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by micv 6y ago
I don't think it's fair to ding an early 80s platform for not caring about IBM compatibility. It wasn't anywhere near as dominant a standard then as it is now. The Amiga couldn't talk to a PC screen with any amount of pi
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by micv 6y ago
I suppose it's less likely to go off like a Note 7 if it's not attached to the computer and in use. Otherwise, no idea.
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by micv 6y ago
The 16" MBP has the biggest lithium battery you can have and still fly on US planes: https://www.tsa.gov/travel/security-screening/whatcanibring/...
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by micv 6y ago
I'm using a MacBook Pro with an Intel 10nm part in it. The 4 port 13" MBP still comes with one. I think the MacBook Air might have had a 10nm part before it went ARM, too. There are still no 10nm parts for the desktop or the high-
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by micv 6y ago
The A14X is a part for tablets that have very little cooling capacity and run on battery most of the time. It's not really comparable to the 5600X that has higher power consumption than the entire iPad Pro the chip will end up in.
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by micv 6y ago
Their Windows drivers are a pain as well, to be honest. I've had more than a few blue screens from various versions of their drivers over the last few years.
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by micv 6y ago
The size and weight of CRTs was basically unbearable. Huge problems. You can give up a lot to get out from that, and most CRTs weren't that sort of high quality. Most of us lost nothing but a huge inconvenience when we moved from CRT t
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by micv 6y ago
What part of being heavily opposed to homophobic organisation is degenerate in your opinion?
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by micv 6y ago
Most applications are distributed that way. Some have more complicated, Windows-style installers (PKG files) because they need to do things like install kernel extensions or what have you before they'll work.
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by micv 6y ago
Yeah, it turns out that most people don't want to go swimming through a cesspit for entertainment after all.
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by micv 7y ago
It's a bit better with C++11 syntax where you can use = delete to remove the default constructors/destructors, e.g.: class Class { Class(); Class(const Class&) = delete; Class& operator = (const Cla
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by micv 8y ago
The Great Depression II was on the cards in 2007/2008 before governments took on gargantuan debts to brush it under the carpet. We're all paying for that with governments straining under comically heavy debt loads and interest ra
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by micv 8y ago
The east coast mainline has been a mess for years. Virgin were the second franchise to collapse and the only one that seems to have worked was the nationalised franchise that came between them.
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by micv 8y ago
UK public transport is a disaster in its own right. It turns out that privatisation doesn't really help that much, especially when it's done in a way that basically gives you the worst parts of state ownership combined with the w
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by micv 8y ago
There's not much in it really. Looking at UK prices, the Pixel 3 is £11 cheaper than the iPhone XR which is basically nothing when you're talking about a £700+ phone. The XL is a hundred quid or so cheaper than the iPhone XS whi
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by micv 8y ago
Windows 7 is pretty close to EOL now. Companies might not have migrated off it yet, but they're going to have basically no choice in short order. I doubt Microsoft are going to suddenly change how they handle updating the OS in the nex
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by micv 8y ago
Gmail's labels have always been an arse to map on to normal IMAP-based email.
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by micv 8y ago
> let's not forget it's primarily a factor of Apple using batteries that lose a significant percentage of their capacity after 2 years in the iPhones As far as I can tell this simply isn't true. My iPhone SE is at 89% of
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by micv 8y ago
Opteron servers were the absolute business for a few years in the mid/late 2000s. They were a preferred supplier for a few years while Intel wallowed. 2002 was before my time, but that was the era of SPARC in the business I work in.
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by micv 8y ago
That's a thousand dollar for hardware that's years out of date. It's a terrible deal. You're going to be far better off buying a decent Windows laptop.
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by micv 8y ago
You don't get a medal for being a Russian asset unless you're in Russia.
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by micv 8y ago
They're still selling standalone versions for MacOS & Windows that run off local storage. Doesn't seem like they're doing multi-OS license bundles anymore, though, so it's gonna run expensive if you use more than on
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by micv 8y ago
I have the same MBP and the keyboard is still working great despite my taking exceptionally poor care of it (multiple drink spills). I've not heard any buzz about HW failure rates with that model so I think you might just be unlucky.
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by micv 9y ago
It's not really a like for like comparison. The S8 has been out for a while and has had its price cut down as a result. You always get better value for money if you stay slightly behind the curve and don't buy the fanciest, newe
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by micv 9y ago
They produce Xeon chips with dozens of cores forked off the same architecture, so that wasn't too surprising. Sticking to four cores was probably just market segmentation, like not supporting ECC memory in the consumer line, to protec
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by micv 9y ago
I suspect the answer is money. Well-funded corporations can and do push their fancy, new messaging platforms hard enough to crowd out any emerging open standard, but they certainly have no intention of paying anything more than lip service
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by micv 9y ago
The iPad Air only has 1GB of RAM. I've always suspected it would age badly because of that.
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by micv 9y ago
That's interesting. The non-recyclable waste is normally packaged up into black bags here in the UK and it's often pretty noxious. They're not gonna slice them open so a camera can have a look, so people can put almost anyt
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by micv 9y ago
It's not like they can really inspect the contents of your bin before the machinery dumps it all into the truck. You'd have to do something really dumb to get caught. Those rules really depend on most people not being dicks abou
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by micv 9y ago
Seems like something that should tie onto the public/private network distinction that Windows makes, though I can't remember ever seeing it in other OSes.

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