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> Piracy on the PlayStation? Also not gonna happen. Piracy has a long history on the PlayStation, going all the way back to the PS1. Every PlayStation (home console and handheld) h…

It's not just to do with profit, there are other factors involved. For example, AI companies placing large orders is good for RAM manufacturers as it's easier to plan production sc…

Except the increase in prices is not tied to M2 in this case. It's clearly a matter of supply not matching demand, as a result of changes in priorities of computing equipment manuf…

There are a few points to raise here. Firstly, yes PC is mostly digital only, but there is at least competition between PC gaming marketplaces, which helps to restrict anti-consume…

10 years ahead of it's time for affordable home computers. You have to take the target market into account. To use an analogy, most people accept that Gran Turismo on the PS1 has g…

The X68000 was amazing, but it was also around double the price. Amiga A1000 was around $1300 in 1985, Sharp X68000 was around $2500 in 1987. The Amiga A500 was released in 1987 an…

Those 3 statements only work if you have short-term thinking. For example, there's no taking into account the gradual atrophy in skills that come from excessive tool use. To use an…

That's cool, it's obviously not meant to compete with modern router ASICs but it's an impressive achievement for a hobbyist.

An open hardware network-focused ASIC would be cool, but cost and long development times would likely be limiting factors. If you wanted to explore this further, starting with FPGA…

There are multiple options, including internet from mobile phone providers and satellite internet. The affordability and speeds are good enough that it's not a major problem. That …

What does this offer over other local-first password managers? For example, there are a fair few Android/iOS apps based on KeePass (I currently use https://www.keepassdx.com on my …

You're partially right, only the first revision of the Switch 1 could be hacked without modchips, but those early revisions can't have a software patch as the exploit relied on a h…

> switch line is nearly impossible Nah. Switch 1 is already compromised and I'd predict we'll see modchips for the Switch 2 in the next 3 years.

Science can't disprove religion. Consider the "big bang", is that any less of a miracle than "God did it"? Science is like "just give us one miracle and we'll explain the rest".

> I'd rather they just lower our taxes and quit squandering our money on these programs that never work. Would you support cutting military spending? It's a lot higher than other c…

> HN always have had a sizable anti-tech crowd (I don't want to say luddite because it's borderline pejorative). It's frequently said that technology is ethically neutral, and whet…

> An ABI for the people who cared about that random driver might localise the maintenance burden. Yes, but one key reason that a stable ABI isn't provided for drivers is to help en…

> I've noticed the anti-AI sentiment is starting to die down. I've noticed the opposite. Seems that it depends on where you're looking and what you're looking for.

> Imo it's fine to glorify the 65+ hour grind a founder takes on. While you're right that it's easier to try to justify this level of work for founders, the reality is that this le…

It is extremely predatory. Perhaps if you're a company founder you can try to glamourise this level of personal sacrifice, but for standard employees it's clearly an unhealthy leve…

It's been an issue in the game industry for decades, and yes, crunch is predatory. It's exploiting the passion people have for making games to make them commit to burnout-inducing …

I mostly agree with you, even though I think "2%" is an understatement. England is a very culturally diverse place, anyone that thinks that there's a great sense of social uniformi…

> Of course there will be a noticeable increase in gesticulation in an angry southern Italian person compared to a mild-mannered Englishman droning about philosophy. > Perhaps the …

I remember Planet Source Code. I used the snippets when I was trying to build a Pong game in VB6 when I was in my teens, it was a good resource for inspiration.

Second hand equipment being cheaper than brand new equipment isn't much of a surprise.