BirAdam

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by BirAdam 7mo ago
Now, if only macOS still had the ability to drop to a Darwin shell without a GUI at all… we could just have a nice UNIX with something like KDE or COSMIC, brew as our package manager… what a dream.
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by BirAdam 7mo ago
Reading comments, I don’t think people are being completely fair here. For Intel and AMD to approach what Apple has accomplished they’re making many of the same compromises with Panther Lake and Ryzen AI Max. Apple chose to put disk control
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by BirAdam 7mo ago
Windows was first released in 1985. Windows 10 and 11 are therefore "recent".
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by BirAdam 7mo ago
Jobs worked on NeXT and Jean-Louis Gassée was working on Be. Gassée had brought the world the Macintosh Portable and the IIfx, and he started the Newton project which had the effect of keep ARM alive. When Gassée left Apple, he took many of
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by BirAdam 7mo ago
Sway.
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by BirAdam 7mo ago
I was Palm guy and not Blackberry, so I went from a Palm Treo to webOS. After that though, I went to iPhone. I considered Windows Phone though. The tiles and text orientation were so amazing. I am, however, glad that I never went down that
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by BirAdam 7mo ago
Yeah, make /home, /var/log, and /usr/local rw and everything else ro. Makes a great "immutable" that's not as annoying as truly "immutable" systems.
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by BirAdam 7mo ago
There are many metrics for “better” and “worse”. It is entirely possible for an AI system to be better in the sense of hallucination while also being of less utility. An arrogant prick who’s always correct isn’t always a good person to have
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by BirAdam 7mo ago
The speed on a constrained device isn't entirely the point. Two years ago, LLMs failed at answering coherently. Now... You're absolutely right. Now, LLMs are too slow to be useful on handheld devices, and the future of LLMs is bri
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by BirAdam 7mo ago
I wish this were available for more browsers...
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by BirAdam 7mo ago
I've never understood having an office when it isn't absolutely required. Why spend money on something you do not actually need? If people can't make remote collaboration work, perhaps they should study how gaming groups achi
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by BirAdam 7mo ago
I have a long commute to get to an office where everyone is wearing noise cancelling headphones for meetings...
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by BirAdam 7mo ago
ENIAC was far more important for the general computing industry than other machines of its time. ENIAC led to EMCC (the first computer company) and UNIVAC. It was UNIVAC and IBM struggling against one another that created the entire industr
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by BirAdam 7mo ago
If I knew how to solve the problem, I'd have proposed it. Yet, this is certainly a political issue. As populations decline, the smaller and smaller generations will be asked to support older generations, keep government services afloat
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by BirAdam 7mo ago
Yaris has been discontinued.
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by BirAdam 7mo ago
That’s not really sufficient explanation due to vehicles manufactured in the USA, CA or MX being exempt, and yet there are no small vehicles being made and sold in the USA in any large volume (despite clear demand). My understanding is that
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by BirAdam 7mo ago
Made me giggle so hard. Guy tells his company to create a virtual reality platform, says it can be used for work, forces employees back to office proving his product sucks.
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by BirAdam 7mo ago
If people want their government services to continue to work without destroying the economies that support them, it absolutely is a political issue.
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by BirAdam 7mo ago
Anecdotal, but... I have a commute that varies between 30 minutes and 2 hours (one way). I am in office 5 days each week, eight hours of work, and hour for lunch. That's 11 hours gone each day (sometimes more, occasionally less). Add i
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by BirAdam 7mo ago
Pretty sure that the current round of age check laws violates COPPA and FERPA... as transmitting age to any requestor would violate those laws. So, we're just furthering tyranny. Which law gets enforced today, which tomorrow, and who g
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by BirAdam 7mo ago
You could just use podman.
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by BirAdam 7mo ago
Man. I love the design of old terminals, computers, and such. I am, also, extremely glad that these form factors were abandoned. Having an old terminal, it is possibly the least ergonomic machine I have ever used.
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by BirAdam 7mo ago
If I remove my own political leanings, this group just completely dropped the mask.
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by BirAdam 7mo ago
I understand the fear and the sadness, but I wonder if the English domination of global languages will die if the US empire dies.
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by BirAdam 7mo ago
That would kill half the point. OS/2 is amazing as a 32bit pmode OS that can still run DOS and Win16 software while being far more stable than Windows (of the time).
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by BirAdam 7mo ago
This was far more interesting than I first thought it would be when clicking the link. In particular, the place/time and life events and such being presented this way told a story and was fun.
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by BirAdam 7mo ago
So... my prediction is that they will either have to close off their dev process or start using LLMs to filter contributions in the attempt to detect submissions from LLMs.
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by BirAdam 7mo ago
https://github.com/rdap/rio
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by BirAdam 7mo ago
So, the biggest signal here is Apple caring enough about the low-end of the market to make a laptop for it, and they didn’t just continue making the M1 (as has been the case up to now at Walmart). Apple instead chose to bring back color, to
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by BirAdam 7mo ago
Given that distributions are the distributors of packages and not the upstream developers, I think static linking is fine as is dep-shipping. The now dead Clear Linux was great at handling package distribution. Personally, I think docker is

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