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by SlowTao 1y ago
I think it was a combination of all a lot of new tech was being dumped on the tail end of Windows 95/98 combined a bit of sloppyness in how it was deployed. Didn't help seeing how well Win 2K could handle this stuff with its NT ke
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by SlowTao 1y ago
It think you are right but also trying to shove an entire generation into a single box isnt the smartest idea we have. Yes, Nuance is needed.
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by SlowTao 1y ago
To use the Donald Horne quote "Australia is a lucky country run mainly by second rate people who share its luck. It lives on other people's ideas, and, although its ordinary people are adaptable, most of its leaders (in all fields
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by SlowTao 1y ago
I think a key point of it is that those in power know that if there is bipartisan support, they can ignore all protests. All the campaigns I was involved in for well over a decade achieved absolutely nothing because of this. It is worse tha
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by SlowTao 1y ago
This is probably why I havent seen YouTube as being a big issue. The algorithm on my account is so tightened up that non of that stuff bleeds through. So while I don't see the issues directly it is because they are kept away from me. I
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by SlowTao 1y ago
Yep, it seems like a failure on all parties. Government, civil and corporate. Hyper optimization of attention to drive up profits for the sake of share holders while ignoring the externalities was a terrible idea but in a capitalist system,
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by SlowTao 1y ago
For now. Maybe this will be the incentive to get them to dig into how these things work.
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by SlowTao 1y ago
One step ahead is innovation, two steps ahead is a martyr. Microsoft is a lot of the time two steps ahead, but the technology and/or the people are not ready for it. Hasnt harmed their product Microsoft Profit (TM) too much however.
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by SlowTao 1y ago
"I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this." - Emo Philips
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by SlowTao 1y ago
Time to try "Delphi for dummies!" "You are Julian Miller, a curious programmer, always eager to learn new languages. Delphi has caught your eye, promising rapid application development and a visually intuitive approach. You&#
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by SlowTao 1y ago
Not only startups, when OneDrive (was still SkyDrive at that point) started to offer unlimited online storage, from memory they said there was about 70 users that had over a petabyte of data each on the system. Essentially people had all th
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by SlowTao 1y ago
It wasn't a total collapse like some were expecting, they haven't really done much new however. Cutting some of the fat was a good idea but they might have gone a little too lean in places.
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by SlowTao 1y ago
It sounds cliche at this point. It is the focus on the next quarter, next year at best that drives a lot of this due to appeasing the great god of the shareholders. I think they should do what you say but shareholders are looking for the qu
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by SlowTao 1y ago
Minor correction. Athlon arrived at 500MHz, 550MHz and 600MHz. But they were still a big shock when they arrived. They were the first chip in a long while to really take on Intel and succeed. The 650MHz came two months after than, and 700MH
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by SlowTao 1y ago
My desktop is now about 12 years old with a 1650 GTX GPU. Still does everything I need perfectly fine. It is funny seeing some lower powered offerings with iGPUs that run circles around this thing. It is looking like my next machine will pr
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by SlowTao 1y ago
I used to say "Never bet against Intel", it was because everytime they seemed to be behind they would pull something out and regain the loss in short order. But so far nothing of the sort has happened for a long time. If feels lik
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by SlowTao 1y ago
If you are playing an RTS, there is the initial stage where you capture as much resources as possible to keep them out of the hand of others. Eventually there is a phase change and it goes from hoarding resources to fighting using what you
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by SlowTao 1y ago
To quote from A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers. "You’re an animal, Sibling Dex. You are not separate or other. You’re an animal. And animals have no purpose. Nothing has a purpose. The world simply is. If you want to do thi
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by SlowTao 1y ago
Is this a response to the paper replication crisis? Make studies that are so obvious that they cannot be falsified. Next up I have a paper on "Cats hate dogs".
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by SlowTao 1y ago
I would say it is the biggest hit since the iPad but the sales do pale. Apple watch in 10 years has done as many sales as iPhone does in a year.
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by SlowTao 1y ago
That is very fair. We won't know when things finally tip over into a new state until it is in the rear view mirror.
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by SlowTao 1y ago
As an aussie, I am about ashamed of this and looking forward to the total circus it is going to be.
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by SlowTao 1y ago
Personally I wouldn't argue Moore's law is dead but I do wonder about the cost per chip. WE can still push smaller for a lot longer but the costs are starting to creep up a bit. I am not too worried though because adjusted for inf
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by SlowTao 1y ago
This is true but it has been fascinating seeing them trying to catch up. Necessity being mother of invention, all of that. It is still hard to get much of a clear picture on how well they are doing on this stuff. Chinese companies are sayin
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by SlowTao 1y ago
Sounds about right, it looked like they were a loss leader trying to get a foot into the space. They have been vaguely successful in getting a small toe in the door of GPU's, but not enough to justify the costs.
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by SlowTao 1y ago
The first act of revolution is contemplation.
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by SlowTao 1y ago
I suppose in part it is 'The devil makes work for idle hands to do'. In freeing up time for the individual and not being presently aware of this, you end up just filling it with less than helpful stuff. I am not advocating for a r
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by SlowTao 1y ago
Yep, don't like the guy or a lot of his business moves. But got a good sense of humor.
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by SlowTao 1y ago
Note that this entirely based on share price. While I am but an armchair "expert" a lot of the technology businesses that they are comparing too feel inflated due to AI buzz. This is not to put down AI or what they are doing but
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by SlowTao 1y ago
It is one thing to have someone sneak on a golf club, it is another to be actively promoting this as a business. Personally I think it is hilarious, but they are two different things.

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