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by jonhohle 3y ago
And many of us who like practical effects feel the opposite. If a movie hasn’t engaged you enough to see past the puppet, makeup, and rigging, there’s probably something else missing.
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by jonhohle 3y ago
While I don’t share the sentiment, I have an anecdote that might be relatable. Some time around 2014 I finally got around to playing Castlevania: symphony of the Night. It was almost 20 years old, casykevania had long since moved to 3D grap
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by jonhohle 3y ago
My understanding is that co-mingling was originally a distribution optimization. I can’t remember if I was there under the initial rollout or they had tried it, stopped it, and rolled it out again during my tenure, but when I started in 200
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by jonhohle 3y ago
I’ve ordered an Apple-brand Lightning cable from Amazon (sold by Amazon), for example, and received a counterfeit. They replaced it, of course, but had it been a gift, or I’d been in a hurry, would anyone have noticed? If Amazon can’t keep
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by jonhohle 3y ago
In 2010 AirBnB would have been more novel, so maybe there wasn’t the same expectation. I stayed on Seoul a few months ago and in addition to a specific entrance number, my host had made a YouTube video showing a first person walk from the s
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by jonhohle 3y ago
I took it as the literal and previously accepted definition was uniformly changed by both government and secular organizations in near unison. As late as January 2021 vaccines were thought of as dead pathogens - https://web.archi
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by jonhohle 3y ago
At what level should that commanding share be? Microsoft wasn’t found guilty of anti-competitive behavior because Windows was on 98% of PCs sold, it was because they used that position to ensure that no other businesses could compete. A com
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by jonhohle 3y ago
They didn’t play nice. They made back channel deals with privileged partners. Love or hate the Apple arrangement, but they seem consistent on giving everyone the same terms. That’s what makes one anti-competitive and the other not.
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by jonhohle 3y ago
Apple also had an earlier transition from Motorola 68K to PowerPC.
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by jonhohle 3y ago
In the early 2000s I worked at an on-campus lab that did 3D printing back when that required machines that were 10s to 100s of thousands of dollars. One of the machines built blocks of paper that were each laser cut and laminated to one ano
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by jonhohle 3y ago
I don’t have specific metrics for the US, but estimates for What’s App globally are 100B per day, Telegram 16B per day, SMS 23B per day, WeChat 45B per day, and iMessage 8.6B per day. I couldn’t find estimates for Signal, Google Chat, or Fa
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by jonhohle 3y ago
I stand corrected. I hadn’t realized iPhones had made that much in roads. iMessage still is dwarfed by several other messaging services. I find it odd to argue that the 4ᵀᴴ most popular (likely less) messaging platform should be forced to o
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by jonhohle 3y ago
iMessage infrastructure belongs solely to Apple. It’s a value add for people who hit their products. What is owed to people who are not their customers? If you ran a business and provided a service to your paying customers, should you be fo
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by jonhohle 3y ago
In what way?
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by jonhohle 3y ago
You’re missing the primary reason: they controlled pricing. What price could other operating systems makers charge in the late 90s, early 2000s? It didn’t matter, Microsoft had forced OEMs to only sell PCs with Windows or not be able to sel
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by jonhohle 3y ago
There are not a couple hundred million iOS users in the US.
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by jonhohle 3y ago
Considering both iPhones and Macs represent minority positions in their respective markets in the US, how can iMessage be the most popular chat platform? What’s App handles an order of magnitude more messages per day than iMessage. Telegram
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by jonhohle 3y ago
F-Zero was a launch title that didn’t use anything specifically for graphics. It used the same cartridge board as Super Mario World. Mode-7 scaling can be modified per scanline to get the textured-plane effect seen in many games (e.g. F-Zer
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by jonhohle 3y ago
It’s not just online access. Some kids are drawn to screens to their own physical detriment and will stay up all night to get the endorphins hit of the next game. All kids are different, even within a family.
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by jonhohle 3y ago
I’ve mentioned this elsewhere, but schools have made this extremely difficult and if a parent is not a technology professional or has a no- computer accommodation at school (which requires a 504 or IEP), they’ve already lost and likely have
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by jonhohle 3y ago
Sorry, that was a bit to snarky. While I don’t agree with not having dedicated QA, I completely agree with devs being responsible for the quality of their area and adjacent areas. In my experience good test engineering teams can focus on ha
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> advocating for better <topic of choice> is money much better spent That seems like a very Bay Area mindset - advocacy is more lauded than doing something.
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by jonhohle 3y ago
Not flooring, but I used pennies for weight on my son’s pinewood derby car. I couldn’t buy weights for cheaper and putting some shiny ones under enamel looked pretty cool.
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What prevents SSH port forwarding from the jump box (besides, possibly, policy)? That’s been my go to whenever indirect access is required and tools want to connect directly to hosts.
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If you see the same emojis as others, this comment is secure: <HN doesn’t support emoji>
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by jonhohle 3y ago
Even if your page lasted 100 years, your cert wouldn’t. Who knows what DNS, or the equivalent to IP looks like in the 22nd century.
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by jonhohle 3y ago
That’s pretty typical of binary formats. That and offsets or addresses. And type tags. Assuming the payload isn’t compressed or encrypted, you can get pretty far assuming you’ll run into one of those eventually. Anecdotally, earlier today I
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by jonhohle 3y ago
I don’t think anyone doubts that planes hit the buildings except WTC7. University of Alaska Fairbanks published a paper which suggests fire was not the cause of WTC7 collapse[0]. Memories can be faulty, but I remember news reports from the
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by jonhohle 3y ago
iBook G4s had too and bottom panels that could have their paint stripped to be transparent. The earliest iBooks were translucent. Maybe a hunk of machined gorilla glass? There are translucent lower receivers for AR-15s that are both light a
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by jonhohle 3y ago
Minimally that’s a few million dollars per year for KTLO. At least a few million more for ongoing development. Why should it be free for everyone?

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