BirAdam

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by BirAdam 2mo ago
Regulatory capture of our legislature and regulatory bodies, intense bribery, proof of need legislation, and people consistently providing an obviously corrupt system with more money and power thinking that somehow, magically, the people wh
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by BirAdam 2mo ago
There’s Vortex86 and VIA. VIA’s rights came from Cyrix, and this is where Zhaoxin‘s rights come from.
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by BirAdam 2mo ago
So much this. When my son turned 12, I told him how some of the various social media sites and smart technologies work, and he’s avoided social media altogether ever since (he’s now an adult). He always uses ad blockers and content filters,
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by BirAdam 2mo ago
PalmOS and webOS were the best.
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by BirAdam 2mo ago
This saved me when X killed Substack tweets. My Substack uses a custom domain and thus was fine. People tweeted it out with no blocking.
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by BirAdam 2mo ago
Sure, but people could also just use BSD. The point is not vim or Linux. The point is that what the author appears to enjoy, a simple editor and a book, is easily accomplished still today.
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by BirAdam 2mo ago
Most Linux systems just symlink vim to vi, and it launches in a compatibility mode. Vim without plugins is still close. Old workflows can still be achieved. The user simply has to really want that experience.
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by BirAdam 2mo ago
If ever handled thousands of servers running Linux with sysvinit, you get quite accustomed to it… and the tricky bits aren’t that tricky.
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by BirAdam 2mo ago
I never found systemd difficult, but I do find prior solutions to be simpler. An init script is easy, and the order is also easy. If people are accustomed to UNIX systems, the sysvinit is better. For people who never experienced those syste
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by BirAdam 2mo ago
You can always just use vim, no plugins, and a book. No one said that one must use a fancy IDE and online stuff.
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by BirAdam 2mo ago
I see all these comments about Linux not having this issue, but Linux has a similar issue. Canonical’s uutils being forced before being ready, Wayland adoption initially before it was ready, KDE4, GNOME3, PulseAudio, Avahi, Bluetooth suppor
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by BirAdam 3mo ago
The owners of the social networks are billionaires with great lawyers and lobbyists on staff. They get politicians to introduce bills pushing the responsibility to the OS instead of the social network. Of course, I am not sure why anyone tr
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by BirAdam 3mo ago
It is, indeed, an error. I will correct the record.
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by BirAdam 3mo ago
Thank you.
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MITS: Rockets, Calculators, and Personal Computers(abortretry.fail)
54 points by BirAdam 3mo ago|8 comments
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by BirAdam 3mo ago
I’ve always hated the use of the word “information” in relation to things like spin. Information and order are effects of human perception and preference. They exist as abstractions in the mind and not in reality.
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by BirAdam 3mo ago
They’d clearly decide that the cockroach was worshipped.
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Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems(abortretry.fail)
2 points by BirAdam 3mo ago|0 comments
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by BirAdam 3mo ago
If the US government quit subsidizing oil companies and traditional automakers, there’d be more incentive to make good, affordable EVs, and more incentive for Americans to buy them.
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by BirAdam 3mo ago
Same here. Applications developers and QA often can't really do their jobs, so I get roped in on every problem it seems. Plans to go out with my family on my birthday? Canceled. Plans to go kayaking with my wife on Saturday? Canceled.
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by BirAdam 4mo ago
Well, politicians are generally liars. Trump, Obama, Biden, Bush, Clinton, Reagan… we can go all the way back to McKinley and I could easily say that the campaign people voted for was not what was delivered. Even more, it was usually the op
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by BirAdam 4mo ago
Nah. People actively voted for a guy who said no war. Then he got the USA into a dumb war. Just like all the rest. Voting has objectively not produced the results that the people have wanted, and this is not new. Voting doesn’t work. Being
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by BirAdam 4mo ago
People also forget… XP had more than the one tonka-toy theme from Frog Design. There were several themes. Some appealed to my visual tastes, some didn’t… but I do think they were well designed, which is more than I can say for most UI desig
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by BirAdam 4mo ago
It was change. People don’t like change.
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by BirAdam 4mo ago
That depends upon the type of SSD. There’s compact flash which is natively IDE, and the controllers are extremely weak, then there are modern TLC SATA drives where the controller would probably be a bit more powerful than the machine’s CPU.
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by BirAdam 4mo ago
I’m not even worried about the weight and heat. How do you do a disk swap or other service on a machine in a datacenter in orbit?
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by BirAdam 4mo ago
Are you in the USA? Brave person if so.
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by BirAdam 4mo ago
Nah. You’re assuming that the developer has some experience. The false assurance that the magic of Rust will protect the developer from himself/herself will lead that young developer to make worse decisions. An experienced developer ty
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by BirAdam 4mo ago
I have voiced a similar thought more succinctly: “it is your worst software that will live forever.” The implication is that you should always strive to release software that isn’t overly buggy, isn’t slow, and is general a pleasure to use.
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by BirAdam 4mo ago
It’s the solution to the second information problem. Hypertext arose from Bush’s Memex, and the information problem it offered to solve. Now, there is simply so much information available on the modern Memex that it is impossible to make an

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