charles_kaw

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by charles_kaw 4y ago
Wayland is pretty much a requirement for any new, high end laptop or desktop setup. X's inconsistent support of hi-dpi displays, mix/match dpi displays, janky hotplug, and hdr makes it almost a non starter for any laptop sold >
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by charles_kaw 4y ago
We are talking about modern computers. Not embedded devices. That is a whole separate category :)
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by charles_kaw 4y ago
Unfortunately, large defi institutions have been advertising to retail investors. Many of whom have not just had a haircut, but their whole head shaved. Government regulation of retail finance is a feature, not a bug.
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by charles_kaw 4y ago
A free market is, by definition, free of collusion. People with large capital don't need to collude - they already have tons of power as individuals :) It's like the term "free market" is a thought terminating cliche or
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by charles_kaw 4y ago
> I don’t understand why you think crypto funds don’t arrange the same kind of “oversite” you describe. Because they don't. Because it's a wild west. TradFi has it's failures as well - but that's "whataboutism&qu
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by charles_kaw 4y ago
But, you shouldn't have to be. And more importantly, what happens when he brings this attitude to long term space missions or other endeavors where human lives are at risk? Just because he's doing something you like doesn't m
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by charles_kaw 4y ago
Unions are when employees get together to demand better working conditions. The only people who should be afraid of unions are those who hold capital.
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by charles_kaw 4y ago
And yet, we're not glowing. That's because cyber attacks are not viewed the same as physical attacks, especially when it doesn't lead to loss of life. This is literally the US AND Russia's stance, so it's not a comp
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by charles_kaw 4y ago
Toyota's battery manufacturing capabilities are extremely behind the curve. There will likely be a few years where they are unable to make nearly enough to meet demand. That is why a lot of investors are unhappy.
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by charles_kaw 4y ago
>If Bitcoin is the equivalent of Yahoo, what are the equivalents of Amazon and Google? This assumes that there is a Yahoo or Google.
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by charles_kaw 4y ago
The Japanese government, in step with their private industry, created a self fulfilling prophecy through an internal campaign painting hydrogen as the future. Their insistence on hydrogen makes a lot more sense when you consider that Japane
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by charles_kaw 4y ago
Yes, but incoming regulation is going to make selling gasoline cars increasingly difficult. That includes Europe, especially. If Toyota is in the business of selling cars, they're going to have problems when large swaths of the populat
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by charles_kaw 4y ago
> Why do you care what other people are enthusiastic about? I care because I'm enthusiastic about old computers. I care because some of these systems have historic and cultural value. I care because I care. And when people separate
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by charles_kaw 4y ago
accuracy isnt really important anymore for consumer gear - as long as it's accurate enough to have the month right over a few years of inactivity, it'll pass the certificate checks required to do ntp over ssl - which most modern s
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by charles_kaw 4y ago
>mechanical keyboard community who are constantly hunting for keyboards from the 70s, 80s, 90s Wish they wouldn't. The keyboards are part of a set, including the computer itself, and many of those computers require those keyboards.
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by charles_kaw 4y ago
The vast majority of computers were commodity boxes that are extremely well documented, emulated, and the ones that exist today are in private collections. The interesting stuff is also being held by private collectors in large amounts. Aro
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by charles_kaw 4y ago
> well preserved SGI Octane or O2 please at least use a gutted case or something with bad boards. These old computers, especially machines like the SGI risc line, are not being made anymore. At the end of the day, you'll have a bog
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by charles_kaw 4y ago
One person's anecdote does not qualify or disqualify a concept.
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by charles_kaw 4y ago
Sometimes OEMs omit even the generation now. It's unfortunate.
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by charles_kaw 4y ago
The issue is not that it's easy to work out, the issue is that these manufacturers have decided that fine grained specs aren't important. I actually more or less agree with that, although I wish they'd at least indicate gener
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by charles_kaw 4y ago
That's absolutely what you're saying. And then you just went ahead and clarified it. :)
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by charles_kaw 4y ago
>millions of children and healthy young adults i didnt realize they were considered to be more of a person than my parents :) that's cool
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by charles_kaw 4y ago
> "obviously Gmail and such are piped directly into global intelligence databases" well, they were. without google's consent :) past tense, obviously
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by charles_kaw 4y ago
>Do you have any info on this because that is a wild claim. Not only has the concept and implementation of automated law enforcement portals been around since the 90s, the Snowden docs revealed that major providers were providing such po
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by charles_kaw 4y ago
>millions could die before vaccines rolled out Millions died from covid before vaccines rolled out
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by charles_kaw 4y ago
>but there's also gun laws like in California that affect large populations of gun owners. Is your rebuttal that there are laws? >"they just don't understand" to the people who actually have to live with the laws N
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by charles_kaw 4y ago
>I see no mechanism by which those laws would reduce mass shootings. A mass shooter would simply ignore them. On virtue of how many shootings have begun "without warning", the cultural context in canada versus the us is quite d