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by blihp 5y ago
People aren't getting as much exercise, sitting around more eating cheetos and drinking beer, doing more drugs and getting more depressed. I'm not suggesting that all of those are happening to everyone, but each of them is a risk
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by blihp 5y ago
It's more subtle than just showing a traditional ad. When you search on a business (i.e. restaurant, hotel etc) in a given area, businesses are often paying to show up prominently in the results and/or when you're zoomed out
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by blihp 5y ago
The argument that not all CPUs running Linux have hardware SHA2 is valid, and therefore can't be assumed. However saying because one (even a significant one... though it's arguable it hasn't been the majority for a while)
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by blihp 5y ago
The whole point of PoW is that it requires a given amount of effort at a given level of difficulty to maintain a given level of production. (i.e. it's a function of the capital cost of the equipment and the operational cost of running
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by blihp 5y ago
Microsoft is a rather special case of a company that has virtually no goodwill in the open source world. These are the dividends that result from statements and actions over decades. So when something like this occurs, the default reactio
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by blihp 5y ago
Not a strange name at all: wine comes in bottles in the real world. Seems apropos for what these virtual bottles are doing.
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by blihp 5y ago
In the U.S. the issue isn't a taxable event, as in a gift. The issue is 'independent' contractors working on equipment supplied by their 'client'. This is one of several tests the IRS can use to reclassify them as
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by blihp 5y ago
Keeping their software segregated is sound advice, but as they are your client there are a couple of other ways I'd offer to handle it: 1) Keep all software related to work for their company segregated inside a VM. Then you can instal
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by blihp 5y ago
The issue is that someone has to initially write the code to emit the native assembly/machine code for each architecture that a given compiler supports. (i.e. assuming it actually emits native code and not code for another compiled lan
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by blihp 5y ago
Pretty much all of the ARM-based SBCs have ensured excellent Linux coverage for the architecture starting over a decade ago. The Pi popularized it with a more mainstream (i.e. plug and play) audience.
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by blihp 5y ago
They're using the age old 'roll up' strategy: buy a bunch of past their prime products/companies with an installed base, bean count them to profitability and then milk them dry. This tends to work pretty well with ente
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by blihp 5y ago
Several important DOS applications (spreadsheets, databases, CAD etc... even Doom required 4 Meg) were absolutely able to use more than 640k which was why you saw PCs with more memory: there were applications people cared about that neede
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by blihp 5y ago
There were a few issues: 1) Running X and DOS applications was an interesting concept in a world (i.e. x86 PCs) where no standard GUI had yet dominated. The concept that Quarterdeck was likely banking on was that DOS apps would continue to
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by blihp 5y ago
Is there some reason AMD seems uninterested (at best) in supporting an open source compute stack? Not everyone is running one of the distros supported by ROCm which will discourage more than a few users.
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by blihp 5y ago
It could be from the standpoint of thermal design and having a reasonable idea of how long components will last at the temperatures they will typically run at. Realistically, all you need is a capacitor or two to fail in the ballpark to ac
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by blihp 5y ago
Not really on the compute side yet. This is their 2nd attempt at supporting Blender as the first (an OpenCL renderer for Blender) was deemed unmaintainable and deprecated shortly after it was released. All indications are AMD is doing muc
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by blihp 5y ago
At best it's an ongoing research project. It's wise to be skeptical of IBM statements/announcements/predictions given their track record over the last couple of decades.
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by blihp 5y ago
To run further with the analogy: it can go years without being diagnosed. Right now Facebook is in the 'I feel fine, I don't need to go to the doctor' phase. By the time the market starts penalizing a company things are usu
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by blihp 5y ago
That's actually quite a lot for back then. The 'pro' choices of the day were basically (studio) videotape[1] for TV and film[2] if you had something really important. While there were lots of people (gadget geeks mainly, I
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by blihp 5y ago
That's a $150 million payment that they can't make. The concern is how are they going to make the future payments? Their total liabilities are on the order of $300 billion. Fantasia (mentioned in the story) is another China r
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by blihp 5y ago
Don't underestimate the value of having hundreds of millions of users using their apps and services for data collection/profiling purposes. Then there are the ads. And the constant nag screens/dialogs pushing their various
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by blihp 5y ago
I'm going to answer mainly from the perspective of the 1980's since that was really the 'golden era' of the BBS, IMO. The 1990's was more the era of the commercial services (CompuServe, AOL etc. Many of these exis
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by blihp 5y ago
I think the 'controlled opposition' comment is pointing out that given a choice between doing the right thing for users vs. keeping Google happy (presumably to keep the search money comping in), they often seem to choose keeping G
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by blihp 5y ago
Drop the "The", it's cleaner.
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by blihp 5y ago
Just pick something that bothers you or you think is missing and start working on it. I'd recommend something application, as opposed to system, level to get started. That way you can develop using something like Python and not worry
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by blihp 5y ago
The problem arises when the gatekeeper either no longer understands or no longer cares why their position exists. Then they just become an obstacle to the very communication they are supposed to be there to facilitate.
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by blihp 5y ago
Cydia exists outside of Apple's control. The inability to run Flash on iOS was never a technical issue, it was a policy issue.
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by blihp 5y ago
You're missing the intent behind 'the rules': Apple gets a cut of everything on the platform. It's never really been a case of 'if you do X we get a cut and if you do Y and we don't'.... they've cont
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by blihp 5y ago
Adobe had it working on mobile... arguably badly. See Flash on Android. Apple said 'no, you're not going to run that on our platform'. With Flash no longer being ubiquitous, it effectively died rather quickly after that. I
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by blihp 5y ago
They don't need them to stick around for the long run, only for now. This game has been played over and over through the decades.

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