steve_taylor

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by steve_taylor 5mo ago
It's for Google.
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by steve_taylor 5mo ago
Perhaps, but I think that by the time we're that far advanced, strokes will be entirely preventable.
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by steve_taylor 5mo ago
There's nothing stopping you from setting up your free (as in freedom) slice of cyberspace for you and your friends, for now. Looking at all the new and proposed laws coming through, I don't think we'll have those basic freed
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by steve_taylor 5mo ago
Taking a brief look at wizball.asm, it actually used 200 Hz interrupts on both PAL and NTSC. The timings are shown from line 39.
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by steve_taylor 5mo ago
RAM can be increased to 16 MB and CPU speed to 48 GHz.
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by steve_taylor 5mo ago
It's a stealth subscription product. People are losing those things all the time.
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by steve_taylor 6mo ago
The C64 does have a couple of bitmap modes. The Last Ninja uses mode 3, which is multicolor bitmap mode. It occupies 9000 bytes including pixels (8000 bytes) and color RAM (1000 bytes).
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by steve_taylor 6mo ago
Only a few years ago, there was a study showing that regular caffeine use reduces blood flow to the brain by up to 30%, leading to lower brain volume and increased risk of dementia.
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by steve_taylor 6mo ago
Lazarus is probably the easiest way to make a lean and fast native Windows app without paying for tooling.
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by steve_taylor 6mo ago
I don't agree with this take in the article. One person with Claude Code can replace a team of devs. It resolves many issues, such as the tension between devs wanting to focus and devs wanting their peers to put aside their task to rev
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by steve_taylor 7mo ago
The problem with that is that sites/apps will retain the identifier, either to use the Digital ID for login (not just one-time age verification), because they want to retain as much information as possible for later usage or sale, or b
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by steve_taylor 8mo ago
Figma was a completely fresh take on UI design software and it was the best thing available at the time. It made incumbents look lazy. Vecti looks like a Figma clone if its landing page is anything to go by. You're not going to have an
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by steve_taylor 8mo ago
> My money is on the chats being end to end encrypted and separately uploaded to Facebook. If governments of various countries have compelled Meta to provide a backdoor and also required non-disclosure (e.g. a TCN secretly issued to Meta
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by steve_taylor 9mo ago
When you're a low-tier video streaming company, you look for cost savings such as writing the same app as few times as you can get away with, so typically you end up with the same web app running on Tizen, webOS, VIDAA, PS4, PS5 and qu
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by steve_taylor 9mo ago
Focus stealing has been an issue in windowed multi-tasking environments from the beginning. It's certainly been an issue in all macOS/OS X versions I've used since I started in 2011.
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by steve_taylor 9mo ago
So instead of addressing their runners being extremely slow to the point that a reasonable person would think it's deliberate in order to extract more billable minutes, they're charging customers for using an alternative. Makes se
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by steve_taylor 10mo ago
It's the worst gun massacre since Australia's strict gun control laws came into effect in 1996 following the Port Arthur massacre.
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by steve_taylor 10mo ago
The real news is that age verification will be required to use a search engine from the 27th. This has flown completely under the radar because of the social media ban. Initially, it will only be required if you're logged in. Obviously
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by steve_taylor 10mo ago
It doesn't have to be that effective. The point was to get the law passed. Now that it's in effect, there will be iterative steps to make it effective. I think it will eventually lead to all social media users in Australia having
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by steve_taylor 10mo ago
Digital ID is optional by default. Service providers that integrate with the Digital ID can apply for an exemption to make it mandatory. Given the mandatory nature of age verification checks for social media, the fact that social media is t
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by steve_taylor 10mo ago
There has only been one accredited Digital ID that sort of isn't government and that's Australia Post's Digital ID which they're now winding down in favour of the government's. While the Digital ID act does allow fo
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by steve_taylor 10mo ago
The most accurate part about this is that HN still hasn't implemented dark mode.
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by steve_taylor 10mo ago
Regardless of how terrible an idea it is, I wouldn't mind some billionaires funding R&D that advances the state of the art in thermal management in space.
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by steve_taylor 10mo ago
If we don't wipe ourselves out in the next 1000 years, I think we'll launch manned missions to other star systems that make it to their destination hundreds and even thousands of years into the future, with their original crew sti
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by steve_taylor 10mo ago
She should be careful what she wishes for.
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by steve_taylor 11mo ago
Part of a Digital ID is an identity provider that implements protocols such as OAuth 2 and OIDC. Once this is in place, the government that owns the Digital ID system can mandate that platforms such as social networks, search engines, email
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by steve_taylor 11mo ago
Governments aren’t just rolling out Digital IDs. They’re rolling out the platform to enable them to require that you authenticate with a range of apps and websites, ostensibly to keep children safe, with the real purpose being to link your
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by steve_taylor 11mo ago
It's a good example of when you should use AI.
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by steve_taylor 11mo ago
I once received a number of hateful mentions and DMs on Twitter because I share my name with a 60 Minutes Australia journalist who was the producer on a story about Conrad Murray (Michael Jackson's personal doctor). People really are t
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by steve_taylor 11mo ago
By the time that blackout occurred, the grid was already quite stable and rolling blackouts were a thing of the past. The state-wide blackout was the result of a severe storm, which included lightning, gale-force winds and three tornadoes,

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