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by _mlbt 2y ago
DOS 5 was when I really got into computers. I spent hours pouring through the included manual learning all the shell commands and learning how to write .BAT files. Then I discovered QBasic and it changed everything.
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by _mlbt 2y ago
I appreciate your hard work on open sourcing this! If you’re taking requests I’d love to see MS-DOS 5.0 or at least QBasic next.
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by _mlbt 2y ago
Holy cow, this is huge! DOS 1.x and 2.x are too old to run a lot of vintage DOS software, but 4.x would run just about everything.
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by _mlbt 2y ago
Spectrum is charging me $85 a month (and constantly increasing) for internet (JUST internet) that clocks out at about 200 Mbps, so that really doesn't sound all that bad.
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by _mlbt 2y ago
I still think their early investment in hybrids was a great strategy. If you look at the graph to the right on the link below, hybrids are still edging out battery EVs, although the trend lines are definitely in favor of battery EVs long te
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by _mlbt 2y ago
Dividends were originally the main point of owning corporate stocks in the first place.
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by _mlbt 2y ago
HTC no, but Valve absolutely could compete. They have an existing popular App Store where they receive a cut of the profits. Even breaking even on hardware costs they could still reap fairly substantial profits if they were to succeed in
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by _mlbt 2y ago
Doesn’t China also demand complete control of foreign apps in their country? Correct me if I’m wrong but my understanding is that the CCP demands specific changes to or outright removal of apps all the time.
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by _mlbt 2y ago
That's pretty cool that it can install Homebrew packages. Can anyone speak to how well that actually works in practice?
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by _mlbt 2y ago
I would say that it was one of the most successful attempts at nation-scale socialism, but ultimately still a failed experiment. As you said yourself the people themselves democratically voted for capitalism. > Julius Nyerere's lea
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by _mlbt 2y ago
Yes you're talking about hybrids of socialism with capitalism, which are absolutely the way to go. History has shown that nation-scale "pure" socialism (which in practice nearly always results in a flavor of Marxism/Com
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by _mlbt 2y ago
Sadly true. There are also major product categories that are literally impossible to buy US made goods in even if you're willing to pay the premium for it. Additionally, many of the "US made" products are merely assembled h
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by _mlbt 2y ago
Energy cooperatives are another thing I've seen work well here in the US. A house I lived in got our electricity from a Touchstone Energy cooperative[1] and our rate was dirt cheap and they even mailed us a dividend check every year.
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by _mlbt 2y ago
I completely agree that capitalism as we know it is highly flawed, but history has proven that socialism is not the answer.
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by _mlbt 2y ago
That's not scale though. Socialism works great in small loosely organized tribes, but fails at nation scale every time.
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by _mlbt 2y ago
To counter you, at nation scale I can list off dozens, perhaps even oven over a hundred highly successful capitalist nations, with generally happy and prosperous citizens, but I can't think of a single successful attempt at communism&#
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by _mlbt 2y ago
The problem is that socialism doesn't scale without force. Eventually you'll run out of people who willingly go along with doing things for the greater good. Looking at history, once you get larger than a commune or coop it all
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by _mlbt 2y ago
Fun fact...Microsoft open sourced GW-BASIC under the MIT license a couple years ago... https://github.com/microsoft/GW-BASIC The blog post announcing it is here if you want more information about it... https:/&#x
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by _mlbt 2y ago
Masters of Doom is such a great book!
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by _mlbt 3y ago
“All”
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by _mlbt 3y ago
I see this sentiment all the time, but it could never apply to the defense sector. Do you really want our nations enemies to have access to the source code of fighter jets, cruise missiles, the nuclear weapons program, or missile defense s
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by _mlbt 3y ago
> Only works with Android/PC. Sorry iOS If this was implemented as a Bluetooth mouse with just a scroll wheel, wouldn’t you get support on all recent operating systems for free?
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by _mlbt 3y ago
A significant portion of the first two years of a typical Bachelor's degree program are very liberal arts heavy with a generous sprinkling of electives. These classes may deliver some value to the individual, but it is questionable ho
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by _mlbt 3y ago
Many (most?) households have two cars, so I can see having a cheap shorter range EV for commuting and weekend errands, and a longer range car available for the other adult and longer range trips.
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by _mlbt 3y ago
Unpopular opinion, but I think if you already possess the necessary mathematical knowledge as a foundation, something like a boot camp followed by an internship or apprenticeship would probably be at least as good as what a college educatio
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by _mlbt 3y ago
Some distros like Debian Stable and the RHEL clones track the ESR versions of Firefox instead of the latest release, so I could see users preferring the official binaries in that use case.
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by _mlbt 3y ago
This could be a great additional commuter car if you already have an ICE (or longer range EV) for those longer trips (or are willing to rent one if such trips are infrequent enough). The perks of a smaller battery are that it should take le
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by _mlbt 3y ago
Actually he does respond to emails and he is responsive to constructive feedback from my experience.
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by _mlbt 3y ago
I agree! Another approach I really like are interactive “notebook” style language tutorials. Swift Playgrounds is an excellent implementation of this.
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by _mlbt 3y ago
I personally recommend starting with Stroustrup’s other book…A Tour of C++. It really brings you up to speed quickly with what you need to know in the language without a lot of excess fluff. It’s also very up to date compared to other boo

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