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by ralfd 5y ago
How is the foveated rendering? Is it noticeable?
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by ralfd 5y ago
The Apple TV (A12 chip) is currently $199. The new iPad Air with the M1 chip costs $599. They also don't need the display, camera, microphone. And could sell it at a loss and make the margins with TV+ and game sales. But they would nee
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by ralfd 5y ago
> I look forward to Apple deciding to play ball with gaming someday. I wish. But playing ball is more than hardware. It is spending billions to buy Activision or Bungie. And I can't honestly imagine Apple having the cultural DNA or
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by ralfd 5y ago
> More and more I see the M1 chips and I wish Mac worked seriously well for gaming. I guess Apple will never play the console game, with having their own game developer studios and buying exclusives. But I wish they would put a M1 in an
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by ralfd 5y ago
> The entire Russian economy needs to be punished as much as possible in as short a time as possible. This unavoidably hurts everyone. Sanctions can work too well. After the US embargoed all oil to imperial Japan their navy calculated th
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by ralfd 5y ago
Mined by whom? For once it makes sense that Ukraine is doing that, they mined beaches at Odessa, while an invasion force mining their area would be stupid.
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by ralfd 5y ago
Houses are positional goods. If you earn five times as much, your colleagues will too, and there will be a bidding war until the price matches your earning power again. See also: The absurd real estate prices in the Bay area. Elizabeth Warr
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by ralfd 5y ago
First link: "This video is not available in your country" (Im in Europe)
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by ralfd 5y ago
> The big thing here is the concept of a device doing ONE thing and doing it well. Is there a name for that? I don't think so, but it was the first item in the Unix philosophy in 1978. "Make each program do one thing well. To d
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by ralfd 5y ago
Can you do it in batches?
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by ralfd 5y ago
Respect for Kuba, but if it was as easy as you say Kuba wouldn't be able to export their vaccines.
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by ralfd 5y ago
> Its not even that complex. If there was an identical Elon that came one year after Elon, he wouldn't be able to have what Elon has. The universe actually did run that experiment: Kimbal Musk is the younger brother of Elon. He too
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by ralfd 5y ago
True, and even if everyone were a moral saint the pox would been devastating. But this was not a garden eden, but a very brutal tribal world with frequent ethnic cleansing and enslavements. Hundred thousands of native auxiliaries marched wi
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by ralfd 5y ago
But the utopian end goal is to make Mars hospitable. For Musk a Mars city is not the end goal but the first step. For example one could make a magnetic shield in L1 Mars Orbit. There was a speculative Nasa study (Wikipedia): > If constru
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by ralfd 5y ago
Actually that is easy to remember, because OK/Cancel is the wrong Windows way and Cancel/VerbOfAction the enlightened Apple way. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17269938 > Windows puts OK first Apple puts
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by ralfd 5y ago
> If the next pandemic is even more serious than the current one … … than Bill Gates is absolutely right, and your positition of invalidating pharmaceutical patents would not only just be moral grandstanding, but stupidly harmful. 1. Hun
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by ralfd 5y ago
Side note: Recently a teacher posted a thread on Reddit, that while discussing social media he mentioned Reddit and his class snickered. They teased him „Mr teacher are you a Reddit user?“ which he confusingly acknowledged to more snickeri
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by ralfd 5y ago
That is an interesting question. One difference I can think of is that (US) Politics is courting the military vote.
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by ralfd 5y ago
In sexually reproducing organisms, much of the epigenetic modification within cells is reset during meiosis.
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by ralfd 5y ago
It is difficult to break it down to one all-encompasing "happiness" variable: https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2021/11/does-havi... There is happiness, satisfaction, stress, purpose …
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by ralfd 5y ago
"Fewer" just means they get spoiled/helicoptered; with the added long term affect that families are atomized instead of larger support networks.
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by ralfd 5y ago
The phrase comes from saloons in the United States providing free food, but requiring purchasing of drinks. You can't get"something for nothing". (And if you do there is a hidden cost or an externality.) https://en
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by ralfd 5y ago
I think you are confused. The first link is about iCloud, not iMessage. The Rolling Stone link is behind a paywall. Both don't have anything to do with the case at hand.
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by ralfd 5y ago
I think you misunderstood him. Parent poster said that their child was breast fed during the night, his wife just did not wake up for it, but slept through the suckling.
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by ralfd 5y ago
> Rather, they rarely land in front of the people who disagree with the contention held within. The open letter wasn't penned to end up on a blog post. The goal was to be printed in Scientific American: But the editor-in-chief was
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by ralfd 5y ago
https://www.linkedin.com/in/simon-patience-4b2103b9 Apple Vice President Core OS Software (2002–2014)
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by ralfd 5y ago
Archive / mirror: https://archive.fo/iWgqx
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by ralfd 5y ago
Even worse: There was an export embargo for computers by the West, so the soviet union had to reverse engineer western chips and manufacture their own. Inspired by an Apple II https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agat_(compu
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by ralfd 5y ago
Almost. This was first: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24371703
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by ralfd 5y ago
> small time devs get a loss of 25% of income Nitpicking: Apple takes 15% from small time devs (less than a million $)

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