nukem222

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by nukem222 1y ago
I was a big fan of glider pro, having been born long after apple ][s: http://macintoshgarden.org/games/glider-pro I would download it, but I wanted to be productive today.
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by nukem222 1y ago
Right. Good luck finding people who want to maintain that. It just seems incredibly short-sighted unless the current batch of maintainers intend to live forever.
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by nukem222 1y ago
Notably, they forgot to improve on readability and maintability, both of which are markedly worse with perl. Look I get people use the tools they use and perl is fine , i guess, it does its job, but if you use it you can safely expect to b
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by nukem222 1y ago
Eh, finger pointing does nobody any good, emphatically including this comment. Finger pointing towards someone who actually found a vulnerability is just bleak. I would not willingly associate with anyone who engaged in such behavior. Mai
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by nukem222 1y ago
I agree with all of this. I want to offer a tiny bit more hope, though: > There have been a lot of bold promises (and genuine advances), but I don't see a world in the next 5 years where AI writes useful software by itself. I actual
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by nukem222 1y ago
Readers should note that it's super buggy. Occasionally your music will be unavailable, even though it can match it to tracks that ARE available on apple music (it just says "not available in your region" and is greyed out).
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by nukem222 1y ago
> Even a relatively minor hit on the radio is valued more than a super-popular song in clubs because it is guaranteed to have a higher play count. Well that just seems broken.
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by nukem222 1y ago
Eh i've also used since the beginning. People love to complain. I put zero weight on this hypothesis. Other interfaces at the time were just as bad if not worse.
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by nukem222 1y ago
> They've turned it around Eh, the same complaints are the same as always. Expectations have improved, tho! I think that's what we're seeing here.
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by nukem222 1y ago
Yea but this only matters if you're considering fatness as a factor. This factor disappeared long before the headphone jack did. I have never in my life heard "i won't use that phone cuz it's too fat". Apple just ir
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by nukem222 1y ago
Excel needs to default its export to this. Unfortunately excel is proprietary software and therefore fucked.
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by nukem222 1y ago
> An incredible amount of effort and ingenuity has gone into CSV parsing because of its ubiquity. Yea and it's still a partially-parseable shit show with guessed values. But we can and could have and should have done better by si
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by nukem222 1y ago
Yes, that is a single spec with correspondingly-small importance. Generally parsing html remains extremely difficult.
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by nukem222 1y ago
Schemaless can be accomplished with well-formed formats like json, xml, yaml, toml, etc. from the producer side these are roughly equivalent interfaces. There's zero upside to using CSVs except to comfort your customer. Or maybe you ha
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by nukem222 1y ago
How do you recommend vetting brands? This is simply not a problem wired technology ever had. I can't imagine ever trusting a brand to get things right without my fixing their mistakes.
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by nukem222 1y ago
> It's simple My experience has indicated the exact opposite. CSVs are the only "structured" format nobody can claim to parse 100% (ok probably not true thinking about html etc, just take this as hyperbole.) Just use a wel
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by nukem222 1y ago
I run with wired headphones. I also don't need to chase after them when they fall out of my ears.
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by nukem222 1y ago
I can't say I claim to have heard of ANC before, but the rest of these reasons to purchase apple headphones are true of the $20 chinese knockoffs I bought on amazon. And they come in a cute orange/salmon color rather than blanched
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by nukem222 1y ago
Ok, but don't they want my money? Why not cater to my money? The tech scam only works if people actually think the tech is better. What's so hard about offering a jack? Especially in any situation outside of phones. You could mark
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by nukem222 1y ago
I suggest not wiring with tissue paper if this is a serious issue for you. Anyway, you can simply not run into stuff with a wire. There's nothing you can do about bluetooth glitching out randomly for five seconds. Not to mention playin
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by nukem222 1y ago
> The industry realized this and honestly for most people a water resistant phone is worth losing the 1/8” jack and they win with fewer components and thinner phones This would make sense if people didn't turn around and spend
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by nukem222 1y ago
> Then how come they are offering lossless audio on Apple Music, and even (actuall physically!) imperceptible "Hi-Res Lossless"? Overkill makes good marketing. People largely just want to feel like they're getting the best
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by nukem222 1y ago
It's hard to imagine a wireless technology that can improve on the experience of debugging a wire. You can always adjust the length of the wire or splice in a new one. I don't understand why the industry forced a move to wireless
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by nukem222 1y ago
The ipad also has an icon above its keyboard. Whatever lack of obvious interaction is available on the phone seems intentional. Cynically, I think you'd just look like even more of a fool shaking an ipad and this is the only reason the
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by nukem222 1y ago
It's impossible to take their fears seriously—literally any kind of social obligation is going to be scary for an entity with no desire to do anything but feed its owners. Wait until you see what kind of reaction 40% gets! Existential
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by nukem222 1y ago
If a fine isn't an existential threat what's the point of it? Hoping next time they'll care more? tf? the EU needs to tack another 0 to these percentages if they want to see movement.
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by nukem222 1y ago
Damn, why didn't they prosecute that instead? Probably would have won some public support. Declarations of a desire to commit violence are an entirely different beast than purchasing plutonium, and far more worth prosecuting.
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by nukem222 1y ago
Surely there's some sort of safeguard in the Australian government preventing this sort of embarrassment. The second anyone hears how much was involved they're gonna know this prosecution makes a mockery of their own laws.
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by nukem222 1y ago
> There's no benefit to Google when a Chinese company takes Android, guts the Google parts, and shoves it on a cheap ass phone for a market with a few billion people. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery! This might give them
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by nukem222 1y ago
They don't publish the really interesting sources anyway, this doesn't really change anything.

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