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by musicale 1y ago
So Microsoft's TrueType deal with Apple didn't include the Helvetica TrueType font(s) that Apple included with macOS? Apple's Geneva seems to be another take on Helvetica, though designed to match the Mac's original bit
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by musicale 1y ago
> All of these people are quite unpleasant in real life too (well, until they get Buzz Aldrin'd anyway). We just need to send them to the moon to improve a bit.
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by musicale 1y ago
> Platforms could easily redesign their algorithms to stop promoting the most outrageous voices and prioritise more representative or nuanced content. By de-prioritizing "engagement" perhaps? Possibly a good idea, but the incen
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by musicale 1y ago
We don't infringe - we just sell a service that enables users to create infringing works on demand.
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by musicale 1y ago
> Copyright law is a lot more nuanced than anyone seems to have the attention span for. Copyright is probably the wrong body of law for regulating AI companies.
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by musicale 1y ago
Metaverse (virtual worlds) did catch on - virtual offices and storefronts didn't really catch on, but people enjoy virtual worlds for: competitive and cooperative gaming; virtual fashion and environment construction; chat and social in
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by musicale 1y ago
Or "make interlocks programmed in software". But later MIPS versions had hardware interlocks I believe.
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by musicale 1y ago
MIPS seems like a story of missed (mipsed?) opportunities. If MIPS had really been (or remained) an open architecture, there would have been little need for RISC-V. They had a decade+ head start in terms of tool support and silicon implemen
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by musicale 1y ago
> Because I hate myself, I buy Apple hardware solely to run OpenBSD on it. ;-) Still it is amazing that OpenBSD seems to have leveraged the Asahi installer and drivers to run (except for some features like GPU acceleration and sound) on
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by musicale 1y ago
> it's like they're designed to be a challenge for the whole community upon release, rather than for individual players This is the metagame: game designers vs. every single player in the game . I kind of like it, though once
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by musicale 1y ago
> Today, it’s absolutely possible to work in GameDev without a deep passion for games, or gaming background. There is room for a range of people with creative or technical backgrounds, but as someone who likes playing games that are act
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by musicale 1y ago
> I have always found this quote annoying "Mission accomplished." -(fake) E.W. Dikjstra My strong impression/suspicion is that Dijkstra had a great sense of humor and also enjoyed irritating people; it's puzzling when
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by musicale 1y ago
Yes Edsger, but they don't go around calling themselves "Telescope Scientists" now do they?
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by musicale 1y ago
Getting no offers in 2 years seems very possible (it's tough out there - every job seems to have dozens of applicants), but getting no interviews at all is rough. I wonder if anyone on HN has experience working with a technical consu
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by musicale 1y ago
Probably a good strategy. Though at the interview you could still get "not a cultural fit" or "overqualified" or "we are only hiring recent graduates" etc.
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by musicale 1y ago
Great article and summary of the (inscrutable) rules of Tetra Master! The "reward" for "beating" the game is hilarious and shows that nobody was really expected to do so. I like Tetra Master (and Final Fantasy IX). Squar
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by musicale 1y ago
This is a good idea. In basic/beginner mode, every control should be readily visible and discoverable.
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by musicale 1y ago
> I get why you would hide interface elements to use the screen real estate for something else. Except that screens on phones, tablets, laptops and desktops are larger than ever. Consider the original Macintosh from 1984 – large, visible
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by musicale 1y ago
They should really force Google to allow other app stores for Android. Maybe Amazon could create one. https://www.amazon.com/gp/mas/appstore/android/faq
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by musicale 1y ago
Note the comments at the bottom of the page from someone who worked on the Apple ///.
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by musicale 1y ago
Someone opposes solving hard problems I guess.
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by musicale 1y ago
> Tandy otherwise kept all software technical information secret > Read this BYTE article from two years after the TRS-80's release which complains about the complete lack of Tandy documentation that motivated the author to write
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by musicale 1y ago
> I get the impression this is what it would have been like if instead of making an Apple II, Jobs and Woz said "well, these keep selling" and just decided to keep hacking away on the Apple I. That same Apple went on to make th
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by musicale 1y ago
Does Wayland actually work reliably now? That would be a nice surprise.
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by musicale 1y ago
Underpaid grad students and postdocs are the dirty-but-not-exactly-secret source of research productivity per dollar in the US. But the pyramid is unsustainable even if each PhD only trains one or two new PhDs every 5 years.
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by musicale 1y ago
This just in - pyramid schemes eventually collapse! But it seems like we still have a lot of tough, unsolved problems. Might be nice to have some smart people working to help solve them.
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Reminiscent of the push to make kindergarten more like upper grades or workplaces, rather than vice-versa. The push to transform learning, or any form of productive activity, into drudgery, and humans into joyless (and often sedentary) robo
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by musicale 1y ago
D&D turned out to be a killer app for youtube, since game streams are fun to watch and also a great onramp for new players. For online play though I have mostly used roll20 (occasionally fantasygrounds, and very rarely discord but just
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by musicale 1y ago
Social media seems to be engineered to push people to extremes, and civil discourse seems almost impossible in many instances. Facebook's original feed was kind of OK when it was just a chronological list of posts from your friends (th
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People miss the old internet because the new internet is getting worse in tangible ways every year: adtech, AI-generated slop (and SEO slop even before that), manipulative algorithms, and ever-more-intrusive monetization. The iron law of en

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