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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,…

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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 comment…

> 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 int…

> 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?

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 spr…

> 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 hav…

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.

> 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 popul…

You ain't seen nothing yet. It still hasn't reached its peak.

> 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 ma…

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> and there's no reason you should be downvoted for doing so. You are correct, but this is HN.

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I think paper straws are a more effective way to save the planet.

> 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 …

I'd rather be a cannibal than eat lab grown meat.

> 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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> 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-g…

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.