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by mrandish 1y ago
> swapping CPUs would be the easiest task. My point was not that PA RISC wouldn't have the horsepower to emulate a 68K computer. My point was that Commodore fully emulating the Amiga architecture well enough to play highly-optimized
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by mrandish 1y ago
I didn't see anything in the linked document saying the transfer of $150M pictured in Time Magazine (and reported independently by many other news outlets) was quid pro quo settlement as part of that lawsuit. That's an alternate h
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by mrandish 1y ago
> all they need to understand is which parameters affect output in what way. Yes. That was the point I was trying to make and after reading the responses, I see I didn't make it as clearly as I could have. I think the confusion is i
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by mrandish 1y ago
> There was no loan. https://www.cnbc.com/2017/08/29/steve-jobs-and-bill-gates-wh...
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by mrandish 1y ago
> Had a number of things gone differently Commodore might have been Apple. As a die-hard Amiga owner and fan, I've pondered this for many years but have come to the sad conclusion the mythical "handful of things" which, if
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by mrandish 1y ago
> largely an artifact of luck. I disagree with "largely". Luck is always a factor in business success and there are certainly some notable examples where luck was, arguably, a big enough factor that "largely" would
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by mrandish 1y ago
> to win an Oscar being less than 5 years away. You're assuming Oscar voting is primarily driven by film quality but this hasn't been true for a long time (if it ever was). Many academy voters are biased by whatever cultural an
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by mrandish 1y ago
This kind of retrospective from key people who were involved is invaluable from an historical perspective. I find hearing first-hand accounts of the context, assumptions, thought processes, internal debates, technical limitations, business
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by mrandish 1y ago
> a filmmaker can use a camera to make great films without understanding in detail how to build the camera, and there is probably not much of a predictable relationship between knowledge of how the camera works and quality of the resulti
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by mrandish 1y ago
For fans of "quick fix in a pinch" resources like duct tape, velcro, etc. There's another kind of tape that can be very useful: it's sometimes called 'Gaffer Tape' as it is used by Hollywood movie set gaffers (
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by mrandish 1y ago
Indeed. The ads were the point of Computer Shopper. The reason it worked so well is the advertisers knew their most aggressive price competitors would also have ads, so it would be pointless to advertise unless you knew you could compete. W
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by mrandish 1y ago
> "The first HDR is the "HDR mode" introduced to the iPhone camera in 2010." Yeah, I had a full halt and process exception on that line too. I guess all the research, technical papers and standards development work do
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by mrandish 1y ago
> That's because this post is about HDR It's about HDR from the perspective of still photography, in your app, on iOS, in the context of hand-held mobile devices. The post's title ("What Is HDR, Anyway?"), conten
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by mrandish 1y ago
> I think the solution for HDR is similar penalization based on log luminance or some other reasonable metric. I completely understand the desire to address the issue of content authors misusing or intentionally abusing HDR with some kin
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by mrandish 1y ago
> Good concluding paragraph. Very polite. Probably not quite fitting the usual online conversation format. You're supposed to call me Hitler or something. Sorry to disappoint you! :-) As I indicated in my concluding paragraph, we&#x
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by mrandish 1y ago
<... cont from above > I think perhaps you default to trusting your local police, courts and judges to enforce a "hate speech" law clearly and consistently far more than I do, or at least enough to think they'll make a
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by mrandish 1y ago
> You are advancing the idea that either all restrictions on speech are good, or all restrictions on speech are bad Thanks for the detailed response. First, let me reiterate that I don't believe all restrictions on speech are bad. F
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by mrandish 1y ago
Here's a PDF that's identical to my Motorola 6809 Quick Reference Card: https://web.archive.org/web/20190714001537/http://chiclassic...
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by mrandish 1y ago
> So you want it to be legal to stand in a public square in Germany and yell that Hitler did nothing wrong Yes. > but you don't personally want to do that. No. > Why don't you want to? Because I think Hitler was a dictato
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by mrandish 1y ago
> What is the thing you want to say that is currently illegal to say because of hate speech law? There is nothing I want to say that a hate speech law would make illegal. And I find that framing to be disingenuous as it seems to imply on
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by mrandish 1y ago
> Sounds like a great little machine, actually! Yes, it was quite decent and attracted a strong community of advanced hobbyists who were attracted by the 6809 CPU's power. The Coco had quite a lot of third-party hardware upgrades ma
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by mrandish 1y ago
> It doesn't have free speech laws While I agree the current US administration is exercising the executive branch's discretionary power in novel and aggressive ways I certainly don't approve of, the student examples I&#x27
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by mrandish 1y ago
> hate speech laws are usually only used in "majority against the minority" Indeed, history is full of examples of speech laws being used by those in power to silence those not in power, from war protestors (WW1 to Vietnam) to
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by mrandish 1y ago
Yes, I agree. That hateful rhetoric against free speech threatens my first amendment rights by inciting government suppression of free speech. My rights are being attacked and feel unsafe.
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by mrandish 1y ago
I had a Radio Shack Color Computer and Radio Shack actually sold a ROM cartridge (right alongside all the game cartridges) that was an editor/assembler. That's how I got started in assembler. The manual that came with it covered u
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by mrandish 1y ago
> The best thing that happened to me at that time was not being able to afford a floppy drive. Well, you were lucky in more ways than one, since the Commodore 1541 floppy drive is legendary for being both more expensive and slower than o
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by mrandish 1y ago
As I searched for a first computer I hoped to talk my parents into buying for my late-teen self, I read a lot of early computer magazines and visited local stores. I looked first at the Atari 400 and loved the games but, wanting to learn pr
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by mrandish 1y ago
I think a key reason they missed mobile is that it was during Intel's peak dominance and growth. Mobile was smaller, less powerful chips at lower prices and lower margins than Intel's flagship CPUs in that era. The founders who
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by mrandish 1y ago
Yep, in 2014 Intel's Haswell architecture was a banger. It was one of those occasional node+design intersections which yields a CPU with an unusually long useful lifespan due to a combination of Haswell being stronger than a typical ge
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by mrandish 1y ago
> I think "turned coach" is incredibly key here. I agree but think "turned coach" is necessary but not sufficient. Being a successful practitioner doesn't require fully and deeply understanding all the key elemen

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