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by BirAdam 1y ago
I agree with Mr. Geerling here. I very much wish to see an "open" ARM system, and I want it to be competitive with at least the Apple M1. Unfortunately, due to poor driver support, this ain't that. ARM has had a bad fragmenta
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by BirAdam 1y ago
Yes. It is part of a series in which I cover Shockley -> Fairchild -> Intel, up to last month.
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by BirAdam 1y ago
"They" in this case is just me, and I make very little money off of my writing. I write tech history because I want to, and there's little other reason.
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by BirAdam 1y ago
I put no such assumptions on this. If Trump gets angry with His Holiness, Trump will probably have Little Marco revoke the Pope’s citizenship.
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by BirAdam 1y ago
While the Church is conservative in some ways people dislike it also advocates things like peace, ending capital punishment, and nondescrimination based upon race. In my home city, the Church was the only place that wasn’t racist. For my en
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by BirAdam 1y ago
Pedophiles go where children are: schools, churches, mosques, temples, sports clubs, dojos, etc. The issue with the Catholic Church is that it is the largest church on the planet and therefore is in the news more often. People, however, are
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by BirAdam 1y ago
I’ll take a million, thanks.
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by BirAdam 1y ago
Yeah, except dealers ruined it. I wanted to buy one but every single dealership had them at $10k over MSRP.
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by BirAdam 2y ago
Monopolies die after a bit unless governments save them. Monopolies tend to stagnate, become too bureaucratic, and lose the pressure to perform. They then lose to more dynamic competitors. Sears is an example of loss, the banking cartel is
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by BirAdam 2y ago
If the Earth is completely destroyed, the humans on space ships wouldn’t survive either. There is no self-sustaining off world colony currently, and there most likely will not be in the lifetime of anyone alive today. At such time that ther
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by BirAdam 2y ago
I highly doubt much of the bacteria would care. The amoeba probably wouldn’t either. Also, rodents have already survived such impacts. All mammals alive today are alive because our ancestors didn’t die with dinosaurs.
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by BirAdam 2y ago
Are we though? Bacteria do better than us. Cockroaches. Rats. Ants. Grasses. Plankton. We aren’t the most numerous. We aren’t the most widespread. We are serious risk of killing off our own species.
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by BirAdam 2y ago
If you get a Pell grant or other “non-traditional” financial aid packages, there’s a bit for associated costs. It’s not huge money, but if you do this scheme across many schools…
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by BirAdam 2y ago
Honestly, I do not think high-intelligence is useful for life. The most successful life forms aren’t the most intelligent, and humans seem to be fixed to self-annihilate.
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by BirAdam 2y ago
Yeah, but if humans exist by the time the sun fails us, they wouldn’t really be the same species as us, and they’d hopefully have progressed to the point that they could escape the Earth.
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by BirAdam 2y ago
I was going to mention this as well. Further, I remember reading dolphins being capable of similar feats. I also remember hearing about regional animals dialects. Any animals capable of providing accurate descriptions of things to one anoth
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by BirAdam 2y ago
I have not used any public AI, and I primarily use search. I use a local LLM running on two old Tesla GPUs for help with coding, but that’s about it.
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by BirAdam 2y ago
Honestly, I’d have no issue with banning advertising. Truth in advertising laws don’t seem to have any effect at all, and spaced repetition combined with targeting is pretty much the most vile thing I’ve ever seen.
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by BirAdam 2y ago
For the USA, there are two complications. First, it’s expensive due to imminent domain considerations. Second, there’s a lot of nimbyism in local town halls. So, even when the cost can be overcome, people will scream about it and get it sto
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by BirAdam 2y ago
I meant to simply imply: “more than one might commonly assume”
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by BirAdam 2y ago
Even “friendly” and “allied” nations spy on each other.
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by BirAdam 2y ago
The necktie of today began in roughly the early 1600s. There were far earlier examples dating back to ancient Egypt, and examples in ancient China. I don’t really think ties are an imperative for being “dressed up”, but they’ve been around
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by BirAdam 2y ago
My household was Atari and then PCs, so I missed out on many different machines. Exploring them now is fun, but always time limited unlike childhood.
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by BirAdam 2y ago
Yeah. Many of the 8bit machines were lower than 128K stock, but those were uncommon by 90s. Even then, RAM expanders were common. The XT and AT had more than 128K, and the 286 was released in 1982 (volume production in 1983). The 386 was ou
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by BirAdam 2y ago
According to the Constitution and precedence, federal laws are always the law of the land. States are supposed to need to prove that federal laws is unconstitutional, and they then wouldn’t be required to follow a federal law. Of course, a
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by BirAdam 2y ago
Well, today, they can refuse. Historically, they couldn’t. George Washington was willing to use military force to enforce law.
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by BirAdam 2y ago
Historically, a sherrif. Later, local police departments.
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by BirAdam 2y ago
Category error. Federal departments are changes to the structure and function of government that should require Consitutional Amendments. The imbibing of Diet Coke by the POTUS is not substantial to the structure and function of government.
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by BirAdam 2y ago
The USA is post-Constitutional. There is nothing in the Constitution that permits the government to create the FBI and therefore the 10th should apply. As the FBI does exist, along with all of the other alphabet soup agencies, we can see th
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by BirAdam 2y ago
With time, he could always do a coal or wood gassifier range extender… probably make cybertruck more interesting to his political allies.

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