BirAdam

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by BirAdam 2y ago
Appreciated. I will update within the next few days. If you’d like an attribution, I can post your username here as the source, otherwise it’ll be “a commenter on HN”
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by BirAdam 2y ago
With cancer, it’s exceedingly difficult to narrow down a cause unless someone was a smoker or was otherwise exposed to a very potent carcinogen or to abnormal amounts of radiation. Every day, humans are exposed to a variety of chemicals, me
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by BirAdam 2y ago
It does note his achievements, but had the man had any charisma at all, Silicon Valley might not have been. That the man was repellent is pivotal to the founding of Fairchild and thus all of the fairchildren.
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by BirAdam 2y ago
I’ve lived there in the past. It’s a law in the same way that one isn’t permitted to eat fried chicken with his/her hands in Gainesville, GA… that is, there’s no enforcement, and no one really cares.
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Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory(abortretry.fail)
126 points by BirAdam 2y ago|40 comments
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by BirAdam 2y ago
There are already compatibility layers for x86 on RISC-V. They’re not quite as good, but progress is being made. Edit, link: https://box86.org/2024/08/box64-and-risc-v-in-2024/
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by BirAdam 2y ago
I would say that those are solid reasons historically, but I would say that stocks/401k/IRA have spun out of control and driven P/E ratios to stupid levels that are unsustainable. Also, housing prices are no longer affordable
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by BirAdam 2y ago
Yeah. The US economy isn’t doing well overall, and it would be worse if the US Dollar weren’t the global reserve. The thing you mention with money going to the top is exactly what one should expect in inflationary monetary policies and larg
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by BirAdam 2y ago
Intel can’t split due to the CHIPS Act.
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by BirAdam 2y ago
They legally cannot split due to the CHIPS Act.
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Nippon Electric Company(abortretry.fail)
4 points by BirAdam 2y ago|0 comments
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by BirAdam 2y ago
Everyone should be skeptical. Right now it’s following the pattern of every other stupid bubble. It’s also further the “post truth” nature of our modern society, so … yeah. Not great?
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by BirAdam 2y ago
Hanke’s actually got awards from CIA for his work at In-Q-Tel investing in Keyhole/Niantic, so yeah, safe to assume that the agency invested specifically to have players collect data. Considering many Pokémon were on or near military b
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by BirAdam 2y ago
Same. I have started to rewrite my largest scripts in Ruby tho. These are the kind of scripts where performance began to be too rough and issues to ignore.
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by BirAdam 2y ago
Well, Trump also picked Marco Rubio for State… so I am not exactly thinking that this administration will stop spending. A few minor cuts maybe, just enough to allow MAGA types to say Trump “kept his promises.”
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by BirAdam 2y ago
Eh. My mother had TB as a kid and lost her childhood best friend to it. Homegrown Americans in a rather pale area.
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by BirAdam 2y ago
I’d think the answer here is rather simple… Americans are extremely unhealthy, eat garbage, don’t get sun or exercise, don’t sleep enough, and therefore have weakened immune systems. The last of those appears to be a rather significant indi
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by BirAdam 2y ago
Ewaste will create CO2 and physical environmental pollution. Much of it is just dumped on the third world where some parts will be burnt, some melted down, and some subjected to chemical baths for metals extraction. Those chemicals will the
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by BirAdam 2y ago
I am not so sure. I had a Pentium4 eMachine that made it all the way to around 2012. The same kind of life for my first Athlon64 machine from the same company. In both cases, the machines ran Linux, and they still work today. They were only
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by BirAdam 2y ago
My son is in high school. He has a smartphone. He doesn’t have social media accounts. I was just honest with him about how such companies make money, how they actively encourage addiction, etc. He chose, like me, to not have accounts with t
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Arm Holdings to cancel Qualcomm chip design license(reuters.com)
2 points by BirAdam 2y ago|0 comments
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by BirAdam 2y ago
We used to call this 22/22/22: 22yrs old, working 22 hours a day, for 22k/yr.
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by BirAdam 2y ago
My wife had a kidney transplant. Two of her medicines cost hundreds each per month with insurance, but without insurance are under one hundred each for three months.
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by BirAdam 2y ago
Throwaway120385’s Law: On a long enough timeline, all places are tombs.
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by BirAdam 2y ago
I would imagine that FPM is more common than people realize because it’s also usually faster, and running scripts as a separate user is more secure. For example, if PHP is a user with read-only access to the document root, it is far more di
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by BirAdam 2y ago
For places like NYC, Chicago, Boston, yeah. And we see rail in those locations. We do not see rail in towns and suburbs around those areas. In Atlanta, for example, MARTA exists, but NIMBY policies in Northern suburban counties keep it from
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by BirAdam 2y ago
Still, I hope Apple resurrects their server line… hardware and software. It’d be nice to have a server oriented UNIX running on Apple Silicon without resorting to Linux.
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by BirAdam 2y ago
Another significant issue is that the USA wasn’t built for rail, and to do so now requires sign off by land owners, municipalities, and so on. The amount NIMBY-oriented policies in California, for example, is a serious impediment. Oddly, pe
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by BirAdam 2y ago
I’d love to see an in-depth analysis of the overall production costs for paper and ink vs electronic. Tree to processing to ticket vs smartphone, grid, network, software, and so on. I imagine the paper process is exceptionally cheaper but I
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by BirAdam 2y ago
I just mow it so I can see the vines and then pull them up and cut them. Over the course of the summer, I cleared a significant part of my land. Now that autumn weather has finally arrived, I should be able to get it all.

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