BirAdam

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by BirAdam 3y ago
This is the type of stuff that made me seriously consider going to school for arachnology at one point.
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by BirAdam 3y ago
All true, but cities are also far warmer, noisier, light polluting, cause more acute poising of their local environment, cost more to live in, and usually have higher crime rates. As for cost of support… that’s iffy. Many cities don’t allow
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by BirAdam 3y ago
Suburbs became popular because cities became too expensive, cars were just the enabler. I’d rather have cars than horses and deal with mountains of horse crap and the diseases that come with them.
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by BirAdam 3y ago
There was a time when Microsoft wrote extremely lean code, and BillG in particular. Best example: TRS-80 Model 100.
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The History of Lotus(abortretry.fail)
2 points by BirAdam 3y ago|0 comments
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by BirAdam 3y ago
Same for me on not immediately “getting it.” I started with an Atari 800XL and wrote some small stuff but didn’t realize I was programming until a few years later. It was fun tho. I miss that simplicity.
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by BirAdam 3y ago
Her adoptive parent in absentia is essentially part of the Primer for most of Nell’s pre-adult life with the two of them not meeting in any serious way until Nell is already a Monarch. Nell’s actual parent alternated between abusive and neg
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by BirAdam 3y ago
I asked him. Hopefully he will respond.
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by BirAdam 3y ago
It was a great substitute for Nell’s parent.
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by BirAdam 3y ago
Author here. That was added after a comment by de Jong. Edit: specifically he stated “the genius Rob Barnaby had written WordStar entirely in Z80 assembler which was then cross assembled into 6502 Assembler for the early Apple computers.”
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by BirAdam 3y ago
My handwriting is admired by most who see it. I put a lot of time and energy into learning to write more beautifully as a kid, and I was very much into creative writing, and conlanging. Over a few decades, this has now resulted in some rath
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by BirAdam 3y ago
Well, a lot of stuff gets drowned out due to the incredible size of HN's userbase.
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The History of OS/2(abortretry.fail)
2 points by BirAdam 3y ago|0 comments
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by BirAdam 3y ago
Personally, I think that learning on one’s own outside of an educational institution is perfect for those with the self-discipline for it. For everyone else, a traditional school environment may be the better choice.
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by BirAdam 3y ago
Eh, many of the tech billionaires/millionaires never completed their college educations.
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by BirAdam 3y ago
Just the one as her sister died, and then she tried to kill every other I ever tried to pair her with. My dog gets along with her well though, and she gets a lot of human attention.
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by BirAdam 3y ago
My guinea pig will get really really loud and persistent if she doesn't get her vitamin c laced hay biscuit at 7AM EST. I have no idea how she knows what time it is, but she's super accurate about it as well.
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by BirAdam 3y ago
The USA isn’t a single nation which is where I think the perception of a lack of “American” culture comes from. We do have Cajun culture, New England culture, Southern culture, Texan culture, and MidWestern/Great Lakes culture, and so
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by BirAdam 3y ago
Different CEO, probably different board, probably different majority share holders, different attitude toward customers, different products and principles, essentially a completely different company.
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by BirAdam 3y ago
also: basilisk, mypal, k-meleon
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by BirAdam 3y ago
I’d argue that there really isn’t a single American English just as there isn’t a single British English.
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The History of Windows 98(abortretry.fail)
3 points by BirAdam 3y ago|0 comments
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by BirAdam 3y ago
Just a bit pick, there’s no such thing as intrinsic value. All value is subjective. Gold has strong and common utility aiding in its valuation, but there is no intrinsic value.
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by BirAdam 3y ago
These are cultures of saving. Saving in fiat is typically worthless.
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by BirAdam 3y ago
Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose.
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by BirAdam 3y ago
Your viewpoint isn’t without merit. I think it’s just a cost/benefit analysis issue though. Each platform has its own warts. For Microsoft, they built much of their business on backward compatibility, so breaking with that would be tou
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by BirAdam 3y ago
Fascinating insight. This is not dissimilar from other megacorporations that become too bureaucratized over their lifetimes. When growing quickly, bureaucracy helps to organize people and hold a team accountable for their own mistakes. As t
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by BirAdam 3y ago
For on-prem or cloud, you need some engineers (either SRE or SysEng) to handle your hosting infrastructure. So, not much difference in cost there. Then, there is all of that compute. Currently, an AMD EPYC 7551 system can be put together fo
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by BirAdam 3y ago
Yeah, especially when Vannevar Bush also founded Raytheon thereby helping to forever entrench and fortify the military industrial complex in the USA. Optimism is a good and powerful thing but it must always be tempered with reason.
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by BirAdam 3y ago
Sue the owners of corporations when they break laws. That’s my alternative vision. Why did no board members of major tobacco companies have to face the consequences of their actions when they knowingly falsely advertised their product? Tak

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