musicale

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by musicale 9mo ago
Yes, if you have customers who need your software and are willing to pay for it.
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by musicale 9mo ago
I'm not convinced that downvotes add much value. They should be a "this is irrelevant/spam" button but in practice they seem to be used as a "dislike" button to enforce groupthink.
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by musicale 9mo ago
The iron law of encrapification: if a company can make more money by downgrading the user experience, it will. I imagine within Apple there were still people who advocated for a better, more transparent user experience, but ultimately they
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by musicale 9mo ago
French Court Orders Popular Winemakers to Remove Alcohol, Despite Opposition
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by musicale 9mo ago
This is beautiful. It's like C turned into a clearer and more usable language.
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by musicale 9mo ago
I think there could be a protective carrying case for it. It would also be cool if it could plug into an iPad to create an x86-iPad-keyboard chimera.
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by musicale 9mo ago
I agree completely. It's a cool product that has plausible use cases beyond hobbyists who might just want a retro-style keyboard computer. It might not be successful at $1000, but I have to applaud HP for thinking inside the box.
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by musicale 9mo ago
HN, I find your lack of faith disturbing. HP (ink.) has followed Raspberry Pi with a riff on the form factor of the ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, and other keyboard computer designs of the 1970s and 1980s. But with a (possibly) better keyboard
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by musicale 9mo ago
I assumed it would just redirect to microsoft.com. But instead it crystallizes the core methodologies of the entire industry. This should probably be some sort of industry certification or ISO standard.
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> The primary motivation for this rebranding of job cuts appears to be investor relations. The report notes that attributing staff reductions to AI adoption “conveys a more positive message to investors” than admitting to traditional bus
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by musicale 10mo ago
> No other president has ever abused (or, if you support him, wielded) the powers of the office like Trump has I suppose Gruber pays with his watch and hasn't seen a $20 bill recently. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#
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by musicale 10mo ago
PS5 pro - just works, decent 4K gaming, plays PS5 games and timed exclusives, remote play support, compatible with my PSN library / flash drive full of PS4 games. Reasonably quiet (though not as whisper quiet as original PS5.) Steam Ma
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by musicale 10mo ago
> in what universe does it make any sense for the bank to go to the store or stores you purchased from to demand the money back rather than to you, the borrower? It's a common legal strategy to sue those with deep pockets, regardles
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by musicale 10mo ago
Nice diagram. I might put read-only pages on both sides of 0 though to mitigate null pointer effects.
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by musicale 10mo ago
Good point - cigarettes are increasingly harder to find, and are banned in many places (restaurants) where alcohol is readily available, and associated with sociability. There even seem to be more marijuana shops vs. tobacco shops (or liquo
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by musicale 10mo ago
That seems like a good support lifetime. macOS 26 is the last version of macOS which will run on x86 systems, which Apple sold until 2023. (Security patches will probably go through 2028 though?)
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by musicale 10mo ago
Machines are thousands of times faster now, yet C++ compilation is still slow somehow (templates? optimization? disinterest in compiler/linker performance? who knows?) Saving grace is having tons of cores and memory for parallel builds
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by musicale 10mo ago
IIRC Multics (among other systems) had both segmentation and paging, and a unified memory/storage architecture. [I had thought that Multics' "ls" command abbreviation stood for "list segments" but the full name
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by musicale 10mo ago
Both this and parent comment about PA-RISC are very interesting. As noted, stack growing up doesn't prevent all stack overflows, but it makes it less trivially easy to overwrite a return address. Bounded strings also made it less trivi
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by musicale 10mo ago
> [x86] call instruction would be kind of annoying I wonder what the best way to do it (on current x86) would be. The stupid simple way might be to adjust SP before the call instruction, and that seems to me like something that would be
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by musicale 10mo ago
Maybe it is sometimes part of a person's identity. But people who have quit using tobacco or other drugs are typically called "ex-smokers" or "former users/addicts", respectively. (Even though "smoker&quot
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by musicale 10mo ago
> free miniatures and showing you how to paint First hit is free; it is a cool hobby though and I like how it combines arts and crafts with gaming, strategy, world lore/building and storytelling, as you noted. Also the skills are li
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by musicale 10mo ago
The PL/I stack growing up rather than down reduced potential impact of stack overflows in Multics (and PL/I already had better memory safety, with bounded strings, etc.) TFA's author would probably have appreciated the segmen
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by musicale 10mo ago
So the outlook is good for emacs, vim, and maybe VSCode?
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by musicale 10mo ago
It's a miserable change. > Android users highlight a better system. On that platform, developers must separate promotional, transactional, and service-related notifications into channels. You can silence the ads while keeping delive
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by musicale 10mo ago
> they aim to make maybe 5 cents this way on a $480 stock, mostly holding for less than a few seconds, on millions of trades an hour > MM are ultimately a good thing because they provide liquidity. there is always a person willing to
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by musicale 10mo ago
I think it works differently at different schools and in different countries, but hourly (often undergraduate work-study) course assistants in the US can be very affordable since they typically still pay tuition and are paid at a lower rate
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I guess this hit home for someone.
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Well there is iSH, which is a sort of Alpine environment, though it isn't native. My point was that iPad, which is very iPhone-adjacent (same App Store, etc.) already works surprisingly well with an external monitor/keyboard/
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by musicale 10mo ago
If teaching is the goal, a 99% failure rate seems counterproductive.

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