BirAdam

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by BirAdam 2y ago
Never underestimate hype in keeping stuff alive, and absolutely never underestimate the willingness of government to save companies that should go under. I don’t much care for Keynes, but as I’ve gotten older, the “wild animal spirits” make
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by BirAdam 2y ago
People always over emphasize negatives. As a species, we always want to know about risks that we may better remain alive. So, we notice them more. The good things that happen, people don’t always emphasize. This also means that the good out
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by BirAdam 2y ago
Taken the complex and making it so simple, fantastic.
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by BirAdam 2y ago
Linux/UNIX distributions are essentially C development environments, and their package managers are basically C language package managers… so, you needn’t do everything yourself, just grab the source packages.
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by BirAdam 2y ago
Having heard about Niri previously, I really didn't like the sound of it. Seeing the movement with hotkeys shown with each movement... well... that completely changed my perspective. I will have to give it a try.
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by BirAdam 2y ago
Author here. I should have been more clear about this in the article, but it was a combination of two different factors. First, the company alienated OEMs by making their own cards. Second, the cards they made were close in price to ATI and
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by BirAdam 2y ago
Too little vram.
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I doubt it’s a target unless someone was actively profiling the company in question, building out a plan, and seeking to actively exploit the company’s network from that machine. Even then, how many attackers know IRIX well enough to pull i
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by BirAdam 2y ago
Once a replicator is invented, human economic systems don’t make any sense. In a society without scarcity, money is meaningless as anyone can have whatever he/she desires nearly instantly. Of course, there are great discussions around
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by BirAdam 2y ago
I love the design of the site. Vivid memories of my Zenith Z-89
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by BirAdam 2y ago
Not just enthusiasm. Companies like Shopify will invest because a healthy ecosystem is good for their bottom line in the long term. Monopolies are not good for them in the long term.
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by BirAdam 2y ago
Being completely serious, people will use whatever works. If what works is written in C, people will use it. The average person seriously doesn't care what language a thing is written in. The average person cares that the software in q
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by BirAdam 2y ago
I just enjoy reading and writing. My blogging used to be very infrequent tutorials, but I switched over to history. I get read now, but I still do it just because I enjoy it. HTTPS://www.abortretry.fail
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by BirAdam 2y ago
Linux wasn't really "ready" in the mid-90s. OS X was the product of NeXT and Jobs returning to Apple, and those two weren't the only option. There was also Be and Gassee. Apple had to have compatibility layers for that t
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by BirAdam 2y ago
I wouldn’t call Microsoft’s success in the 90s unlikely. They had a decent product at a low price for commodity hardware when nothing else was as good for as cheap. They also had decent marketing. The company worked hard and delivered. That
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by BirAdam 2y ago
There are certainly plenty of issues with the modern software landscape, and I do think too much abstraction is a problem. Yet, the opposite extreme is also bad, and people overly romanticize the past. Not only were crashes and reboots prob
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by BirAdam 2y ago
Microcomputers weren't the dominant computer type in the 70s and very early 80s.
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C has been the standard system language almost since the time of its creation. Teaching that standard is valuable even if we’re in the midst of a change. As for why, a system designed to be pedantic will necessarily be different from one in
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by BirAdam 2y ago
More recent article, this plant is starting to shutdown: https://apnews.com/article/california-solar-energy-ivanpah-b...
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I’ll fix both. Sorry for that.
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The web as an app platform form was primarily pushed by Netscape to circumvent Microsoft’s monopoly. Sun tried the same with Java. Both of these efforts led directly to every problem the author is complaining about. There was no utopia. The
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Didn’t the leader of the kernel rust team resign in September?
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I don’t think this would actually be too hard. Ladybird browser is making progress everyday. A browser is harder than an OS. As for market adoption, it would take someone with a ton of money to bribe device manufacturers and press the way t
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by BirAdam 2y ago
Probably because Google, Facebook, Insta, and TikTok need to constantly observe where the phone is, what and who it’s near, what’s being said, what’s being done on device, and so on. That’s a lot sensor access, a lot of compute, and a lot o
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by BirAdam 2y ago
ICBMs are not meant to go East or West, they go over the pole. A nuke passing from Russia over the North Pole toward D.C. or NYC would be detectable from Greenland. This is why there’s a radar station there. The island would also be a good
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MobileMe.
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Except worse because plastics are destroying ecosystems and recycling makes people feel better about it despite most recyclable statements being effectively false. Most people have no idea what cold fusion is, and they know even less about
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I actually think code quality has decreased over time. With the rise of high bandwidth internet, shipping fixes for faulty garbage became trivial and everyone now does so. Heck, some software is shipped before it’s even finished. Just to us
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Pipewire fixed audio issues for me. The font issues and general theming inconsistency remains.
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Flatpak is really the standard. Canonical just has some serious NIH syndrome.

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