BirAdam

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601.
by BirAdam 3y ago
The US will likely intervene to make money for defense contractors who fund political campaigns.* FTFY.
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by BirAdam 3y ago
To support this, all of these proxy wars have covert units by the major nuclear powers conducting efforts directly against the other side. If these are ever exposed directly, political pressures will likely escalate the war. The moment one
603.
by BirAdam 3y ago
Yeah, things are better than ever in most metrics, but this is also the issue with metrics. Those same metrics do not cover two current wars that involve nuclear powers and the risk of these two wars becoming global conflicts. Those metrics
604.
by BirAdam 3y ago
The USA has the largest tax haul of any nation on Earth at $5.5 trillion. That the US government squanders that tax haul is indicative of the corruption, incompetence, and malevolence of the US government’s officials and bureaucrats.
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by BirAdam 3y ago
I wrote about 3dfx. Crazy thing is, it was the same people who were at SGI and then Pellucid. Additionally, ATI and Nvidia can trace their technology back to SGI… fun times. https://www.abortretry.fail/p/so-powerful-its
606.
by BirAdam 3y ago
It's really awesome that this was a complete reimplementation with no Linux code, and it's additionally awesome that this is available for both XP/2k3 and ReactOS. I will have to try it out on one of my older machines :-)
607.
by BirAdam 3y ago
Well, do remember the cost of a UNIX license at the time (unless you were using BSD). If you didn’t have thousands of dollars on hand, NT was a good choice.
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The Rise and Fall of Silicon Graphics(abortretry.fail)
346 points by BirAdam 3y ago|365 comments
609.
by BirAdam 3y ago
I always preferred the look and feel of KDE1 over all other GUI environments. Glad to not be alone.
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by BirAdam 3y ago
They must have been jealous of Alphabet’s profits. Honestly, they need to change or they’ll lose the market. Apple has grown quickly, and Linux is actually seeing decent growth thanks to SteamDeck. There’s also been Chromebooks, but I don’t
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by BirAdam 3y ago
Evolution.
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by BirAdam 3y ago
I really like Mutt. Vivaldi’s mail client isn’t bad. I think Evolution is okay.
613.
by BirAdam 3y ago
Configuration, deployment, program initialization/start is all still “user interface” just a different part. Most software feels like that part was largely an after thought and not part of the design process.
614.
by BirAdam 3y ago
My point was, learn it first, then learn docker and Ansible and such.
615.
by BirAdam 3y ago
First, be upfront about pricing and make it simple. Second, have good documentation and make it easily accessible. Third, either in your interactive demo or in your video, make it extremely obvious what problem you’re trying to solve. You d
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by BirAdam 3y ago
Personal opinion, a home lab is the perfect place to learn how to actually configure things and properly set them up: no docker, no ansible, no salt… take off the training wheels and learn it. Then, learn to write your own playbooks, your o
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by BirAdam 3y ago
I dunno that it’s really all that different. EFI is sort of what DOS would likely have become if MS had kept with it. It uses PE format, has back slash paths, has the same .3 extensions, and so on. There are certainly many similarities.
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by BirAdam 3y ago
Eh, the USA’s history seems to confirm it. I’m not really sure about others, but I’d be surprised if countries that are dependent upon one another were at war with one another.
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by BirAdam 3y ago
A very close friend of mine was murdered at 18, his sister was a year younger and she matured very quickly as a result of this experience. She’s now in her early 20s and you’d assume she’s 35 by her personality and view points.
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by BirAdam 3y ago
Tbh, regarding the preservation and digitization of the collection of concern in this thread, plenty of institutions, private individuals, companies, and organizations would love to take that work from the university. The uni, otoh, has no
621.
by BirAdam 3y ago
"memory safe by default" but not necessarily "safer" by default. A code base that has been battle tested in production for decades will likely be safer in every other way than an entirely new project that has got thrown
622.
by BirAdam 3y ago
I've worked in managed webhosting quite a bit. I would really recommend starting with the cheapest VPS you can get, something like a Vultr VPS, unless you're already familiar with DNS. If you are familiar with DNS, I would actuall
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by BirAdam 3y ago
“Not good” but still better than the alternative. I for one think it’s great that most children live to become adults, that most adults make it past 50, and that most people aren’t dying of violence. We still have stuff to work on as a spec
624.
by BirAdam 3y ago
Even with that, cancers metabolize sugars. The more sugars you put into your body, the faster and larger cancer cells can get. Add to this that sugars are inflammatory, and this heightens cancer risks. Add to both of those factors and incre
625.
by BirAdam 3y ago
When goods stop crossing borders, soldiers start crossing borders. The easiest way NOT to go to war is to have open trade.
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by BirAdam 3y ago
Infant mortality was high for a reason. Some people may have been able to handle it, but not all. Even today, people in remote areas living as they always have with “clean” environments die of parasites, bacterial infections, and so on from
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by BirAdam 3y ago
To get more public buy in and quiet dissent. The current climate is somewhat hostile to even supporting war much less directly engaging in it.
628.
by BirAdam 3y ago
I would hope that this is made open source tho. I don’t really trust any government and/or megacorp contractor to tell me honestly whether or not something is fake/real.
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The Floppy Disk(abortretry.fail)
3 points by BirAdam 3y ago|0 comments
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by BirAdam 3y ago
Eh. Once I start dreaming and thinking in a non-native language, the only things I revert to native on are things like philosophy where extra cognitive load actively hinders my thoughts. Numbers/money aren’t really expensive in the sam

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