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by II2II 1y ago
It's not that you are expected to work that long. It is a case of not being expected to work longer than that. You are always welcome to retire earlier if you have the financial means to do so. You are also welcome to work longer than
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For most people, the point is to have limited functionality. They could care less what the underlying operating system is. The companies developing the phones are most likely concerned about the development costs, since it is probably a saf
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That would depend upon the roads and, given that winter was mentioned as a feature, maintenance during the winter months. I've done some riding on rural roads with no shoulders, and it can be as scary as heck. At least on winding roads
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by II2II 1y ago
Granted, this was 20 years ago, but I remember taking the Greyhound and people were getting on or off the bus in the middle of nowhere. By nowhere, I mean the nowhere in the literal sense: at the intersection of two highways in the northern
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That would be akin to describing a computer as a complicated arrangement of switches that control each other through pulses of electricity to do useful stuff. While it may satisfy a bunch of people who aren't really interested in how c
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> Unfortunately the 64, like all those 8-bit machines, was a technical dead end I suspect that most of them were dead-ends for business reasons rather than technical reasons. More often than not, they were in a race to the bottom to try
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I'm not sure about the Windows scene, since I only toyed around with one or two shells nearly twenty years ago, but the motivations for creating windows managers in Unix varied. Quite often they were about the appearance, customization
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The reason varies by the decade. Microsoft has a tendency to fix one thing, then break another. That said, a distaste for advertising goes beyond OCD. Advertisers frequently have questionable ethics, ranging from intruding upon people'
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> American tech companies are making billions off these products that really are simple and could be replaced. The trouble is that simple concepts are not necessarily simple to implement. Tuning software for performance (e.g. to handle a
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> However this sort of self-assembly of PCs has long passed us by. How so? From my recollections, building a Pentium-era PC was very similar to building a PC today: case, PSU, motherboard, CPU, RAM, video card, and storage. Most componen
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No such luck over here. I have noticed a huge degradation in imagination fidelity since upgrading to a more powerful GPU.
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Remembering when Google only served text based ads.
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I read the article from the point of view that Apple's response was at issue. The missed notification is something that we have to take the author's word for, but it could very well be true. Perhaps I'm more sympathetic becau
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> Pixel have other issue Every product is going to have issues in one form or another. The question is which issues affect your personal use of the product. I'm too new to Pixel to comment on whether switching to it is a good or a b
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I was under the impression that the Soviets launched multiple identical missions to account for failure. In other words: rather than investing a huge effort into reducing the probability of failure of a singular mission, they invested in mu
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by II2II 1y ago
True. Maybe dislike was a poor choice of words on my part, but I can't think of anything more suitable. The main thing I want to avoid is drama. If someone dislikes me and that dislike doesn't go any further than letting me know,
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I am not dismissing Wozniak's designs here, but it is important to not a couple of major differences between the Disk II and it's competitors: - Many of the design constraints that other companies faced were removed. Apple designe
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On the flip side: if I were to attend an event featuring Richard Stallman, I would rather it have a no-photos policy. I am interested in many of his ideas, but I have no desire to be associated with his ideas in their entirety or any public
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I am sympathetic with his message today, when I would have been dismissive of it in 1987. I also realize that I shouldn't have been dismissive of it in 1987. Even though the industry of today is far more damaging than it was then, it i
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It's too early to make that claim. There are multiple branches and levels of government to deal with situations like this. They have worked in the past for smaller scale violations. They should work in the present for larger scale viol
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On the extrapolation to zero videos by September 2026: it is already here. Seriously. Clear your cookies or open a private window. All of the videos are replaced by the message "Try searching to get started". Granted, as someone w
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I figured out why the feature was failing on my system: I needed to enable Install and Run Studies under Send technical and interaction data to Mozilla under Firefox Data Collection and Use under Privacy & Security under Settin
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> I don't like the 300 search limit, because it scratches my brain - "do I need to search for this? can I find it some other way? should I just use duckduckgo for this search?" I have been using the free 300 search trial f
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When I was writing that, I was thinking of other platforms. For example: I had a GP2X at one point, which was a handheld console that ran Linux. It clearly wasn't a mass-market device, but it was an open platform with plenty of develop
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> Homebrew scenes seem like a candidate for doing things "the right way", but culturally they're a lot closer to piracy scenes than anyone wants to admit, at least in front of a court. I realize the homebrew scene doesn&#x
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You're right. Even though I was thinking along the line hardware and software compatibility, repairs certainly fit the bill. It's not like today, where a flaky drive is simply replaced. A floppy drive of that era costed as much as
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To be fair, one couldn't have even said that much about Linux a decade ago even though Linux ran on the same hardware as Windows. Now we can say that we can do Windows gaming on Linux and it is amazing. It is possible to both play a hu
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> It's hard to trust when it seems so fluid. Perhaps we should trust it more because it is fluid and that fluidity is documented (see the history and talk tabs for any given article). Historically, reputable sources depended upon,
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> If an insurer says "we're going to jack up premiums by 20% unless you force employees to change their password once every 90 days", you can argue till you're blue in the face that it's bad practice, NIST change
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While I strongly disagree with the framing of loyalty, it is also important to remember that there is a relationship between what you put into a job and what you get out of it. I'm not going to claim that the relationship is always goi

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