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by postmodest 3y ago
Same here. We had a VIC-20, which couldn't even display 80col. Then I got to go on a trip to the local uni over Xmas break and play with the first Macs. Everything changed. It was what computers were supposed to be, a kind of 2d VR wh
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by postmodest 3y ago
Didn't they change things so VMWare Fusion replaced the VMWare Player? I switched to Parallels because of some shenanigans a while back...
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by postmodest 3y ago
The most telling part of this comment is that you omitted PHP. And the parent comment mentioning VBScript is the other half. VBScript was equally terrible. Imagine a world where every interpreted runtime used Lisp. Or UCSD Pascal. People wo
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by postmodest 3y ago
> Apple Silicon is so far away from the existing gaming hardware (somewhat with regards to ARM, not discounting mobile devices, and the custom-built integrated GPU's with shared memory) that supporting games would add whole new comp
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by postmodest 3y ago
Let's imagine a hypothetical America, where we remove the economic aspect. Let's imagine that every household in america pulls in $250k/year and prices are uniform for every household across the nation. No one is poor. Everyo
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by postmodest 3y ago
> Do you assume, US fighter pilots get stumped by birds often? Planes specifically have cockpit warnings because U.S. fighter pilots get confused by the difference between sky and sea. Just because you're good at something doesn&#x2
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by postmodest 3y ago
On your laptop where you don't care about your files, there is no difference. On your workstation where you might need to have guaranteed I/O rates and multithreaded I/O, XFS wins. You clearly don't understand why snapsh
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by postmodest 3y ago
There are other videos that reverse engineer from what we do know, the flight path of the "ufo" and that it matches the track of another plane 30mi away.
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by postmodest 3y ago
> The window should fail visually with a lot of warning before rupture The window would deform up to 2" during dives, according to passengers.
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by postmodest 3y ago
This is what I use multiple monitors for. I used to "have" your problem, but the multiple monitor solution fixed it. Or using an iPad.
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by postmodest 3y ago
I miss CDE. But what I want even more is for the remains of SGI to open-source the Indigo Magic Desktop.
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by postmodest 3y ago
The most telling thing, to my mind, is how little of this fanciful technology we see in the real world. Yes, the manhattan project was super-secret, but within 10 years that science was everywhere. If we really had our hands on the kind of