BirAdam

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by BirAdam 6mo ago
This should actually allow for a balanced budget and still affording everything. The problem is, the USA has the best government money can buy and it wasn’t bought by the people.
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by BirAdam 6mo ago
It’s a technical distinction. The last true “budget” was FY1997. Otherwise, CRs are used until some kind appropriations bill can be passed. The problem is, that appropriations bill isn’t a true budget as money was already spent via CR.
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by BirAdam 6mo ago
Except that America is not, and never has been, capitalist. Much like socialism or communism, capitalism has never been achieved. The closest I know any society to have come is the USA between the late 1860s and 1913. Yet, that still wasn’t
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by BirAdam 6mo ago
Powerful people like to wield power over others. They want the masses to exist specifically so that they can feel superior and exercise their authority over others. They simply want the masses to be forever below them.
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by BirAdam 6mo ago
Hyper-individualism goes a long way in eroding racism and sexism though, urging people to view others as individuals rather than members of some larger group. I’d rather hyper-individualism than hyper-collectivism. Once you consider someone
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by BirAdam 6mo ago
Humans are pack animals, not flock or herd. I think going beyond the Dunbar number is possibly the thing making people grumpy in highly dense areas. If people cannot know those around them in a meaningful way, do they even view them as huma
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by BirAdam 6mo ago
As opposed to the rivers and the lakes that they’re used to?
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by BirAdam 6mo ago
I have. It’s great on the RPi. On OPi5max, it didn’t support the hardware. Worse, if you flash it to UEFI you’ll lose compat with the one system that did support it (older versions of BredOS). For that, you grab an old release, and never up
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by BirAdam 6mo ago
Video, networking, etc. To get working 3588 you’d have to go with a passionate group like MNT, and then you’re paying way more.
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by BirAdam 6mo ago
The very first personal computers came out in 1972. In 1978, we got several. The PC came out in 1981. The computer boom didn't begin until 1992. My wife is absolutely not technical, and she began using ChatGPT before me. This is to say
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by BirAdam 6mo ago
I love that OrangePi is making good hardware, but after my experience with the OrangePi 5 Max, I won’t be buying more hardware from them again. The device is largely useless due to a lack of software support. This also happened with the Man
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by BirAdam 6mo ago
I would love to self-host France's "La Suite" to keep myself out of Google and MS... but for many companies, it will not matter how much you tell them there are options that are both cheaper and better. They will believe that
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by BirAdam 6mo ago
Players for those are kind of pricey tho.
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by BirAdam 6mo ago
I've been conlanging since I was about 8yo or so. This hobby also has me randomly learning natural human languages too. I've always just enjoyed it. I could make up reasons for enjoying it, but I am not certain that any of those w
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by BirAdam 6mo ago
I am not an expert in plant neurobiology, but: https://nautil.us/plants-feel-pain-and-might-even-see-238257
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by BirAdam 6mo ago
Hard disagree. People care about animals because they have faces that trigger their empathy. Plant life is still life. The destruction of plants to feed people is no more moral than the slaughter of an animal. The cutting of a redwood to ma
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by BirAdam 6mo ago
I too have no expertise here, but I've known quite a few rodents. So... my amateur take: I do not think that the area would necessarily need to be cleared of debris first. Rats can get places people would never imagine they could quite
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by BirAdam 6mo ago
Some time ago, I remember Microsoft having made a video for a "courier tablet" that was essentially an electronic notebook. Either side of the spine was, by default, just plain "paper" that could be drawn or written on.
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by BirAdam 6mo ago
The only Microsoft products I’ve actively heard people desire within the last 5 years are VSCode and Excel. Microsoft have so severely damaged their brand that they’ve finally shed the image of oddly gray Dell midtowers running XP on Pentiu
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by BirAdam 6mo ago
Similar job. My solution was a single 4k monitor and Stage Manager. I can tile viewing a log and having a terminal open, and then just pop back to a browser when I need to. Plus, terminal can have tabs. When monitors were 1024 by 768, I nee
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by BirAdam 6mo ago
I had used Linux since mid-1990s and gave it up for Apple Silicon. Not fighting my hardware/software has been great despite the diminution of Apple’s software stack.
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by BirAdam 6mo ago
All value is subjective and thus at the whims of wild animal spirits. Gold seems stable largely because the price must rise to make mining significantly more of it economically viable. Yet, were it truly stable, prices measured in terms of
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by BirAdam 6mo ago
The article mentioned the tax incentive, and I’ve seen many do the same. I’ve rarely ever heard anyone talk seriously about how much the USA spends on oil subsidies.
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by BirAdam 6mo ago
This isn’t necessarily true. The USA began its military actions in Afghanistan in 2001. It was technologically superior to the Afghan forces in every regard. It fought for more than 20 years. Afghanistan remained in the hands of the Taliban
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by BirAdam 6mo ago
Yes, but also in many other scenarios. The last backplane systems I saw were 90s industrial 486s.
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by BirAdam 6mo ago
One cannot make an accurate assessment of liking or disliking an article without having read the article.
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by BirAdam 6mo ago
The CPU speed race might be the most apt comparison I've yet heard. From the 80486 to AMD Athlon64 X2 and much of that progress was enabled by better EDA being run on the more powerful CPUs being made with each improvement. Now, we hav
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by BirAdam 6mo ago
Well... The best days were just putting hardware in a 2U box, racking it, and paying a bit for power and networking. This was such an easier time, and a handful of core 2 duos were fully capable of streaming 1080p video to around a million
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by BirAdam 6mo ago
This is a great idea. I do play Civ1 on my XT class machine (NEC V20 @ 10MHz, 1MB RAM, 64MB IDE, 256K Trident VGA, NE2000, Adlib) but the turn times are horrendous as this is a 1991 game being run on a 1982 CPU. Realistically, most people w
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by BirAdam 6mo ago
That it will actually run on Apple Silicon. TBH, I would love to install GNU or BSD on my M4 Max Mac Studio. What I really wanted is a modern UNIX workstation. My Studio’s price/performance was the best available, so that’s what I boug

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