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by w0mbat 6y ago
The big skew in availability between 8GB and 16GB models implies to me that yields of perfect chips are lower than Apple expected, with too many ending up in the 8GB bin.
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by w0mbat 6y ago
Me too. I last had a desktop, at work, about that long ago, and have not bought a desktop computer for myself in a lot longer. Laptops got very good and I can still plug it into a monitor and external controllers when I need to. I don’t ne
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by w0mbat 6y ago
Let’s all give him a big hand.
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by w0mbat 6y ago
Another case of Bain Capital destroying a useful store chain, like they did with Toys R Us.
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by w0mbat 6y ago
I just tried plugging my monitor into a right hand socket on my 2019 MBP, and it worked fine for me. On my machine it is true that charging on the right is better. Charging on the left spins up the fan.
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by w0mbat 6y ago
It's a terrible calculator, quite apart from the ludicrous launch time. Just try driving it from the keyboard, which is how most people use calculators. Doesn't respond to enter, return is not mapped to equals, no key is mapped t
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by w0mbat 6y ago
My friend's brother who studied the language at Cambridge always called it "Serbo-Croat", but "Serbo-Croatian" seems to have almost completely replaced that term over the years.
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by w0mbat 6y ago
Some of these special vacuum tube devices were really hard to make and required a lot of physical skill to make by hand. My wife's grandma actually did that, making special vacuum tubes for a tech company after WWII up until she retire
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by w0mbat 6y ago
My only beef against Dijkstra is that I applied for a fairly crappy job I was eminently qualified for in terms of experience and someone told me to code Dijkstra's shunting yard algorithm on a whiteboard (well not in so many words, but
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by w0mbat 6y ago
You know, this happened so long ago, in 1992, that there may be nothing for Google to find. I mean the web had been invented, but there wasn't much of it at that point. SMB server was updated eventually, so that it checked user access
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by w0mbat 6y ago
Microsoft made exactly the same mistake years ago with SMB. Once the 3rd-party open-source client, Samba, was written, it emerged that SMB access restrictions were only in the Microsoft SMB client software not the SMB server. Samba users co
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by w0mbat 6y ago
It seems to me they just got the scale of this completely wrong. The tubes should be a lot smaller, say a foot in diameter, and go through the air at streetlight-top level. The network would need an automated switching system to direct each
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by w0mbat 6y ago
Government scientists discover that cats don't follow orders, do whatever the hell they want.
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by w0mbat 6y ago
This story never made sense to me. If they know about meat, then they know about intelligent creatures made of it, for some value of intelligence. Otherwise where would the meat they have seen come from?
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by w0mbat 6y ago
For people who don’t play guitar, this is really commonplace technology now. Engineers worked out how to model the circuit behavior of any amp a while ago. Powerful valve guitar amps have really interesting effects on the waveform particula
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by w0mbat 6y ago
"Within the article I'd mentioned that Apple had not yet paid for all of the vulnerabilities. Right after publishing it, they went ahead and paid for 28 more of the issues making the running total $288,500" https:/&#x2F
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by w0mbat 6y ago
Thanks, I worked on Desktop. It was a very successful product, but Chrome wanted the dev team.
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by w0mbat 6y ago
The drama with UK-based Imagination Technologies was better. Apple used Imagination's PowerVR GPUs in iPhones for years, then in 2017 Apple announced they would ditch them and make their own GPUs. Apple was in talks to buy the company,
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by w0mbat 6y ago
If you do that, you will immediately lose your iPhone, as the curse is transferable.
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by w0mbat 6y ago
The skinny, slippery, round cornered, black AppleTV remote seems to be designed to be as easily lost as possible. Weeks often go by without finding it, during which we use other streaming devices instead. The Amazon FireTV remote is quite e
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by w0mbat 6y ago
I thought "!:q " was what you typed to quit vi.
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by w0mbat 6y ago
It was a similar story with gas pumps, which truck drivers used to glitch to get most of their fill-up for free.
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by w0mbat 6y ago
Sounds like fitting either house (or ideally both) with a $15 POE filter from Amazon would have fixed the problem. (POE in this case is point-of-entry not power-over-ethernet.) I had to get one to make MOCA (ethernet over cable) work in my
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by w0mbat 6y ago
As most people know, British food has improved a million times since the days of Fanny Craddock on black & white TV. British people know about food now, watch endless foodie shows, they can cook, and the UK supermarkets have great ingre
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by w0mbat 6y ago
Throughout reading the article I kept wondering why they didn't pursue the obvious solution : build a normal house next to it and move in. They have a nice plot of land and cost of conventional construction in Arkansas is low. They cou
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by w0mbat 6y ago
Weirdization or maybe WeirdAlization if you like Weird Al.
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by w0mbat 6y ago
Your app helps Apple sell devices and their margins are large.
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by w0mbat 6y ago
The Apple code scanner is buggy. I had an app rejected for an alleged call to an internal API that the app does not actually call. I had to appeal to the app review board, who approved my build, but it delayed a critical bug fix. Friends ha
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by w0mbat 6y ago
I am old so I have worked for various big and small tech companies, including most of the ones being discussed here. Google is the one I would trust with my data. They know how to do hosting at scale (unlike some really quite large and famo
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by w0mbat 6y ago
The - prefix operator is very useful and still works. Google should reinstate the + prefix operator. It was only taken out because it screwed up the search results for Google+, which is dead now.

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