KerrAvon

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by KerrAvon 2y ago
Nope, it's the Reagan-era relaxation of ownership rules. Guess who owns the stations. And lots of liberals drive cars.
602.
by KerrAvon 2y ago
This seems like kind of a janky workaround when what you really want is linker support for weak/on-demand linking.
603.
by KerrAvon 2y ago
Nonsense. There is working transit in the US and a huge appetite for more. But it takes decades to do this stuff. "China did massive infrastructure project in two years" -- China is also a communist dictatorship (for some value of
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by KerrAvon 2y ago
The IPv4 address field is fixed size. You can't simply add a digit and deal with it at the telephony company premises like you can with a phone number. You have to rev every piece of equipment and software that can ever touch a packet.
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by KerrAvon 2y ago
The 68k CPU lineup at the heart of the Amiga was competitive well into the 90's; the Amiga had run out of juice by 1989. The Amiga was only as good as the custom chips. If Commodore kept investing in R&D for the custom chips, they
606.
by KerrAvon 2y ago
If they were invented today, dishwashers would be the same product but be called dish-washing robots. It's essentially what they are. Being mobile isn't essential to robotness.
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by KerrAvon 2y ago
You have to understand the code at a level sufficient to make accurate annotations, which isn't that much easier. And you're not getting as much safety bang for your buck for the effort as you would in a rewrite in actually safe l
608.
by KerrAvon 2y ago
Saffron ice cream.
609.
by KerrAvon 2y ago
It's good in black tea.
610.
by KerrAvon 2y ago
What a strange article. The premise seems to be that 3M floppies were better formulated than others, but the author never actually discusses their quality directly, or anything close. 3M floppies were pretty rare in my experience.
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by KerrAvon 3y ago
In hindsight, weren't they basically finished by 1989? We'd be living in a different world if they'd put all the money from the VAX 9000 into RISC CPUs instead.
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by KerrAvon 3y ago
Caveat is that golang is not a good enough actor to be a reliable indicator of whether this interface is supported, though. They’ll go to the metal because they can, not because it’s stable.
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by KerrAvon 3y ago
There are around 40 million people in California. What's hard is that a fair solution to Prop 13 is difficult. You can't just shut it off suddenly or even gradually over a decade because people will lose their homes en masse and p
614.
by KerrAvon 3y ago
They recently got rid of Prop 13 on inherited homes -- apparently because people got real mad at Jeff Bridges for having a second home -- which is currently fucking me over personally because it's taking a long time to prep the inherit
615.
by KerrAvon 3y ago
Maybe I'm missing something, but threadsafety would appear to be entirely unaddressed by Xr0.
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by KerrAvon 3y ago
You really mean TC and not base salary? That’s shockingly bad.
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by KerrAvon 3y ago
Yes. If you have an atexit or global destructor on a program expected to run on anything Unixlike or Windows >= NT, you’re just making things slower for the user. Unless you’re on AmigaOS, let the kernel do its job; it can release your r
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by KerrAvon 3y ago
Jobs wasn't in charge at that point; Gassee wanted too much money for too little OS. BeOS was missing a lot of features. If BeOS had the ability to output graphics to printers at the time, we'd be in a very different world today.
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by KerrAvon 3y ago
It requires the sqlite3 library bindings, which might be a lot of effort.
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by KerrAvon 3y ago
The actual complaint leads off with the iBooks thing, which is a terrible start. Apple lost that case and it shouldn’t have; to this day, that result enables Amazon’s effective monopoly on paid ebooks.
621.
by KerrAvon 3y ago
Absolutely correct; same for banning any other tech sales to China. I’m not sure it’s terrible policy, though. It’s only speeding up the inevitable a little.
622.
by KerrAvon 3y ago
I don’t buy this completely. AMD’s 64-bit humiliation of Intel wasn’t that far in the past, and they knew GPUs were important. They could have hedged their bets a bit more on the basis of sound business management without incurring sharehol
623.
by KerrAvon 3y ago
Even Apple’s execs are willfully blind on this. Utterly baffling. There’s plenty of room at Apple Park for everyone to have a door that closes, but they insist on doubling people up in offices or open-plan labs. The entire executive class a
624.
by KerrAvon 3y ago
Java was crippled by a terrible standard UI library and a failure to recognize the opportunity for a natively-compiled systems language other than C++.
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by KerrAvon 3y ago
Bandwidth alone isn’t what prevents 5G from this sort of application, at least in the USA. Coverage maps tell the story: coverage is generally spotty away from major roads. Cell coverage isn’t a fixable problem in the near term, because eve
626.
by KerrAvon 3y ago
Minimizing the impact of COVID has a long and ugly history for such a young virus. One paper contradicting every other source so far certainly shouldn’t be accepted as gospel.
627.
by KerrAvon 3y ago
It does not in fact take extra effort to make them be unavailable outside the EU.
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by KerrAvon 3y ago
According to Ginny Heinlein’s notes in Grumbles from the Grave, Arthur C. Clarke also eventually used a form letter system.
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by KerrAvon 3y ago
The original intent IIRC was the programs for the model 20 would be upwards compatible with the rest of the series, but that the higher level models would not be downward compatible with the 20. No idea if that ended up being achieved.
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by KerrAvon 3y ago
Stipulate for the discussion that you’re correct; what would your ideal preservation scenario look like? Hollywood DCP servers open to enthusiasts to allow copying of terabytes of movie data to other archives?

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