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by Aloha 8mo ago
I disagree - with a spouse I have the option of just not having one.
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by Aloha 8mo ago
and microsoft makes it so easy to pirate too, trivially easy.
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by Aloha 8mo ago
Its not though - I dont want to write my own operating system, build an ecosystem of apps, write hardware drivers, etc. Win11 has massive downsides, so does macOS, so does desktop Linux, so do all the other options - I have to choose betwee
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by Aloha 8mo ago
Who is better?
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by Aloha 8mo ago
I wonder when thin clients will come back into vogue again. I've considered the BLIT to be the platonic ideal, a seamless environment there local or remote behaved the same, looked the same and acted the same - I guess the modern equiv
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by Aloha 8mo ago
I believe this is related to known issues with KB5074109 It hit Both Win11 24H2 and 25H2.
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by Aloha 8mo ago
You are correct that jobs made a ton of people - and not just wealthy, he created an entire ecosystem around Apple, which made a large number of people vast sums of money. That last part however.. is not actually true - Fairchild Semicond
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by Aloha 8mo ago
If you're an engineer, you should admire Woz, if you're a product manager or marketeer, Jobs. Jobs was a brilliant product manager and marketeer - every bit as brilliant as Woz is an engineer. The truth is, the sharpest engineers
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by Aloha 8mo ago
No, it has a significant amount of light petroleum components (read something akin to Naptha), plus other items meant to displace water.
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by Aloha 8mo ago
canola is good for lubricating your paper shredder and very little else.
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by Aloha 9mo ago
FIPS is ancient and dates from the era when encryption was unusual and rare. That is why some of it seems so arcane. FIPS 140 didnt even allow software encryption until 140-3, 140-2 required a hardware secure enclave.
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by Aloha 9mo ago
Thank you for this cultural explanation - I've experienced the same thing with Japanese co-workers - there is often a "no" but to American ears its so subtle that it often goes in one ear and out the other.
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by Aloha 9mo ago
not the OP - That gold is rarer than oil, and the supply is lower when compared to demand.
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by Aloha 9mo ago
There is nothing stopping a phone manufacturer from putting a 900 MHz ISM radio in their hardware. Also, the walkie talkies certainly can legally do data transmission.
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by Aloha 9mo ago
At some point it will be concentrated it'll be powder again ;-)
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by Aloha 9mo ago
At the time, a lot of them were little more than lipstick on a pig. It took a long time to actually get to diversity that was beyond token "person of group" inclusivity.
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by Aloha 9mo ago
I'm skeptical of that last one. My dad was a heroin addict, and while he eventually got (mostly) clean, he wryly joked to me once "you know there aren't a ton of old heroin users for a reason" Using street drugs kills -
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by Aloha 9mo ago
The changes to rework windows explorer in Windows 11, have IMO mostly resulted in a net poorer UX, and a net loss of performance.
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by Aloha 9mo ago
I'm saying people have a right to choose that, and moreover it's not my obligation as an American to fund overthrowing those regimes, or for that matter make them pariahs for being undemocratic alone. As much as I dislike it, ther
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by Aloha 9mo ago
So I dont think we should but doing regime change - however the ones you cited appear to have broad popular support in their respective lands and are at most minor nuisances to their neighbors - they're also participants in the interna
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by Aloha 9mo ago
I'll argue that Comet was a good design, but with too many unknowns being solved at once - while we had limited experience with pressurization the comet took more cycles, and had a much higher service ceiling. I dont think the Comet wa
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by Aloha 9mo ago
> No. It serves as a defense for people to criticize government. It's why I can insult and talk terrible of president Turnip (spit) and not fear the gulag. > Theres different ways to protest. Being an obvious target isn't wh
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by Aloha 9mo ago
Well, and the first really 50 years of telephony - you were probably as likely to have an uninsulated line as an insulated one. Remember that the first telephones were 1-wire with a ground return, and that configuration was quite common unt
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by Aloha 9mo ago
Yeah - though Bell's first apparatus wasn't much better - the invention of the carbon microphone is what really what set the telephone on to being a practical device. The rest of it was trying to build a network to connect people
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by Aloha 9mo ago
I think a valid part of the question of who invented something is "who built the first working device" - describing something in theory and building working device are not the same thing. AG Bell wasn't the first one to conce
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by Aloha 9mo ago
My point is we (in north america) often seem retain outdated technology because of early adopter problems - be it the T1 vs E1 conversation, how credit cards are processed, all of it. We tend to adopt V1 of a technology and have too much of
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by Aloha 9mo ago
I dont think Starlink can actually make money without government subsidies and a whole lot of inactive users. It simply cannot scale, the width spot beams are limited by physics - they cannot get small enough to get the density needed.
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by Aloha 9mo ago
legacy reasons = cultural reasons Americans are not used to the pin concept. The legacy reasons are part of why we waited so long to adopt EMV - my belief is that the US had much higher density of credit card adoption which significantly de
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by Aloha 9mo ago
I'd argue we picked it for legacy reasons - Americans are not used to the chip/pin concept, and adopted EMV very late because of a variety of legacy reasons (massive installed base of mag stripe equipment, and systems to deal with
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by Aloha 9mo ago
I think for all of our problems, the US does get this right - we know when to be formal and when to be informal, and its something that is well culturally ingrained - that is the spirit and intent of the rules should be considered as strong

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