BirAdam

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by BirAdam 1y ago
Well, it's also what allows the executives, boards, and owners of companies to be divorced from the consequences of their actions in a legal sense much of the time.
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by BirAdam 1y ago
Even if you don't go ansible/chef/puppet/salt, just having git is good. You can put your configs in git, use a git action to change whatever variables, and deploy to the target. No extra tools needed, and you get version
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by BirAdam 1y ago
Just a bit of nitpicking. I am AWS certified, I still tell people not to do cloud. I even recommended as much to my current employer, laid out the costs for their architecture project doing on-prem, colo, and cloud (with multiple different
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by BirAdam 1y ago
Mac Studio, M4 Max LM Studio + gpt-oss + aider Works quite quickly. Sometimes I just chat with it via LM Studio when I need a general idea for how to proceed with an issue. Otherwise, I typically use aider to do some pair programming work.
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by BirAdam 1y ago
It wasn't quite fungal, but Diamond Age had the Seed. The Seed grew any material/structure/device desired as opposed to the Matter Compilers and the Feed. We know that the Seed required tons of computing power to design and c
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by BirAdam 1y ago
Yeah. I imagine heaven with a lake full of fresh, delicious, and aromatic coffee... instead, there's just... a 14nm part (surprise!) on socket 1151.
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Humans inherently like having a narrative. When we discuss historical events, we typically want to have a clearly defined leader and/or visionary upon whom to pin events. Without this, our imaginations aren't as engaged, and there
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by BirAdam 1y ago
To offer immediate turn around, a cloud vendor has to over buy and have more machines in the rack than are necessary. Often, those machines have to be powered on, and they have to be rather powerful machines. Just think of S3 and think how
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by BirAdam 1y ago
I absolutely loved OS/2. It was an absolutely phenomenal operating system. I really wish that IBM had put more effort behind it. Today, if MS and IBM could actually cooperate with one another, it'd be great to get it open sourced.
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by BirAdam 1y ago
I wasn't saying that anything had to be done, nor was I saying that each change was good or bad (except for the audio and Xfree86 to Xorg). My preferences really don't enter into it. I was saying that Linux systems do indeed chang
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by BirAdam 1y ago
I'm not either. I used to do fully managed hosting solutions at a datacenter. I had to do everything from hardware through debugging customer applications. Now, people pay me to do the same but on cloud platforms and the occasional on-
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by BirAdam 1y ago
If only this were true. Stuff in Linux changes. Not quite as frequently, but it does change and in major ways that require significant amounts of relearning. Example 1: audio OSS -> Alsa -> Random Layers on top of Alsa -> Pulse -&g
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by BirAdam 1y ago
No, follow the link. The article states that a subset of Rosetta 2 will remain for things like games.
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by BirAdam 1y ago
This mostly died because Apple's new security framework doesn't allow for unsigned kexts or writable root. This also killed most fuse implementations and therefore kneecapped stuff like SSHFS.
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by BirAdam 1y ago
From what I’ve read, single thread for panther lake is roughly the same as last gen. The gains are in efficiency, multi thread, and GPU. The most optimistic reading I’ve seen suggested 50% gains in GPU performance and in multithread. I’ll w
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by BirAdam 1y ago
If you'd like to be really upset, check the labor participation rate. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CIVPART
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by BirAdam 1y ago
I think it might actually be easier to automate middle management than it would be technical folks. It's not exactly difficult to shove an AI agent into a meeting, have it record everything, and ask everyone for updates. Likewise, it i
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by BirAdam 1y ago
So, looking this over, I really hope Ben Zotto checked to make sure that the name and logo weren't still owned by someone. It'd be a shame for someone doing good historical work to attacked by a random troll.
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If my childhood taught me anything, it’s that there’s about to be an awesome superhero.
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by BirAdam 1y ago
If you're interested in the history of VisiCalc: https://www.abortretry.fail/p/the-killer-app
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by BirAdam 1y ago
FAT is the universal lowest common denominator, so yeah, probably. On the other hand, as the Chinese government has chosen to shed reliance on Western stuff (including software), I imagine that unlike UEFI, UBIOS won't be using PE exec
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by BirAdam 1y ago
If the history of the world since the Industrial Revolution can teach anything, it is that while the machines took much of the work, they did not shorten the workday. Instead, we all just work more. Since the Information Revolution, some pe
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by BirAdam 1y ago
Well, except for a lot of business leaders saying that they don't care if it's Amazon that goes down, because "the rest of the internet will be down too." Dumb argument imho, but that's how many of them think ime.
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The pain doesn't buy anything but the requisite costs of raising rates and/or cutting spending enough to allow debt pay-down would cause pain. Pain enough to sacrifice legacy, pain enough to sacrifice re-election, and pain enough
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Since 1971. The world economic system became what I term financialism, where money is simply a debt instrument. The Treasury issues a debt note, in exchange for which they receive Fed Notes, and that debt obligation becomes the backing for
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I think you’re confusing people being polite with people not having opinions.
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Nearly half of the country views the other almost half as fascist. The half viewed as fascist views the other as socialist/communist. The two have lost the ability to effectively communicate with one another. The spending on the milita
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Well, 10% would be a “large plurality” considering that’d be 33 million people.
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I agree that Dual Citizenship is a dream among a large plurality of Americans, but I don’t think it’s for Visa-free tourism. I think it’s because a growing number of Americans feel that the country is unstable and likely headed toward a fai
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Well, it's more like temporal compression. The brain too learns from scratch. From birth through death, it's acquiring information, integrating that information, and using it. LLMs do this in a shorter time period.

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