BirAdam

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by BirAdam 3y ago
Interesting opinion. I’ll need to think on that for a bit. Thanks for offering it.
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by BirAdam 3y ago
I would make two observations here. First, costs are up. Not just housing and school, but also cars. Additionally, people are required to have smart phones. Most clothing is of poor quality and will need to be repurchased. Food is of poor q
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by BirAdam 3y ago
The perennial nature of “kids these days” being insolent and otherwise generally poorly disciplined is that discipline is something to be cultivated within and not imposed from without. As a result, children who lack years of practice in di
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Linux Mandrake(abortretry.fail)
3 points by BirAdam 3y ago|0 comments
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by BirAdam 3y ago
I have some more history of it here: https://www.abortretry.fail/p/disk-operating-systems Effectively, MS-DOS was a port of CP/M to 8086 that got some upgrades overtime. When it was ported to MSX, Tim Paterson use
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by BirAdam 3y ago
I really appreciate attempts like this, but I encourage people to actually attempt living without a smart phone first. It isn’t easy. Just viewing a menu in many restaurants is difficult as you lack a QR code scanner hooked to web browser.
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Dude, You’re Gettin a Dell(abortretry.fail)
45 points by BirAdam 3y ago|24 comments
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by BirAdam 3y ago
I think it depends upon the person. Owning a car is very expensive and many would rather not if they only need it once or twice each month. Others, like myself, need a vehicle almost every single day. I will definitely prefer to own one.
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by BirAdam 3y ago
Now that you mention it, this makes me think of all kinds of edge cases and how SDCs should handle them, and how they would detect them... hard problems. Of course, it seems like we humans are requiring the SDCs to be better than we are and
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by BirAdam 3y ago
It's easier to maintain the status quo, but there is also job enjoyment. I am neither a deliverator nor a cab driver, but I do enjoy driving. When the org I work for needs stuff transported, I often volunteer for the task. Driving in s
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by BirAdam 3y ago
I had a pet chinchilla once. I got him after he finished what amounts to chinchilla school. The breeder explained to me that she can’t immediately separate a chinchilla after it starts eating normal food as it needs to be taught to bathe, c
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by BirAdam 3y ago
First, there was LiveJournal. Then there was MySpace. Then there was FaceBook. I was on FaceBook until .edu stopped being a requirement. Shortly after that change, my wall became a mix of soft porn and hightimes. Nothing wrong with that, bu
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by BirAdam 3y ago
I think this could be handled more elegantly, as Apple has been able to make x86 compatibility better and more performant than quite a bit of actual x86 silicon… for MS, the backward compat of their software stack is rather important for en
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by BirAdam 3y ago
Every other part of the tech industry has improved dramatically. I complain about modern stuff quite a bit, but I do not have to restart my computer multiple times per day and most stuff usually works. Printers? Modern printers seem to work
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by BirAdam 3y ago
Well, when the hardware is simpler the OS environment is (usually) simpler, and the application software will likewise end up simpler. There is no reason that one couldn't write something like VisiCalc in AMD64 ASM, and I am sure that
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by BirAdam 3y ago
Old stuff is usually simple enough to be fully understood by a single person. This is very much not true of any modern hardware. As a result, many people passionate about computing machinery like to learn about and study old hardware. This
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by BirAdam 3y ago
All software eventually becomes an unmaintainable nightmare.
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The other fruit company, Apricot(abortretry.fail)
54 points by BirAdam 3y ago|24 comments
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by BirAdam 3y ago
Personally, I’ve always felt that schooling is a waste of time, money, and resources. The default model of civilization is that children are absent from life. This means that kids are missing out on seeing adults interact, so they mature mo
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by BirAdam 3y ago
So, didn’t use frameworks but then used frameworks? Tailwind and Jinja.
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by BirAdam 3y ago
Android being open source means that any competitor can take it and run with it. Tbh, the main issue with that is the staffing required in terms of software engineers, but we’re Google to make the wrong move, I imagine Samsung would waste l
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by BirAdam 3y ago
Clicks and impressions do not necessarily need to be human clicks or human impressions.
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by BirAdam 3y ago
The primary issue that I see here is that as a natural language interface to a computer, I don’t know that there’s enough profit to support the hardware and training costs. Also, there are copyright questions involved. There also issues of
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by BirAdam 3y ago
I miss twitter being SMS enabled and 140 characters only. That’s was an awesome time.
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by BirAdam 3y ago
Definitely this. The big thing now will be: where is everyone? Twitters active user numbers are fine, but for how long? Likewise with Facebook as younger people aren’t showing up there. Will the governments of the USA need to be on every si
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by BirAdam 3y ago
Especially since the best search engines are nearly useless for finding new old-style content… search is broken, the big platforms are broken, and random links from users of HN are now the only way I have to find new stuff. The cool thing i
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by BirAdam 3y ago
Because it will one day be “invented” again as a “scriptable init”
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by BirAdam 3y ago
I actually switch to Tiny11 after a little over 2 decades of only Linux… mostly due to performance issues on newer hardware. Windows does substantially better on graphics and Wi-Fi on my desktop, so there it goes.
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by BirAdam 3y ago
Nah. The thought is that you gain back the commute time and you can meet up with friends, family, and attend cultural events. You needn't confine all of your human interaction to the workplace.
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by BirAdam 3y ago
I have felt since I was a teen in the 90s that the world would be better served if offices, schools, and factories didn't exist. I thought that this centralization just increased the costs for everyone. Why not keep things decentralize

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