ihatepython

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by ihatepython 3y ago
I don't know, but Chris L was always a C++ guy, he never really understood Objective-C in my opinion, which is why Swift ended up the way it did. I doubt he ever used it very much, or had a deep understanding of it.
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by ihatepython 3y ago
You have an optimistic view of ChatGPT. What I see happening is the movie 'Idiocracy' becoming a reality. Who am I kidding, Idiocracy is already a reality. Just look at the comments here on HN.
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by ihatepython 3y ago
> Adding a MIDI port to the Amiga would have been trivial The Amiga is unsuitable for serious MIDI work because of a hardware design flaw. There are like 4 timers and the timer interrupts were at a higher priority than the serial port in
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by ihatepython 3y ago
> Amiga had this fast ram concept. Atari ST unfortunately did not. But the Atari ST didn't have custom chips, so there was no need for chip ram/fast ram?
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by ihatepython 3y ago
I'd rather have lots of hardware sprites like the Genesis, in addition to the blitter. I think a lot of Amiga games felt like they ran slow, because it's a lot easier to move a sprite, than to move a blitter object.
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by ihatepython 3y ago
> Amiga/Commodore had the best engineers Atari had the best business folks While I had an Amiga and thought it was ahead of its time, I think both the Commodore 64 and Atari ST have aged better than the Amiga. The Commodore 64 has t
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by ihatepython 3y ago
The Commodore 64 also had better sprites than the Amiga. Jay Miner didn't really like hardware sprites. I think he was wrong about this.
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by ihatepython 3y ago
> I'll definitely want my country's Secretary of Health to be a doctor who understands public health and its related policies, not a politician whose primarily skill is being popular and getting elected. Why not? The head of th
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by ihatepython 3y ago
You ain't seen nothing yet. It still hasn't reached its peak.
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by ihatepython 3y ago
> why it's seen as acceptable to make broad generalizations based on race and sex in this way? In the current climate, it is acceptable to make broad generalizations about white males, however if the same exact generalizations are m
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by ihatepython 3y ago
> and there's no reason you should be downvoted for doing so. You are correct, but this is HN.
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by ihatepython 3y ago
I think paper straws are a more effective way to save the planet.
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by ihatepython 3y ago
> Another question I've had for a while - is there any way to combine lab-grown meat, cockroach milk, and vertical farming? I think it makes more sense to use 'plankton' as a food source, for making nutritious green wafers
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by ihatepython 3y ago
I'd rather be a cannibal than eat lab grown meat.
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by ihatepython 3y ago
> What do you think, say, a milk or orange juice factory looks like? Something like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZuWvwrEl_I
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by ihatepython 3y ago
> What's so weird about sterile rooms and stainless steel tanks? Do you think breweries (for example) are so much different? I can brew my own beer in my own home. Can I make lab-grown meat in my own home?
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by ihatepython 3y ago
I no longer use paper straws. Instead, I carry around a reusable metal straw that I wash after every use with copious amounts of water.
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by ihatepython 3y ago
I did the same thing, but not for myself, it was to send other people away that I didn't like
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by ihatepython 3y ago
Is that a lot?
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by ihatepython 3y ago
What if he is watching videos about quantum physics, and he might have been the next Einstein, if his parents didn't restrict his access to the information superhighway?
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by ihatepython 3y ago
What about climate change? Don't you care about saving the planet? If you can use your GPU at full power, why do I have to drink out of a paper straw?
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by ihatepython 3y ago
> You claim someone actually loved Objective C The problem with Objective C is that it requires skill. The average developer really is better off using a more remedial language like Swift.
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by ihatepython 3y ago
> and at least once a day each citizen should give mandatory report what they were thinking. So just like SCRUM?
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by ihatepython 3y ago
Yeah, nobody hates Python
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by ihatepython 3y ago
Pascal was popular in San Diego, and the early days of Apple iirc
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by ihatepython 3y ago
> Chinese military cannot go up against the US, and Xi knows it would be sure destruction. The US will lose, especially if China times it to coincide with the war with Russia, and North Korea invading the South.
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by ihatepython 3y ago
> all new cars I've played with seem less responsive than a 1st-generation iPhone despite having a UI that is no more capable. The first gen iPhone is highly responsive and has a highly capable UI, more so than even the current gen
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by ihatepython 3y ago
Unfortunately, there is still no cure for baldness in the 25th century.
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by ihatepython 3y ago
Well.... we're still a primitive society so.... not sure what you are trying to say.
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by ihatepython 3y ago
A billion years from now, time travel should have been invented. Your view of time is too linear.

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