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by smallduck 3mo ago
Nasir Gebelli. Wrote Apple 2 games by dictating bytes typed into the mini-assembler, went on to write/co-design the early Final Fantasy titles. Legend.
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by smallduck 7mo ago
The trouble is people have gained employment from doing the things he's pushing to totally automate. This shift goes way beyond inventing the technology but also re-inventing economics and society and from a glance at his website'
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by smallduck 7mo ago
A smart phone's primary function is to initiate and receive phone calls, or arguably 1/3 of it's primary function if the metric is the Jobs iPhone launch presentation, however since "smart phone" and "iPhone&qu
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by smallduck 7mo ago
Portable Dog Killer
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by smallduck 8mo ago
It seems all that sucking up hasn't completely payed off, has it Tim. Appeasing authoritarians is never the answer.
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by smallduck 1y ago
To anyone who thought Apple simply copied what they called at Xerox Parc, check this one out.
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by smallduck 3y ago
Are these subsidies to end users, contributing towards retail or perhaps discount service fees? This shouldn't be how it works. Services should be given free to qualifying users (at some service tier) and providers should be paid direc
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by smallduck 3y ago
"Recent leaks from Meta show that executives there worried that if they didn’t censor accurate information that the Biden administration didn’t like, the company could face severe consequences." dead giveaway about this article&#x
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by smallduck 4y ago
I live in Metropolitan Vancouver, somewhere with very low vaccination hesitancy, and still someone in my circle only got vaccinated because of restrictions. Restaurants were re-opening and she couldn't join in without getting the vacci
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by smallduck 4y ago
It would be nice if this was a common OS feature. For some platforms however, system APIs implement the undo stack by way of pointers into runtime objects. A macOS application, for example, has model functions for each kind of document chan
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by smallduck 5y ago
"I will soon start a series of posts about the Apple IIgs, the most successful of the series." This https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/a/498 claims the 2e outsold the 2gs by more than 4 to 1. The former
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by smallduck 5y ago
https://songwhip.com/the-darkest-of-the-hillside-thickets/co...
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by smallduck 5y ago
Indeed the intent, though not expressed in the Objective-C declaration through the type system, is that the format string is a string literal. However the intent of the Swift call described in the article is indeed that of a string literal
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by smallduck 5y ago
Pure B.S.
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by smallduck 5y ago
"Most Software developers also can skip the 2021 lineup since compilation and build of most languages happens in a single core and thats what consumes all the time." First of all: "that's". Secondly, anyone using mo
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by smallduck 5y ago
As soon as you refer to Russia's involvement in the 2016 election using Trump's dismissive terminology, you lose all credibility.
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by smallduck 5y ago
The question is, how cheap might this make it to build Tokomacs compared to the cost of, say, ITER?
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by smallduck 5y ago
https://open.spotify.com/track/53hQF6fLq9SSYtGxxvTUXK?si=6ff...
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by smallduck 5y ago
This article largely misses the point on these reactors. Liquid fueled, low pressure fission reactors make sense, solid fuel, water cooled, high pressure reactors are stupid. This is the key factor, not Thorium. Thorium is good to use for n
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by smallduck 5y ago
This reads like fiction, reminiscent of William Gibson maybe, is it for real? Or "was it" is maybe the right question, perhaps it all crashed and burned.
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by smallduck 6y ago
From the Commodore PET wikipedia page: "A series of problems meant that production versions did not begin to arrive until December 1977, by which time the TRS-80 and Apple II had already begun deliveries." As far as I could ever t
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by smallduck 7y ago
Repeating the quote: "experts warn that the COVID-19 shouldn't be .. compared to a bad case of the flu". Contrasting the victim counts literally implies the comparison this article warns against.
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by smallduck 7y ago
There will someday be games supporting TiltFive AR (tiltfive.com) that will be a great for this use case. For something like chess, for example, the player on each end could have physical pieces, something that would work well for non-gamer
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by smallduck 7y ago
Similar notions from a few years ago: https://speakerdeck.com/akosma/cocoa-is-the-new-carbon-the-f... https://smallduck.wordpress.com/2015/11/17/the-new-carbon/
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by smallduck 7y ago
https://berniesanders.com/issues/medicare-for-all/
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by smallduck 7y ago
I would think it's because Xcode uses the implementation of SwiftUI present in the OS to render the preview, which is only present in Catalina and not in Mojave. I presume they didn't think it worth the effort to re-implement Swif
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by smallduck 7y ago
re the apple 2 font, yes i instantly recognized the space invaders page in the book to be exactly, or nearly so, the upper case 40-column character set used on the apple 2. ha, i used the condensed (ie. 80-column) version of this font in my
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by smallduck 7y ago
A launch from a balloon of course.
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Disrupting the MRI – Mary Lou Jepsen at DLD NYC 18(youtube.com)
1 points by smallduck 8y ago|0 comments
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by smallduck 8y ago
You're wrong.

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