BirAdam

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by BirAdam 4mo ago
If this is such a threat, why are there Israeli offices in the Pentagon via the ODC? I mean… it isnt as if the USA has been fighting wars on behalf of Israel for nearly 30 years or anything…
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by BirAdam 4mo ago
In the USA, there was never a need for a military coup. After the Spanish-American war, the MIC was so wealthy that they simply bought influence. A few million handed to influential politicians is far cheaper than a coup. The USA has the be
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by BirAdam 4mo ago
This is among the "real" differences between workstation/server CPUs and commodity chips for laptops/desktops/handhelds. Even then, if a commodity chip isn't pushed full tilt at all times, and assuming that the
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by BirAdam 4mo ago
You could likely get some funding for a PAC based around this. You just have to get Altman, Musk, and the other to realize that it’s a good marketing move. “Our AI is so awesome and boosts productivity so much that no one has to work anothe
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by BirAdam 4mo ago
First, I’m not talking about boomers. Second, if I were, those same people paid taxes on that house for decades. Is it not okay for that rate to fall in their latter years? If they sell, they then pay taxes on that sale amount. Intergenerat
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by BirAdam 4mo ago
I wrote: “oldest folks I knew” and I was referencing those who are no longer with us, and who were members of generations before boomers…
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by BirAdam 4mo ago
That’d be cool. I am not good at negotiating, sales, or anything g of that sort so I’d be the wrong person to help get companies on-board. I’d love to see something like this tho. I’d certainly use it.
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by BirAdam 4mo ago
All of the oldest folks I knew were wrong about many things, but they were right to say that morality must be at the center of all public discourse. Pensions were part of the contract of employment for many old companies. As those companies
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by BirAdam 4mo ago
I pay water, sewer, gas, and power to those utilities directly. The taxes to my county don’t pay for roads as that’s handled by the state DOT. The bulk goes to county police, fire, and schools. Yet, these haven’t seen increased costs, the p
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by BirAdam 4mo ago
The HOA is something I could fight, but mine is currently cheap. The taxes, however, are infuriating. I’m getting taxed on unrealized gains after having paid taxes when buying the home. There is nothing I can do about the taxes, and if I do
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by BirAdam 5mo ago
However, Apple does allow DDG, Ecosia, and Bing. They just don’t allow Brave or Kagi.
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by BirAdam 5mo ago
I meant it honestly. What excuse do people have to choose anything other than mission critical technologies if the AI system can do most of the heavy lifting? Why should we settle for anything less than five 9s of uptime?
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by BirAdam 5mo ago
By your reasoning of what is or is not a distribution, Ubuntu is not a distribution. After all, it’s just opinionated Debian. The vast majority of distributions are, by your logic, not distributions. I’m okay with this, but that isn’t how t
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by BirAdam 5mo ago
Why go halfway with Rust when you could just pick Ada SPARK? Seems like an arbitrary choice based off of rationalizing a trend.
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by BirAdam 5mo ago
No. That’s why companies like Vortex are still in business. There’s even a company producing new Win98 machines for this reason.
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by BirAdam 5mo ago
The depreciation is also insane and thus to sustain operations and improve, the spend will keep going.
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by BirAdam 5mo ago
It’s effectively a different kernel and window system for GNU at this point. Tons of GNU ports. Most targets cannot run original Be software for the obvious reason.
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by BirAdam 5mo ago
Having a general understanding of how computer hardware and software works, how it’s built, and how it’s assembled is not the same thing as “fully understanding.” If you truly did fully understand, you’d be making a killing securing the OS
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by BirAdam 5mo ago
This isn’t entirely true. A stylus is easy to understand, as is paper. Buildings of stone are relatively easy to grasp as well. Being a polymath was once doable. Today to truly master anything requires a lifetime of dedication.
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by BirAdam 5mo ago
That’s what all of AWS’s inf is anyway. Each instance of a thing is just a premade EC2 instance (I am exaggerating but not by too much).
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by BirAdam 5mo ago
You put nginx or Haproxy in front of the hosts, drop the one that needs maint from the pool, and re-add once it’s ready.
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by BirAdam 5mo ago
It’s easy to convince developers of a thing if it starts with: “you don’t need to learn X anymore”
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by BirAdam 5mo ago
Not really, no. As this post was inspired by "Programming Sucks," that the traffic generated by it made something break is quite on point.
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by BirAdam 5mo ago
My biggest issues with ChromeOS revolve around crap keyboards, bad/clunky Linux implementations (unless you just replace ChromeOS, but why not just get a cheap or older laptop?), and not trusting Google at all.
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by BirAdam 5mo ago
It's also not just those three: "With that said, permacomputing is an anti-capitalist political project. It is driven by several strands of anarchism, decoloniality, intersectional feminism, post-marxism, degrowth, ecologism.&quot
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by BirAdam 5mo ago
I like both. I keep a Linux system (or 4) around for more creative stuff, but I use a Mac as my default machine. iPads are great for specific things, as are phones, as are laptops/desktops.
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by BirAdam 5mo ago
Probably, but then sites that do not work on a screen reader should be ADA killable too… yet no one has tried this.
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by BirAdam 5mo ago
The alternative would be tar traps that only a bot would “see” and interact with and thus be caught by. Default to annoying machines not people.
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by BirAdam 5mo ago
Shrinkflation is the diminution in product quality and/or volume to resist raising prices due to inflationary pressure. This has been happening in the USA since roughly 2001. Gadgets largely improved anyway though the market transition
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by BirAdam 5mo ago
No my point is, there were Solaris targeted proprietary applications despite Solaris also making a Windows compatibility layer. Linux is solid, and it is gaining some market share and such, but for a games maker it's simply not worth t

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