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by II2II 7mo ago
Faster than OS/2, sure. Now try to download a file in the background while doing work in the foreground. You would be lucky if your Windows 3.1 communications application could complete it without multiple retries. The two operating sy
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by II2II 7mo ago
While we're at it, lets stop bundling UEFI. I'm being slightly absurd here since you need some sort of firmware to simply start up the computer and install an operating system, but here is my point: to most people, the operating s
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by II2II 7mo ago
> Society has become quite 'entitled' to 'free' things. As popular as they are, torrents and free streams and emulation and clones of games in an open source lib are all stealing something. I know thats an unpopular t
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by II2II 7mo ago
True, but that kinda misses the point. One way to look at it: there are many open source projects targeting Android, projects that gain some sense of legitimacy over being open source yet have few (if any) eyes vetting them. Or, perhaps, th
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> Ruining Android for everyone to try to maybe help some rather technologically-hopeless groups of people is the wrong solution. This isn't about how skilled a person is, it is about tackling social engineering. The article gave the
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by II2II 7mo ago
Well, bash offers vi and Emacs as editing modes. We're already covered on that front. Many of the parameters for ls are cryptic, making it awkward to use for anything other than routine tasks without referencing the man page. more is s
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by II2II 7mo ago
> agree, also they should take into account that their children will be eventually an adult and will be living in such system We also have to consider that "children" covers anywhere from birth to approximately 18 years old. It
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From my recollections, not much. I was on a practicum in his classroom, so it was different from the usual teacher/student dynamics. It was a great teachable moment though!
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Funny story there: I was stuck with a conspiracy-minded high school teacher who insisted that some sort of flash lower down in one of the towers was proof of a demolition. I got fed up with listening to it each day, so I calculated how long
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by II2II 7mo ago
That sounds like a great starting point. There's a university library 500 meters from where I work, so bypassing the paywall ought to be easy. And thank you for all of your articles over the years. They border so close to applied physi
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by II2II 7mo ago
Tangentially related: is there a history covering IBM's development of microcomputers? It is clear that the traditional story of the development of the IBM PC leaves out many important details. There the 5100/5110/5120, which
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by II2II 7mo ago
> When you run your message through an LLM, it will inevitably obscure what you actually wanted to say; we choose words for a reason after all - even if they’re sometimes not the right words. We may choose words for a reason, but sometim
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> That’s exactly why I’ve refused to use autocomplete on smartphone keyboards from the very beginning. I want to express myself in my own words. Autocomplete drives me up the wall. I have what I want to say in mind. I go to write it. The
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> In this case, the "problem" seems to be "we want to lazily cash in on an existing IP and you providing a better product for free on the same shelves as ours makes that difficult", with the "solution" being
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Who knows, though I always thought that it was rather odd that OpenTTD was on Steam. I'm not sure whether that's because it is an open source remake or because you had to own the original for the graphics/sound assets back in
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by II2II 7mo ago
I'm not sure that advice is effective either. I use an LLM as a learning tool. I'm not interested in it implementing things for me, so I always ignore its seemingly frantic desires to write code by ignoring the request and prompti
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by II2II 7mo ago
The problem with that argument is that Sony is the one offering the service and the customer is the one using the service. The customer has the right to request changes to the terms of service and Sony has the right to refuse to provide the
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by II2II 7mo ago
That type of question could also turn people off. We already have too many discussions where people are quick to jump to conclusions and attribute intent, rather than asking basic questions.
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The form stopped accepting input at five characters. I could not enter a "zip code" for my country even if I wanted to. Even if they fixed that, there are other issues. (You pretty much need to cross-reference it with a database,
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by II2II 7mo ago
In the mid-1990's, I requested information from a major multinational corporation (IBM) that had a significant presence in my country. They somehow managed to mangle the six characters of a Canadian postal code, which alternates betwee
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by II2II 7mo ago
> Each block of Python or Applescript that they generate for me is a much better learning tool than a book - I'm going through the code line by line and researching everything. I have been doing something similar. In my case, I pref
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> That was never a strength of Linux, which most Linux fans would probably acknowledge. If you are comparing apples-to-apples (e.g. setting up pre-installed Linux verses pre-installed Windows, or installing Linux to installing Windows),
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I agree with your post, but I wanted to point out one thing: > People bill it as making a ton of usability compromises in the name of security, but that doesn't match my experience. When you are talking about something like Graphene
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> GrapheneOS always strikes me as "perfect is the enemy of good". GrapheneOS, as it ships, is rather bleak but you also need to consider that it is addressing the concerns of a very broad audience. That ranges from people who w
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> I just have not yet been convinced I should actually care. I'm not out to convince you since my reasons are unlikely to apply to you. There are some of us who want privacy for privacy's sake. We respect the social boundaries
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> We still have CBC radio that broadcast weather reports, and whether reports are still available on the internet. Commercial radio/television broadcasts are not the same thing since they do not offer continuous weather broadcasts.
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> and you get absolutely nothing in return. Yeah you will have root access sometimes. You get improved privacy and security, at least on some fronts. By default, GrapheneOS does not provide root access and recommends against rooting the
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> I use proprietary stuff like Apple for these parts of my life. A new Apple device is usually a non-event: charge it, authenticate, wait for the back to restore while you go about your business. Most of the author's criticisms were
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I don't understand why the author is intent on pinning the ever changing orientation of the letters on architects. Wright's intent would have been in the architectural drawings. Everything after that, including the original instal
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by II2II 7mo ago
I grew up as a native English speaker in an English country, and had to look up what gimp means. Should the name be changed? Yes. On the other hand, I have never encountered the word outside of the context of the image editing program. That

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