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by mmjaa 8y ago
And .. what if it is preemptive cover? What do we do about that circumstance? Like, seriously, this is shaping up to be a cyberwar nobody wants to admit. Either we can trust video sources from now on, or we can't - how is it going
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by mmjaa 8y ago
Right, brain fart on the train. But the point still stands, why should we use GCD when there are other more portable means out there - which are also supported on iOS - to do the same thing? It's just different for the sake of being
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by mmjaa 8y ago
Take your pick, ask for a license, see how far you get: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_silent_musical_composi...
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by mmjaa 8y ago
Lets try this a different way. Whats so great about GCD that other processor resource management systems get so wrong, that using GCD is the only thing that makes sense to you? (Hint: its koolaid, kid.)
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by mmjaa 8y ago
Sure. The solution to not wanting to be dependent on Apple's software is .. to use more of Apples software. Not really rational.
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by mmjaa 8y ago
I consider GCD to be a bit of a smell - not because its difficult to write for, but rather because its difficult to port such code elsewhere. And really, this seems to be the only rationale for Apple having maintained it as a component of
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by mmjaa 8y ago
Indeed .. things have come a long way since I tried to port IPFS to iOS .. https://github.com/seclorum/ios-go-ipfs It seems like there's a better way to go about this than my method. I was motivated to do this no
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by mmjaa 8y ago
I think its more likely that the resistance to this idea is based on peoples addiction to quick fixes from well-marketed pharmaceutical products than anything else. Having been totally convinced by ones local authority that ones mental hea
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by mmjaa 8y ago
The banner is relevant to those users who haven't figured out that they can do that.
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by mmjaa 8y ago
Open Pandora. Dragonbox Pyra. PocketCHIP. They're out there ..
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by mmjaa 8y ago
Sure, there are tons of embedded Lua's (that's where it started life after all.. as an embeddable language) - but what I'm really interested in is a one-language mini-computer designed for the thing. I guess I could get this
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by mmjaa 8y ago
I want this but for Lua. Its my favourite language. I wonder how difficult it would be to get Lua running on this thing - anyone got clues?
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by mmjaa 8y ago
Its a robot because it replaces a function normally performed by a human with an automated system.
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by mmjaa 8y ago
Look up the use of emu bush by the Northern Territory tribes, for example ...
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by mmjaa 8y ago
What amazes me about this is that the body-painting was considered by Europeans to be evidence of the 'primitive nature of lesser cultures', yet it turns out it was actually kind of advanced technology. I hope to witness more inst
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by mmjaa 8y ago
Ex-video game developer here. The games industry uses those exact metrics to measure their success. I decided to leave the games industry after it was revealed that our latest release had a 14 year old kid who was playing, non-stop in 48-h
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by mmjaa 8y ago
I wrote my first commercial software at 13, in 1983. That has been relevant all my career - it explains what kind of computer interests I have, and relays clues about my motivation for continuing to work in the industry. I see nothing wro
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by mmjaa 8y ago
I've been coding for 30 years and I can't count the number of times my stuff has just disappeared into the ether. All the CP/M apps I wrote, the DOS apps, the risc/OS and the Windows and OS/2 apps, the BeOS stuff,
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by mmjaa 8y ago
I'm fairly sure there is no other meaning than the one to which you refer, so its perhaps more likely that you are missing the risqué point being made by assuming the prude levels are higher than you might think. A lot of the folks wh
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by mmjaa 8y ago
Thats nice and everything but until I have a hardware version where I can just switch a button on and do this and that, I'm not really going to be truly satisfied. Please hardware'ify.
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by mmjaa 8y ago
I wonder how much of this 'consensus' is driven by the military-industrial-pharmaceutical complex' desire to write John Lennon out of history for all his talk of peace being within our grasp, and of war not being necessary, a
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by mmjaa 8y ago
>It is best not to speak with such authority/certainty that C++ is easier to use than Javascript. Unless of course you have 30+ years of experience in the software business, have kept abreast of all the latest and greatest distracti
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by mmjaa 8y ago
Things I'd rather be doing: * C++ * Lua .. .. [a thousand other things] .. .. * Node * Javascript __ bottom of the pile.. The Node/JS ecosystem is such a steaming pile of garbage, I can honestly see with great clarity why people s
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by mmjaa 8y ago
>On the other hand the regime supports destabilizing groups throughout the middle east. They want to contend to be the main influence there along with Saudi. As does the USA. So?
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by mmjaa 8y ago
Its quite simple: don't use Slack. Its a walled garden and there will always be incidents like this for as long as people don't appreciate that these companies don't have any commitment to you, for as long as you are just us
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by mmjaa 8y ago
What can we do? Send it back to Apple? Still trying to determine if we should.
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by mmjaa 8y ago
Its easy, all you have to think is "what happened first - did they order the keyboard and then discover evidence it might have been tampered with, or did they have the concern, overlook it because 'need a good keyboard, who cares
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by mmjaa 8y ago
Its the only way to get the keyboard configuration we want.
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by mmjaa 8y ago
I don't think its so random. I work for people they would definitely be interested in.
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by mmjaa 8y ago
I found fingerprints and dust on my recent Apple MacBook Pro purchase, underneath the peel-off wrapper. It was not a refurb, was bought originally from Apple and it did indeed have a 2-day wait in a 'shipping hub'. I'm fair

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