BirAdam

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811.
by BirAdam 3y ago
But… in four decades the largest and wealthiest generation ever will be long dead.
812.
by BirAdam 3y ago
Most people only “believe” in democracy when they’re on the winning side of an election. Later, when the elected individual doesn’t live up to his/her campaign promises everyone seems to have amnesia and they go right back to the polls
813.
by BirAdam 3y ago
I love the ideas and this is impressive progress for a indy OS. My only point of discontent is that every window looks like a tiny little Chrome window. Not a GUI look and feel I care for at all. There is, however, no accounting for taste s
814.
by BirAdam 3y ago
I do not disagree with your first part. The second part, I would argue has been proven false. Voting changes nothing, and I dare say that were voting capable of changing anything, it'd be illegal. Obama and Trump both said they were an
815.
by BirAdam 3y ago
My argument is not that any government or no government is better than another, but rather that this form of corruption is unavoidable in democracies. As for anarchy, yes, you could have more or worse violent action, but the type you cite i
816.
by BirAdam 3y ago
In the absence of government intervention, wealth is more likely to tend toward the center. The issue is that any democratic form of government featuring any kind of legislature reliant on voting will be bought. First, large companies will
817.
by BirAdam 3y ago
This a bit dated now as Rust is quite efficient, but I wrote about this exact problem: https://www.abortretry.fail/p/waste-and-the-wasters-who-make...
818.
by BirAdam 3y ago
On the browser front, mypal will work with most websites. There are some exceptions, but it’ll run the web version of Slack.
819.
by BirAdam 3y ago
I always loved Window Maker and thought it a shame that it wasn’t a full Next-like environment. Apparently, GSDE comes closer. I’ll have to try it. I feel NEXTSPACE will eventually be more to my liking, but GSDE will do for now.
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The History of Red Hat(abortretry.fail)
3 points by BirAdam 3y ago|0 comments
821.
by BirAdam 3y ago
Amazing tool. Thank you.
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The Birth of Windows Gaming(abortretry.fail)
17 points by BirAdam 3y ago|0 comments
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by BirAdam 3y ago
I feel like you’re being quite morally prescriptive and advocating legislation on that basis. Is your life so grand or so poor that you cannot empathize with those who’d seek a high from something rather benign?
824.
by BirAdam 3y ago
The one thing I don’t see people take into account is a globally declining birth rate, very rapid declining birth rate. Fewer humans will mean less consumption, and therefore lower demand and less production. This could reverse many effects
825.
by BirAdam 3y ago
Too late, see Horse Creek.
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by BirAdam 3y ago
ARM had some blunders with licensing changes for one, and then the split with ARM China was bad. Price plays a part. The next thing is that several open designs, including the reference design from Berkley, did very well at optimizing the m
827.
by BirAdam 3y ago
Not only is IFS a separate division, it's almost a different company. The x86 group has to purchase foundry services IIRC.
828.
by BirAdam 3y ago
The most liberating insight I had in studying economics is that every person in a relatively free country already is a company of one, even if each individual is “employed” by another company. The negotiation of salary or wage is one in whi
829.
by BirAdam 3y ago
Win9x didn't use MS-DOS for filesystem access, while all versions of Win3 except for 3.11 for Workgroups did use MS-DOS for filesystem access. As a result, when you booted up Win95, MS-DOS didn't matter at all except as the second
830.
by BirAdam 3y ago
Covered in https://www.abortretry.fail/p/the-history-of-windows-20
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The History of Windows 95(abortretry.fail)
4 points by BirAdam 3y ago|0 comments
832.
by BirAdam 3y ago
They’d work through NTVDMs.
833.
by BirAdam 3y ago
Shortly after the release of ‘95. Microsoft’s DirectX was made available for both NT and CE. NT was able to run anything for DOS or Windows pretty much right away, though some bugs were evident in games.
834.
by BirAdam 3y ago
Based upon the description in the operator handbook, this reminds me of Microsoft’s Courier notebook project.
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The History of Windows NT 3.1(abortretry.fail)
78 points by BirAdam 3y ago|74 comments
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by BirAdam 3y ago
I think it remains to be seen just how profitable these tools will be. I think that the opensource community's efforts have been amazing, and these efforts will likely erode the possible profits of megacorp solutions... at least, I hop
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by BirAdam 3y ago
The problem for me is that banning them makes them think that they’re correct. For many people who take hideous ideas to heart, they do so because they believe themselves to be under attack and fighting for “their people.” In this way, they
838.
by BirAdam 3y ago
Personally, while being exceedingly libertarian leaning, I would advocate a gradual ban of plastics generally. All plastics are ephemeral and they're not easily recyclable. Humans used glass, wax, paper, wood, and other products before
839.
by BirAdam 3y ago
I was in the metabolic syndrome and obese group, and I have some thyroid problems (likely due to growing up near a uranium enrichment facility). I could diet and exercise and still gain weight that was largely visceral fat, and especially f
840.
by BirAdam 3y ago
The Ada job market is still large in aerospace and defense industries where lives are on the line.

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