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I owe my career to this golden generation of micros (an Amstrad CPC in my case).
Much respect to the man who undoubtedly kickstarted this revolution in Britain.

Now, at the risk of sounding blasphemous : the ZX Spectrum is also the most annoyingly overrated, overhyped system in UK retro computing circles, bar none.

While it might technically be able to display 8 (garish) colours (some of which are shades of others) it can't even do it without weird limitations ("colour clash").
For all intents and purposes, its software feels monochrome. You might get a couple of different background colours on screen, but sprites are nearly always monochrome with heavy use of dithering. They leave a lot to the imagination, that's for sure (check out the monochrome rainbows in Rainbow Islands :) )

The keyboard is rubbish, the machine doesn't come with a tape player, it doesn't do standard joysticks. Its BASIC is cryptic and underpowered compared to the Amstrad's (tbh, the C64's isn't great either, maybe the Amstrad just shines here)

All of that was probably fair game for a cheap entry level machine in 1982, but by 1984 the Commodore 64 and Amstrad CPC were both affordable and running circles around the poor Spectrum (each with their own strengths). Most other European countries had caught wind of this and chose a side (C64 in Germany / Nordics, Amstrad in France / Spain) and yet, Britain kept this bizarre and very unique love affair with the Speccy going strong, well into the early 90s.

Today, the reality distortion field its fans live in would put Apple's to shame.
The term "nostalgia goggles" must have been invented for ZX Spectrum Youtubers, seriously : they will do comparison videos between 8-bit conversions of arcade games where any outside observer would find the Spectrum port to be embarrassingly, almost comically inferior to the other two, but they'll still award it the top spot for reasons like "it plays well", or "it looks great despite the good old Speccy's limitations"

On forums, you will show them side by side Amstrad/Spectrum game screenshot comparisons (like this one : https://imgur.com/a/D7Ocd) and they'll still insist the games on the right hand side look better. The publisher of the excellent "visual compendium" series of retrogaming books has one about the Spectrum, refuses to do one with the Amstrad. Go figure...

In the end of course, it's all good fun to be reenacting what is really schoolyard squabble, but the inability of the British to recognise the one homegrown computer they should be proud of never ceases to amaze me ;)
Docker containers work fine and iirc are officially supported.

I’m unsure of the maintainers motives, I’m also unclear on whether they’re even a hass core developer, but I don’t really care enough to read more either.
Sure. You're a useless cunt and when you die it will massively improve the life of everyone you know.

Welcome to the truth my friend.
How can you say it is half-baked when it's still in beta? I am not saying it will be perfect when released, but we cannot judge something that's not generally available yet.
My first job had advertised flexible work timings - you can come and go as you like, as long as you put in 8 hours.

Once I joined, I was told flexi-time means you can come anytime before 9 am and leave anytime after 6 pm.

lol
Popper (the source of the "paradox of tolerance") was very close to a free speech maximalist. His footnote containing this often cited paragraph was a small limited acknowledgment that in some extreme circumstances we as a society must place limits on intolerance.
> An easy to use, censorship resistant, video host seems needed.

Are you sure? It sounds nice, but I think in practice it would be overrun with quacks selling herbal remedies that claim to make your boobs bigger, just like email. So instead of censorship being built-in, you get censorship tacked on after-the-fact. In the world of search engines, bad content drives out good.

Alternatively, you have a dumb pipe that takes care of hosting video without trying to host things like comments or recommendations, so even if you upload spam nobody actually sees it unless they find it elsewhere. But that’s not a solution to spam. It’s just making it somebody else’s problem.
> as well as stuff like the network stack being rewritten

I would be very interested in learning about this. Do you have any references ?
No.

Fortran is not popular with embedded, nor with distributed computing (in the internet sense, not HPC one), nor with OS, nor with UI/UX, nor with compilers, nor with computer graphics, nor with many other disciplines.

There are lots of areas which do complex, interesting tasks, and where Fortran is some dead language nobody uses.
As another gun owner its not necessarily people that my gun can defend me and my family from. I grew up living out side of town out in the country. I have in my yard seen bear, cougar, coyotes and while hiking/camping/fishing also come across wolves and various snakes. Around age 12 I started carrying a .22 caliber pistol loaded with snake shot when fishing in case of rattle snake.
The latest spam method right now is to get malware on to android phones and have the actual phones do the spamming. So if there is a cost, it gets applied to random people and not the spammers.

Also if there was a cost per SMS on phones these days it would be the death of SMS because no other system charges.
Who cares what the Mafia wants
Lately one doesn’t even need a SIM card, instead SMS via VoIP or a SIP trunk and bulk-purchased phone numbers
This is why we have armies and police forces.
It's Sir Clive, or Sir Clive Sinclair, never Sir Sinclair. Knights primarily use their first names, and their surname only for disambiguation.
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I think Instagram has already trained a lot of serious photographers to work in this world. At least until recently, the only way to post to Instagram was via mobile (or some Lightroom plugins or spoofing your desktop browser as a mobile browser). Many photographers were going through the workflow you described and then sending the edited file to their phone for posting.

That being said... this seems like a poor move because photographers are willing to do that to get the audience reach Instagram provides. Glass, on the other hand, requires a subscription and doesn't seem worth the effort yet.
I would say poverty has more to do with the murder rate than anything else.

If you want to go and rob houses or join a gang, you'll get a gun, legally or illegally. This happens everywhere, not only where guns are legal.
If you can't get a gun, you'll get a big knife or a baseball bat.

The USA is rich in GDP per capita but has patches with poor people with little to lose.
In many EU countries there is far less people with little to lose, even among the poor ones.
Crime in EU is, similarly, disproportionally caused by those who have little to lose, eg. illegal immigrants.
>It used to be that if you were an American teenager in a rural area, you could even drive to school with your hunting rifle still in your pickup and nobody would care.

My grandmother's high school had an elective class where they would even shoot at the school.
> and devoid of exploitable industrial or natural resources

Isn't there massive amounts of lithium there?
For me with windows 10... I spent about 2 hours trying to get it to install on my new machine while it continued to fail due an issue with it recognizing my nvme drive complaining i did not have any sada drive... in about 20 minutes after being very frustrated i downloaded ubuntu and installed... I spent the next 20 minutes installing lutris and the sims4 so my girls could play... so about 4 hours later... 40 minutes of which was to get linux installed with wine and playing video games with a then pretty nice nvidia 1080 ti graphics card... and bonus i can play sc2... i guess i don't see why people still use windows?
sometime in 7th grade, in the 03-04 school year, our student counselor came into our class one day and gave a presentation about something along the lines of identifying signs of school shooter-types in your fellow classmates, or something. she said "I know you're going to say 'awesome,' but the Columbine shooters had made a level of their school in a video game, and they used it to practice their shooting before they did it." (everyone predictably whispered "dude, awesome.") despite being ostensibly too young, I was a huge DOOM fan at the time, and I was quite knowledgeable about the Columbine incident because it fascinated me. so I raised my hand and told the student counselor that this was false and merely an urban myth—one could go online and find "the Harris WADs" quite easily, and it was pretty well-known among anyone who had a passing interest in the WAD scene that none of these maps, in fact, resembled a school, much less that particular high school, in any way. she made me sit in the hall.
Yes, the original post was not trying to precisely inform the frequency, just that it's not a once in a generation occurrence, but rather something that happens regularly. By trying to refute the frequency, you're completely missing the argument. That's what me and other people are saying.
That is very strong evidence that they believed they would be sued; what else do you think it proves?
I think the problem is that xyz was and maybe still is the cheapest TLD so it naturally attracts all the spammers.
I’m not entirely convinced that the line between organism and ecosystem is that clear cut. I think you’re just expressing an observation at a different octave et al.
This is especially ridiculous when seeing how few tablets are sold by Microsoft, despite them try harding for a decacde or so.
So you’re saying Americans with guns are like the Taliban? Hilarious, and probably true.
HN leaves up all kinds of divisive content, as long as it's in their financial interest or aligned with the ideologies of the site owners and moderators.

"Very disapproving", you mean they censor. They censor content they don't approve of. It's wild that so many people will defend that position here.
If you want to engage with the point accurately, you need to break out inner city gun violence rates from suburban/rural rates. Commenter's entire point is that high gun violence is geographically restricted. If you don't live in those areas, you live in a country where gun violence is as unheard of as a European country.
>There’s an obvious distinction between...

To whom, exactly? This is where things begin to fall apart because something "obvious" to you is such due to a number of factors -- the culture and society you grew up in being only part of the equation -- while not at all obvious to many others. You're attempting to draw a hard, objective line in something very subjective. This is why this problem isn't easy to solve and why it is very easy for otherwise good-intentioned folks to be chastised.

>Everything needs nuance and discretion. The world is complicated.

I agree.

>But throwing our hands up in the air and saying “this could hypothetically be abused” is not a reason to remain paralyzed in the face of hostility within a community.

You just built a straw-man argument, completely blowing away the previous statement. Not every slight will be composed of some obvious insult to transgendered folks. There have been and will continue to be perceived slights where no such thing was intended. On top of all that there have been and will continue to be people who feign offense and will attempt to have someone they disagree with tared, feathered, and removed.

How do you intend to deal with the latter of these scenarios; when someone innocent is accused? You can avoid many such events by considering the nuance and acting with discretion. What you said so far does none of that.
It is currently available via right click on the start button in Windows 11.
"Windows has been missing something decent window snapping features forever and although it's a bit clunky I appreciate that it's there."

I've been using windows 11 for a few months as well. For window snapping, I simply enjoy Powertoys and will stick to that since it gives me more customization options.
> And how does one see revolution going against the world's most-funded military (by a long shot) staffed by lifelong professional soldiers wielding an arsenal almost all of which is extremely restricted?

The military is made up of citizens who would likely be divided in case of a revolution. And what the last several military involvements have shown, if anything, is that a bunch of motivated amatuers with ready access to guns and extensive knowledge of the terrain can give our elite military serious problems.
I can fathom why it's called the Bill of Rights. Yes, you made a claim. I'm asking you to substantiate your claim. Dismissive snark about what I'm able to fathom is not the same thing.

I also made an argument in my previous post. You completely ignored it. Would you answer it?
There's the definition of censorship, and then there's people's perception of censorship as something the government does. Beyond that, it's not just that many people can't distinguish the two, but that they've merged aspects of each into the same thing in their head.

Censorship is natural and expected in many, many contexts. Any time a parent punishes their child for saying something they feel is unacceptable, that's censorship. It's just censorship in the hope of teaching their children how to be responsible members of society.

The difference between censorship at the individual or group level and at the government level is that with individuals or groups it's possible to find to other people or groups (or create your own) where that speech is not censored. At the government level, where they can control all aspects of expression, that might not be possible, which is why it's more of a problem and why it's set as a fundamental right in some countries.

YouTube does not control all expression through video. There are both other video streaming platforms, and peer delivery networks that can have platform front ends, and social media networks (which YouTube might classify to some degree as also) that allow video dissemination but are operated differently and have different restrictions.

YouTube is censoring people, just like it has always done since day one, and in new and evolving ways as their policies change. That's expected, and legal, and the same thing every other commercial platform does, and if people have a problem with a specific type of censorship YouTube performs, they should give their attention to a platform that doesn't, but not just because there's censorship at all, because of course there is.
It's kind of a pain to use .com.au because you have to register an ABN and have a company / yourself be directly related to that name. So I can't just come up with any cool domain name I want and create a .com.au for myself without legally registering that name too.
Because the bare-face hypocrisy of censoring a comment like that on a thread about commenting pulled back a bit too much of the curtain. They'll be back to silently killing accounts and comments in no time.
Obligatory https://wiby.me/ plug. If you're looking for a decent minimalist website search engine, this fits the bill pretty well.
I'll bite. The problem is asymmetry of information, and that the protections haven't advanced alongside the ease of collecting information.

For example, imaging you have a suspect and want to trail them. The courts have established that you have no expectation of privacy when in a public area, so an officer can trail your car and watch where you go. You only have so many officers, and so there are implicit limits on how many people you can trail in person. But if instead of sending an officer to trail a suspect, you attach a GPS tracker to the suspect's car, suddenly that restriction is removed. Instead of spending weeks trailing a single suspect, you could attach dozens of trackers to dozens of cars, or you could request location data from a third party. The lower cost of breaking somebody's privacy allows it to be done more frequently, even if the explicit legal protections haven't changed.

The problem isn't the technology itself, but that protections of privacy and protections against unreasonable searches haven't advanced alongside the technology.
yeah bro, dalits just really love cleaning waste
these are extremely minor issues when you look at the bigger picture - you could argue that Clive kick started the multi billion pound games industry by getting young people interested in computer games

sure it would have happened anyway, but he definately made it happen earlier

almost 100% of the people who work in IT (in the UK) over a certain age had one of his affordable computers
This cycle doesn't work anymore. Windows 10 wasn't a normal release, it has been around for 6 years, and has at least 3 major updates(with many small ones). Windows 7 was around for ~3 years, and had one update before it was replaced with Windows 8.
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Maybe with Proton, but WSL will not be an option when shipping software to general users.
These happen every time there is a shuttle launch and have been for quite some time
It is censorship, it's just that not all censorship is bad, and people should care more about the details than that the definition fits for a word they have knee-jerk reactions to.
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Sinophobic? How? I took it as a matter-of-fact statement, not some kind of fearful revelation or any kind of fear-mongering.
Youtube are a private company and as such can publish or not who or whatever they want. They arent obligated to publish anything. There are video platforms that however will, so he can use those instead. But I think the complaint in not rooted in Youtubes behaviour as much as it may be in the authors desire to be seen by as many people as possible. The ability to seek attention is much diminished on other platforms.
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Why change something that you already are familiar with and already sunk time to master your own workflow on? Let that be people’s decision, not get it forced down their throats. Windows has been taking control from the users, became agressive with telemetry, inability to control when you want to apply upgrades, lost work on sessions due to automatic upgrades, removed settings after upgrade, interminable waits after upgrde when you really need the computer urgently to do something on and a lot of other things moved about back and forth because Microsoft couldn’t take their time and make a sound decision and stick with it.
This is a disingenuous representation of the parent comment. HN is clearly censoring content. They're not shy about it. I have no idea what position you're trying to take? That it's good they control the topics of conversation with an iron fist?
They spam from these weird TLDs because they often have really cheap deals like $1/year for the first registration so you can buy a load of them.
Ps. Please play https://www.geeky-gadgets.com/33-year-old-zx-spectrum-challe... at his funeral.
No. It’s garbage. Next question
Pls downvote me more for no good reason
> It puts the burden on judging what is or isn't protected free speech or hate speach in the hands of actual judges

We already have this in the US though. Existing precedent is perfectly clear about what is and isn't permitted speech under the law.

But a significant subset of the population isn't happy with the status quo. Hence tech companies censoring things, cancel culture, etc, etc.
> Skyscrapper City forums

I wish they hadn't updated their forum software indeed. I share your opinion about it: very slow, lots of wasted, white space, and stuff which may or may not be displayed correctly depending on your browser; in a word: modern.

As in other kinds of software, even traditional "*BB" pieces of software follow the fads: add tons of Javacript and heavily revamp interfaces to look trendy. So you can't trust the same piece of software on which you've been relying for decades not to become like that one day.

If I am not mistaken, it used to be running vBulletin. Now it seems to be running Xenforo (which some posts in this thread seem to praise). The problem in SSC's case was that they had let the former piece of software and database rot (the former owner had lost interest/energy for some time, and then sold to a company which didn't do much about it for some more time), so there were frequent troubles, and that justified a big jump "forward".

Luckily I have been banned from there enough times that I don't bother recreating accounts and write there any more, I just browse it 3 times a year nowadays. :-)
If you're willing to trade freedom for an illusion of safety, that's your choice.
You assume all of the military would side with the dictator. This may or may not be the case.

The various terrorist organizations in the Middle East fared ok against predator drones.
>>Where's the line between "massive money sink" and "investments for 'geopolitical/economic strategic advantage'"?

Obviously, it is not drawn by God or nature - it is up to us to draw.

Also obviously, not all investments are a sure thing.

But we can start by actually bothering to do a reasonable threat evaluation and looking at meta-issues such as authoritarianism vs democracy, expansionist intent, scale, costs being externalized, etc. In this case, it seems that the major drivers were politicians catering to corps wanting to increase their short-term profits, and not to any serious long-term analysis.

>>Is everyone on wall street seriously planning to sell all their investments a few decades from now, before everyone else does?

NO, they are looking for outperformers, who will create value far faster. And yes, some are playing the Greater Fool theory, and some even succeed at that. But your implied idea that just because someone buys as a valuation that you don't like means that they are therefore long-term investors is, ummm.. so bad it's not even wrong (as physics professors say about the cranks who write them).

Someday, at least try to make a cogent point - after multiple exchanges, the only thing that is evident is you don't like something and do like sophistry.
that would be telling in its own right
Join a local mutual aid group, or start one (for example: https://www.facebook.com/groups/beingneighborlyoutersunsetpa...) , and just start helping out however you can. If a problem comes up that can use a technical solution and you can solve it, do so. In the meantime, just help and get to know the people in your community.
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>>Well, we need state secrets a

No we do not. State Secrets is an affront to concept of "government of the people, for the people"

One can not have an informed public, that is able to choose how the government should function, who to send to represent them, and everything else with a functional self governing population if there is exists secrets from said population

Governments should never be allowed to perform actions in our name while never allowing US to know of those actions. The only thing on that path is corruption and Tyranny
And what happens when your friend needs to use discord? I have to have separate discord accounts for work, gaming, and the third reason, and I can only use my phone number on one of them, but I'd prefer to use it on none of them.
I used to have a weird .red domain and I always found it awkward to tell people. So I ended up going with firstname@lastname.me and literally no one has got it wrong or looked at me funny.
At my current and former company, both of which offer unlimited PTO, vacation requests are approved by HR, not your manager. Managers are only allowed to challenge PTO requests if they can demonstrate that the employee is not getting their work done. (For on call employees, managers cannot challenge PTO requested for periods when the employee is not on call.)