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by leptons 1y ago
The C64 doesn't control the disk drive directly, the 1541has its own CPU, about as powerful as the C64. > A 4800 baud modem would be right out. Not with a "Warp Speed" cartridge. It does write speeds on a stock C64/15
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by leptons 1y ago
In Carl Sagan's Cosmos, he talks about how many advanced civilizations could be out there capable of radio astronomy, and how as in our own experience, we have the capability to wipe out own civilization, so that would also be a factor
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by leptons 1y ago
How is it a flaw!? Building datacenters in different regions come with very different costs, and different costs to run. Power doesn't cost exactly the same in different regions. Local construction services are not priced exactly the s
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by leptons 1y ago
The 1541 drive can write at ~400 bytes per second, much faster than the 2400bps modem could deliver (240 bytes/s). And buffering was a thing back then. A simple ring buffer would suffice. I had no problems downloading at 2400bps after
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by leptons 1y ago
Lots of stuff is priced differently. Just go to the EC2 pricing page and change from us-east-1 to us-west-1 https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/on-demand/
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by leptons 1y ago
I built my own 300bps modem as a teenager, to connect to my C64. Tech was a lot more fun back in the day. It was exciting every year to see the speed of modems go up, and up, and up. 300 bps, 1200bps, and then when I got a 2400bps modem the
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by leptons 1y ago
The Louvre was a royal palace, the rooms and halls are all quite stunning. It was originally built in the 12th century and expanded through the 17 century, so as historical artifacts go, it's definitely a thing on its own. It is worth
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by leptons 1y ago
Well it was painted by Leonardo da Vinci, not exactly a nobody. That alone is enough for it to be famous. He's probably more famous than the Mona Lisa.
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by leptons 1y ago
>wanting to smash the machines that made them lose their job. Wondering how long before people start setting datacenters on fire.
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by leptons 1y ago
"beautiful", "elegant", and "tasteful" have all been used to puff up various libraries, frameworks, etc, and now we have "luxurious" to add to the long list of ridiculous adjectives used to puff up te
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by leptons 1y ago
And that's okay. Not every developer knows every single thing there is to know about every single tech. Sometimes you just need a solution, and someone with more specific knowledge can optimize later. How many non-database related mist
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by leptons 1y ago
I have been running this for at least a year, it works great. I have it resizing video, and save to raw pixel data that I use to extract pixel color info for use in my web application. Anything ffmpeg does (except streaming because it doesn
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by leptons 1y ago
What developer is excited about "vibe coding"? The only people excited about "vibe coding" are people who can't code.
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by leptons 1y ago
ffmpeg runs in the browser now, and it converts images as well as video.
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by leptons 1y ago
The original "cargo culters" had nothing to lose , so your comment falls apart pretty quickly.
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by leptons 1y ago
Semiconductor fabs require a significant amount of water, with some large facilities consuming up to 10 million gallons of ultrapure water daily. Water is something Arizona is lacking.
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by leptons 1y ago
I wouldn't care about Safari at all if Apple allowed any other browser engine on iOS. The fact that they don't allow other browsers to use their own browser engine is a fucking travesty, and it's part of the reason Apple is
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by leptons 1y ago
I can't wait to try to convince an LLM/RL/whatever-it-is that what it "thinks" is right is actually wrong.
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by leptons 1y ago
>we dont know the long term effects these tools are having on creativity in online spaces, authenticity of user bases, etc etc. Some artificial flavorings and artificial coloring have been proven to be cancerous. I doubt artificial intel
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by leptons 1y ago
We're in similar times to the 2000's era "dot com bubble burst". I got caught out in that fiasco, couldn't get a full time programming job for about 4 years. I scraped by freelancing, but I also had generosity of fr
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by leptons 1y ago
You don't have to take my word for it, it's been talked about for many years. https://www.google.com/search?q=apple+products+as+status+sym...
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by leptons 1y ago
I've been doing AWS Lambda since it started up over 10 years ago. It solves a lot of problems for me. I don't ever have to worry about load balancing or scaling. I don't have to maintain a server. When it isn't being use
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by leptons 1y ago
>the reason you bought it was because macOS. That is probably the least of reasons why people buy Apple - to many it's just a status symbol , and the OS is a secondary consideration.
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by leptons 1y ago
It depends on what you mean by "beat". Windows has a vastly larger market share than Apple ever has, or ever will.
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by leptons 1y ago
Sure there are plenty of other frivolous and pointless pursuits that people engage in, like yourself making pointless comments on HN.
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by leptons 1y ago
"AI" autocomplete has become rather like mosquitos buzzing around my head that I have to constantly swat away. I'm likely to shut it all off soon, it's just become irritating.
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by leptons 1y ago
And there were no video games, which I think is a huge source of brain-drain these days. I read somewhere once that people played more solitaire on Windows 95 per year than it took in man-hours to send people to the moon (something like tha
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by leptons 1y ago
And none of those companies lost anywhere near as much money as "AI" is currently, and will continue to do. Just because they become profitable 5 or 10 or 15 years from now does not mean that they will be able to pay off the hundr
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by leptons 1y ago
Hallucinating "AI" is going to take friendly fire to a whole new level.
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by leptons 1y ago
Call me back when LLMs stop "hallucinating" constantly.

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