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by rodgerd 4y ago
Given that every Mac, AMD-based XBox and Playstation, and a chunk of the Ryzen market are shipping decent unified CPU/GPU combos, I would say that day is mostly here.
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by rodgerd 4y ago
> We really need the equivalent of jail time for companies. I would love this, but there are so many irritating practical problems with it that I'd prefer we expand the cases where we can "pierce the corporate veil"; we sh
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by rodgerd 4y ago
They're sleepwalking to a win in the next election, sadly[1]. [1] I say sadly, less because I like the current government, and more because they seem desperate to import Bannon-esque culture war nonsense like attacking women's rig
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by rodgerd 4y ago
> What's the difference between Sony requiring you to buy headphones together with the tape player, or Android requiring Google to be the default search? Because of the tying of third-parties, I don't think that this is an equi
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by rodgerd 4y ago
> Can anyone understand how it's in anyone's best interest to investigate / potentially stop an open source standard / royalty-free format that has buy-in from tons of big orgs? Because "using my monopolistic pro
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by rodgerd 4y ago
How is one of the richest monopolistic companies in the world deciding to destroy a market segment "competition" that is "good for the consumer"?
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by rodgerd 4y ago
> This is amazing. Company with online video and advertising monopoly wants to use that monopoly to destroy competitors isn't "amazing", it's "business as usual".
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by rodgerd 4y ago
Most of the high-profile "tech startups" are mired in "doing illegal shit quicker than you get caught, with computers".
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by rodgerd 4y ago
Don't worry, the GNU people are looking to fix that.
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by rodgerd 4y ago
I never got them either - but they seem to be to be like cryptic crosswords, where the logic of the puzzles is a thing that exists divorced from the (apparent) context, and it's about understanding a bunch of conventions specific to th
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by rodgerd 4y ago
Pillars of Eternity 2 allows you to choose either letting the songs in the soundtrack play out, or to dynamically chop and change based on the scenes. The sea shanties while you're sailing around the map are a nice touch.
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by rodgerd 4y ago
Given that Uber routinely tracked politicians and journos and shared it around the company, and had stood up toolsets to track and evade police so as to facilitate drivers dodging law enforcement, they always were organised crime.
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by rodgerd 4y ago
> In the 2000s, their tools were unsurpassed, Only because they killed Freehand.
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by rodgerd 4y ago
It's funny, because after I watched _Breathless_ for the first time I was struck by how modern it seemed - and how little directors like Tarantino have added in the intervening years; normally when going back to the early works of pion
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by rodgerd 4y ago
Commercial systems that do this kind of room correction generally have a limited range of recommended microphones, and the more expensive (and hopefully better) ones will have the microphone calibrated and factored into the room correction
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by rodgerd 4y ago
They are rolling in cash. But they are on the "increasing growth every year" treadmill, which is why they're trying to gouge more and more out of the payments to creators.
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by rodgerd 4y ago
Apple are, if anything, more helpful to the Linux community that Qualcomm.
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by rodgerd 4y ago
There have been claims that companies are abusing the HackerOne NDA process to cover up security issues: refuse to acknowledge a problem, but weild the NDA to prevent disclosure of the supposed non-existent disclosure.
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by rodgerd 4y ago
The vendor's customers are already at risk. It's a peculiar arrogance to imagine otherwise.
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by rodgerd 4y ago
> don't want to pay a lot Don't want to pay a lot up front . You'll pay a lot to run it.
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by rodgerd 4y ago
Is Apple responsible for the false advertising of other companies?
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by rodgerd 4y ago
Think about the disruption that Apple caused when they moved from 32-bit x86 being supported to deprecating it - there was a great deal of angst, and that's on a vertically-integrated platform that is relatively young (yes, I know that
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by rodgerd 4y ago
There was a period where a Linux libc was maintained, but it was long-ago deprecated in favour of glibc. Perhaps that was a mistake.
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by rodgerd 4y ago
The folks over at Lens Rentals have an excellent blog where they tear down lenses and cameras; they've discussed previously that plastics and metals have strengths and weaknesses, and encouraged people not to simply assume that plastic
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by rodgerd 4y ago
> Some retarded Do better.
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by rodgerd 4y ago
I have an old NAD integrated amp from the same era - it keeps trucking along as it ever has. It's been rather sad to see their reputation for reasonably-priced, reliable kit take a nosedive in the last decade or so.
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by rodgerd 4y ago
The thing that irritates me is that people then venerate these accidents. Yes, some accidents are happy; many are at best neutral or least-worst or what have you. And then *ix culture dies in a ditch that we must keep all of them, forever,
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by rodgerd 4y ago
> This is a US thing, right? This is the leading surveillance capitalism company trying to lay the groundwork to break the privacy of Apple's messaging system, demanding that Apple give up the privacy that it provides its paying cus
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by rodgerd 4y ago
> because the company can't be bothered to maintain the software. Ironically (considering that you're using Yamaha) their MusicCast system have had a reasonable lifespan (seven years on the third generation, although they no l
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by rodgerd 4y ago
The idea that Fossil has as an SCM is that all your workflow ought to belong in the source repository; so, for example, the issue tracker that comes with Fossil stores all of its data inside of the same repo as the code. If you work on an i

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