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by vaxman 6y ago
Rewatched it on the giant touch panel in my dashboard last night. One thing that is neat is the genlock-like mix of video and computer output —pretty cool for 1968. Going to hookup a mouse today and go trackpad-free for a while on the old
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by vaxman 6y ago
You mean like a NexDock with an rPi or RockPi or Pre-p0wnd Galaxy? Or are you suggesting the matte 17” screen, keyboard and I/O ports on the last PowerBook “leave a lot to be desired by modern standards”?
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by vaxman 6y ago
I used to run YellowDogLinux (now famous for “yum”) on my last (17”) PowerBook G3 and had triple boot with ClassicMac emulation along with MacOS X Lompoc. F’ing mainboards blew several times on all of my non-plastic PowerBooks and MacBookPr
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by vaxman 6y ago
Guess they are getting tired of the support hassles from having hacked Chinese routers (Asus, D-Stink, etc) between the Apple servers and hundreds of millions of iPads and iPhone users.
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by vaxman 6y ago
Silicon is just slang to describe chips without referring to their actual model names and specs (yet) —someone in Marketing (Phil?) saw how the religious faithful began to worship the “A” series chips in the blogosphere and capitalized the
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by vaxman 6y ago
Apple learned (prior to 16”) that a large number of customers want to run huge VMs, load massive AI models and have faster imaging performance that comes with higher memory limits. I don’t think they are going to ever want to introduce anot
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by vaxman 6y ago
Did they not already commit to running VMs on Big Sur on their ARM chips? ARM-based Linux exists and will run full speed. Because they are kicking kext’s to the curb and stepping up with their own virtualized hardware drivers, we may not ha
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by vaxman 6y ago
I don’t get the “So yes” part. If you develop for non-Apple platforms on a Mac, it is because of X, Y and Z not because you have “never written an iOS application.” As far as a “general consumer,” they had all be using iPad, Dex or Chromebo
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by vaxman 6y ago
Outsourcing is for big companies that care more about process (timecards being accurate) than the product detail. For example, governments, insurance companies, banks, etc. These companies are focused on the big picture, not where the butto
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by vaxman 6y ago
Not worth.
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by vaxman 6y ago
Uh, just be certain that the congresspeople already knew the answers to each question before they asked it and the purpose was to be able to tick a box saying "..and even in light of these FACTS, the company denied it on 7/30&#x2F
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by vaxman 6y ago
I went from "Why!!!!!?????!!!!!" when I read the headline to holy crap this is awesome when I read the article!
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by vaxman 6y ago
This. Just as surely as email, texts and tweets are now admissible in contract law and as we can sign documents online that are binding, we need a national realtime information-streaming infrastructure --text and URLs today, multimedia in t
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by vaxman 6y ago
"peers" lol
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by vaxman 6y ago
coupled with mass 5G CCTVs ..there, fixed it for you. With _the_federal_government_ ensuring that 5G covers every inch of the territory enabling economies of scale for low cost SOCs and pricing tiers, the days of WiFi for any kind of mass d
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by vaxman 6y ago
yep, and was hoping the youtube would be a rock video...Question Stanford's position on this --DEC had a big office in Palo Alto, but it is where we kept the feral Unix (er Ultrix) monsters...and DEC won the 32-bit war baby (at least u
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by vaxman 6y ago
This running MacWord+MacExcel in 1997 would have prevented the dystopia from coming true. (Of course, the dystopia is necessary to even conceive of doing this!) Now put down the keyboard, raise your arms slowly and back away from the NodeJS
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by vaxman 6y ago
If your life revolves around acceptance by HN mods, then you need to wakeup from The Matrix! Nobody wants another cesspool like /. was in its hay day, but ultimately only HackerNews/Ycombinator are harmed by this phenom of over-mo
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by vaxman 6y ago
Wow, they succeeded in getting iOS to boot on a cloud ARM processor inside QEMU. They can use that enviro to develop custom layers to eventually run on modded hardware to do realtime analysis at full execution speed.
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by vaxman 6y ago
America’s organizations want access to the Chinese market and, absent any regulations to the contrary, when necessary are willing to compromise the values of our American Way of Life. But those regulations are (finally) coming. In the meant
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by vaxman 6y ago
iPad with a 360 keyboard shell (Amazon) and a (genuine) ApplePencil in a magnetic sleeve (Amazon) is fine. Apple makes a variety of sizes and weights and they can be heavily customized. I recommend Notability tho GoodNotes is great too. As
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by vaxman 6y ago
Good for drawing but not the best for taking notes/journals. You can export your drawings as PDFs to Notability or GoodNotes tho.
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by vaxman 6y ago
Noteability Audio synchronized with your typing, writing and drawing, plus WebDAV backstore and ability to drop PDFs and links into your notes. I think GoodNotes is a close second —need layers in Notability.
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by vaxman 6y ago
Did hackers download DIRECT MESSAGES from some Twitter accounts, something that should not be possible were the system correctly engineered and professionally operated? Would it be naive to expect that this is the first time this mechanism
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by vaxman 6y ago
No rational person that has lived through age discrimination would engage in any kind of ageism and again, my career spans over 40 years. (How many people my age in the Fortune 500 company 40 years ago? ZERO! Maybe down in mailroom or somet
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by vaxman 6y ago
I blame auto-correct
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by vaxman 6y ago
We need the guys at CMU (who also operate CERT) to engineer a replacement and setup a program for interns to operate it as a private non-profit for the rest of time. The system that is out there now has been a running technological joke sin
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by vaxman 6y ago
Leave Microsoft out of this.
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by vaxman 6y ago
Really? I thought it was common knowledge that UK are brutal about surveillance. James Bond and Kingsman, CCTV on every corner, Canonical CEO dismissing privacy concerns in new products “because you already trust us when we sign the package
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by vaxman 6y ago
“You can’t handle the truth!” Second favorite Nicholson quote, but so true. Seriously, Boeing will internally deal with what happened. Need proof? Ever wonder what happened to say, Rockwell International (most famous for Apollo and Space Sh

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