bch

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by bch 5d ago
And Redhat[0], and professional services a la Accenture[1]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM#2010s%E2%80%93present [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accenture
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by bch 5d ago
Because some people would still smoke in restaurants and airplanes if left to their own devices.
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by bch 7d ago
Ugh. Tcl (programming language) has a fantastic test suite, but building a test or throwaway script with the name “test.tcl” is discouraged.
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by bch 7d ago
I spent way, way, way too much time at that site (Partly because it’s a 1990s GeoCities mess). Compelling, but still wanting a Nokia 33xx brick recall.
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by bch 8d ago
We're on the same page.
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by bch 8d ago
> This is something much more close to justice as the punishment fits the crime. True, but to put a still finer point on it, still fantastically more harmful to that poorest man than the king.
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by bch 12d ago
> I've wanted an excuse to try out emacs in the first place[...] This isn't the excuse - just try Emacs! I've gone through periods where I really wanted to level-up my $EDITOR-fu, and just jumping in is what I did. Compare
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by bch 16d ago
> I feel a better use of the screen space is around the corner :)
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by bch 18d ago
See too the Porsche 917[0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porsche_917?#Construction
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by bch 19d ago
> Last week, Meta[...] agreed to a settlement of up to $18bn [...]. > > But if Meta is truly interested in prioritizing the safety of users [...] Where did that "but" clause come from? Has that ever been a priority?
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by bch 19d ago
> lol, how am I only hearing about this now? You're one of today's lucky 10,000! [0] [0] https://xkcd.com/1053/
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by bch 20d ago
Microsoft brought up an new processor[0][1][2] with NetBSD... [0] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=524... [1] https://wiki.netbsd.org/ports/emips/ [2] https:&#x2
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by bch 20d ago
> Literally all baby formula Not sure attracting attention to baby formula will have a positive outcome[0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1977_Nestl%C3%A9_boycott
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by bch 24d ago
Also sounds incredibly compute intensive.
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by bch 25d ago
> The concept of searching a bunch of search engines made sense to me. It made sense to somebody else[0], too. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuckDuckGo
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by bch 26d ago
Not really safe for work. Enjoy. https://youtu.be/WpnM37A4P_8?si=SSRvgD4yvhAcdh0e
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by bch 26d ago
G400 was the first gfx card I cared about - dual head Debian bliss...
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by bch 28d ago
> The question becomes [...] " A question is...". To my mind not the most important question, if one plays-out to a logical conclusion the scenario you're proposing. > [...] if it's still a time saver, even with t
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by bch 29d ago
I appreciate it’s more sophisticated than a simple 5-band e.q. - but it’d still be interesting to hear unprocessed/processed.
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by bch 29d ago
I can't find any before/after audio samples - can anybody point any out? I'd have thought it's about the first thing you'd do to show off the differences (I get it - it might not (probably won't be (?)) be tune
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by bch 1mo ago
The Art of Production
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by bch 1mo ago
> If you want to offer support contracts and actually make people use them, don't use MIT. You can't have you cake (accepting public contributions and free labor) and eat it (sole profiteering) too. I can't speak to how su
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by bch 1mo ago
Right - I mentioned BSD because it’s what I run/am-familiar-with, and it does have *.S files [0], but those (or at least the naming convention) came from pre-existing AT&T Unix - so my example does indeed use BSD[1] first released
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by bch 1mo ago
> So what's a comfile? Clearly it's a shell script, yeah? So why're they called comfiles? It's short for "command files". The vestige I'm amused by on my (BSD) systems is <foo>.S files. "S&q
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by bch 1mo ago
> I mostly find the Sprawl trilogy a chore to get through I'm in the same boat - I wanted to re-read, but couldn't find my copy of Neuromancer (which was a chore to get through the first time I read it years ago), so I've
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by bch 1mo ago
> raised heat is a kind of pollution > water is not unlimited > you don't want to release a bunch of acid into a river > I know next to nothing about this > I know basically nothing > corn is one of the thirstiest maj
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by bch 1mo ago
> Apple is expected to enter the market with a foldable iPhone Is it time to bring Jony Ive back?? Have some backbone, Apple... > that, rumor has it, includes all of the above and adds iOS too. Ok, this snippy comment is for The Ver
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by bch 1mo ago
> I remember what a revelation Google search was when it came out in 1999 Maybe I just learned it’s ways, but I feel like I was ~satisfied with AltaVista… I think Google came to eat their lunch in part because they took search way more s
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by bch 1mo ago
I’m vaguely recalling something - and I think the beans might’ve also represented vetos, so one had a limited number of objections to other people’s ideas… quick search revealing nothing so far, though.
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by bch 2mo ago
This was really, really interesting - what a triumphant adventure. A few (very, very, very pedantic) things that stood out: > We wanted a way to restore service that didn’t involve rolling back to the last known-good backup (which woul

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