BirAdam

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by BirAdam 3y ago
Had never heard of this, but now I’m gone have to look into it. Thanks m8!
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by BirAdam 3y ago
We laugh… but this is imminent.
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by BirAdam 3y ago
No. Actual VAX died shortly after Alpha became a thing, and Alpha died when Itanium came along. OpenVMS was ported to Itanium around 2010/2011, but HP shifted to x86-64 around 2015 as Itanium sales began to quickly drop. At this point,
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Windows Millennium(abortretry.fail)
8 points by BirAdam 3y ago|2 comments
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by BirAdam 3y ago
Politicians and high ranking unelected officials also will want privacy so truly omnipresent surveillance would be concomitant with jamming and obfuscation technologies. There’d just be endless arms race.
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by BirAdam 3y ago
I disagree that this is entitlement. Some areas are built around automobiles. I'd rather not be financially burdened with buying/maintaining vehicles for myself, for my wife, and for my son. Unfortunately, most areas of the USA th
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by BirAdam 3y ago
Didn't lease, but did buy new due to this factor. I was looking for a rather modest, cheap, reliable, used sedan. Prices were all well over $14/$15k (for a 2015-2017, and nearly the cost of new after that). At that point, it made
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by BirAdam 3y ago
Eh... as the Ford Maverick showed, people in the USA do want smaller and more efficient vehicles. Likewise, the Civic and Corolla have remained in the top vehicles for quite some time. People keep buying F150s because Mavericks became unobt
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by BirAdam 3y ago
Beyond not having enough batteries, there aren't even enough lithium mines. EVs are also competing for batteries and mines with renewable energy infrastructure development.
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by BirAdam 3y ago
SMS is essentially just email. The phone number just ends up being part of the email address: 0123456789@att.net and whatnot. Edit: there was also a time when AIM could send and receive SMS due to this structure, and at one point it was tri
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by BirAdam 3y ago
And oddly, no matter the political bent of viewer or of caster, people seriously shouldn’t believe the press (corporate or otherwise). The corporate press is just a few politically and financially well connected megacorps who have both thei
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by BirAdam 3y ago
I personally find it strange that software has acted differently… ever. Typically, if you cause damage, you are liable without any regulatory burden being in place. Failure to maintain a motor vehicle can put an operator at risk in event of
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by BirAdam 3y ago
Given that GitHub is a Microsoft product now, this would actually fit well with the company’s history.
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by BirAdam 3y ago
Same. The only thing I’d say in contrast is that while getting worse to manage, a lot of stuff works more often than it used to do. Now, I’ll expand and add a fourth point. Do not have so much hubris as to think that you can achieve in one
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by BirAdam 3y ago
Definitely more NT, but he’ll hopefully make better use of the “personalities” than Microsoft ever did. Also, NT is mostly just VMS. So much so, that DEC threatened litigation which resulted in Microsoft supporting Alpha for longer than the
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by BirAdam 3y ago
I have so many thoughts about this after navigating a kidney transplant for my wife. I will say, however, that all government interventions up to this point have made the healthcare and health finance systems of the USA worse and not better
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by BirAdam 3y ago
For UNIX, I think it was about on par, but for an OS for X86 it was crazy. Had it been cheaper, I think history may have been quite different.
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The History of Xenix(abortretry.fail)
41 points by BirAdam 3y ago|11 comments
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by BirAdam 3y ago
Just a suggestion, but when speaking of Him, you should probably capitalize Noodly Appendage… I mean, you’re not wrong, but it’s better ;)
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by BirAdam 3y ago
It is.
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The History of the IBM 5100(abortretry.fail)
4 points by BirAdam 3y ago|2 comments
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by BirAdam 3y ago
Well, Alphabet has had falling profit margins for sometime. I thought their reorg was stupid since the company’s profits all came from ads on Google’s web services. Rather than reorg, I would have just canceled the unprofitable bits. As for
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by BirAdam 3y ago
I agree that exclusivity to those most interested will provide better conversation, but I rather dislike the usage of “elite” in this context.
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by BirAdam 3y ago
In a world where most of the applications people care about are SaaS, the OS is almost irrelevant to the user be he/she a business user or a consumer. There are a few exclusive applications with high user numbers on Windows, Linux, and
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by BirAdam 3y ago
It is important to remember that most writing from just two thousand years ago didn't survive to us today. Due to the collapse of civilizations over time, the number of people capable of writing and therefore copying decaying manuscrip
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by BirAdam 3y ago
That would depend upon what you are aiming to find. - The Lomekwi site shows stone tools that around 3 million years old. - Jericho is over 10 thousand years old. - Gobekli Tepe is at least 11 thousand years old with some nearby sites being
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by BirAdam 3y ago
Well, prior to the 20th century, in most of the world one wouldn't have needed currency changers or border checks. Passports were uncommon and most currencies were in gold or silver coinage of standardized weights. As the tensions arou
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by BirAdam 3y ago
Which part is incorrect? The violence or the division of labor? Violence has been attested to in many of the remains that made it to modern people for study. Division of labor in hunter gatherers is the only real way to explain Gobekli.
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by BirAdam 3y ago
Also weapon systems.
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by BirAdam 3y ago
I feel like the NUMA penalty would be high, and the coordination between so many execution units would be... painful. That said, with someone clever enough working on it, it would be boss.

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