Comment on Anon hates Apple

• Jumuta@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_I

  might be an interesting read:

  By March 1, 1976, Wozniak completed the basic design of his computer.[22][23] Wozniak originally offered the design to HP while working there, but it was rejected by the company on five occasions.[24] When he demonstrated his computer at the Homebrew Computer Club, his friend and fellow club regular Steve Jobs was immediately interested in its commercial potential.[25] Wozniak intended to share schematics of the machine for free, but Jobs advised him to start a business together and sell bare printed circuit boards for the computer.[26][27][28] Wozniak, at first skeptical, was later convinced by Jobs that even if they were not successful they could at least say to their grandchildren that they had had their own company. To raise the money they needed to build the first batch of the circuit boards, Wozniak sold his HP-65 scientific calculator while Jobs sold his Volkswagen van.[26][27]

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  • Woht24@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    He was a moron, he died from eating too much fruit against the advice of his doctors.

    That’s all you need to know.

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    • KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I mean, no. He died because he tried alternative medicine BS to treat his pancreatic cancer instead of actual medicine.

      His doctors didn’t tell him to stop “eating too much fruit”.

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      • big_fat_fluffy@leminal.space ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Well he did think different. That includes his thinking about medicine.

        So there are pros and cons to thinking different.

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      • Woht24@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        You are correct sir, thanks for letting me know.

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  • LandedGentry@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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    • doomcanoe@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah, but a lot of that praise is because Jobs did what Woz couldn’t… On the other hand, Woz did what no one else could.

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• HackerJoe@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Right, he demanded “NO FANS” on most products and caused all those components to overheat. He was a true visionary.

  He was a marketing and brand genius I give him that.

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  • xor@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    well you try recording music on a pc with a stupid fan that won’t shut up….

    he did a lot of good and bad things… but more than “just a businessman” b.s.

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    • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I volunteered at a university radio station a few times and was taught how to cut out AC/Heater/Fan noise from a recording using audacity on what I think was my second time going in. Recorded a PSA about cancer screening.

      It’s been almost a decade and a half so I don’t remember exactly how, but the point is that it was something they taught people effectively walking in off the street.

      I’d imagine it’s different with a non-constant fan, but you can force computer fans to a consistent 100% speed through a handful of different ways.

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      • xor@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        i’m aware of this, but it definitely reduces sound quality

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      • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        It’s just a low pass filter. Since human speech is massively out of the frequency range of a fan, you can just delete that whole frequency wholesale.

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• kadup@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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  • xor@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    hate to be it to you but:
    lsd is a wonderful drug and a big reason why they were so innovative… and a big reason why we have the internet at all….
    you may have been… misled into thinking an LSD party is like a crack party or something, but people who take lsd are actually interested in expanding their mind and it’s nothing at all like what the man says it’s like.
    for example, here’s one paper on it:
    ….
    i don’t think he was a very good person… pretty terrible with how he treated his daughter and employees… but i do think he was very smart, creative, and legitimately concerned with expanding human potential through computers… and successful in that.

    the structure of dna was discovered on lsd… much of the internet was created on lsd… one of ibm’s best programmers wrote a good paper on how lsd helped him hold an entire compiler in his head at once… much of silicon valley is currently microdosing lsd (and that’s in San Francisco, btw… capital of lsd).

    in short, him throwing lsd parties is one of the best things he did….

    (also, bill gates took lsd because of Jobs in order to be more creative, and then became one of the biggest philanthropists ever)

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    • kadup@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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      • LandedGentry@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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      • xor@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        maps.org/…/nobel-prize-genius-crick-was-high-on-l…

        Crick, who died ten days ago, aged 88, later told a fellow scientist that he often used small doses of LSD then an experimental drug used in psychotherapy to boost his powers of thought. He said it was LSD, not the Eagle’s warm beer, that helped him to unravel the structure of DNA, the discovery that won him the Nobel Prize.

        please refrain from being a condescending jerk just because you’re a biologist….

        and you certainly implied that throwing lsd parties wasn’t a good thing… but it is.

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    • big_fat_fluffy@leminal.space ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Dune. Mentats. Those guys did LSD, obviously. Thoughts acquire speed and clarity.

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      • xor@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        LSD definitely helped me understand calculus…
        that and Shpongle

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    • psud@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It was PCR (the DNA amplification technique) that was invented by a guy who took a lot of LSD and who credited LSD for the creative spark

      There was a recent veritasium video about it

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      • xor@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        well no it was also PCR….
        but still yes the structure:

        Crick, who died ten days ago, aged 88, later told a fellow scientist that he often used small doses of LSD then an experimental drug used in psychotherapy to boost his powers of thought. He said it was LSD, not the Eagle’s warm beer, that helped him to unravel the structure of DNA, the discovery that won him the Nobel Prize.

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