BirAdam

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by BirAdam 7mo ago
s/US/Israel/g
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by BirAdam 7mo ago
There's a bill in the New York Senate, so... probably.
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Colorado Will Require Age Attestation on Computing Devices via OS(legiscan.com)
4 points by BirAdam 7mo ago|4 comments
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by BirAdam 7mo ago
I'm an enthusiast. I absolutely love hardware. From ESP32 and RPi to Threadripper, I love it all. I like the odd performance differences and the obvious ones. I like the chunk of a floppy disk, whir of a disk platter, the scklick and c
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by BirAdam 8mo ago
I was until quite recently. Bought a cheap 4k panel to replace it. I was really sick of the number of adapters to keep it going, plus it was never particularly bright and had low contrast.
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by BirAdam 8mo ago
No. Apple needs reasons for the iPad to exist.
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by BirAdam 8mo ago
Already the case for MidnightBSD.
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by BirAdam 8mo ago
I know everyone is saying "CSS doesn't need to be Turing complete" but... to me, this just shows the JS isn't needed anymore.
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by BirAdam 8mo ago
Using Rust means they’ve limited the number of platforms already… so I doubt they care.
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by BirAdam 8mo ago
At this point, I am really sick of both Elon supporters and Elon haters, coverage of Elon's companies either good or bad (as it's always incredibly biased in either direction), and sick of both the current trend of hyper optimism
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by BirAdam 8mo ago
I think you were downvoted for tone, but I think your general point is valid. I am sure, however, that we have some lawyer folks on HN. Hopefully one of them can weigh in on whether or not this is accurate interpretation of the law as it is
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by BirAdam 8mo ago
Don't allow perfect to be the enemy of good.
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by BirAdam 8mo ago
You used to be able to boot into the rescue mode and disable their security system. Is that not a thing anymore?
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by BirAdam 8mo ago
The people of a country are not members of that country's ruling regime. It makes no logical sense to say that one cannot trust open source software from Russia merely for it being Russian in origin. Not all people in the USA are CIA,
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by BirAdam 8mo ago
To me it sounds more like a return to vertical integration. This is becoming increasingly common as far as I can tell. There are benefits either direction, and I think that each company needs to evaluate the pros and cons themselves. Emotio
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by BirAdam 8mo ago
When companies have engineers sitting around figuring out the precise amounts of salt, sugar, and crunch required to force a person to eat 4 servings of something in one sitting… yeah, at least put a warning label on it. I don’t know that I
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by BirAdam 9mo ago
The things that people "don't write down" do indeed get written down. The darkest, scariest, scummiest crap we think, say, and do are captured in "fiction"... thing is, most authors write what they know.
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by BirAdam 9mo ago
If all jobs were taken by AI in a short time span, the companies owning and operating those AIs would go out of business as no one would be able to afford the products made by the AIs. This is an unlikely scenario. Not all things will be ma
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by BirAdam 9mo ago
Well, that's a highly contested claim. There was quite a bit of prior art.
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by BirAdam 9mo ago
This. When Woz created the Apple I and Apple II, the entire microcomputer market consisted of hackers, tinkerers, enthusiasts, and hobbyists. Had Woz been acting alone, the Apple I and Apple II would have made a splash at Homebrew, but they
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by BirAdam 9mo ago
Well, most cattle aren't given much to stimulate them, and they're bred for meat production and complacency. People aren't exactly looking to make the life of cattle fun or enjoyable.
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by BirAdam 9mo ago
Once we get to Cain and Able, it is far easier to understand if we think of these names as tribes of humans, and if we accept that there were other humans outside of the area of Adam an Eve.
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by BirAdam 9mo ago
The primary issue is that even with FreeDOS, if you're not using 8bit ISA, PC BIOS or compatible, and if your CPU is too fast, it wouldn't meet the standard of running PC DOS applications in any usable sense.
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by BirAdam 9mo ago
True. Also, timing and so on. The thing is "can run applications" was a rather load carrying part of my statement.
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by BirAdam 9mo ago
On the Intel side of things, Skylake retired VGA support. Modern UEFI implementations do not universally support BIOS, which means things like https://github.com/FlyGoat/csmwrap are required. Also, timing problems are
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by BirAdam 9mo ago
> The truth is that there’s no way we can technically describe a PC Compatible now - or, honestly, ever. If you sent a modern PC back to 1981 the media would be amazed and also point out that it didn’t run Flight Simulator. For historica
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by BirAdam 9mo ago
Author here. I have a twinge of regret at the end of every article for people and machines that get cut. I try to be happy that at least someone is making the effort, you know?
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by BirAdam 9mo ago
Entertaining. I particularly liked the attitudes of the characters. I could map most of them to people I’ve worked with over the years.
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by BirAdam 9mo ago
Author here. I’d love to talk to you about your grandfather, Ivrea, and so on if you’re open to it. Admin at the linked domain.
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by BirAdam 9mo ago
This niche will get smaller over time. The key hurdle right now is that most "AI" is just LLMs. People currently prefer to go to a website or open a dedicated application for AI inference. As better integrations with other workflo

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