musicale

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by musicale 5mo ago
Well, Metaverse could have been a profitable business if they had delivered a product or service (other than Oculus, which is a decent though not $80B product) which regular people wanted to use and were willing to pay money for.
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by musicale 5mo ago
It is a shame that you can't choose to get security updates only without app-breaking feature changes. So you have to update (because security, actively exploited vulnerabilities, etc.) but then your apps (mostly paid apps in my case s
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by musicale 5mo ago
> All first Gen Nintendo handhelds had terrible battery life An exception being the original Game Boy (almost 50 hours on alkaline batteries.) https://jonthysell.com/2023/06/09/nintendo-game-boy-battery-...
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by musicale 5mo ago
The long open-world drives between tracks aren't particularly thrilling.
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by musicale 5mo ago
Losing carbon support on the Mac, and 32-bit support on both macOS and iOS was painful. I particularly miss games like Chaos Rings 1&2, which are no longer playable and don't seem to be available anywhere. Another bad change was wh
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by musicale 5mo ago
I am crossing my fingers.
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by musicale 5mo ago
> thereby requiring the use of subscriptions as the only viable business model for developers This is ugly because I hate subscriptions, but I believe that the constant maintenance burden makes subscriptions more appealing for develop
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by musicale 5mo ago
Pausing non-foreground apps and compressing/swapping out their memory seems to work well on the iPhone.
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by musicale 5mo ago
Unfortunately well-written native macOS desktop software (Apple's own apps are sometimes exceptions, if we ignore monstrosities like the Music app) seems to be dying (new "desktop" software often being a wrapper for a clunky
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by musicale 5mo ago
But no with statement. :( I find with-style code so convenient that I recreate it in other languages (auto _=&foo; ...)
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by musicale 5mo ago
It has been available in Apple's version[1] for several years, and it appears to be migrating into upstream as well. On macOS you can try it with: clang -Xclang -fbounds-safety program.c Microsoft also seems to be using it (se
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by musicale 5mo ago
> Apple's contempt for backward compatibility This is absolutely correct. Instead of maintaining any sort of ABI and API stability, Apple offloads a constant burden of maintenance updates across thousands of developers, just to keep
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by musicale 5mo ago
Unlike your face, the magic band can be removed when you leave the park.
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by musicale 5mo ago
So they're punishing everyone - even people with regular tickets - for pass fraud / unauthorized sharing. I think I would be willing to pay extra to opt out of creepy face scanning.
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by musicale 5mo ago
Star Fox 64 is great (you can play it now on the Switch, as well as the SNES version, via Nintendo Switch Online). Do a barrel roll!
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by musicale 5mo ago
Switch OLED is still great, as the Switch 2 display is something of a downgrade. But the Switch 2 shines for Nintendo gaming on a 4K display and for actually being able to play PS4-era games well on a handheld. I am not completely sold on M
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by musicale 5mo ago
> The only reason to buy Nintendo hardware is so that you can play Nintendo's exclusive games Nintendo also pushes gaming innovation in different directions, enabling interesting experiences. It's not always successful, but is
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> 80 Dollar just to play Mario Kart? Always has been: https://gamerant.com/mario-kart-game-launch-price-adjusted-i... It's also the best game in its category (which Nintendo basically invented), offers terrific loca
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by musicale 5mo ago
That's crazy talk. The car should take on the debt, and if it can't pay it then it should declare bankruptcy and leave you unscathed.
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by musicale 5mo ago
> Nintendo hardware and games were already obscenely overpriced imo Nothing against those $1 game sales on Steam or gog.com (or "free to play"/live service games – for those who can tolerate their monetization schemes), bu
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by musicale 5mo ago
> "No way to prevent this", Says Only Language Where This Regularly Happens clang -fbounds-safety ... also see lib0xc etc.: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47978834
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by musicale 6mo ago
> its relative value was unsustainable in that market condition The Lisa 2 was "only" $1000 more than the ($2495) Macintosh, and included a full office software suite. Ironically though that may have been a reason why developer
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by musicale 6mo ago
The wholesale buyer is in bankruptcy, unable to pay the interest on debt inherited from the leveraged buyout.
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> Again, the average user was not going to buy Lisa when functional alternatives were a fraction of the price. =3 It's hard to find an Apple system where there were not cheap "functional" alternatives available for the &qu
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by musicale 6mo ago
By 1986 the Mac Plus had 1MB of RAM (and the Mac had a faster CPU than the original Lisa), though with inferior multitasking and no MMU. And high-end Macs really weren't (and aren't) cheap, though they could have provided good val
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by musicale 6mo ago
> Del Monte went out of business because there wasn't enough demand for the peaches They appear to have gone out of business because of massive debt from a leveraged buyout, combined with other issues. https://www.linkedi
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by musicale 6mo ago
> document template metaphor The macOS Finder has its own version of the Lisa's stationery feature: File > Get Info > Stationery Pad To make a document template folder, you mark your document templates as stationery.
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> at the time Isn't that interview from 1995, years after the Lisa (and Mac) came out, and long after Jobs had left Apple (but before his very successful return)?
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by musicale 6mo ago
There was animosity between Steve Jobs and the Lisa team (who perhaps not coincidentally chose to name the system after his daughter). Once he decided that the Mac would compete against the Lisa, the Lisa platform was doomed. Jobs basically
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by musicale 6mo ago
And it was perpetrated by their own university.

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