musicale

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   by musicale 6mo ago

   The iron law of web encrapification: every web feature will (if possible) be employed to abuse the user, usually to push advertising.
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   by musicale 6mo ago

   > OS formatting tools. Not directly if I remember correctly, but there are OS formatting tools I would call that an extra compiler pass to fix the SHOUTING syntax.
3. 243.▲
   by musicale 6mo ago

   How does automatic capitalization solve the EMPHASIS problem ? For that matter, how do syntax-aware editors solve the problem of finding significant spaces (Python) or parentheses (Lisp) unintuitive, confusing, or simply unpleasant?
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   by musicale 6mo ago

   If Apple rounded off $33 billion in revenue (8% of total) they'd probably get in trouble. However that is not the point (or points) I was refuting.
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   by musicale 6mo ago

   Perhaps unsurprisingly, a number of PARC alumni went to Apple and Microsoft.
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   by musicale 6mo ago

   Isn't LACC subsidized ($46/unit resident tuition seems pretty good)?
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   by musicale 6mo ago

   The limit is for macOS running in a VM (which is mainly useful for developing iOS and macOS apps, for example cloud-based testing and CI/CD workflows.) Most developers build web- and server-based systems that use Linux VMs as back-ends
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   by musicale 6mo ago

   There is also a difference between invention and innovation (including successful commercialization.) Apple didn't invent GUI-based computers, MP3 players, smartphones, tablet PCs, smartwatches, wireless earphones, or ARM-based laptops
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   by musicale 6mo ago

   > Not Microsoft No Steam on Xbox Series X/S, last I heard. > Apple Steam still works on macOS, last I checked.
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    by musicale 6mo ago

    Does Oberon still require capitalized keywords? That always seemed to be emphasizing the wrong thing: IF disaster THEN abort;
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    by musicale 6mo ago

    > I had been pondering about doing more or less the same thing for 6502 (6510). https://microcorelabs.com/2025/12/15/worlds-fastest-commodor... https://microcorelabs.com/2021/01/0
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    by musicale 6mo ago

    This reminds me of the MicroCoreLabs MCLZ8 (2022): https://microcorelabs.com/2022/05/11/mclz8-zilog-z80-emulato... (Also drop-in emulators for the 6502, 6809, 68000 and 8088.)
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    by musicale 7mo ago

    > Forgiveness also happens upon death. Comforting I'm sure. But it wasn't always that way: "Six years after the death of Christopher Bryski, a 23-year-old student at Rutgers University, Key Bank has agreed to forgive his s
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    by musicale 7mo ago

    > "I hate the way people use slide presentations instead of thinking," Jobs once said, according to a book published last month by David Pogue. "People who know what they're talking about don't need PowerPoint. &
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    by musicale 7mo ago

    > When asked to comment on its removal of apps in late 2024, Apple said that failure to comply with Russia’s local laws “could mean that Apple would no longer be able to operate an App Store or distribute content in the country”, and add
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    by musicale 7mo ago

    > think about what you'd need to do to make it work "This idea will probably work once we can develop just a few new basic technologies that it depends on (time travel, antigravity, unlimited free energy, faster-than-light comm
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    by musicale 7mo ago

    > Along with the time sharing system came the new language which they decided to call BASIC. At first it was going to be a subset of Fortran but they decided that no subset of any existing language would be complete enough. https:/
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    by musicale 7mo ago

    > 7 years of pivoting to milking the cash cow So you're saying you want to go back to the ... intel Mac era? The M1 MacBook Air came out in 2020 and was transformative. Apple Silicon era has launched a number of landmark products si
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    by musicale 7mo ago

    Space race notwithstanding, maybe less risky isn't such a bad idea.
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    by musicale 7mo ago

    > We embedded the follow buttons, added the share widgets, installed the trackers, and told our friends, readers, coworkers, and communities that the right place to find us was Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn, Instagram, Substack, o
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    by musicale 7mo ago

    *MacBook
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    by musicale 7mo ago

    Burrell Smith managed to sneak a memory upgrade capability into the original Mac. > But once again, Steve Jobs objected... > He just left it in there and no one bothered to mention it to Steve https://www.folklore.org/
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    by musicale 7mo ago

    I'm writing this on an intel MacBook Pro, so I expect that the Mac Neo probably has very usable performance, while running cooler and with longer battery life.
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    by musicale 7mo ago

    Turns out Snow Crash wasn't an $80B business plan unless there were games and/or gambling involved.
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    by musicale 7mo ago

    > commission to the musicians To the original Ramones you say? Might be hard to deliver. But how much of traditional broadcast radio license fees accrue to musicians? Zero, unless they happen to be the songwriters (but good news for Max
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    by musicale 7mo ago

    I feel like Apple is going back to the days of toaster "appliance" Macs. No slots, no upgrades, just buy a new one in 3-7 years.
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    by musicale 7mo ago

    Ah, so that's how you get The Guardian to say nice things (retrospectively at least) about the US.
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    by musicale 7mo ago

    They're played every day on the radio, on streaming services, etc. Billions of listens vs. thousands (?) of shirts.
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    by musicale 7mo ago

    The Ramones are haunting us all.
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    by musicale 7mo ago

    This doesn't match up with what I've heard from people I know within Apple, but perhaps things have changed recently. Certainly the encrapification seems to have gotten worse - my suspicion is that the services businesses have too