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by musicale 1y ago
> they assumed nobody could make a compatible machine without their authorization since they controlled the BIOS and the idea of a clean room reimplementation never dawned on them So you're saying that they were somehow unaware of h
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by musicale 1y ago
> Even Microsoft didn’t attempt to take a cut of every software and digital good sale. The closer comparison is with Microsoft's walled-garden game system and store: "Microsoft's Xbox Store charges a 30% commission on digi
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by musicale 1y ago
> Said another way: Millions to billions harvested from app developers now returned For game developers, isn't this basically a platform fee? https://www.1d3.com/blog/platform-fees
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by musicale 1y ago
Of course it runs NetBSD! :D
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by musicale 1y ago
> Give shareholders the right to vote on buybacks. I like the idea of giving long-term shareholders an easier way to weigh in on buybacks.
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by musicale 1y ago
I think that's "extracting" shareholder value. Like extracting value from a patient in the form of removable organs.
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by musicale 1y ago
> Sometimes I am sad that I cannot take notes during the shower, but if I could, maybe I would be back to square one. Should true inspiration strike while soaking in the bath, it is traditional to run through town shouting "Eureka!&
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by musicale 1y ago
I was going to recommend this. They may have some suggestions of how to improve things with existing metal as well.
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by musicale 1y ago
Incentivizing short-term investors to dump stock by boosting the price temporarily? I guess that's a strategy.
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by musicale 1y ago
> taking on $1.5 billion dollars of debt to buy back shares near all-time highs > To this day they still carry over a billion dollars in debt. Bankruptcy sounds like the only option, but the initial borrowing sounds like incredible mi
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by musicale 1y ago
> in the modern day the games that exist on physical media are pretty much useless without their zero-day patches Most single and local multiplayer Switch games are playable offline - which is to say, not useless - without any zero-day p
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by musicale 1y ago
I have yet to run into a single-player or local multiplayer Switch game that is not playable offline with just the cartridge. Some single-player games have updates, but I think you can usually play the original version while you download th
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by musicale 1y ago
That sounds like a better deal for Nintendo than SNES Game Paks, and much better than N64.
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by musicale 1y ago
I used to be annoyed that sudo would reliably crash from memory errors. Eventually the bug (and associated vulnerability) was patched. I think.
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by musicale 1y ago
> Link them to Google's SRE book and hope they read it. Still not achieving my goals, because they won't If they won't read a relevant section of Google's book, why would they read an LLM-written version?
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by musicale 1y ago
Apparently user code can still run: "z/Architecture retains backward compatibility with previous 32-bit-data/31-bit-addressing architecture ESA/390 and its predecessors back to the 32-bit-data/24-bit-addressing Syst
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by musicale 1y ago
The problem isn't limited to creativity. When you let machines think for you, your own ability to think atrophies. Maybe long division wasn't a particularly necessary skill (though I think learning arithmetic algorithms is benefic
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by musicale 1y ago
> Art was not based on copyright for a long time, it won't disappear, just return to the natural way of sharing it. This trend started decades ago with internet, not with AI. The old internet was a giant copy machine, not a giant sl
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by musicale 1y ago
Great, in a few years those tardigrades will be asking the same scientists about laser removal.
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by musicale 1y ago
> this ancient stuff is still supported and actively used. It sort of warms my heart that code for the IBM 360 (now IBM Z) and the IBM PC (now x86 PC) can still run on modern hardware decades later. On one hand, we're stuck with the
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by musicale 1y ago
> comprehensive documentation Documentation is an interesting use case. There are various kinds of documentation (reference, tutorial, architecture, etc.) and LLMs might be useful for things like - repetitive formatting and summarization
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by musicale 1y ago
> LLMs are like anti-compression algorithms when used like that, a simple idea gets expanded into a bloated mess by an LLM, I think that's the answer: LLMs are primarily useful for data and text translation and reduction, not for ex
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by musicale 1y ago
There seem to be many (!) emulators for it. https://www.s2js.com/altair/ http://altair32.classiccmp.org https://github.com/simh/simh/blob/master/ALTAIR/altair.txt
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by musicale 1y ago
The comparison is vs. games on physical media. Many Atari 2600 game cartridges still work, more than 40 years after they were originally manufactured. You can still use them in a new Atari 2600+/7800+ console.
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by musicale 1y ago
It's a shame. The beautiful thing about Switch game cards is that you can just pop them in and play. Compare that to PS5 where you have a lengthy installation followed by a 40GB download...
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by musicale 1y ago
> they can re-release it for every new system as a "remastered" variant Nintendo's strategy seems to be working. For example, I seem to have purchased Super Mario Bros 3 multiple times, in physical and digital form, for mu
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by musicale 1y ago
> The closest they will come is to export a word doc into HTML and put it on their site via a windows mapped FTP/WebDAV. That's not a bad workflow. It's too bad that Microsoft didn't continue something like FrontPage
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by musicale 1y ago
There is a difference between invention and innovation. Apple is often late to the party (mp3 players, smartphones, tablets, smart watches, wireless earphones, ...) but when they arrive they often shake things up with category-defining prod
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by musicale 1y ago
As GP notes, retro web workflow isn't terrible for simple sites. Editing static html seems like something that anyone can learn, and html editors still seem to exist (including the editing mode built into most browsers.) Then you just
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by musicale 1y ago
Video games are a major cultural artifact of the late 20th and early 21st century, so it makes sense to preserve them. Unfortunately much of 20th-century film and video has not been well preserved either.

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