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by II2II 1y ago
I solved that problem by compiling my own kernel. The speedup was dramatic. Of course, that was back in the days when an interested hobbiest could compile a lean kernel without fear of breaking dozens of things.
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by II2II 1y ago
It's pretty much what you make of it. I participated in Field Day with a club many years ago. It was basically an excuse to get out of town, setup a station (led by people who loved that aspect, and they served as mentors to those who
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by II2II 1y ago
I was actually hoping for a completely different type of game. As someone who is colorblind, my use case for RGB is to translate a description of a color (e.g. fuchsia) to a hex value for display on screen. Matching a hex value to a swatch
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by II2II 1y ago
In times past, we used to have things like clubs and user groups. For the most part, they held open meetings. Anyone could attend without commitment. These meeting not only served the interests of members and the community, but they also se
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by II2II 1y ago
While it's true that none of that prevents computers from replacing typewriters, it becomes more difficult to convince people that computers are better than typewriters. Put another way, I grew up with those 8-bit machines. I preferred
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by II2II 1y ago
For some people, that approach may work. If it does work, it's great since it avoids the mental anguish of beating yourself up (which is damaging in it's own right). That said, I can see two scenarios where it won't work: (a)
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by II2II 1y ago
In traffic, no, but on the streets, why not? Things like street hockey and basketball are real. Kids ought to be able to be able to play in a field and fetch their ball from the street without ending up as roadkill. Of course, there are far
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by II2II 1y ago
I realize that your /s key is broken, but ... ... you would be shocked by how much could be surveilled back then. Pretty much any voice communicated were sent in the clear. It didn't much matter whether it was sent over wire or ov
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by II2II 1y ago
I would argue there is a glaring problem with the memo: it is basically written from the perspective of someone who writes memos. Computers were fantastic replacements for many uses of typewriters back then, allowing people to do much more
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by II2II 1y ago
The article mentions daisy wheel printers directly, so they must have been available. Daisy wheel printers existed to produce higher quality (text) output than what you would get from a dot matrix printer. There were many other types of imp
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by II2II 1y ago
At the time, eroding marketshare was a legitimate concern. It takes money to develop products, and without continuous development they would not remain competitive. Whether they liked it or not, marketshare is a factor in making the most mo
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by II2II 1y ago
Vibe coding may get the job done, but it isn't going to be as fun for someone who wants to write a little app for a friend. Also, chances are that the generated code is going to be less friendly for a novice to edit should the want&#
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by II2II 1y ago
Don't worry, engineers can imagine (or, more accurately, analyze) how these buildings will remain standing. A good chunk of it is understanding how to distribute forces throughout a structure. The other chunk of it is understanding the
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by II2II 1y ago
For the FSF, Microsoft releasing binaries without source was reason enough to hat them but it was not the only reason why people, including those in the FSF, hated them. Microsoft was very much a company that used their dominant market po
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by II2II 1y ago
Text streams have their advantages and disadvantages. Advantages include being easy to create, modify, view without special tooling. Given the nature of the Unix shell, you can apply that equally to both data and code. Of course, the disadv
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by II2II 1y ago
If true, I'll leave credit to that insight to you since I was not thinking in terms of functional programming. I don't know enough about functional programming to assess whether it is true, but piping data through the classic Unix
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by II2II 1y ago
One thing that is rarely mentioned, but usually practiced: Unix tools rarely modify its own state. The only way to modify the behaviour of a program is to pass parameters, set an environment variable, or modify a configuration file. This le
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by II2II 1y ago
> I remember feeding disk number 27 out of 33 only to get a "bad sector" error an hour into a software install. I love this fixation on floppy disks. The article likely brought it up because it is a recognizably obsolete techno
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by II2II 1y ago
The risk may be real, but is it likely to happen to many people? The reason why I bring this up is because many early adopters of Gmail switched to it or grew to rely upon it because the alternatives were much worse. The account through you
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by II2II 1y ago
It's a good description, but I'm going to add a couple of details since details that are obvious to someone who lived through that era may not be obvious to those who came after. > Obviously it could have not been a mask of pix
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by II2II 1y ago
If someone is saving money to make a downpayment on a house, they don't stop spending money on food. They will likely eat out less, buy less expensive foods, watch for sales, cut down on food waste, or find other means to reallocate so
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by II2II 1y ago
In the first case, there is nothing preventing the development of software to overwrite data before unlink(2) is called. In the second case, you can choose to trust or distrust the cloud storage provider. Trust being backed by contractual o
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by II2II 1y ago
Businesses submitting data that may be of interest to their competitors is one concern. Assuming that a business trusts how OpenAI handles the data, more parties will have access to it. That increases the probability of it being leaked. (Th
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by II2II 1y ago
To be fair to Microsoft, this was in their help system. They probably wanted to be as clear as possible, to avoid confusing people in an application that was supposed to help people. It is not as though they were removing icons from all app
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by II2II 1y ago
The point is that it wasn't a universally understood icon at the time. It was culturally, not even linguistically, dependent. The footnote even suggests that it was a relatively new symbol in computer interfaces, having been introduced
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by II2II 1y ago
I suspect the use of profanity was to grab people's attention, rather than for shock value. I would consider it as unprofessional, much as I would consider an article titled "Stars that go boom" to be unprofessional. I would
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by II2II 1y ago
The industrial design of PCd may have been lacking in beauty, but it was almost always practical. For example: I cannot think of any desktop models that lacked internal expansion. They may have used a riser card to stack in two or three slo
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by II2II 1y ago
Like it or not, and I'm in the not category, most people conflate electronics with consumer electronics. It is just something we have to deal with. That said, a big box computer retailer is worth something. For the most part, I've
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by II2II 1y ago
I'm not trying to absolve employers here, since they are almost certainly the ones who initiated this trend, but there are very few incentives to care about employees when employees take advantage of it. The end result is they make lif
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by II2II 1y ago
The two reasons I can think of: to run legacy or educational operating systems. There are going to be limitations to what can be supported, but simply getting the OS to boot is part of the battle. It would also be useful for those who want

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