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by musicale 1y ago
"Thanks for working so hard to help us exceed our numbers and boost our stock price slightly this quarter. That kind of hard work means we can get more work done with fewer people, so we're excited today to announce across-the-boa
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by musicale 1y ago
I think we can welcome virtual LAN parties into the fold, especially post-pandemic. Also games like Diablo 4 have given up on LAN and are WAN-only (though there is couch co-op?) but still fun to play in person, as are MMOs, online team FPS,
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by musicale 1y ago
Abstract modern art seems to have some things in common with some kids' art: focus on materials, color, texture, perception; and representational art may focus on symbolism rather than realistic rendering. There's also an authenti
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by musicale 1y ago
The Promised LAN is a bit of a WAN party, but I would say that "LAN party" can certainly be assumed to include virtual LANs. I'm even willing to say that a get-together of friends in the same location playing the same online
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by musicale 1y ago
4K LCD displays can be delicate as well and prone to cracking. I always worry when I am moving one.
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by musicale 1y ago
Apple's own documentation really seems to have rotted. Of course it might help if Apple cared more about compatibility so that apps wouldn't break every year...
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by musicale 1y ago
> We must recognise users are not the main driver causing this The main driver causing users to adopt ad blockers is, unsurprisingly, ever more aggressive and obnoxious adtech which turns web browsing into a miserable experience. Add in
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by musicale 1y ago
> as is unfortunately common now with Scientific American This is something I've noticed as well. I'm not sure when it started, but it seems to have gotten worse.
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> How small is it? The Jove executable is roughly 150K Which counts as small now that nano has ballooned to ~400KB? For comparison, Turbo Pascal packed an entire x86 IDE into ~40KB.[1] [1] https://prog21.dadgum.com/116.ht
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by musicale 1y ago
To me at least, the argument that young people face great restrictions (even if many of those restrictions might be intended for their benefit) doesn't justify not giving them a voice, or a seat at the table. "So if democracy is s
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by musicale 1y ago
> There's a real problem with those with no "skin in the game" -- living in large paid off houses (bought for a song in the 1970s), with defined benefit 16yo may not have a lot of skin in the game, but giving them more of
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by musicale 1y ago
Their prediction about rambus hasn't aged well, but the technical advantages vs. SDRAM of the time are still interesting: https://www.hardwarecentral.com/sdram-vs-rdram-facts-and-fan... Surprisingly enough the N64 used
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by musicale 1y ago
What is the story for security/encryption to exist in a modern threat landscape? I expect with server-based systems you could have an encrypted tunnel to the server and just connect to a local proxy, or ??
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by musicale 1y ago
Opportunity cost is real, and it's probably one reason why fewer US students (who can work in the US without worrying about visa or related issues) seem to be going into graduate programs. Graduate indenture is an unappealing prospect,
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by musicale 1y ago
1. Undergraduate education benefits from low-paid lecturers and teaching assistants. 2. NSF's operating model is based on low-paid graduate students and postdocs. 3. Universities (at least until recently?) took a significant cut (for e
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by musicale 1y ago
Lot of red on that chart.
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by musicale 1y ago
Somehow I missed that he died just last month. The modern computing world is indebted to him I think. I was lucky enough to meet him in person once. This inspires me to this day: https://www.folklore.org/Busy_Being_Born.html
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by musicale 1y ago
It probably improves brain health at least.
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Or adtech. ;-(
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by musicale 1y ago
Toasters that don't burn your toast? That would be one of the more useful applications if it worked.
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by musicale 1y ago
Bitmap New York and Geneva are beautiful - I get the chance to admire them (along with the rest of the original Mac's bitmap desktop interface) every day via the "Macintosh" dynamic wallpaper included with macOS. We may have
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by musicale 1y ago
Good luck with that.
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by musicale 1y ago
Maybe legalizing sports betting wasn't such a great idea after all.
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by musicale 1y ago
NSF funds tons of underpaid grad students who are the source of US research productivity per dollar.
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by musicale 1y ago
Nvidia already has unified memory on Grace Blackwell etc. I guess M5 Blackwell could be better, but there are business and technical barriers to making that happen.
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by musicale 1y ago
How else would they hide the useful settings that they don't want you to mess with because you might change the bad default behavior?
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TL;DR: nowhere good.
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You were very clear. PP seems to be in agreement with you in spite of objecting to the first line and ignoring the rest.
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Only twice the size of mega-corps like Apple.
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by musicale 1y ago
Verdana is underrated. It's a legible screen font, and I greatly prefer it to the dreadful spindly font (Segoe UI?) that Windows 11 uses.

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