BirAdam

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by BirAdam 3y ago
Nah. GPLv3: > You may not impose any further restrictions on the exercise of the rights granted or affirmed under this License. For example, you may not impose a license fee, royalty, or other charge for exercise of rights granted under
902.
by BirAdam 3y ago
Layering more abstractions on top of what was already complicated doesn’t fix the complications below, it just hides them. You then have to hope that there’s not a bug somewhere in between those layers. Additionally, each new layer has a co
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by BirAdam 3y ago
I don’t think it factored in much to his thinking beyond market acceptance. The mass market mostly didn’t seem to care much about accessibility. Special purpose users do, but that’s a smaller market. I think for Steve Jobs the point was bea
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by BirAdam 3y ago
The Klingons and the Federation both make sense in a world that is post scarcity: war as religion, or science/adventure as all-consuming hobby. Thing is, as you noted, most other civs make very little sense.
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by BirAdam 3y ago
You need iodine.
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by BirAdam 3y ago
That is an excellent point I hadn’t thought of.
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by BirAdam 3y ago
I believe that it would stand to reason that if IBM/RH is not permitting redistribution of sources made available in their customer portal, this would constitute a violation of the GPL for any GPL package. I would assume that IBM/
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by BirAdam 3y ago
There are a few parts to this. The first is, the future is currently extremely uncertain and therefore short term moves make sense. The second is the same as every other industry, if the price of money (interest rates) is super low people a
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by BirAdam 3y ago
I would argue, that as with any new product, the technology needs to be in the hands of both consumers and developers. If there is genuine value to be had, it will be found through the market as developers make stuff they think is cool, and
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by BirAdam 3y ago
That was really entertaining, thank you for sharing :-)
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by BirAdam 3y ago
So, I agree with you. But here's the thing, you have property rights. I am no lawyer, but I am a human who can think morally and ethically, and I would say this: a company cannot sell a thing and then restrict the usage of said thing.
912.
by BirAdam 3y ago
Very. American culture prior to Covid was one in which any time off ever was frowned upon. As a result, people often went to work sick due to social pressure. Additionally, many companies had rather bad food safety practices because people
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by BirAdam 3y ago
From what I understand, the M2 was released due to TSMC struggling with yields on their N3 process. Apple had to do something with the N5 node to keep hardware available to consumers, and M2 was the result.
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The Rise and Fall of Ashton-Tate(abortretry.fail)
2 points by BirAdam 3y ago|1 comments
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by BirAdam 3y ago
There are plenty of people who are super regular, and super disciplined in their routines. What would be really impressive to me is if she never once got food poisoning or flu and broke the streak in that way.
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by BirAdam 3y ago
It takes time for developers to get the device and begin writing software for it. As time marches on, those things that we all find value in get bought by Apple or Google and become the default apps for things. If someone then decides to tr
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by BirAdam 3y ago
I had a moment of discomfort when reading that as well, and I had a very similar thought. Why is this a brag-worthy thing? Why are people valuing that level of dedication to a megacorp? A decent amount of this is cultural in the USA; at lea
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by BirAdam 3y ago
The primary thing here is the Hermes band is made by Hermes and sold in Apple's stores. They don't actually make it. Apple will make higher-end stuff if they continue to have trouble selling new hardware tho. I expect that they&#x
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Alpha Centauri: Life on Chiron(abortretry.fail)
6 points by BirAdam 3y ago|1 comments
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by BirAdam 3y ago
Might be cost control? Keep the hardware usage per query low so that they can actually profit (or maybe just break even)?
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by BirAdam 3y ago
IMHO, the fun is that less abstracted systems are actually fixable because you can “see” the failures, as opposed to cloudy stuff where you do a lot of work to prove that the problem is on the provider’s side, and then wait months for them
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by BirAdam 3y ago
You should keep in mind that octopuses don’t live very long. The intelligence they gain in their very short lives is remarkable. Add to this that they live in water and therefore can’t have fire and can’t have writing. It’s not just brain p
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Clicking Through Ages(abortretry.fail)
1 points by BirAdam 3y ago|0 comments
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by BirAdam 3y ago
Funny right, it’s almost like there are people who can afford to live in a place where you can walk everywhere you need to go…
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by BirAdam 3y ago
It’s not fundamentally socialist or capitalist. Driving a car assumes that there are people paid to do jobs that support it. From drilling oil, to making breaks and tires, and supporting the vehicles, to paving roads and building bridges. R
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Before Steam, Was Loki(lokigames.com)
2 points by BirAdam 3y ago|0 comments
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by BirAdam 3y ago
I agree with this sentiment quite a lot. Solaris and IRIX have very special places in my heart (Solaris especially). Yet, Linux has two things that no other *nix system has had: unbelievable momentum and availability. It doesn’t quite have
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by BirAdam 3y ago
My thought is more just the ubiquity of the names. If even a few objects are well preserved with those names on them, then the names will be remembered. What the people did may not be remembered, but the name may be. The ubiquity of Louis V
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by BirAdam 3y ago
The answer is: “those whose name was everywhere” which unfortunately will mean Louis Vuitton, Donald Trump, George Washington, and maybe Queen Elizabeth II? 4000 years is a long time, and our civilization will likely be gone, nothing but ru
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by BirAdam 3y ago
People used to memorize stuff. They’d memorize a lot of stuff. The geniuses of the Stone Age did little things, like finding better ways to make fire, flint knap, leather processing, weaving and looms, tent making, taming animals, inventing

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