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by musicale 1y ago
Nintendo is getting it right (maybe): focus on first-party exclusive games and, uh, a pile of indies and ports from the PS3 and PS4 eras. Come to think of it, Sony is also stuck in the PS4 era since PS5 pro is basically a PS4 pro that plays
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by musicale 1y ago
> supporting policy focused candidates, resisting the hatred that flourishes on social media, and restoring the integrity of our federal government Supporting policy-focused candidates, resisting the flames of hatred fanned by the press,
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by musicale 1y ago
> We got moved from under Xbox org to azure and our main work became AI related accelerators Since I prefer games to AI, this makes me rather sad.
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by musicale 1y ago
ACM has a code of ethics. However, it does not seem to be enforced against many companies that routinely violate it. https://www.acm.org/code-of-ethics
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by musicale 1y ago
"Hi, as the company that bragged about how we had ripped off Studio Ghibli, and encouraged you to make as many still frames as possible, we would now like to say that you are making too many fake Disney films and we want you to stop.&q
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by musicale 1y ago
It may be worth noting that Apple themselves also ported System 7 to x86. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek_project
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> Although those with machines powerful enough to run CP/M, and having disk drives, could enjoy the access to compilers. Like the remarkable Turbo Pascal, which crammed a full IDE into 34KB.
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This might not be as terrible as I expected it to be. I think the high quality of Apple's Inside Macintosh documentation would help quite a bit in reimplementing it.
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by musicale 1y ago
Unfortunately I only have two ears and usually listen on headphones... It sounds like it would be very useful to include a virtual mixer where you could adjust center (or dialogue) channel volume separately from side channels.
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> the point they were making wasn't just about pure quantity, even though that's what they said directly (emphasis mine) > Obviously, the implication is that they're talking about "real" games, as in fully-p
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In addition to Dartmouth (which made BASIC available to other schools, including offering remote access), David Ahl evangelized BASIC while working for DEC, and ended up catalyzing the microcomputer revolution (which BASIC was a big part of
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> This shows well what a terrible language BASIC was BASIC was conceived as a simplified, efficient, interactive equivalent to FORTRAN. Which is to say, it was extremely useful and effective! It met all of its design goals: Simplified: n
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> workers can't just run existing enterprise apps On iOS, Microsoft apps and a web browser can get you fairly far for many business/corporate use cases.
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> All this tells me is that Intel and AMD are the only manufacturers making leading chips that you can do anything with. I've heard that Nvidia makes some GPUs that you can do things with.
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by musicale 1y ago
> The point they're making is obvious. iOS was and still is a platform for ... mobile games It is, and mobile games are certainly part of "games ever made".
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by musicale 1y ago
Docker is overkill if all you really need is app packaging. Docker containers may not be portable anyway when the CUDA version used in the container has to match the kernel driver and GPU firmware, etc.
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by musicale 1y ago
> You can't play 99.99% of games ever made for example. I expect it's the other way around with mobile being a larger platform than PC or console. How many games are available in the iOS app store vs. Steam?
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I'd prefer more honest marketing: - ARM system that fits inside a decent compact keyboard - acceptable performance for basic computing tasks - mostly as usable as a mini PC running Linux - 5-10 years of software support - easy access t
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by musicale 1y ago
These are good explanations. Their reputation as a platform for learning and tinkering was damaged, and subsequent missteps didn't improve the situation. The Pi500+ does seem like a good system, but it's not alone at that price po
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by musicale 1y ago
Interesting and cool books, and they have been promoting them recently: https://www.cyoa.com As others have noted, another interesting series of interactive/game books is the Fighting Fantasy series, some of which have been
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by musicale 1y ago
> Apple already went through this before with PowerPC -> x86 Not to mention 68K -> PowerPC. Rhapsody supported x86, and I think during the PowerPC era Apple kept creating x86 builds of OS X just in case. This may have helped to kee
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I wonder if Anandtech would have lasted longer if that hadn't happened.
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> Librarians have a formal code of ethics and the Internet Archive fails more than half. I am guessing 4, 7 and 9, but which others?
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Missing the instruction panel where the customer is attempting to follow the baffling instructions and has to use a wired phone to call the store for help. Getting quicksort's boundary conditions right (avoiding off-by-one errors, infi
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by musicale 1y ago
> I may have an overly STEM-centric view This is likely; international vs. US also probably makes a difference, as three of the last six US presidents (by person, not year) were Yale alumni (no MIT alumni have yet become president, but I
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by musicale 1y ago
Probably Berkeley (not UCLA) is the top-tier UC. Yale is part of the Ivy League and was founded ~65 years after Harvard. Also ranking #1-#2 for producing US presidents, Harvard-Yale is probably a somewhat better US university analog to Oxfo
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> demonstrated financial need Higher education is a strange purchase that is engineered to extract the maximum amount of money (up to full-cost tuition, fees, etc.), based on financial records which you are forced to provide. Any asset e
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As you indicate, in clean-room design the implementation is done by a different team from those who examined the original system and wrote the spec (which is vetted): > Typically, a clean-room design is done by having someone examine the
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A sampler with a filter envelope is a type of subtractive synth. Alchemy in GarageBand has many presets with adjustable filter envelopes (sometimes multiple) and volume envelopes, so it can work as a subtractive synth stand-in. However sinc
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> Liquid Glass. It’s a major change to the way things look, and for better or worse, those shifts tend to suck > the oxygen out of the room.

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