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I don't know, but Chris L was always a C++ guy, he never really understood Objective-C in my opinion, which is why Swift ended up the way it did. I doubt he ever used it very much, or had a deep understanding of it.

You have an optimistic view of ChatGPT. What I see happening is the movie 'Idiocracy' becoming a reality.

Who am I kidding, Idiocracy is already a reality. Just look at the comments here on HN.

> Adding a MIDI port to the Amiga would have been trivial

The Amiga is unsuitable for serious MIDI work because of a hardware design flaw. There are like 4 timers and the timer interrupts were at a higher priority than the serial port interrupt. There was only a 1-byte buffer for the serial port, so it was possible to lose data if one of the higher priority timers fired at the wrong time.[1]

[1] https://dreamertalin.medium.com/music-x-b4abc68d6f78

> Amiga had this fast ram concept. Atari ST unfortunately did not.

But the Atari ST didn't have custom chips, so there was no need for chip ram/fast ram?

I'd rather have lots of hardware sprites like the Genesis, in addition to the blitter. I think a lot of Amiga games felt like they ran slow, because it's a lot easier to move a sprite, than to move a blitter object.

> Amiga/Commodore had the best engineers Atari had the best business folks

While I had an Amiga and thought it was ahead of its time, I think both the Commodore 64 and Atari ST have aged better than the Amiga. The Commodore 64 has the SID chip so it's basically a programmable synth and still used even today, the Atari ST has MIDI ports, so it's a programmable MIDI Controller with timing that is arguably better than anything modern. Of course, the Amiga was Jay Miner's design and the successor to the Atari 800, but was released by Commodore. But I fail to see what has survived from the Amiga, personally I prefer hardware sprites to the blitter/copper and the bitplane graphics. The playback of sound samples was nice at the time, but the SID chip is much more distinctive. HAM was interesting at the time, but not relevant at all today. The pre-emptive multitasking was interesting, but not that useful at the time. I prefer the single tasking of the Atari ST especially for music apps, because the timing is more precise.

The Commodore 64 also had better sprites than the Amiga. Jay Miner didn't really like hardware sprites. I think he was wrong about this.

> I'll definitely want my country's Secretary of Health to be a doctor who understands public health and its related policies, not a politician whose primarily skill is being popular and getting elected.

Why not? The head of the WHO is not a medical doctor, he's a doctor in the sense that he has a PhD.

There is probably no organization more trusted than the WHO.

You ain't seen nothing yet. It still hasn't reached its peak.

> why it's seen as acceptable to make broad generalizations based on race and sex in this way?

In the current climate, it is acceptable to make broad generalizations about white males, however if the same exact generalizations are made about black people, then they will call you racist (Black Lives Matter), or if you make the same exact generalizations about trans or non-binary people, you will also have problems. I don't think they are anti-Arab anymore, they lost interest in the War on Terror because it wasn't working. Instead, it looks like they are moving to demonize the Russians and the Chinese. Obviously, the climate will change at some point.

> and there's no reason you should be downvoted for doing so.

You are correct, but this is HN.

I think paper straws are a more effective way to save the planet.

> Another question I've had for a while - is there any way to combine lab-grown meat, cockroach milk, and vertical farming?

I think it makes more sense to use 'plankton' as a food source, for making nutritious green wafers. They can be called 'Soylent Green'.

This could also help to solve the over-population problem.

I'd rather be a cannibal than eat lab grown meat.

> What do you think, say, a milk or orange juice factory looks like?

Something like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZuWvwrEl_I

> What's so weird about sterile rooms and stainless steel tanks? Do you think breweries (for example) are so much different?

I can brew my own beer in my own home.

Can I make lab-grown meat in my own home?

I no longer use paper straws. Instead, I carry around a reusable metal straw that I wash after every use with copious amounts of water.

I did the same thing, but not for myself, it was to send other people away that I didn't like

Is that a lot?

What if he is watching videos about quantum physics, and he might have been the next Einstein, if his parents didn't restrict his access to the information superhighway?

What about climate change? Don't you care about saving the planet?

If you can use your GPU at full power, why do I have to drink out of a paper straw?

> You claim someone actually loved Objective C

The problem with Objective C is that it requires skill. The average developer really is better off using a more remedial language like Swift.

> and at least once a day each citizen should give mandatory report what they were thinking.

So just like SCRUM?

Yeah, nobody hates Python

Pascal was popular in San Diego, and the early days of Apple iirc

> Chinese military cannot go up against the US, and Xi knows it would be sure destruction.

The US will lose, especially if China times it to coincide with the war with Russia, and North Korea invading the South.

> all new cars I've played with seem less responsive than a 1st-generation iPhone despite having a UI that is no more capable.

The first gen iPhone is highly responsive and has a highly capable UI, more so than even the current gen iPhone.

It's not the engineers, it's you who doesn't have a clue.

Unfortunately, there is still no cure for baldness in the 25th century.

Well.... we're still a primitive society so.... not sure what you are trying to say.

A billion years from now, time travel should have been invented. Your view of time is too linear.