BirAdam

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by BirAdam 9mo ago
I switched to US Mobile a long time ago just due to pricing. I was WFH most days of the week (before Covid) so I could do minimal data and pay around $100/yr for unlimited talk/text. Now, I do unlimited everything as I commute 5 d
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by BirAdam 9mo ago
History Blog: https://abortretry.fail Random: https://www.absurd.wtf
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by BirAdam 9mo ago
In general, I've never really experienced the issues mentioned, but I also use Gitea with Actions rather than GitHub. I also avoid using any complex logic within an Action. For the script getting run, there's one other thing. I bu
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by BirAdam 9mo ago
Glad to hear that there will by an open source option. This honestly makes the Teensy/Freensy an option for me where before it wasn't. Is there any thought to expanding the Freensy lineup beyond a pure clone?
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by BirAdam 9mo ago
I am not an Apple Card user, so that mention meant little to me. I am, however, a user of many of their other services. In particular, I really love iCloud's email aliases and such. Great added benefit. My only real complaint with Appl
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by BirAdam 9mo ago
Not quite. The body will just enter ketosis if glucose and glycogen levels are too low.
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I mean, anecdotal but I suffered metabolic syndrome. Cut out all carbs, increased my fat intake. This led to a loss of 50 pounds, my blood fat and blood cholesterol dropped, liver enzymes in the blood dropped, insulin resistance reversed, b
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by BirAdam 9mo ago
Depending upon the species, spiders can make more types of silk: strong, soft, sticking, sensing, etc. Most spiders have terrible eyesight despite having eight eyes. Those with good eyesight are jumping spiders, portia, and a few ground spi
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by BirAdam 10mo ago
Is there any evidence that Shockley was aware of Lilienfeld’s FET? I mean, given Shockley’s general disposition, I wouldn’t be surprised if he’d stolen things, but we have his early prototypes and such to back up his claim of invention. The
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https://www.abortretry.fail
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by BirAdam 10mo ago
AppImage, theoretically, solves this problem (or FlatPak I guess). The issue would really be in getting people to package up dead/abandoned software.
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by BirAdam 10mo ago
Completely anecdotal, but… I spend quite a bit of time reading and writing tech history. I am not academic in this pursuit. I read old newspapers, magazines, websites, books, and interviews. Take some notes along the way, and then write an
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by BirAdam 10mo ago
CF is exposes my own hypocrisy more than any other company. I am always the first person to say that humans shouldn’t be centralizing so much into so few hands, but then… I use CloudFlare, I recommend it to others, and the company has a fai
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by BirAdam 10mo ago
Direct propaganda? Not too much. However, the amount of content in the 1980s and 1990s that was in some way funded by the DOD was a bit crazy. Likewise, stuff like NED funded content. If one considers corporations part of the state, then th
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by BirAdam 10mo ago
Stress, risk, and stress compounding risk. So many people speed recklessly after having been stuck in traffic. I would, however, not strongly link WFH to college and RTO to non-college. Many companies (as well as governments) have implement
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The Osborne Computer Corporation(abortretry.fail)
9 points by BirAdam 10mo ago|0 comments
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I wanted an N900 so bad when it came out. A buddy of mine had one, but I had recently purchased a new iPhone. I couldn't justify switching at that point.
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by BirAdam 10mo ago
In my experience writing tech history, the most common reason is money. The second most common reason is entering a crowded market with little differentiation. The second reason could have been solved by marketing, but many in the industry
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The History of Xerox(abortretry.fail)
4 points by BirAdam 10mo ago|0 comments
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If I remember this correctly, the move was largely an attempt to make the OS irrelevant by moving applications to the Web. Long term, this more or less worked, but the revolution didn't come quickly enough to save Sun or Netscape.
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by BirAdam 10mo ago
He didn't just "work on Windows." GabeN was the lead developer on Windows 1, Windows 2, and Windows 3. When Windows 95 launched, he was a bit upset that no one was making games for Windows. He did a rough port of Doom to prov
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by BirAdam 11mo ago
This depends upon the discretion of the patrol officer. One can certainly get citations for crossing lines, failing to maintain a vehicle, and so on. The issue is, those tickets are not as lucrative for the municipality as drug enforcement.
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by BirAdam 11mo ago
It also may have had a better time with more recent versions of Ruby.
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SRI and Arc: The Dawn of the Information Age(abortretry.fail)
3 points by BirAdam 11mo ago|0 comments
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by BirAdam 11mo ago
I’d quibble about the tone with “one or two good ideas” but with the general meaning, I wouldn’t disagree.
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And many of those ideas are quite old. People have been dealing with their own minds for quite some time, and the past had far fewer distractions from facing one’s self. Things like mindfulness, CBT, theory of mind, and most philosophy are
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by BirAdam 11mo ago
Yeah, the “Age of Heroes” was just Ancient Aliens for the Greeks: “we can’t do it, so it can’t be human work”
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While they may not have known many things we know today, they had a better grasp of masonry, pottery, and metallurgy than most people today. Likewise, these are people who understood human experience quite well, and understood the animals a
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by BirAdam 11mo ago
Well, I'm the graybeard (literally and metaphorically). I know enough not to blindly trust the LLM, and I know enough to test everything whether written by human or machine. This is not always true of younger professionals.
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by BirAdam 11mo ago
I've been conflicted on AI/ML efforts for years. On one hand, the output of locally run inference is astounding. There are plenty of models on HuggingFace that I can run on my Mac Studio and provide real value to me every single w

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