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Nasir Gebelli. Wrote Apple 2 games by dictating bytes typed into the mini-assembler, went on to write/co-design the early Final Fantasy titles. Legend.

The trouble is people have gained employment from doing the things he's pushing to totally automate. This shift goes way beyond inventing the technology but also re-inventing econo…

A smart phone's primary function is to initiate and receive phone calls, or arguably 1/3 of it's primary function if the metric is the Jobs iPhone launch presentation, however sinc…

Portable Dog Killer

It seems all that sucking up hasn't completely payed off, has it Tim. Appeasing authoritarians is never the answer.

To anyone who thought Apple simply copied what they called at Xerox Parc, check this one out.

Are these subsidies to end users, contributing towards retail or perhaps discount service fees? This shouldn't be how it works. Services should be given free to qualifying users (a…

"Recent leaks from Meta show that executives there worried that if they didn’t censor accurate information that the Biden administration didn’t like, the company could face severe …

I live in Metropolitan Vancouver, somewhere with very low vaccination hesitancy, and still someone in my circle only got vaccinated because of restrictions. Restaurants were re-ope…

It would be nice if this was a common OS feature. For some platforms however, system APIs implement the undo stack by way of pointers into runtime objects. A macOS application, for…

"I will soon start a series of posts about the Apple IIgs, the most successful of the series." This https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/a/498 claims the 2e outsold the 2gs by …

I recommend https://www.amazon.com/Apple-Inside-Macintosh-Volumes-III/dp... You never said which version of the OS.

https://songwhip.com/the-darkest-of-the-hillside-thickets/co...

Indeed the intent, though not expressed in the Objective-C declaration through the type system, is that the format string is a string literal. However the intent of the Swift call …

Pure B.S.

"Most Software developers also can skip the 2021 lineup since compilation and build of most languages happens in a single core and thats what consumes all the time." First of all: …

As soon as you refer to Russia's involvement in the 2016 election using Trump's dismissive terminology, you lose all credibility.

The question is, how cheap might this make it to build Tokomacs compared to the cost of, say, ITER?

https://open.spotify.com/track/53hQF6fLq9SSYtGxxvTUXK?si=6ff...

This article largely misses the point on these reactors. Liquid fueled, low pressure fission reactors make sense, solid fuel, water cooled, high pressure reactors are stupid. This …

This reads like fiction, reminiscent of William Gibson maybe, is it for real? Or "was it" is maybe the right question, perhaps it all crashed and burned.

From the Commodore PET wikipedia page: "A series of problems meant that production versions did not begin to arrive until December 1977, by which time the TRS-80 and Apple II had a…

Repeating the quote: "experts warn that the COVID-19 shouldn't be .. compared to a bad case of the flu". Contrasting the victim counts literally implies the comparison this article…

There will someday be games supporting TiltFive AR (tiltfive.com) that will be a great for this use case. For something like chess, for example, the player on each end could have p…

Similar notions from a few years ago: https://speakerdeck.com/akosma/cocoa-is-the-new-carbon-the-f... https://smallduck.wordpress.com/2015/11/17/the-new-carbon/