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People should zoom right out and think about the whole RISC-V project. When our phones have billions of transistors, are we seriously supposed to believe that RISC philosophy still matters. Personally I greatly prefer the user programmable 68000 family of processors. The marketing of RISC-V is perhaps the most impressive thing about it. Each to their own, I can see why giant SSD manufacturers want to use a license free design and share the cost of compiler development. Is there really anything else?

قبل 4 سنواتdiscuss

"Every M1 Mac .. due .. for .. refresh .. "

Great, I look forward to Apple sending me an M2 to put into the CPU socket, or will it be a download to reconfigure my M1 into an M2.

قبل 5 سنواتdiscuss

Back in the day I joined evening classes just to get access to the technical college library. Reading books was a thing then. I do see some value in erasing human history and starting again. We have been so comprehensively vile to each other it might be better to erase it all.

قبل 5 سنواتdiscuss

If anyone was serious about democracy they would give tax payers the option to select the services they are willing to pay towards. Tick the box to pay towards a new Aircraft Carrier, a new Hospital, Vaccines, Making viruses more deadly etc.

قبل 5 سنواتdiscuss

I think the message of They Live; is that our rulers complete lack of empathy for ordinary people means they might as well be aliens. Also I don't think it was a vision of the future; it was about society at the time.

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If Microsoft were a person; they would be a rich, lucky, lazy, easily distracted person who takes zero pride in their work, content to leave inconsistent garbage littering a product used by hundreds of millions because they are just too bored by the whole thing to bother fixing it.

قبل 5 سنواتdiscuss

There was a short story where children were put behind a wall and brought up to believe that magic was real; at some point it started to work for them.

قبل 5 سنواتdiscuss

I think the concept has been explored quite widely.

Indicators might be that groups of physicists believe in new tiny particles and then discover them.

Depending on how powerful the effect is; it might have interesting implications.

Consider that despite all the odds we are still here as a species. For example I sometimes imagine that the world was destroyed by a global atomic war in the 1980s but since we all rejected that bleak reality - we have this current reality instead.

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You are right and it is a useful thing to know.

There is a commercial license to help encourage the big well funded customers to pay for the tools they need to compile millions of lines of company confidential ADA.

And a license for only open source software; just in case students or hobbyists want to write their own robust open source rocket guidance system and share it on github.

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Any chance the UK can get a refund then?

"Before the end of this decade, the F-35 Lightning will provide the ultimate punch of the Royal Navy’s Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carriers. The F-35 is an Anglo-American joint effort, designed by the best and brightest in the two nations’ aircraft industries."

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I can confirm for you; that there is no rational reason to assume the authors own MacBook is a new M1 system.

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In contrast we have Americans, a people who would never cheat - and perhaps do not even understand cheating as a concept. It must be grand to live in such a country that has no need for laws, police, judges or prisons.

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I agree we all learn by example; and by copying.

I remember in the 1970s people used to say that the Japanese could only copy the west; they couldn't create things of their own; their culture or even their different brains prevented them from original creativity.

That was obviously just a load of garbage; it was just a stage their economy was going through.

I think the article is light on historical context.

There are good reasons why catching up with other nations; especially ones that once oppressed you could be regarded as a completely ethical thing to do; by any means necessary; to safeguard your peoples future.

No one would be in any way surprised if Huawei had just said "we are forking Android and our fork will diverge over time; eventually becoming our own unique operating system."

Understanding why they didn't say that is perhaps the interesting thing.

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As an alternative to ending free speech for everyone; perhaps users should have to pass a course on critical thinking; before being allowed to use twitter.

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I think we would want to visit them; and that's the reason we hope they might like to visit us. And we hope there is some easy shortcut through space; that we might figure out in the next few centuries; so we can visit people while we are still human and still have this motivation.

قبل 6 سنواتdiscuss

The current iMac design is really great; there is nothing wrong with bezels on a desktop monitor, what harm do they do? The chin is a good place for the apple logo, it also raises the screen so you don't need a stupidly tall looking wobbly stand and it allows you to change the screen angle without touching the screen. The current iMac stand is very solid; and it almost squats on it; in an extremely stable way. The memory is simple to upgrade, it slides out from its own little door; and the curved shape overall is very stylish in a slightly retro way. The ports on the back are the only pain you need to add a hub. The mock ups of the new iMac that have been shown look like a rather boring monitor.

قبل 6 سنواتdiscuss

Try taking a picture of a fast moving object in the sky with your phones camera, it is quite hard to do; even at an air-show where they all line up for you.

قبل 6 سنواتdiscuss

I seem to remember that when programming this OS; your app was responsible for almost everything; including things like animating the close button when you detected a user clicked on it; and also the slightest mistake you made would crash the entire computer. So the simplicity was only surface deep.