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by prvc 1mo ago
Article could have profited by adopting a neutral tone instead of attempting to be comedic. Surely information on historical sizes has not been lost. As for the candy bar market: the ideal outcome for the consumer would be if a single candy
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by prvc 1mo ago
I am the complete opposite of that. My attention wanes when someone fails to get to the point, instead dwelling in irrelevant details which are not intrinsically interesting. Have to muster the motivation to concentrate in such circumstance
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by prvc 2mo ago
There does not seem to be a documented close lineal connection between August Dvorak and composer Antonín Dvořák, although it would be reasonable to suppose some relation exists.
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by prvc 2mo ago
Less interoperability leads to more lock-in in their view. Poor implementations facilitate this. Making the user lose data or be uncertain about losing data is just icing on the cake.
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by prvc 2mo ago
Poorly conceived thesis; if the concepts differ, then they are different concepts.
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by prvc 4mo ago
The new Star Wars movie grossed $81.6 million at its debut last weekend, for comparison.
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by prvc 4mo ago
>Amazon said it had supported the devices for 14 years or more and could not keep doing so indefinitely. "Technology has come a long way in that time," said a spokesperson. Wasn't the original concept of the Kindle that it
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by prvc 5mo ago
The problem with using a physical terminal for everyday computing in 2026 is that there is no model that provides a happy medium between sufficient bandwidth for a snappy experience while in use, and a cool retro feeling. Newer models one m
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by prvc 5mo ago
That's why I want it; their motives for doing it, should they decide to, would presumably be different.
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by prvc 5mo ago
I hope they will consider releasing DALL-E 2 publicly, now that there has been so much progress since it was unveiled. It had a really nice vibe to it, so worth preserving.
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by prvc 5mo ago
This is neat, but could someone explain the significance or practical (or even theoretical) utility of it?
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by prvc 5mo ago
The concept of "meat" presupposes the existence of carnivores, so it's hard to see how the realization in the story could ever have been surprising.
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by prvc 8mo ago
Have they announced any price from which to adjust? If not, then it would be unnecessary for them to announce the adjustment.
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by prvc 9mo ago
"Disciples", but seemingly without back and forth feedback from the "teacher". Many happy to ride on the coattails of his reputation, though. This particular style might also be attractive to new film-makers because it a
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by prvc 9mo ago
Apples to oranges.
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by prvc 11mo ago
Should have just quoted what Hooke said... not sure what we're supposed to take away from this.
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by prvc 11mo ago
>The best way to reclaim our digital experiences, though, might be to stick with the likes of TextEdit, software that is unable to do anything except follow our commands. Man, if he only knew...
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by prvc 11mo ago
This situation persists: for instance, try to write to an external disk formatted with NTFS using the GUI tools alone. Baffling why Apple doesn't simply obtain a license in order to gain this capability. Big unnecessary inconvenience,
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by prvc 1y ago
Anyone wondering what might have prompted his evident change of attitude after already having engaged in a "correspondence" with Mosley should note that this letter was written during Ralph Schoenman's infamous tenure as Russ
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by prvc 1y ago
An interesting prospective project for a technically minded musician would be would be to find an automated way to "correct" the surviving corpus of Welte-Mignon[1] recordings. They were designed to capture the small nuances of pe
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by prvc 1y ago
None of the examples shown in the video are passable hoaxes. They are all obvious burlesque-style parodies, albeit made in bad taste. They all also have clear and prominent hallmarks of AI generation. Anyone fooled by these has got bigger,
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by prvc 1y ago
I assumed the article would be about orchestral musicians (for whom there is a high, and increasing skill threshold) or session musicians (whose work is increasingly being replaced by computer synthesis). Instead, we get a very long narrati
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by prvc 1y ago
>NES No, I meant, if you want to provide video games, just provide whatever is current and popular. Also, they should research whether there is actually a need for this. One suspects that such a thing already exists.
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by prvc 1y ago
On the building a Commodore game room for sick kids charity idea: one thing they wouldn't have is nostalgia for the 1980s home computers. Just get them Nintendos.
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by prvc 1y ago
Merely from your telling, it seems it is no longer "not worth the effort", as "the effort" has been reduced drastically. This is itself significant.
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by prvc 1y ago
The released draft report seems merely to be a litany of copyright holder complaints repeated verbatim, with little depth of reasoning to support the conclusions it makes.
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by prvc 1y ago
How big a selling point would CP/M have been, really?
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by prvc 1y ago
Have to disagree about the 'effective' part. Gates seems to have had a knack for massive inefficiencies and negative externalities in every way that he has impacted the world. Think of how many man-hours (measured in human lifetim
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by prvc 1y ago
BASIC, that is.
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by prvc 1y ago
> ~15GB (MLX) leaving plenty of memory for running other apps. Is that small enough to run well (without thrashing) on a system with only 16GiB RAM?

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