justin66

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   by justin66 2y ago

   Neat! And slightly amazing they did a release as recently as 2008.
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   by justin66 2y ago

   > I couldn't imagine anyone waxing nostalgic for the UX of an old word processor app. This is a very strange sentiment in general, since word processors are pretty much the only retro software that's worth keeping and using tod
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   by justin66 2y ago

   That's the trouble with mainstream media, everybody's got an agenda when it comes to the topic of polonaise dance.
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   by justin66 2y ago

   Font shapes.
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   by justin66 2y ago

   The Color Computer was interesting. They kept the 8-bit fire burning a little longer than was truly reasonable, but I wouldn't fault them for it.
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   by justin66 2y ago

   Over the years, Tandy sold computers with a broader set of CPUs than anyone, as far as I know. [0] It's remarkable. 8080, 8085, Z80, 6803, 6809, 68000, 8088, V20, 80186 (of all things!), and also the purely PC-compatible stuff. [0] ht
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   by justin66 2y ago

   > I suspect it was the penetration of the Apple II into education and business that helped make it possible I don't know how much it moved the needle but it was astonishing how much schools and home users - parents whose kids used t
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   by justin66 2y ago

   Rereading the comment I made which you're responding to, I can only assume you do not consider those making business decisions to be... people? That seems a bit harsh.
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   by justin66 2y ago

   > The article does not mention. It's literally the first sentence of the article: held in the Leon County Jail Thursday, charged with illegally entering Florida as an “unauthorized alien”
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    by justin66 2y ago

    This is a good comment. I guess I don't attach the same weight to the CISC/RISC thing you do, but I agree that it's certainly true that the big "the real problem was x " pronouncements are insufficient to explain
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    by justin66 2y ago

    > For their time they were very comparable We can say that now, but it's worth remembering the Atari 8 bit computers came out over two years before the C64. Not such a big gap in computing today, but back then it was a lot. ex-Atari
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    by justin66 2y ago

    > Discord makes $600M in ARR Eventually they'll run out of ships to pillage, matey. But IRC will still be there.
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    by justin66 2y ago

    > I'd do less comparison and more recognition. Not to be overly snarky, but it's a good thing, since none of those people's output is comparable to FB's. The thought there might be another programmer like him was an i
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    by justin66 2y ago

    > If paying domestic workers more raises the price of domestic goods, and if people are willing to pay that price for whatever reason, you will start to see growth in manufacturing. Why would you need to pay them more? Remove their legal
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    by justin66 2y ago

    I don't mind getting some extra clarity on where someone is coming from.
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    by justin66 2y ago

    Can you name some that invite comparison with FB?
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    by justin66 2y ago

    > YouTube is quite possibly the most prolific source of learning ever created. That's bizarre.
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    by justin66 2y ago

    Still doesn’t seem like a crazy amount of power! Neat.
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    by justin66 2y ago

    > It also draws a fair amount from the wall (98W~) Is that a typo?
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    by justin66 2y ago

    It's the Register and therefore too worthless to get worked up about, but their naming a server version of Windows as peak anything is an indication that they probably just polled a few drunks at a bar.
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    by justin66 2y ago

    The Greens and their aspirations notwithstanding, is there any reason Norway wouldn't grant asylum?
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    White House orders NIH to research trans 'regret' and 'detransition'(npr.org)

    12 points by justin66 2y ago|15 comments
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    by justin66 2y ago

    > Instead of being seen as a safe haven, U.S. debt itself started to look shaky. Owning US debt is also simply less relevant to countries that are going to be trading less with the US. Countries which are ratcheting up tariffs with the U
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    Two decades of Git: A conversation with creator Linus Torvalds [video](youtube.com)

    2 points by justin66 2y ago|0 comments
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    by justin66 2y ago

    In the sense that people "take seriously" a drunkard waving a gun around.
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    by justin66 2y ago

    Pretty sure you're confusing the price of bonds with their yields, which are inversely correlated. Yields have gone up (to put it mildly).
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    by justin66 2y ago

    You ought to go on a road tour, tell all the people with nothing that on average they’re not poor. > My point stands. Funny stuff.
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    by justin66 2y ago

    Relative to other hands on, high tech educational experiences would be a smart way to think about it, if you insist on adopting the sucks in a long hit of marijuana smoke “everything is just relative, mannnnn” attitude.
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    by justin66 2y ago

    > tens of hours on building it plus over $300 in parts In other words, quite inexpensive.
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    by justin66 2y ago

    You are not thinking clearly about the post you're responding to and you're not thinking clearly about the problems faced by the places you're describing. The person you're responding to probably thinks having a lot of d