ffhhj · HackerTrans

4 years agodiscuss

Yeah, around a decade ago this also made the news:

"Valve fires Jeri Ellsworth, who was developing Steam Box game controllers"

ffhhj

4 years agodiscuss

> You should not be making those games, it is unethical.

Made me imagine one of those xkcd:

Me: here is the code.

RMS: what? this is the compiled software.

Me: but the code is there in assembly.

RMS: that's unethical, give me the source code.

Me: ok, here, the source right before compilation.

RMS: this is obfuscated code, still unethical.

Me: granted, here it goes without obfuscation.

RMS: no, wait, the code is so micro-optimized it's no easy to understand, that's not open enough, and, unethical.

Me: ugh but I didn't save the unoptimized version, I just kept optimizing until it got this way.

RMS: look if we can't understand it we won't be able to inspect it, so this is still unethical.

Me: fine, I refactored the code.

RMS: it's undocumented, how are most people going to understand it, imagine a whole operating system undocumented, just, unethical!

ffhhj

4 years agodiscuss

I played Wolfenstein by Muse Software, on which Wolf3D is based, in an Apple ][ and there is longer story on both of these games: https://www.apple2history.org/spotlight/the-long-strange-sag...

ffhhj

5 years agodiscuss

Upwork must have been insured on credit card fraud, if so they are deceiving the freelancer to get x2 compensation.

ffhhj

5 years agodiscuss

> sluggish performance of a 2015 iMac since practically the day we bought it

I wish I had found this website when my MacBook Pro was still alive, maybe Chrome actually killed it after all. The low performance was so bad I moved to Windows 10 ("the last Windows system" they said), but after it notified my system can be upgraded to 11 I quickly moved to Ubuntu. I'm currently experiencing a few hiccups and reduced them with some memory tweaks, but still the experience is much better than Mac and Windows.

ffhhj

5 years agodiscuss

Meanwhile Google bots ban valid accounts for non existent spam, like mine: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28628849

ffhhj

6 years agodiscuss

Sorry to ask, what is the "Fabric" module in their architecture? Also, is the "Neural Engine" some neural network specific processor?

ffhhj

6 years agodiscuss

I.e. Apple contractors 'regularly hear confidential details' on Siri recordings:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/jul/26/apple-con...

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