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811.
by perardi 6y ago
“I don't like Index funds. They were a great investment in the past. They may be a disaster in the future.” Care to explain? Are you worried about over-centralizing assets into index funds will screw with the market's ability to f
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by perardi 6y ago
Oh I know and accept that, it’s just always a little funny to see that much of a difference in size. I use Photoshop every day, and I know that features added since version 3 that I use take up size: * Layer styles * Adjustment layers * Sma
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by perardi 6y ago
AppleCD Audio Player is nothing… https://guidebookgallery.org/screenshots/macos80 …compared to the brushed metal and bizarre volume control in QuickTime in Mac OS 9. https://guidebookgallery.org/screens
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by perardi 6y ago
Ah, yeah, I think I assumed correctly. In the emulator, the “macintosh.js” hard drive is 650 MB, so you must have to explicitly give it a big giant size to begin with, as it can’t dynamically increase the volume size on the fly.
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by perardi 6y ago
Well let’s explore the app package. Electron Framework takes up 174 MB. Past that, the big one is “disk” in Contents/Resources/app/src/ — which I will be completely honest, I don’t know what that is exactly. Is it a disk
816.
by perardi 6y ago
Base hard disk size of a 1991 Quadra 700: 80 MB Size of this .app on my Mac: 866 MB Yes, I know, it’s silly to snark on Electron app sizes by this point. You want to see some real bloat? Let’s compare the included Adobe Photoshop 3 and
817.
by perardi 6y ago
Except for the Sandy Bridge era. AMD was definitely not ahead for a while there. https://www.anandtech.com/show/4083/the-sandy-bridge-review-...
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by perardi 6y ago
Let's have some data on US-UK-Canada CFR: https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus/country/canada?countr... Which, yup, Canada and the US aren't that far apart, and the UK has a higher CFR. And Canada…it&#
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by perardi 6y ago
And good handles. The “cheese-grater” Power Mac G5/Mac Pro had handles. Which are great on a 42-pound chunk of aluminum…except they had sharp edges, and you sure felt that. (I hauled my 2006 Mac Pro between 3 different apartments. I re
820.
by perardi 6y ago
I’m guessing some other parameter was more important. Thermal expansion characteristics, ease of tooling, interactions with the materials around it, resistance to some other non-oxidative chemical corrosion…
821.
by perardi 6y ago
Is there any reputable reporting, or even just wild gossip, about why Intel is behind? The cynical answer is “they were focused on profit margins and didn’t invest in process”, but is it possible they bet hard on some technology that didn’t
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by perardi 6y ago
Wow. That is cool. If you have a big negative slant, and auto cursive enabled, you get much more of a humanist sans-serif, versus a neo-grotesque without those parameters. That's a huge amount of character to build into one single font
823.
by perardi 6y ago
Yeah. I could get higher resolution out of 8×10 sheet film. If I have it perfectly flat. And if I nail my focus and have everything aligned properly. And if I get it into a scanner properly. A good scanner. That somehow doesn't get d
824.
by perardi 6y ago
“Getting started with CSS must be harder these days than it was 15-20 years ago.” Not like I’m teaching anyone these days, but I’m not sure about that. Yes, there’s just more now. Grid and flexbox and transforms and on and on. But if you we
825.
by perardi 6y ago
Which is why I’m always surprised the F6, to borrow a phrase from Apple, “remains a product in our lineup”. There’s so many used and seemingly indestructible film cameras floating around. I guess there’s some market for a factory-warranty f
826.
by perardi 6y ago
Very clever. And 270 film SLRs per year sounds perfectly reasonable.
827.
by perardi 6y ago
Yes, I’m sure the viral marketing for…a film SLR…that was introduced in 2004…is absolutely priceless.
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by perardi 6y ago
Nikon still sells the Nikon F6 film camera. All existing stock was probably manufactured a loooong time ago, but it is still technically a current product, so I imagine they’re obligated to provide support and government-mandated environmen
829.
by perardi 6y ago
A disturbing amount of the world is held together by Excel spreadsheets with no version control.
830.
by perardi 6y ago
As someone who needs some decent Mac firepower, it does concern me a bit that we don’t really know if Apple can make a good high TDP processor, and everything you need to support that, like a good GPU. But…does that matter all that much to
831.
by perardi 6y ago
I think the market for that is tiny. I don’t think all that many Mac buyers care all that much about Bootcamp or Docker. If, within 6 months of ARM Macs coming out, we have Chrome, the Adobe suite, and Microsoft Office running natively, tha
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by perardi 6y ago
I think they're asking “can you hang an entire x86 system off of Thunderbolt like you can an eGPU, and then have x86 binaries execute there?” Which, no? Probably? If your goal is to run Windows, it’d be cheaper and easier to just buy a
833.
by perardi 6y ago
Wouldn't you have to reverse-engineer and implement a LOT of closed-source APIs and libraries to get a full iOS toolchain going?
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by perardi 6y ago
I don’t necessarily mind ads. Gotta pay for content somehow, micro-transactions haven’t worked, and I’m approaching some weird psychological threshold where I just don’t want to see another subscription on my credit card. But ughhhhhh YouTu
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by perardi 6y ago
I remember seeing those ads on the CTA. And then promptly went back to either reading stuff in Instapaper, or listening to podcasts, or playing Pokémon Go if we were moving at a slow enough speed.
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by perardi 6y ago
Canadian here: Rogers, unprompted, added 5GB to our data plan, for free. Which is extremely odd. Because Rogers and Bell are, in fact, several wolverines standing on top of each other in a trench coat. Very expensive, onerous contracts. (M
837.
by perardi 6y ago
I am certain that, colloquially, when people say “Flash”, they mean “the web browser plugin that runs animated content inside of a web browser” and not “that Adobe AIR thing”.
838.
by perardi 6y ago
Let’s pretend that Apple allowed Flash on the iPhone. Would Flash still have continued to be viable? It’s really difficult to thought experiment that out, but, given the need for responsive designs, and the maturation of JS and the whole Re
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by perardi 6y ago
Yup. That's the short of it: they'll buy the bike, realize they're not using the bike, and not re-up their subscription.
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by perardi 6y ago
Ah, if we're dropping bona fides—my fitness, pre-quarantine fattening: https://www.instagram.com/p/B6B6ceUB8he/ And as for productivity, I'll just link to this, and see if anyone has snarky comments on h

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