BirAdam

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by BirAdam 5d ago
Yeah, 1993 is when things really took off. First SLS, then Slackware, and using Slackware as the build environment: Debian. You also had SuSE, which really started as German-localized Slackware.
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by BirAdam 5d ago
IaC is really just declarative shell scripts. It's a different language, but it's often just kicked off by some bash in a git action. Once you have git and actions, I don't think that the language really matters all that much
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by BirAdam 11d ago
Yeah, when CentOS got eaten, moved to AlmaLinux. No complaints. It works. I also use Slackware. Nice and boring. Compared to macOS on my MacStudio… exceedingly boring and stable.
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by BirAdam 12d ago
https://archive.org/details/mrpibbthe3dinteractivegame
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by BirAdam 12d ago
It isn't so much that lead, asbestos, and radium were cheaper, but more that the risk assessment from lenders and insurers made it nearly impossible to use any known hazardous material in any way whatever within a residential building.
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by BirAdam 12d ago
I had the same experience with a pair of Nike Zoomfly Air. Bought in 2020, and they'd fallen apart by 2024 with extremely light use thanks to COVID and WfH. It was quite disappointing given the cost, and they had been quite comfortable
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by BirAdam 12d ago
The US government is only the longest continuous democracy only if one believes that the US is still a democracy. I've read some decent arguments that the US stopped being a democracy with the McKinley administration, and others that t
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by BirAdam 12d ago
This is quite illustrative. Warnings of a nuclear apocalypse were extremely widespread, known, and feared. The consequences were, indeed, so well known that the world was saved from the worst possible outcomes in the past by regular enliste
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by BirAdam 12d ago
This isn't a new question: quis custodiet ipsos custodes? In general, the way things work in the USA is that megacorporations write the regulatory frameworks for their own industries. These regulations are typically burdensome enough t
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by BirAdam 14d ago
There was also the Mr Pibb game.
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by BirAdam 16d ago
I am old enough to remember the world before the web rather clearly. There are tradeoffs, but on balance, I do believe the world is better now than it was. There has been a massive disintermediation of information, it's cheaper and eas
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by BirAdam 17d ago
Buddhists and Catholics also hold interfaith dialogues.
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by BirAdam 17d ago
If by “America” you mean Meso and South America, sure. The USA, however, was Protestant, not Catholic.
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by BirAdam 21d ago
There are so many CVEs related to upload… and basic user/group/file permissions and proper rules within the web proxy could mitigate them. It reeks of people just writing stuff and tossing it up thinking that they’ve crafted somet
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by BirAdam 22d ago
You’ll hear/read many people opining that it actually wasn’t a good idea. I counter that it’s a great idea for many things. The problem is that something good enough and far cheaper is already all over the Earth: the web. Just like Hur
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by BirAdam 23d ago
Cannot replicate.
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by BirAdam 26d ago
In general, things have meaning because people assign meanings to them. Nothing inherently has meaning as meaning exists only within the human mind/soul. If you are searching for meaning, you will find nothing.
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by BirAdam 26d ago
Yeah, I have a few lines to that toward the end without going into the other product lines. I focus on computing history, and not on AV.
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by BirAdam 26d ago
I did mention classes of other products, but this was more a history of the company’s GPUs. My work focuses on computing, and not so much on AV.
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Matrox: Graphics for Professionals(abortretry.fail)
193 points by BirAdam 26d ago|80 comments
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by BirAdam 27d ago
The gun is there. It’s just pointed at that dictators’ heads. If a vassal gets too out of line, the US initiates “regime change” or there’s an assassination or there’s a color revolution.
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by BirAdam 27d ago
The issue is more that an individual has a right to be secure his/her belongings, is free from warrantless search and seizure, and a right to refrain from self-incrimination. All of these are violated by constant surveillance. Further,
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by BirAdam 27d ago
That and it’s against the spirit of the bill of rights.
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by BirAdam 29d ago
Tax and regulation is how you pull the ladder up behind yourself, so... naturally Gates is in favor of this.
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by BirAdam 29d ago
Give it time.
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by BirAdam 1mo ago
Features to replace installation, cloud metadata uniformity, better secure boot support, boot loader support, and improved TPM support. None of this sounds user hostile, but taken together and handed to the corporate Linux vendors? This eas
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by BirAdam 1mo ago
So many people talk about wanting Linux on Apple Silicon, and while Asahi can run on M1/M2 and has some support on M3, it's not optimal. Also, software quality in Linux, while higher than most alternatives, has been trending downw
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by BirAdam 1mo ago
Give IBM some time, and there will likely be similar stuff on Linux distributions. The Linux kernel has been dropping hardware support, and systemd has been getting some... interesting features. Naturally, the benefit for Linux is still the
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by BirAdam 1mo ago
I recently had to buy RAM for some on-prem servers at work. 256GB was around $3800, and it wasn't even particularly fast RAM... it also wasn't ECC, because that would have spiked the price still higher.
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by BirAdam 1mo ago
Right now, demand exceeds supply. As new fabs come online, supply will rise. Eventually, either through greater efficiency of the models and inference systems or through the collapse of AI companies, the demand will drop.

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