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by spijdar 6y ago
Even with CPU rendering, there will be differences depending on the specific software libraries and system configuration, e.g. aliasing settings. Patches to one of the pieces of software doing rendering could create pixel level differences
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by spijdar 6y ago
For anyone interested, the problem with homebrew is it relies on "/usr/local" being owned by the current user to allow installing software without needing a password every time you invoke "brew". Naturally this
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by spijdar 6y ago
One of the citations, http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/4.73.html#subj10.1 has more information about the incident, and some interesting insight from Mr. Hubbard. "I have to wonder what other RPC services are ope
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by spijdar 6y ago
As a 23 y/old younger (well, young-ish) dev, it strikes me that this isn't anything new. Old commercial solutions since nearly the beginning have been predicated on proprietary solutions specific to some vendor's UNIX based O
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by spijdar 6y ago
To some people, soldering isn't a big deal. To others, having to do a full drive reformat may be as intimidating as using a soldering iron. Contrast to the second point, where non-autonomous quadrocopters are emphatically not "dro
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by spijdar 6y ago
I'd offer this idea in return -- religion may be the collective, social expression of individual spirituality, usually fuzzy and generalized beyond an individual's own specific beliefs in order to promote social harmony and cohesi
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by spijdar 6y ago
Just for a dissenting opinion, I use both types of scope syntax on a regular basis and prefer the Algol-ish one. I personally find it easier to reason about where code blocks begin/end when they're explicitly marked. Makes movin
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by spijdar 6y ago
The key is that they're statically linked. Even so, you will begin to run into some issues in that time frame. My last experience trying to deal with ancient Linux binaries on an ARMv5 device running linux 2.4 was pretty abysmal. There
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by spijdar 6y ago
Flash will not be supported in any of the large browsers after December, limiting access to people who go out of their way to use both a fork that preserves NPAPI or whatever Chromium uses and manually install some version of Flash. I'
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by spijdar 6y ago
Really? I'm currently out of the country on a special visa which expires at the end of the month. I'm traveling for family/health reasons that couldn't wait, not for leisure or holiday. If the US forcibly closed the airp
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by spijdar 6y ago
Is it really a logical fallacy to assume that we should have better outcomes from spending tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars on academia vs e.g. spending thirty dollars on amazon? At least naively, that money could (should?) be going
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by spijdar 6y ago
You're right -- I didn't mean to imply that's why eGPUs aren't supported right now, I meant I suspect it's a policy change, and Apple plans to move to more integrated drivers in the future, so in "Courage!&quot
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by spijdar 6y ago
Unfortunately it looks like they're taking the opposite approach, and phasing out even AMD drivers, with eGPUs apparently (?) not supported on M1 devices. It seems they want to phase out all non Metal APIs. (Which is to say, I bet the
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by spijdar 6y ago
Purely speculating here, but Thunderbolt allows for pretty substantial power to be sent bidirectional. It's conceivable that the excess power could be used for that or some other peripheral. I know I can charge my MBP off the excess po
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by spijdar 6y ago
Hmm, that's fair. I don't use iOS much myself, so I'm not very familiar with what's available on the App Store. It does appear that at least Swift Playgrounds allows for projects (including code, which is interpreted) to
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by spijdar 6y ago
While I agree the rules are often inconsistently enforced, and I'm a fan of iSH, I think the real surprise is it was ever approved in the first place, as it seems to clearly be violating the "spirit of the law" regarding Appl
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by spijdar 6y ago
This really depends. Once-upon-a-time, at least in the UNIX (tm) world, there were a plethora of ISAs, and this was the environment where ideas like Java really made sense. Write once, run anywhere. Most OSes are still pretty well situated
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by spijdar 6y ago
Standard memory modules which were soldered onto the mainboard? Given how Macbooks have had soldered memory packages for ... 8 years now, I don't think moving the memory onto the SoC was to lock out upgrade potential. It doesn't
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by spijdar 6y ago
This isn't always as straightforward as it might seem. I'm using a Dell Precision laptop shipped with Ubuntu and certified and all that jazz, and it continues to have problems that just don't happen on the Mac side of things.
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by spijdar 6y ago
What UNIX are you thinking of? Even the Berkeley distribution appeared to require a license from AT&T to use, for V7 UNIX. Anything with AT&T's code was litigiously protected, culminating in a law suit in the 90s against 4.4BSD
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by spijdar 6y ago
The ergonomics of this also depends on the laptop itself. The large Macs are sort of uncommonly good at being used on the lap as a result of lacking the numpad and centering the keyboard/trackpad. My experience with trying to use my 15
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by spijdar 6y ago
Until 2019 Apple sold 13 inch MBPs without the touchbar, and these models did not have a T2 chip. They are still miserable computers to run Linux on, although I think the original 2016 touchbar-less MBP performs better than all the rest, al
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by spijdar 6y ago
I think the point the author is trying to make is that "roguelike" is emphatically not actually a genre but describes both the development process and the end result, at least in the "traditional" sense. In the same se
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by spijdar 6y ago
Ahhh yeah, I hadn't considered that. Hmmm. The KaiOS app looks interesting. It seems like they just repurposed the regular web version of WhatsApp, based on its limitations (no voice/video calling). It's a shame they can&#x27
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by spijdar 6y ago
I'm in the same boat with WhatsApp -- though I got a pinephone anyway, because an open, battery powered arm64 computer with USB-C and displayport out is awesome enough to justify it personally. A couple months ago I went through the ho
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by spijdar 6y ago
You and the other comments are right -- this isn't the same as Amazon or other digital stores where you have no ability to download the content. However, I wouldn't compare this to a movie store, or a music store. At least while
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by spijdar 6y ago
It does -- and if Youtube Music lets you upload music files like GPM did (not sure if they've added this feature yet or not, I know they claimed they would), that's one avenue. However, I've noticed that the one album I'
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by spijdar 6y ago
Oh, sure -- the CPUs themselves can run in 16 bit mode, but after switching to 64 bit long mode I was under the impression you couldn't invoke vm86 mode. But I've never really played with 16 bit before. I guess I was confusing it
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by spijdar 6y ago
I don't have the right hardware to test this right now, but I believe unmodified system 7 binaries (and earlier) should run on up to OS X 10.4.11 from 2007 on PowerPC Macs, using the Classic environment. In an alternative reality where
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by spijdar 6y ago
It seems the problem here isn't Youtube, though -- it's the ad networks. As great and beneficial as shifting to a p2p distribution model outside of Google is, I'm not sure how it defeats this "censorship", as you go

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