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by pjmlp 1mo ago
I remember the predating two decades when the options were broader than two, and the large majority vertically integrated.
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by pjmlp 1mo ago
The world hardly cared about QDOS. In my bubble, the world was about ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64 and Amiga, Atari ST, before PC clones became relevant. All equally vertically integrated as Apple.
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by pjmlp 1mo ago
If you consider MS-DOS and Windows 3.x a blessing.
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by pjmlp 1mo ago
They did try to keep the lock in, with the release of PS/2 and MCA architecture, which many think it relates only to keyboard and mice ports. However it was too late to regain control and PS/2 alongside MCA was largely ignored. h
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by pjmlp 1mo ago
The openness of PC clones was a mistake IBM failed to regain control from, everyone was like Apple.
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by pjmlp 1mo ago
They already have, unfortunately most devs still don't target GPU and NPUs available on their mobile devices. Webviews are naturally not the way to handle them.
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by pjmlp 1mo ago
They also irritated plenty of devs, who aren't shelling out 3500 for what is in practical purposes a toy device, and then having Apple congratulate themselves the devs are the ones that should be happy they are allowed to play on Apple
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by pjmlp 1mo ago
Of there are, otherwise they would not have killed the few really desktop hardware, by what are now consumer electronics devices.
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by pjmlp 1mo ago
There has been demand for Mac at PC prices since the Mac Classic was announced to the world. The first time around they almost went broke because people no longer were paying Apple tax, and they did not had any other product to save them. N
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by pjmlp 1mo ago
Only in North America market, and a few similar economies, as many countries buying Apple hardware is only for a select few on top tier society levels. Everyone else keeps buying PCs as always, even more so that Apple doesn't have any
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by pjmlp 2mo ago
PS2Linux required monitors able to do sync on green, which caught many that managed to get it, in for a surprise.
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by pjmlp 2mo ago
The wonderful reality of Web services.
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by pjmlp 2mo ago
Maybe, however with elections they did in fact asked for it, which was the whole point.
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by pjmlp 2mo ago
Poor American companies, who thinks of them when Chinese government does similar actions, and they play ball, regardless of the government actions.
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by pjmlp 2mo ago
Except the point that Zig should do better than Object Pascal, Modula-2, with solutions already available on Insure++ and friends for use after free, 30 years ago.
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by pjmlp 2mo ago
Plenty, ask AI friend about military coups.
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by pjmlp 2mo ago
Which is how autocracy governments get hold of countries without military action, it only needs enough patience and uninformed electorate to win the election. They can even argue it was the will of the people to get a dictorship.
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by pjmlp 2mo ago
Exactly, the only safe thing to do in a signal is set a variable for other code to react on, also they completely mess up in multi-threaded code.
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by pjmlp 2mo ago
Michael Abrash wrote about such optimizations on the late 90's regarding Pentium versus its predecessors, and then everyone started using Python, Ruby, whatever for full stack applications, beyond plain OS scripting tasks.
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by pjmlp 2mo ago
Most of these "insanely fast" projects kind of feel like people rediscovering compiled languages after the scripting languages dark ages. Insanely fast was making 8 bit games possible at all.
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by pjmlp 2mo ago
Exactly, as the author very well points out it isn't for lack of support, rather laziness.
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by pjmlp 2mo ago
Yeah, however if Intel and AMD actually delivered a working 2.0 with proper support for C++ and Fortran, maybe the OpenCL 3.0 back to 1.0 reboot would not have been needed. Likewise SYSCL although built on top of OpenCL 3.0 primitives, is m
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by pjmlp 2mo ago
Yeah, OpenCL fandom always blames NVidia instead of Intel and AMD for doing a shitty work.
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by pjmlp 2mo ago
People love to blame NVidia on OpenCL failure, maybe Intel and AMD should actually deliver something compute researchers want to use?
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by pjmlp 2mo ago
Actually dual license, those that want industry friendly license can get as much as they are willing to give upstream.
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by pjmlp 2mo ago
Nullability is coming later, and already with Panama you have plenty of room to do C like stuff. Go isn't much better.
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by pjmlp 2mo ago
Many still don't get that while Java and C# (due to how it came to be after J++ lawsuit) are inspired by C++ for the syntax, it is mostly a mix of Smalltalk and Objective-C semantics in what is achievable, hence why a Smalltalk inspire
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by pjmlp 2mo ago
Not at all, how do you think The Network is the Computer was achieved before dynamic linking became widespread?
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by pjmlp 2mo ago
In Portugal we have a saying, April never more, exactly because the outcome of such ideas should not be forgotten.
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by pjmlp 2mo ago
As Gen X, I think they were already softies back then.

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