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Think of all the silicon that could be harvested from private beaches.

The vast majority of websites could be plain text, throw out the scripts.

I have several Blu-ray players from thrift stores. All they needed were cheap compatible remotes.

Evidence based policies are something we need more of in general.

There are many things to point at and blame without evidence. Is it increased class sizes, or teachers having to move from teaching to managing classrooms, or lack of arithmetic skills built on rote learning of multiplication tables replaced with “methods”, or maybe, just maybe, it’s all the Teletubbies fault.

> * Faster performance - unnecessary for me (I watch TV, movies and YouTube - it's never not smooth)

Don't worry, the next tvOS update may fix that.

It's gone from the store, replaced by a pre-order for the new one. Refurbished 3rd gen units are still available (for now).

You’d also get CEO optimization, getting them to talk about <buzzword> and how the entire company is now a <buzzword>-first business.

Like cigarettes, simply ban the advertising.

>They believed their thoughts and bodily sensations were controlled by a machine that defied their technical comprehension and secretly influenced them from a distance, often claiming that it was operated by a group of people who were persecuting them.

That also describes data centers ;)

In a fit of 90s nostalgia I’ve also been going back to software rendering, though I’m doing a hybrid of 2D style CLUT banks with a more modern binned triangle and barycentric technique. Since I’m sticking to a fixed pipeline look, I’ve been amazed at just how many triangles one can push even with a fairly naive draw function.

Ditto the ST equivalent STOS. Amiga owning friends preferred Blitz BASIC though. Unfortunately, due to one Dijkstra quote about it, people tend to be quite snobbish about BASIC.

Blue needs to be paler, and the dot smaller ;-)

A subgroup of MAGMA, for owners of secret volcano lairs.