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by kalleboo 4mo ago
How big is the calculator app on Windows 11 that you need to cache it in RAM? On macOS, the calculator app is 6 MB. And that's containing both x64 and ARM code. How long does it take a modern SSD (6 GB/s?) to read that?
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by kalleboo 4mo ago
At least they didn't blame AI?
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by kalleboo 4mo ago
Famously if you renamed Quake 3 to "Quack" 3, it would slow down on the ATI Radeon 8500 https://web.archive.org/web/20091016055550/https://hardocp.c...
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by kalleboo 4mo ago
What I never understand is why we never got a Flash-level authoring tool that exported to modern JavaScript/Canvas. Ruffle shows it can be done. Adobe could have retuned Animate to do it, but instead let it languish as a niche animatio
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by kalleboo 4mo ago
There was also the argument that "We also know first hand that Flash is the number one reason Macs crash"
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by kalleboo 4mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSI_effect
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by kalleboo 5mo ago
Never seen this one before: "[Error] SecurityError: Attempt to use history.replaceState() more than 100 times per 10 seconds"
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by kalleboo 5mo ago
In the early 2G GSM days, you would connect via "CSD" (Circuit-Switched Data[0]) which essentially emulated a dial-up connection (except it was digital the whole way) and that was billed per minute. Using HSCSD you could bundle mu
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by kalleboo 5mo ago
This is somewhere where sensible tariffs actually do make sense. Set the tariffs to offset any government subsidies or environmental regulatory costs. If the cars are actually better, let people buy them, make domestic manufacturers compete
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by kalleboo 5mo ago
In Japan you need to ID as a resident to get a phone number that can make calls, but anyone can get an anonymous data-only SIM
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by kalleboo 5mo ago
For some artists in Japan we do lotteries. There's an application period and then the opportunity to purchase is doled out randomly among the applicants. You can often apply for multiple tickets together if you're a group, but ID
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by kalleboo 5mo ago
The new model only runs on device on iPhone 17 Pro or M3 Macs or newer. Anyone else is getting server compute.
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by kalleboo 5mo ago
How did you do it? I had to set up a Windows 11 Pro install 2 months ago and there was no way to get past the Microsoft Account requirement, I had to create an account, I tried everything (setting up with no network device attached, etc)
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by kalleboo 5mo ago
So... 2001? Because by 2002 (MacOS X 10.2) Steve was already "previewing" the next MacOS at WWDC for a release in the fall.
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by kalleboo 5mo ago
It's funny how they went from AppleScript -> "oh writing scripts is too complicated for users, let's create Automator" -> "Automator is too simple, let's create Shortcuts" -> now with shortcuts be
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by kalleboo 5mo ago
I understood it as Windows developers had to manually deal with segment limitations since Windows supported running on pre-286 CPUs without protected mode (Wikipedia says Windows 1-3 all supported the 8088). OS/2 just made the 286 a mi
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by kalleboo 5mo ago
I've been recently working with Classic Mac OS programming[0] and just that memory model (also using dealing with the lack of virtual memory using opaque handles to memory that need to be locked when used) is painful enough[1] - having
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by kalleboo 5mo ago
> Is it easy to find high quality daycare for children? Shinzo Abe mostly solved the daycare issues by both making it free and massively increasing availability. There are still some waiting lists but they went from a peak of nearly 30
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by kalleboo 5mo ago
The inertia issue is not some fundamental law of physics, it's just how the DC->AC inverters are commonly programmed, to follow the grid, since that is the easiest way to regulate the grid when non-AC generation is a minority. The i
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by kalleboo 5mo ago
The places that don't have much sun instead tend to have much wind and hydro.
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by kalleboo 5mo ago
7 years is generous for phones but desktop computers have had a much slower performance ramp up where even a 10 year old desktop should be perfectly cromulent for office tasks as long as you give it an SSD and enough RAM. The sad thing is t
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by kalleboo 5mo ago
I have a friend who runs a video production company. He was a big PC guy, they used desktop tower PCs with power-hungry GPUs for editing. He recently switched them over to Macs after testing Premiere on the base-model Mac mini they got for
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by kalleboo 5mo ago
This was also done on the original Macintosh. The Motorola 68000 was a 32-bit CPU but only supported a 24-bit address bus, so the top bits were used by the OS as flags. Then they released a new Mac with a 68020 that supported a 32-bit addre
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by kalleboo 5mo ago
This is why only a small number of cars should ever be in the Vegas loop tunnels. There are already videos of traffic jams inside the tunnels.
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by kalleboo 5mo ago
I don't think Apple was ever really strong with the "idiots" market until the iPhone halo effect came into being, as much as they may have tried in their marketing. That market always bought the cheapest machine (or "bes
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by kalleboo 5mo ago
I believe the ads that "lite" Premium doesn't remove are on anything that has ContentID music in it, as they have to pay higher fees to the record labels for those.
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by kalleboo 5mo ago
And on macOS Apple has `networkQuality` on the command line which runs a speed test against presumably the iCloud servers
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by kalleboo 5mo ago
> The biggest thing it does add though is multi-stream support I would have thought this would be a part of the container format rather than the video codec?
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by kalleboo 5mo ago
The solution is The Matrix. The "real world" is just computers/AIs running everything in a pointless loop. Humans aren't "batteries" (that never even made sense to begin with) but instead are living their happy
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by kalleboo 5mo ago
Monopoly

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