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Comment Wrong assumption in the article (Score 5, Interesting) 83

I, Steve Wozniak, did not participate in the theft of the BASIC. It was funny to me to see others enjoying doing this. I had never used BASIC myself, at that time, only the more-scientific languages like Fortran, Algol, and PL-1, and several assembly languages. I sniffed the air and sensed that you needed BASIC to sell computers into homes, because of the book 101 Games in BASIC. I loved games and saw games as the key. It was the [MS] BASIC that inspired me to write a BASIC interpreter for my 6502 processor, in order to have a more useful computer.

Comment Re:Sold his stock (Score 5, Informative) 98

I gave all my Apple wealth away because wealth and power are not what I live for. I have a lot of fun and happiness. I funded a lot of important museums and arts groups in San Jose, the city of my birth, and they named a street after me for being good. I now speak publicly and have risen to the top. I have no idea how much I have but after speaking for 20 years it might be $10M plus a couple of homes. I never look for any type of tax dodge. I earn money from my labor and pay something like 55% combined tax on it. I am the happiest person ever. Life to me was never about accomplishment, but about Happiness, which is Smiles minus Frowns. I developed these philosophies when I was 18-20 years old and I never sold out.

Comment another way around internet blockage (Score 1) 123

Known VPN services have identifiable server addresses that can be blocked. Instead, you can set up a cheap raspberry pi (or other) at your home and use an encrypted SSH connection to that [raspberry pi] from far away. Then turn on your SOCKS proxy (part of WiFi Details on Macintosh) and check to see that your IP address shows to the world you access as that of your raspberry pi. I do this all the time, including right now. It also helps to watch sports events.

Comment Re:SSD swap is feasible - Article updated (Score 1) 204

Same size as in same capacity. It looks as if you can order it with 1TB (a single 1TB SSD), 2TB (a single 2TB SSD or two 1TB SSDs), 4TB (two 2TB SSDs or one 4TB SSD), or 8TB (two 4TB SSDs). So using this method might allow upgrades, as long as you end up with two identical SSDs, doubling your original capacity.

Comment Re:Makes little difference (Score 0) 37

Demonstrably, objectively, and completely untrue.

Boot times, application startup, responsiveness during multiple activities - all very much better with NVMe over SATA SSDs.
The bandwidth absolutely helps especially for large files, but the response time is several times faster, and the CPU needs to do a lot less - no pretending to think about heads, sectors and all the other legacy nonsense that NVMe removes the need for. It all helps.

Comment Re:lucky girl (Score 5, Informative) 431

Which proves the point perfectly. 1004 people killed by police in the USA just in 2019. The one example you hold up to show the UK having the same problem is ann isolated death from 15 years ago, very soon after a very large terrorist set of attacks, and the inquiry into it lasted three years.

The UK armed police have to account in huge detail every time they draw, point and use their weapons. In-depth analysis of every shot fired, and off duty until the inquiry is completed and they're cleared for armed duty again.

Comment Re:No Autonomy (Score 2) 125

You might have missed that Musk made the same claim about 2016, with the 1-camera sensor system. The 2017 claim was with the newer 8-camera system, and the claim was made before Tesla even had software for the new sensors, and the Tesla then lacked adaptive cruise control, adaptive high beam, self parking, summon, and other things that the prior model did have. I'm embarrassed that I actually believed these claims.

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