BirAdam

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by BirAdam 1y ago
Huh. Crazy how things gain currency concurrently with different people. I am working on a history of SRI/ARC for my next post at ARF… HTTPS://www.abortretry.fail
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by BirAdam 1y ago
I started using Linux in the 1990s, and I flirted with Apple through out the 2010s. I finally switched full time to a Mac Studio this year despite the UI, despite the read-only root and kexts no longer being a thing and inconsistencies and
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by BirAdam 1y ago
That republican had stated during his campaign that he wanted to end the department of education…
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by BirAdam 1y ago
If decentralized is great on paper and not in real life, then the paper is wrong and thus not great. Additionally, if decentralized doesn’t work, please explain the survival of email.
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by BirAdam 1y ago
Jim Keller did say essentially that, and I think this is proven in two different facts. First, x86 hasn't directly executed x86 instructions in a very long time. Second, Rosetta 2. ISA doesn't matter. Logic matters. Cache matters.
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by BirAdam 1y ago
Sales and support offices. I couldn’t find anything covering the reasoning of being in that location though.
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by BirAdam 1y ago
SoundFonts will get detailed when I get to covering the chips themselves. As Creative didn’t design or make most of their chips, that’ll be covered in articles of other companies.
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by BirAdam 1y ago
So, I cover the entire industry at ARF, and Adlib will come. The problem is finding the sources. Sorry you didn’t care for it. Also, as Creative didn’t make most of their chips, those too will eventually be covered.
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Creative Technology: The Sound Blaster(abortretry.fail)
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by BirAdam 1y ago
This presumes quite a bit. As it stands, AGI has not been achieved, and this article is claiming that, by 2028, 90% of all knowledge-worker jobs will be done by an AI system. Even were that to happen, it is unlikely that a UBI would be put
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by BirAdam 1y ago
I thought win16 only supported NE and MZ, does it support PE?
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by BirAdam 1y ago
Especially so if this could be built as a FreeBSD/NetBSD system for Apple Silicon...
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by BirAdam 1y ago
If we define a country as distinct from a nation, we can certainly say that Rome ceased to be with taking of Constantinople by the Ottomans. For the Western Empire, this would be the overthrow of Romulus Augustulus by Odoacer. A nation woul
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by BirAdam 1y ago
I’ve just used fastcgiwrap for this purpose with nginx. I hats the advantage of this? Edit: nvm. It looks like it’s just easier to configure.
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by BirAdam 1y ago
This reminds me of the observation that adding people to a project doesn't necessarily increase productivity that much...
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by BirAdam 1y ago
s/inactive/stable/ Well, when you talk about a distribution there's a different issue. The entire Linux ecosystem is constantly shifting with each package releasing new versions, and therefore everything else must be upd
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by BirAdam 1y ago
1. Apple’s optimizations are one point in their favor. XNU is good, and Apple’s memory management is excellent. 2. X86 micro-ops vs ARM decode are not equivalent. X86’s variable length instructions make the whole process far more complicate
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by BirAdam 1y ago
First, Apple did an excellent job optimizing their software stack for their hardware. This is something that few companies have the ability to do as they target a wide array of hardware. This is even more impressive given the scale of Apple
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by BirAdam 1y ago
I too miss Palm. I had a Pilot, then a Treo, and finally a Pixie. When HP bought Palm, I switched to iPhone. It was a sad day.
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by BirAdam 1y ago
It may be horrific, but it's wonderful too.
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by BirAdam 1y ago
This is excellent work, and I love seeing projects in Ada.
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by BirAdam 1y ago
Creativity is often the result of experience having been applied to time with a problem. If you have no time with a problem due to constant interruptions and distractions, your creative output is likely to diminish.
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by BirAdam 1y ago
So much this. Humans are inherently social animals, and if you look like you’re focused and working, most people will respect that. The headphones are also an immediate signal that you’d prefer to be left alone. In my experience, only peopl
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by BirAdam 1y ago
Vaultwarden has been in use at two companies I’ve worked for, yeah. Modest, mid-size companies, one with a delusion of grandeur. While both didn’t care for self-hosting, the executives were wary, in both cases, of SaaS password management a
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by BirAdam 1y ago
If there were only one, someone would launch a new one within a week. Just how Linux is.
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by BirAdam 1y ago
Yeah, the backplane immediately gives me S100 vibes.
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by BirAdam 1y ago
I cannot recommend Code by Charles Petzold enough, especially the new second edition.
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by BirAdam 1y ago
I think people forget just how different the world was at the time. In 2001, most people were not always connected, online-first wasn't even a possibility, printers were a big deal, computers still shipped with floppy disk drives, and
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by BirAdam 1y ago
well, the rest of it, at least from the BBC TV series: so long and thanks for all the fish, so sad that it should come to this, the world's about to be destroyed, there's no point getting all annoyed, lie back and let the planet d
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by BirAdam 1y ago
Well, I know exactly what you're saying, but to be fair to Apple, my 68K Mac that's nearly 40 still works. My iMac G4 is fine. PowerMac G3 is fine. First gen Mac Pro is fine. Meanwhile, the only PCs I know of that survive time qui

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