BirAdam

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by BirAdam 5mo ago
WINE was not the first Windows on *nix implementation. Sun had Wabi which was Win16 and was also released for AIX, HPUX, and Caldera Linux. While Linux may be a pain to release software for, had anyone been interested enough, a solution cou
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by BirAdam 5mo ago
Much of the current state of the world is coasting on things done in prior eras, and this is always the case. A country needn’t be able to build a large boat now to have built one in the past. They can send that boat around the world until
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by BirAdam 5mo ago
Most people lack principles and act purely emotionally. It is wicked and evil and vile if Russia does something because it is Russia doing it. It is good and right and true if “Western” powers do a thing because it is Western powers doing i
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by BirAdam 5mo ago
The one that injured me and those where I lived was not Mallinckrodt Chemical Works. It was Fernald, and it was active until ‘89.
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by BirAdam 5mo ago
It carried on until at least 1989, and the effects were present majorly until around 2000, and the superfund site was completed in 2006. So, like, pretty darn recent on the scale of a human lifetime.
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by BirAdam 5mo ago
Everyone focuses on the safety of power production, and I totally get that and think it's important, but the mining and enrichment of uranium should also be considered. Nuclear "disasters" aren't just 3 Mile Island, Cher
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by BirAdam 5mo ago
Thanks. I didn't know about this site. I've been browsing for a bit, and I actually think it's a better site than Tindie ever was.
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by BirAdam 5mo ago
I’m not surprised by it, but I am confused as I do not see anything that reminds me of TempleOS, HolyC, or Davis. If anything, this is just pushing the tcc —run functionality one step further.
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by BirAdam 5mo ago
Except that UEFI supports loading PE executables which replace it and have direct access to hardware… so… not really BIOS-like. Some UEFI implementations provide BIOS compatibility, but that’s via an UEFI application whether provided by the
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by BirAdam 5mo ago
The name Orinoco makes me think of the 802.11b wireless LAN adapters of the same name. One of the few that worked in Linux.
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by BirAdam 6mo ago
Fun fact, while Trower was the manager who got Windows moving, it was Gabe Newell who served as the lead developer of Windows versions 1, 2, and 3. Win95 was the first version he wasn’t really involved with. By that time, he was working on
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by BirAdam 6mo ago
Well… it was still far more simple than anything today. Whether we are looking at Concurrent CP/M-86 or at Multitasking MS-DOS 4, these were far more simple than anything OS today. Once we add many users, you start looking at things li
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by BirAdam 6mo ago
Thanks. I just went down a little rabbit hole into Dennis Gabor and then the book Cybernetics. Fun. :-)
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by BirAdam 6mo ago
Most use Linux now, and specifically RHEL. I did see some IBM z, but that was specifically for one old DB that handled oil pipeline stuff.
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by BirAdam 6mo ago
Well… UEFI is kind of modern DOS.
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by BirAdam 6mo ago
Also, what is a natural food? Wheat, maize, oranges, bananas, broccoli... those are human made.
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by BirAdam 6mo ago
I get what you mean, but do remember that pretty much everything humans eat (fruits, vegetables, grains, meats) did not exist before humans cultivated them.
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You do realize that would have once described GCC and Linux, right?
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You're adding all of the other supporting processes within the container that needn't be replicated.
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If you're using cloudflare tunnels, you don't even need to be on OVH. You could seriously host anywhere, like your own basement.
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by BirAdam 6mo ago
So... if you're at the point where you're using a single VM, I have to ask why bother with docker at all? You're paying a context switch overhead, memory overhead, and disk overhead that you do not need to. Just make an image
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by BirAdam 6mo ago
Not only huge trucks, but all vehicles got larger.
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Especially any immune suppressant medications.
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by BirAdam 6mo ago
I have wanted an MNT Reform for quite a while. The problem for me has been spending so much money on an RK3588. Feels irresponsible for a machine that would mostly be accessing my Mac Studio as the Reform is so weak. On the other hand, ever
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by BirAdam 6mo ago
To be clear, I am not saying this is a good state affairs; merely that it is the normal operating procedure for the USA.
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by BirAdam 6mo ago
Bribery is the actual normal function of US politics. That’s what lobbying really amounts to. The USA has the best government that money can buy.
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by BirAdam 6mo ago
You can get quite good models running on a Mac Studio, but these will not rival a frontier model. $3,699.00 M4 Max 16c/40c, 128GB of RAM, 1TB SSD. LM Studio is free and can act as a LLM server or as a chat interface, and it provides GU
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by BirAdam 6mo ago
And, you're running Minix on a 486.
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Of course, alternatively, the AI companies could go bust before finding profitability. Then, there’d be a ton of supply, prices would crash, and one or two of the current memory suppliers would go out of business. After that, the new Chines
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by BirAdam 6mo ago
So, I’ve had to collect PDFs from various locations to assemble a complete archive, but: https://absurd.wtf/byte/ Now, I’ll need to check what is on archive for each issue and make sure I have the highest quality for e

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