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by KerrAvon 2y ago
Well, there's also Dick Van Dyke, who's remained very physically capable as well as mentally sharp. All of this varies, FWIW, with genetics and self-care. Over 30 is still pretty young, but nothing is universal; your heritage basi
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by KerrAvon 2y ago
the modular parts (IOKit) are C++
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by KerrAvon 2y ago
That's because nobody should give a shit. The details are irrelevant because USAID is a drop in the bucket compared to military spending. Almost anything in the federal budget is. Our taxes are not going down if they halt all foreign a
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by KerrAvon 2y ago
The Apple TV app is 100% the only way to cope with Paramount+. Of all the streaming services I use regularly -- Netflix, Hulu, Disney+, Peacock, YouTube -- it's the only one that doesn't work for me more often than not when using
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by KerrAvon 2y ago
What device are you using? I use Apple TVs, and Apple TV+ is consistently extremely high quality streaming for me. YouTube is incredibly painful to use because their tvOS UI is garbage. Quality's OK, though.
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by KerrAvon 2y ago
China is a nuclear power and has been recognized as a major security threat since they acquired nuclear weapons (in the sixties?). But your last sentence is true. Politicians and corporate executives failing to accurately extrapolate long-t
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by KerrAvon 2y ago
We make exceptions for fascists. We have to.
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by KerrAvon 2y ago
The Whiz Kids, for all their flaws, were duly and lawfully appointed. It wasn't this.
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by KerrAvon 2y ago
No, they are not. This is a bizarre and highly illegal coup by Musk simply because he can, and who's going to enforce the law? Trump's corrupt DOJ?
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by KerrAvon 2y ago
_why's influence is indelible.
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by KerrAvon 2y ago
I don't actually care one way or another about that particular subject, but if you start making judgements about academic fields of study are worthwhile to pay for on the basis of value to society, you allow other people -- more ignora
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by KerrAvon 2y ago
IANAL, but you don't need a license to publish yourself playing a piano or a guitar, and synthesizers are also musical instruments. That said, I'm not sure that's ever been tested in court, so if someone wanted to be a right-
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by KerrAvon 2y ago
Has the UI become more Mac-like on the Mac? This is the only reason I still go back to TextMate even though I purchased SublimeText.
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by KerrAvon 2y ago
How do you know it's accurate?
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by KerrAvon 2y ago
You say this, but have you seen the quality of the drivers they produce on platforms they ostensibly support? You do not want vendor mouse/keyboard software on any platform. Instead, improve the USB class drivers so that you don’t need
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by KerrAvon 2y ago
FWIW, I don’t think they left it out so much as haven’t spent the time to build it. It’s not like they’re pulling implementations off the shelf.
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by KerrAvon 2y ago
Architecture contributes, but all it takes to blow input latency is some inefficient code almost anywhere in the input or rendering pipeline. The Apple IIe didn’t really have very many layers between the keyboard and the CRT. Wayland might
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by KerrAvon 2y ago
Nah, I'm making no such assumptions. On the contrary, we're all fucked for generations to come, and I assume we'll be essentially parted out to China and India. The conservative whackos who have been trying to destroy the USA
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by KerrAvon 2y ago
I'm curious: what's the theory behind why this would be faster than mold in the non-incremental case? "Because Rust" is a fine explanation for a bunch of things, but doesn't explain expected performance benefits. &q
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by KerrAvon 2y ago
I mean, be careful what you wish for; the current US administration has a goal (white power).
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by KerrAvon 2y ago
If you’re a relative or friend, take them aside and have a frank conversation. If not, nothing you can do!
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by KerrAvon 2y ago
The later Infocom games — I’m thinking especially Moriarty’s evocative Wishbringer, Trinity, Beyond Zork — have much improved writing in general; it might be interesting to see what an LLM actually does with those.
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by KerrAvon 2y ago
I don’t remember exactly when you joined up, or what the information flow would have looked like to the graphics group, but the OS team was certainly aware in the mid 90’s that high DPI displays were on the horizon. I think it actually took
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by KerrAvon 2y ago
(The original NeXT was not very fast, due to the MO drive. Imagine VM thrashing on that thing.)
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by KerrAvon 2y ago
Sure, but that's how it already works. The airplane example is how building codes generally work. London didn't rebuild in wood after the Great Fire, to give an ancient, and large-scale, example. From what I've read, the hous
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by KerrAvon 2y ago
It's more complicated than that, as always. Here's some (incomplete) background on Florida: https://www.civilbeat.org/2024/03/how-floridas-home-insuranc... Re: California, I don't understand the con
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by KerrAvon 2y ago
I dunno — in the torrent of sludge that came and will come from the Trump administration, how is anyone supposed to distinguish an occasional nugget of truth?
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by KerrAvon 2y ago
Wozniak's original BASIC for the Apple II only supported integers; when Apple decided they needed floating point and Woz refused to spend time on it, they decided to license it from Microsoft, producing Applesoft BASIC. Applesoft was s
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by KerrAvon 2y ago
Stroustrup has been saying that in print since 1993, and it hasn’t happened yet.
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by KerrAvon 2y ago
I have been having a fine time with a 3080 on recent Arch, FWIW. HDR support is still painful, but that seems to be a Linux problem, not specific to Nvidia.

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