BirAdam

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by BirAdam 11mo ago
If we’re being honest, democracy, such as it is, is being dismantled by people. Code, capital, and illusion have no volition.
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by BirAdam 11mo ago
I am both a hardware and software enthusiast. Tons of DOS, Windows, and OS/2 software hanging around. While I don’t use them everyday, I do use them. From pre-Microsoft Visio to WordStar and MS Works for DOS, the applications are simpl
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by BirAdam 11mo ago
For most generations of hardware, you’re correct, but not all. For example, high-k was invented to mitigate tunneling. Sometimes, as geometries shrink, the physics involved does change.
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by BirAdam 11mo ago
First, failures aren’t always obvious, and second, studying them isn’t either. This would likely need to be a formalized course. Still… If people want to know why Microsoft hated DOS and wanted to kill it with Xenix, then OS/2, then Wi
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by BirAdam 11mo ago
Hardcore Software, Fire in the Valley, Life Under the Sun… there are many.
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by BirAdam 11mo ago
I study and write quite a bit of tech history. IMHO from what I've learned over the last few years of this hobby, the primary issue is quite simple. While hardware folks study and learn from the successes and failures of past hardware,
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by BirAdam 11mo ago
Microsoft really should just open source Windows and completely abandon the OS market. They make their money on things like gaming, Office, and Azure. At this point, Windows is just a loss leader for other products. Outsource the dev cost w
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by BirAdam 11mo ago
Microsoft is pushing the web-based O365 really hard tho.
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by BirAdam 11mo ago
In the 1990s, there were plenty of closets running websites, BBSs and other internet available resources. As a percentage of total internet users, it was higher than those doing so today. So, money was paid to run portions of the internet a
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by BirAdam 11mo ago
I don't support any politicians. Trump may be more blatant about things, but nothing has fundamentally changed. Civil liberty was aspirational at the start of the USA, was once almost real, and then immediately began reversing. A perso
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by BirAdam 11mo ago
This triggered a small emotional reaction. I really miss the days when Apple made real effort toward servers with MacOS X Server and Xserve. Hopefully, since they're using their own hardware/software internally for servers, Apple
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by BirAdam 11mo ago
Exercise, sunshine, meditation.
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by BirAdam 11mo ago
This is precisely why I think exceptionally smart animals should never be pets: octopus, corvids, raccoons…
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by BirAdam 11mo ago
I love this, but I do prefer just using the NuXT. The NEC V20 is a great CPU, my personal favorite. It's a better 8088 that maintains compatibility while increasing performance and offered a great price to consumers at the time of its
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by BirAdam 11mo ago
Apple gets a lot of shade, but… I used Linux for about 25 years. With the rising cost of hardware, I bought an M4 Max MacStudio earlier this year as it was the best bang for the buck on CPU/GPU and the savings on those offset the extor
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by BirAdam 11mo ago
See: Dissecting DOS https://www.amazon.com/Dissecting-DOS-Code-Level-Operating-S...
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by BirAdam 11mo ago
Perhaps the modern world has softened the term fascist dictator by using it for regimes to which it only partially applies. The generalissimo used forced labor not unlike the DPRK, made widespread use of concentration camps, and was quite f
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by BirAdam 11mo ago
You didn’t have to read the whole library because your brain has been absorbing knowledge from multiple inputs your entire life. AI systems are trying to temporally compress a lifetime into the time of training. Then, given that these syste
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by BirAdam 11mo ago
Not quite. The crystal icon set is not, to my knowledge, the default in any GNOME version though it was in some KDE3 releases. The menus and window design of EDE are very Win98, while those of GNOME are slightly different depending upon the
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by BirAdam 11mo ago
Well, FLTK instead of GTK is a big one. Also, EDE more closely mimics the Win98 Explorer rather than GNOME. EDE is also lighter weight.
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by BirAdam 11mo ago
So, I was quite specific. The USA isn’t capitalist, it’s financialist. The dollar is a financial product created via debt issuance. The USA is semi-fascist as most people in prison aren’t given a trial, there’s a prison industrial complex,
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by BirAdam 11mo ago
> threatens the republic The USA isn’t and hasn’t been a republic in quite a long time. The USA is financialist semi-fascist oligarchy, and operates as such regardless of who’s voted into power.
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by BirAdam 11mo ago
Itanium wasn’t really focusing on running x86 code. Intel wanted native Itanium software, and x86 execution was a bonus.
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by BirAdam 11mo ago
That was actually the original name. Edit: from 1798 until 1949
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by BirAdam 11mo ago
In general, if voting had the power to change much, it would be illegal. Rulers allow voting to change a few things, but never the things that benefit themselves.
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by BirAdam 11mo ago
Yeah, so much that my feel is this law basically gives the state of Montana the right to confiscate computing equipment rather than the right to of the owner to have and use it. I understand that the intent of those involved in passing this
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by BirAdam 11mo ago
After reading this, I just have the Alex Kidd In Miracle World theme going over and over in my head.
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by BirAdam 11mo ago
I feel like this was a mistake: “must be limited to those demonstrably necessary and narrowly tailored to fulfill a compelling government interest in public health or safety” So, public health or safety, in the hands of a tyrant how broad c
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by BirAdam 11mo ago
Yeah. Free, works, and saves my employer a ton of money after we started switching over to it.
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by BirAdam 1y ago
You'd colo if you didn't want to use public cloud. The savings are good over time, but the upfront cost can be huge depending upon how much disk space you need. The setup/config can also be rough (many 4U boxes packed with to

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