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by another2another 2y ago
Most democracies tolerate a degree of social chaos since self expression and freedom of action are part of the culture. Dictatorships on the other hand are terrified of their own people, and so crush and expression of freedom that they don&
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by another2another 2y ago
There was always the free copy of Computer Weekly that would arrive in the post to keep you amused for half an hour or so.
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by another2another 2y ago
>Surely Microsoft would like to shake out the last diehards running some VB5 app on a patched up PC in a factory. >Isn't it more beneficial to everyone to start sunsetting acres of ancient NT code and approaches and streamline t
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by another2another 2y ago
Air sirens had already started so most people had moved down to the basements. Probably some people who couldn't, or who were caring for those that couldn't be moved were caught in the blast. Brutal thing to do. At least they didn
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by another2another 2y ago
Well, if they'd used a different vendor (or nothing) on the DR servers we could have done a failover and gotten on with our day. But alas nobody saw, an app that can download data from the internet, whenever it wants to update itself a
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by another2another 2y ago
>yet it went bankrupt because companies prefer to buy new plastic which is both cheaper and more convenient. I would say that should make plastic recyclers a fair target for government subsidies since they're not making a financial
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by another2another 2y ago
I think a better fit (for any measure of better you might like) might be Redhat / IBM. IBM can sell it to customers as an Enterprise package with Enterprise support, and Redhat can host their own OSS software there on their own turf.
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by another2another 2y ago
>In an era where performance mattered, and much software was written for hardware, and controlling hardware, it's hard to see an alternative Actually, what made sense _was_ assembly when performance mattered above all. C was actuall
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by another2another 2y ago
>Does that mean we should just stop innovating and go into an indefinite state of maintenance If you mean that not using Rust (or maybe some other languages e.g. Zig or Ada?) means that there can be no innovation in the Linux kernel, I w
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by another2another 2y ago
The fuse is now lit for lots of apps currently working fine in production to be suddenly labelled 'legacy', and nobody wants to work on the crusty old React or (heavens to Betsy!) Angular anymore. In 5 years time earnest conversat
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by another2another 2y ago
Ask them to write the tests that will trigger the failure condition - i.e. make them prove that it's a possible thing that can easily occur. If it is, then at least you have a simple test case to work with so they've done a chunk
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by another2another 2y ago
You can still find documentation for Macos toolkit with Pascal bindings. This is a bit of a nostalgia trip for me as I owned a copy of this book way back in the 90's https://developer.apple.com/library/archive&#x2F
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by another2another 2y ago
>So yes, no one really cares. This is how I feel, I own all the Half-Life and Portal games on Steam, but since the 64 bit ARM transition they're just useless bits. And it feels like it shouldn't that big a problem to port the
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by another2another 2y ago
A good strategy might have been to pool their resources and create a new global channel that they all part-owned and distribute their content there. Like a big new Global TV Channel.
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by another2another 2y ago
Yes, what people managed in pure assembly language was really impressive. Unsurprisingly though they also spent a lot of time developing a lot of time-saving tools, like macro assemblers and higher level languages like C. Probably the games
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by another2another 2y ago
>They didn't have no gofmt back then. Didn't need gofmt as plenty of IDEs and editors had automatic indentation and syntax colouring already implemented. 1993 wasn't the dark ages you know.
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by another2another 2y ago
>It was the closest we've ever gotten to a natural language interface and that genuinely felt really different Agreed, but I think we'll soon start to discover that interacting with systems as if they were text adventure games
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by another2another 2y ago
Smile grimly and carry on. At least they're not trying to shoehorn blockchain in everywhere anymore.
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by another2another 2y ago
I believe I probably started playing it when it came out, but abandoned it pretty early on, hence my initial confusion - like something you half remember. The first 3 games though were great in their different ways, but Quake 1 will always
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by another2another 2y ago
There was a Quake 4?! ...ah yes... no.. heh? Must've blotted it out to preserve the affection I had for the first 3.
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by another2another 2y ago
I think there's also more subtle improvements using e.g. object recognition. Last week I was in an art gallery and took some photos of the paintings, when I suddenly noticed that it was drawing a focus around the frame and there was a
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by another2another 2y ago
That's been outsourced as a 3rd party plugin (iFolio? I think). Works OK, but I did like the Apple interface better.
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by another2another 2y ago
The 'Inside' Story Is More Disturbing Is this a tasteless pun ?
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by another2another 2y ago
"History is made by those who show up." (Disraeli) is the quote that springs to mind.
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by another2another 2y ago
That "joke" currency currently has a market cap of $23 billion and a trading volume of $2.6B over the last 24 hours. >Absurd times we live in, comedic and dramatic at the same time. So yes, totally agreed.
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by another2another 2y ago
An interesting read, which led me to lookup Kilbride in CA, and found it's even highlighted on Google maps: https://www.google.com/maps/place//@43.4246699,-79.9457692,1...
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by another2another 2y ago
Quite amusing reading that article, then glancing over at the Social media links where of course Twitter is now replaced by that X (which, let's be honest is one of the quickest and most effective rebrands I can think of. Hats off to t
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by another2another 2y ago
Sounds like X11 needs its own equivalent of LibreSSL, but it looks like the will is there (many supporters of X continuation), but not the manpower. In days of yore (when Windows 3 was young), there were even commercial X servers (Hummingbi
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by another2another 2y ago
You don't want to visit Pen's Island?
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by another2another 2y ago
It did at least reveal the playbook, and that you have to get pretty creative to hide things in plain sight. I'm sure any binary blobs in OSS software, no matter what the reason for having them will be viewed with suspicion, and build

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