BirAdam

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931.
by BirAdam 3y ago
I’ve written a ridiculous number of shell scripts to automate many many things. It’s great for doing something now, and it’s great as a way to interact with a machine. It is not great in all cases. Particularly: array handling is bad, it’s
932.
by BirAdam 3y ago
Nah Herodotus wrote about it, as did Assyrian scholars. In the case of Assyrians this psychological problem was attributed to the spirits of slain enemies tormenting the sufferer. Given the extremely spiritual viewpoint of almost all ancien
933.
by BirAdam 3y ago
I feel like that team should go one step further and enable TLS natively with something like this: https://github.com/classilla/cryanc
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by BirAdam 3y ago
Eh. That would be worse. Software made a few months later would require newer libraries. The only “stable” (in the sense of unchanging) API out there is effectively win32. I can easily make software written for Win2K or Win95 work on Linux
935.
by BirAdam 3y ago
Things like kernelEx did exactly that. There’s also HX for MS-DOS. Thing is, as fewer and fewer people use the OS for which compatibility is intended, the translation systems fall into disrepair.
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by BirAdam 3y ago
Ancient punishments were insane. Death was usually just a side effect of whatever the actual punishment was. Bothered me for weeks after reading about that stuff.
937.
by BirAdam 3y ago
Not at all. It was so hard to get land that “land reform” was a constant political point.
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by BirAdam 3y ago
Mining and military service are definitely worse than groveling, especially since Rome did have the bread line. The military definitely had a pay advantage (and it got better over time in the imperial era, so much so that it began to bankru
939.
by BirAdam 3y ago
The hardware quality is actually decent. The software support isn’t unless you get the pi version. I’ve owned two. First, the A04 and then the R-01. I actually used the A04 frequently, until I bought a SteamDeck. I’ve since sold it. I would
940.
by BirAdam 3y ago
Well, as others have mentioned, jobs are risky. You can lose them for any reason at any time, and leaving your support network is a bad idea in that case. This has always been true. It wouldn't account for why people are now less likel
941.
by BirAdam 3y ago
Nah, perfect name for a person who is full of himself/herself.
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by BirAdam 3y ago
“Oh dear Congress, my company can’t handle open competition! Please pass this regulation allowing us to pull the ladder up behind us!” — Sam Altman (Not a real quote)
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by BirAdam 3y ago
Just wondering if there’s some lobbying by sugar companies involved here…
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by BirAdam 3y ago
Having very low interest rates for too long a period of time.
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by BirAdam 3y ago
I doubt it. The average person doesn’t understand why web3 technologies would be helpful, and the average person would have to be made to care in order to adopt web3. The other side of that is that web3 could be successful if someone made t
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Works: An Office in a Single Application(abortretry.fail)
1 points by BirAdam 3y ago|0 comments
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by BirAdam 3y ago
This. So much. The naming of products has gotten really silly and useless, and I put this blame on Intel and Apple. Apple started down the path of Pro, Pro Max, Ultra, Max, and Plus. Remember the iPhone XS? Idiotic naming there. Intel, otoh
948.
by BirAdam 3y ago
Genetics are weird. I have received next to nothing from certain ancestors, and quite a bit from others as far as DNA testing is concerned. Likewise, in a lithograph of one I can see an ancestor who looks nearly identical to a half brother
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by BirAdam 4y ago
It may be in poor taste, but from a religious person’s point of view, quite a bit of the current culture in most western nations is in quite poor taste. I understand and sympathize with your objection, but I think that those called to faith
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by BirAdam 4y ago
Many of them yes.
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by BirAdam 4y ago
You can implement arrays for POSIX shell in POSIX shell by changing the input separator to new line, and writing some simple helper functions to search for it. It’s not the prettiest solution but works for many use cases of arrays in shell
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by BirAdam 4y ago
My interpretation is that police aren’t all abusive to the population, and many are acting as if all cops are. As such, the poster was happy that someone felt most cops weren’t horrible people. Logically, it cannot be that all police are ho
953.
by BirAdam 4y ago
This does some good, but Microsoft’s ever-increasing Windows system requirements is creating quite a bit of eWaste anyway. If Microsoft really gives a shit, they should slim down and optimize Windows rather than adding more telemetry, more
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by BirAdam 4y ago
Thank you for this info. I had no idea. Makes sense.
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The Last Word in Integrated Logic(abortretry.fail)
1 points by BirAdam 4y ago|0 comments
956.
by BirAdam 4y ago
You know, the thing with SEGA (only imho as I do not actually follow the industry too closely) was burning both retailers and developers with SEGA CD/32X and Saturn. Effectively, the CD and 32X launched and had some initial success (no
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by BirAdam 4y ago
I was going to say use kill and lsof, and also something similar to what you said here. I would add that even many seasoned developers don’t know UNIX-like systems well enough to do anything with native tooling and therefore replicate nativ
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by BirAdam 4y ago
I agree, but also CP/M to DOS wasn’t superficial. When Paterson did the Z80 port of MS-DOS by running it through an assembly language translator he’d written for the task, the resulting MSX-DOS could run quite a bit of CP/M softwa
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by BirAdam 4y ago
The things you feel are Microsoft, didn’t originate with Microsoft. MS-DOS was a 16 bit clone of CP/M for the 8086. CP/M was loosely designed in the fashion of TOPS-10 from DEC. Windows was originally a graphical shell over DOS lo
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by BirAdam 4y ago
For a society to work properly, yes. If we have zero rules around what a government can or cannot do, can or cannot have access to, and so on we will have created a moral hazard that will be grossly abused.

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