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by musicale 9mo ago
What Intel/AMD/(and now)Apple giveth, Microsoft taketh away.
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What about 2D printers which emit toxic toner (for laser, and possibly ink for inkjet) particles and fumes?
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> Developers are really lazy in general and don't want to work According to Larry Wall, the three great virtues of programmers are laziness, impatience, and hubris. Though perhaps perl isn't a great argument for the latter. ht
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Did they replicate the Slack, Calendar (Outlook) and Office (365) parts of Teams, or just the Skype/Zoom part?
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> Very small hobby-entrepreneur computer makers were also losers; the new testing and certification requirements to show compliance with the standard posed a fixed cost on every computer model released, regardless of how many were sold,
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I just read (see below) that LCM had (among other things) a working PLATO terminal. (Was it connected to a live PLATO system? looks like it, possibly.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PLATO_(computer_system) https:&#x2F
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What impresses me about the TI 99/4A (besides its unusual microarchitecture) is that PLATO (or offline versions of much of its extensive and interesting courseware) was ported to it. Apparently it could act as a PLATO terminal as well.
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It selects for the most telegenic applicants with the best video production (and best coaching, etc.) In-person interviews have analogous issues but are less susceptible to cheating on the questions.
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By game count and revenue, the App Store is very much a game store. You may not think of the iPhone as a walled-garden gaming handheld with smartphone features, but that's basically what it is from a business perspective, and games are
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> Apple doesn't operate a marketplace for games Since games also account for 70% or more of revenue, the App Store is more accurately described as a game store that also sells non-game apps, rather than a general store that also sel
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Didn't (Nvidia, Meta, etc.) use Anna's archive to train their ML models? Certain companies may have attractively deep pockets while being located in the US for enforcement of statutory damages. See also: "Extracting books fro
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Looks like a nice book, and it appears that he wrote books on other microprocessors (8080/8085, 8086, Z-80, Z8000, 6800, 6809, 68000... even SPARC apparently) as well. I'd like to find a full version of the 68000 book, which archi
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Nothing wrong with internet searches (though I find Google is most useful for results from Google sites). But HN is full of 6502 enthusiasts, so I approve of tapping their collective wisdom to discover personal favorites and recommendations
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> revenue generation will trump user experience every day of the week The iron law of encrapification - I doubt Microsoft (or Apple or Google or any other company) can overcome it, as the business incentives (at least in the short term)
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> optimised for nastiness sounds about right > It's not too late to fix it sounds overly optimistic
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Does the digital portal also link to emulators (and documentation) for historical systems? I've always enjoyed things like: https://smalltalkzoo.computerhistory.org for example. Most of these systems were things that humans
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CHM is great, but I still lament the closure and liquidation of Paul Allen's Living Computers Museum + Labs, which I never got to visit.
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Many people on HN seem to think that it's perfectly OK for Nintendo or Sony to charge a 30% platform fee for Fortnite but somehow not OK for Apple (or Google) to charge a 30% platform fee for Fortnite. Epic wants to force Apple to lowe
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Apple's App Store business model is the same as Nintendo's eShop business model. Obviously Epic would like to pay lower platform fees to Apple than it pays to Nintendo, but there is no logical reason why it should.
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> There's also precedent, in google scanning massive amounts of books, Except that Google acquired the books legally, and first sale doctrine applies to physical books. > but not reproducing them See also: "Extracting books
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The reason why it's legal for Nvidia to download Anna's Archive and illegal for you is that they have well-paid lawyers and deep pockets to kick the can down the road for years before negotiating a settlement, making billions in t
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That sounds more like a disability than a pathology. However, there may also be benefits; for example, it seems to be associated with stronger conceptual imagination.
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To me it looked "grainy" (along with something like diffusion glow and rainbowing I think), and I can't give up the high contrast that I've gotten used to. But if you're somewhere where you can't change the bri
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Next they'll be telling us that dragons, wizards and elves are not accurately portrayed in medieval RPGs. It's surprising really, since Mario Kart is a completely realistic driving simulator.
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Apparently not at Apple, since he said that in 2014. They seem to have done OK since then.
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I miss Tim Apple saying that there were things (accessibility) that Apple did that weren't based on ROI, and people who disagreed should get out of the stock.
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Hahaha. On an unrelated note I immediately turned off Liquid Glass.
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Non-upgradable RAM is the downside of "unified" RAM inside the Apple Silicon SiP (upside is good memory bandwidth and eliminating data copies between CPU and GPU.) Non-upgradable SSD is the downside of Apple using raw flash module
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The 2012 "Retina" MacBook Pro design was great. The 2016 redesign stumbled with the terrible "butterfly" keyboard, the unpopular touchbar (which removed a physical esc key), etc., but it also had 4 thunderbolt ports an
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Nobody really likes Teams, but it does seem to have more features than Slack in terms of integration with the rest of Microsoft's office software ecosystem. It's nice to be able to open up and edit Word/PowerPoint/Excel

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