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Re:ZX Spectrum System Tour: Sound on Monday August 03, 2026 @09:58PM (#49163584)
> and even managed to play music with two channels and percussion (Robin of the Wood IIRC)

You think two channels is the limit? Have you heard title music from Chronos? Full multi-channel polyphony, without relying on sound co-processor. I'm not sure where to find the game itself these days, but I found the music itself here [0] on position 31.

[0] https://zxart.ee/music/top

What does it mean then for ProPhoto RGB triangle to be outside of the horseshoe on that diagram?
Depends on the personal situation. An extension with 2 million users can generate a very meaningful revenue. My extension has only 300k users, but offers that I received over years [0] would have been significant in some lower-income country.

[0] https://github.com/extesy/hoverzoom/discussions/670

Re:How Will OpenAI Compete? on Thursday February 26, 2026 @06:52PM (#47174096)
Perhaps you are not in the country where this has been rolled out? https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/products/search/g...
Re:How Will OpenAI Compete? on Thursday February 26, 2026 @10:16AM (#47167204)
Google Translate uses Gemini now. You can switch between advanced (AI) and classic modes.
Re:Chrome extensions spying on 37M users' browsing data on Wednesday February 11, 2026 @10:59AM (#46976549)
For over 10 years that I maintain a reasonably popular cross-browser extension, I've been collecting various monetization offers. They simply don't stop coming: https://github.com/extesy/hoverzoom/discussions/670
Re:AI Coding Assistants Are Getting Worse on Thursday January 08, 2026 @11:23AM (#46542864)
Synthetic data. Like AlphaZero playing randomized games against itself, a future coding LLM would come up with new projects, or feature requests for existing projects, or common maintenance tasks for itself to execute. Its value function might include ease of maintainability, and it could run e2e project simulations to make sure it actually works.
Re:Russia Bans Roblox on Thursday December 04, 2025 @10:42AM (#46148851)
Not necessarily. Roblox does not directly receive money from users - nobody sends them a paper check or bank wire from Russia. Technically they get money from payment providers, who are supposedly compliant with all sanctions. I'm pretty sure that any provider that can support Roblox scale is big enough to worry about risks of being non-compliant.
Re:Russia Bans Roblox on Thursday December 04, 2025 @12:41AM (#46144166)
That depends on what you mean by "operating". This very website, Hacker News, is not blocked in Russia - does that mean Y Combinator is "operating" there?
> They've been doing the exact right thing for the shareholders

Inflation-adjusted INTC [1] is the same as it was in 1997, including dividends! Shareholders have no real return from INTC for almost 3 decades.

[1] https://totalrealreturns.com/s/INTC

Re:Thiings on Friday June 13, 2025 @04:28PM (#44271947)
Staff is also wrong: https://www.thiings.co/things/staff - shows a group of people but describes a stick.
Re:Sam Altman and Jony Ive Will Force A.I. Into Your Life on Thursday May 29, 2025 @04:12PM (#44129844)
You mean something like Humane AI Pin? I'm fairly sure they are aware of it and would come up with something better.
Re:Claude 4 on Thursday May 22, 2025 @03:00PM (#44065486)
From https://openrouter.ai/docs/faq#how-do-i-get-billed-for-my-us...

> We pass through the pricing of the underlying providers; there is no markup on inference pricing (however we do charge a fee when purchasing credits).

Re:When AI Promises Speed but Delivers Debugging Hell on Sunday January 26, 2025 @09:42AM (#42830357)
Bugs will escalate from syntax errors to business logic errors ("one customer was charged twice"). There won't be anything to copy/paste, no AI will be able to fix these errors and no human will touch this codebase with a long pole.
Re:AI chipmaker Cerebras files for IPO to take on Nvidia on Monday September 30, 2024 @07:35PM (#41703231)
TSMC is neither software nor fabless. I'm not sure we are talking about the same company, there seems to be some disconnect here. For hardware business 30% margins are high, Apple is one of the most famous exceptions.
Re:AI chipmaker Cerebras files for IPO to take on Nvidia on Monday September 30, 2024 @07:28PM (#41703199)
TSMC margins are over 30% and growing [1] - that's very far from "low".

[1] https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/TSM/taiwan-semicon...

Computers run very fast, it's software that runs slow.
Re:The Cheapest NAS on Wednesday July 03, 2024 @07:22PM (#40871007)
Absolutely. Imagine you are saving a text file to NAS with a super-secret password to your Bitcoin wallet, for example "password". While it was in memory before it reached disk, one bit was flipped and the file contents became "pastword" which OS happily saved on your RAID. And now you've lost your Bitcoins forever.
I highly doubt Teenage Engineering is looking to be acquired.

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