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by sjwright 6y ago
It's like you're not even bothering to read what I wrote. You picked some prefabricated framing through which you've interpreted my comments and then proceeded to criticise things I didn't say. I sincerely weep for the t
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by sjwright 6y ago
> Australia and New Zealand are not necessarily CV success stories. That's an utterly wacky assertion. In what possible metric are they not a success? New Zealand has beaten the virus and is now completely reopened domestically. Aus
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by sjwright 6y ago
Polls are only evidence of the poll's results. It cannot read anyone's minds, nor are they guaranteed to reveal true intentions—especially when the individual being polled is being asked questions by a human. The gay and lesbian m
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by sjwright 6y ago
I'll reiterate that I'm left on all these issues. You're just wrong. The left has completely failed to shift public opinion on these matters. It's more of the same ineffective strategy of shaming. And before you cite som
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by sjwright 6y ago
> What flaws of the left are being exploited here? It's impossible to elucidate in a way that wouldn't cause a left or right partisan to howl with objections, but the big one is making perfect the enemy of good. This often come
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by sjwright 6y ago
I look at two things Apple did recently: giving iOS on iPad its own name, and releasing the Magic Keyboard. To me, both these things look like moves in preparation for Apple seriously scaling up iPad as a computing platform.
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by sjwright 6y ago
As someone viewing this sociological catastrophe from afar (Australia) and who is nominally "left" on most social issues, it's clear to me that the past three years represents the utter failure of the American Left to underst
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by sjwright 6y ago
They already ship ARM co-processors in Macs: the T2 chip. An alternative possibility to my earlier musings is that the T2 chip gets expanded to take over more system functionality—perhaps to the point where the Intel chip looks more like an
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by sjwright 6y ago
In my imaginary universe, it’s be ARM for MacBook Air and a “Mac nano” shortly followed by an economy spec iMac. If the performance is there, it could eventually extend to the entire iMac line, with a broadened iMac Pro line staying Intel.
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by sjwright 6y ago
I see no issue with developers shipping universal binaries indefinitely. I don’t see what the issue would be with that, for most devs it’s just part of the Xcode build process. I suppose it would double the compile time for release builds.
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by sjwright 6y ago
My prediction of Apple’s moves here are far less dire. These are just predictions mind you, but the point is Apple could do this without ruining the platform for enthusiasts. 1. They’re going to have some kind of breakthrough with x86 emula
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by sjwright 6y ago
The cheese melts in the microwave; the music melts in Sibelius. Tantacrul’s review of Sibelius’ might be the most entertaining serious critique of a software user interface ever posted to YouTube. https://youtu.be/dKx1wnXC
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by sjwright 6y ago
Until you need to do an emergency transfer of some recovered data volume and there’s a few dozen slightly corrupted JPEGs scattered throughout a few million files. Also, I don’t think I’d want my filesystem deciding what qualifies as a vali
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by sjwright 6y ago
Didn’t realise the UK was so terrible. Banks here in Australia have many flaws but downtime is quite rare.
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by sjwright 6y ago
Yes, it is an argument. It is not evidence, it may not be compelling argument for you, but it’s unquestionably an argument. I refuse to accept that courts deemed compiled code to not be a creative work or intellectual property. Remember—a l
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by sjwright 6y ago
I’m a big proponent of schema-rich SQL but I don’t see the argument here. Enforced schemas can be a bottleneck for change no matter where it’s enforced. And just because some parts of a schema need to be “in line” doesn’t mean all of it mus
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by sjwright 6y ago
That’s not always true. Often it’s not true. There’s a reason why we don’t have file systems that guarantee all .jpg files are valid JPEG files.
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And then upgrade your expectations of uptime and error tolerance by a few orders of magnitude.
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by sjwright 6y ago
A lot of what banks do is filing forms. Thousands of ever-changing forms from millions of sources. Even things that aren’t forms are still very document-like: transcriptions, attachments, receipts, invoices, statements, letters... all of it
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by sjwright 6y ago
This is very likely. Most banks have stupid-huge quantities of products and services, each with extremely elaborate requirements and data storage needs. “65 relational databases” might well only represent a few percentage points of HSBC’s d
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by sjwright 6y ago
Inertia, most probably. (And it’ll probably be a better, snappier experience than the website on mobile.)
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by sjwright 6y ago
An assertion that one court somewhere on the planet erred in a spectacularly ridiculous way isn’t evidence of anything.
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by sjwright 6y ago
That's so wrong it's almost painful. Copyright is the only reason why anyone pays attention to the license associated with compiled software. What would be the point of a license for an artefact not protected by copyright? It also
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by sjwright 6y ago
I remember reading or watching something by Naughty Dog about how they maximised use of Cell which was fascinating. (And something about how they ported to PS4 and made extremely efficient use of the eight cores by running game/physics
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by sjwright 6y ago
How did Cell compare to doing compute on a GPU? Was the difference in complexity due to support libraries etc, or because it required non-standard thinking about how it can be utilised?
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by sjwright 6y ago
How is YouTube not a competitor to Wikipedia? Both are community powered content. They would be directly competing on many major search terms. The fact that the editorial standards and media formats are different is beside the point.
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by sjwright 6y ago
That literally makes no sense. You'd rather a rectangle telling you to consume sugar than a rectangle asking if you can support an organisation that provides a service you use?
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by sjwright 6y ago
I was going to be even more cynical and say that 3 million sounds absolutely pathetic relative to the scale of both entities, and given how important it is to the quality of Google’s search results.
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by sjwright 6y ago
I don’t agree because the cultures are too divergent. But Apple could quietly invest in them to ensure someone else can’t take them over...
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by sjwright 6y ago
Irrelevant. Both licenses rely on exactly the same laws, morality and principles. Either you think intellectual property can be owned and licensed, or you think it should not be.

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