?
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by jfb 6y ago
Oh, no doubt. I just wanted to point out that someone can go through a whole career at Apple without encountering this sort of garbage.
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by jfb 6y ago
Apple also varies, culturally, pretty widely between departments. It's not always the case that abusive behaviour under one VP -- or good treatment under a different one! -- is extrapolate-able to other organizations.
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by jfb 6y ago
Yes, I STAN for Leftöver Crack ... and the Wiggles.
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by jfb 6y ago
I mean, I don't think (2) is controversial -- the issue is that there are many dimensions you can measure to determine "best". There's not a settled single definition.
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by jfb 6y ago
I have always wanted this "privacy box", but in a portable form -- a brick that your phone/laptop/TV/&c. uses persistent storage. No more cloud.
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by jfb 6y ago
I badly miss my old PowerMac 8600 -- I filled that sucker with RAM and had a big, persistent RAM disk to boot from, and it ran MachTen (for Emacs) and everything else I needed for work (CodeWarrior) and of course, it was the best Myth II
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by jfb 6y ago
Giant pandas are our worst charismatic megafauna.
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by jfb 6y ago
Oculus doesn't present a monopoly concern in advertising, though.
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by jfb 6y ago
A date that will live in infamy.
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by jfb 6y ago
For instance, I have: fileSystems."/zfs/media" = { device = "tank/media"; fsType = "zfs"; }; in my hardware-configuration.nix. tank/media is defined as us
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by jfb 6y ago
This is the nerdiest thing I've seen in a long, long, long time (a Chapman Stick ?!?) and I love it .
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Advent of Code 2020, Preparing(homonculus.net)
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by jfb 6y ago
The market for Mac OS specific services would be vanishingly small; everybody else can just use Linux. Apple's not going to make a play for a commodity market.
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by jfb 6y ago
This is stupefying to me. Like, when Anand did the A12 or A11 reviews, I wrote: "The craziest thing is how close [to 1/56th of a Xeon 8176] they get at 3W. That's the part that's staggering. What could Apple do with, s

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