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by adamc 3y ago
I have worked on an RFP for migration. It persists because the cost for migrating can be quite high -- many mainframe environments have many applications with complex sets of dependencies (after decades, not surprising). No one doubts that
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by adamc 3y ago
Disasterous.
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by adamc 3y ago
The assumption is that the lowered revenue means fewer chips, rather than cheaper, less profitable chips. I don't know whether that is true or not. Might be a bit of both.
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I think we are evaluating on different criteria. Soul of a New Machine is a much better written book.
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by adamc 3y ago
Yes. I read it based on a recommendation on HN, and it was very interesting. Not as good as "The Soul of A New Machine", but still quite worthwhile.
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by adamc 3y ago
Lead paint harmed a lot of innocent third parties, as did smoking near other people. Not sure I see the analogy. When MacOS killed 32-bit libraries, it didn't save me from harm. It just made MacOS incapable of playing old steam games,
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by adamc 3y ago
Well, the problem is that there are really many different markets for Windows. If my major use of Machine123 is to play old games, of course I'm going to be unhappy when Microsoft compromises my ability to do that. For that use, it mig
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by adamc 3y ago
While reviewing the software you are running would definitely help, it is also utterly impractical as a security measure for more than a small fraction of the folks who use software.
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by adamc 3y ago
Isn't that a lot like saying "if we just deprecated history, there would be a lot fewer issues"? But history is a thing. Also, every time I click on a twitter link, I seem to get "something went wrong" and have to r
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by adamc 3y ago
The issue with Alice's Adventures is separate from copyright. Many (most) people have never read Lewis Carroll; being in the public domain doesn't change that, and there is no giant profit in publishing books in the public domain,
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by adamc 3y ago
No, it's not fine. Children are important, and worthy of getting new stories that address their needs. In general, judging which categories don't need the protection of copyright amounts to deciding which categories of readers don
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by adamc 3y ago
On many levels, this would not work well. A quick example: Stories written for children typically do not generate as much revenue per year. They make up for that, eventually (if they are popular) because they are new to every new cohort of
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by adamc 3y ago
People did write before copyright. Copyright was established to make it more likely. Yes, people write for other reasons (e.g., self-promotion). But that does not account for "most authors" I would actually want to read. I'm
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by adamc 3y ago
Why not just implement "logical delete" and have another process sweep through a few weeks later that does any pending deletes? Then they get what they want (or closer to it), and it isn't a lot more effort.
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by adamc 3y ago
Couldn't one equally see that as a footgun, given the lack of great solutions for something like this example?
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by adamc 3y ago
I think that would wholly destroy the ability of writers to actually make a living writing novels. The fact that the living isn't great now does not justify this.
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by adamc 3y ago
Then you are out of luck, of course. I didn't claim it would be without drawbacks. But it's basically your only good recourse.
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by adamc 3y ago
I don't know. I can hope for the best, but when they killed 32-bit apps and with them a ton of classic games, I gave up on Apple.
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by adamc 3y ago
Fading? Vs. Linux, maybe. Mac OS is still a bad platform for games.
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Biden Administration Weighs Further Curbs on Sales of A.I. Chips to China(nytimes.com)
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by adamc 3y ago
Just stop carrying your phone. Problem solved.
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by adamc 3y ago
A fertile subject for sf stories.
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by adamc 3y ago
In part, because the Java ecosystem kept getting more complicated. Fifteen or so years ago I was a full-time Java developer, but I wouldn't know half of what I need to know today, and I'm not very interested in going that route. J
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by adamc 3y ago
INAL. But... show me the case law establishing there is near-zero risk to them if they let it go through. People make business decisions all the time to avoid murky areas that may hold peril. Unless there is a big benefit to them, why take
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by adamc 3y ago
Yes, and Java was justly reviled at the time for slow startups.
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by adamc 3y ago
This is a fantastic essay. As someone who went through a rough divorce and estrangement from my kid (I don't even really know why), I know nostalgia well. This essay does a great job of investigating what is going on there.
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by adamc 3y ago
That makes it expensive to move from experimentation to "fairly usable", though.
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by adamc 3y ago
That you think it trivial is a big difference between us.
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by adamc 3y ago
Everything is easier with resources. But if you only have standards when you can easily afford to, you have no standards.
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by adamc 3y ago
If I had a job at reddit, I'd be shopping my resume.

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