mcphage

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1. 3241.▲
   by mcphage 6y ago

   Ah, that makes sense. Do iPhones connect to their RAM differently? I know it’s physically different than desktop RAM (for obvious reasons), but I don’t really know enough about hardware to know how it connects.
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   by mcphage 6y ago

   Hmm, but wouldn't features like wifi, all the cameras, the touchscreen, Cellular data, NFC, touch ID, speakers, bluetooth, and so on all come in via IO as well? You're right that they only have one port, but they still connect to
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   by mcphage 6y ago

   > The main reason the M1 doesn't have good IO is that it's a beefed up ipad CPU. This was the first generation where they were putting the chips in systems that can use IO Could you explain what you mean by this? I don't
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   by mcphage 6y ago

   Of course it’s sarcasm. Why do you think that’s an excuse?
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   by mcphage 6y ago

   > we will _choose_ to do that, because it will be a utopia inside those walls Companies have tried their hands at being the government in the past, and the outcome has always been.... something less than utopian.
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   by mcphage 6y ago

   > and now I am HYPER offended that they're not included Are you actually offended? Or are you just claiming to be offended in order to get your way, while simultaneously complaining that other people claim to be offended to get the
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   by mcphage 6y ago

   > These snow flakes need to spend some time abroad and get a good dose of reality instead of making up their own here.... Are you referring to the authors of this list, or the people on it, or the people firing the people on it? Everybo
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   by mcphage 6y ago

   I wonder what the actual Cryptic Lab’s response to this is.
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   by mcphage 6y ago

   > because of how long they can engage a human I’m not sure that’s a meaningful metric for evaluating art.
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    by mcphage 6y ago

    > Are movies art? It seems to me that these two things are pretty analogous. Movies make use of many arts: music, visuals, storytelling, etc... Movies also have an art form that makes them unique—cinematography & editing.
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    by mcphage 6y ago

    > but a video game is identified by the goal it sets for its player, its win condition, strategy, etc... Lots of games don’t have a win condition—Tetris, for instance—and many don’t even have goals.
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    by mcphage 6y ago

    The new iPads have up to 16 GB of RAM, and... well, it's a lot beefier a machine than iPadOS can do anything with. So it's not a given, but people are hoping.
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    by mcphage 6y ago

    > Very, very few other mammals are monogamous. Very, very few other mammals have flown to the moon, or surf the internet, or eat BBQ. I’m not sure we should really base our expectations or behavior in what other mammals do, especially g
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    by mcphage 6y ago

    There's a lot of things that you do via an API besides downloading batches of data. So if you have an API call for downloading data, should you also have a "download CSV" link powered by that API? Sure—and that's what
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    by mcphage 6y ago

    > What if this recent spate of rebrands, then, is less a passing fad — a lack of creativity among contemporary graphic design — and more a natural endpoint in a profession forever obsessed with simplifying? These minimalist redesigns are
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    by mcphage 6y ago

    Yes but on the other hand, he could play chess with them, so it's impossible to say if it's bad or not
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    by mcphage 6y ago

    I'm not sure there will be any meaningful change without making police accountable for their crimes. That's part of what fuels the rage against the system—not only are the police killing people, but everybody knows they probably
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    by mcphage 6y ago

    Are the only 2 kinds of people “creepy pickup artist” and “asshole”?
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    by mcphage 6y ago

    Not really :-)
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    by mcphage 6y ago

    Wouldn't a paramedic also need to type numbers? 31 is more than the number of letters, but not more than the number of letters + 10 digits.
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    by mcphage 6y ago

    > Do you really think the US could maintain dominance if half the nation went to war with itself again, in more modern times? No, not really. But... I don’t really have any way of knowing. I just have to remind myself that, as ugly as it
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    by mcphage 6y ago

    I agree.
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    by mcphage 6y ago

    > At this point there a multiple “factions” who’s end vision of society is actively hostile to certain other factions. Some time ago there was even an active shooting war between US factions, and yet the country still was ascendant after
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    by mcphage 6y ago

    > The US military is a money pit. Yes, but it's a very visible money pit. Its purpose is to discourage any other country from throwing their own money into a similar pit by competing.
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    by mcphage 6y ago

    > The problem with misinformation is it vaguely doesn't exist. You don't think that people lie on the internet?
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    by mcphage 6y ago

    > you will find straight up tons of people who made "threats" of a similar magnitude Not tons of people who actually attempted to purchase a bomb, however.
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    by mcphage 6y ago

    > Programmers seem to talk about visual programming languages as if they’ve failed, but outside of software engineering they appear to me to be more popular than text-based languages. There's a large category of conventional wisdom
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    by mcphage 6y ago

    You might like this link a bit better: https://www.rhino3d.com/6/new/grasshopper/ For context, "Grasshopper" has been a nodes-and-boxes plugin for Rhino 3D—a 3D modeling app—for many years. By &quo
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    by mcphage 6y ago

    > because they are mostly anchored to malls, and our development patterns make standalone theaters difficult Interesting—what part of the country do you live in? Where I am in the North-East, movie theaters attached to malls is more of
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    by mcphage 6y ago

    > I doubt Apple will ever trade money/income for user privacy. They do this continuously. > If they did I would buy my first iPhone. That, I doubt.