cmiles74

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by cmiles74 8y ago
I think this would require Google to care, which they clearly do not.
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by cmiles74 8y ago
If it hasn't been tested and certified, I am reluctant to bet the life of myself and my family on it. I think the headline is reasonable and recommend it stays as-is.
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by cmiles74 8y ago
There is a lot that I like about Smalltalk. I think one of the most interesting ideas is that everything in the environment is written in the same language; that it's easy to use code from an installed package when you write your own c
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by cmiles74 8y ago
I expect we'll start to see a wide variety of integration disappear as they begin locking their customers into the product.
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by cmiles74 8y ago
I think Google is already throwing enough money at Chromium for all of us (Electron runs on top of Chromium AFAICT). In my opinion, Google's expectation is that you run one instance of Chromium per machine. Electron wants to run one pe
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by cmiles74 8y ago
There was an article in The Register a couple weeks ago about a pension fund suing Oracle over their excessive cloud hype, and what sounds like outright threats to punish customers who don't try it out. From the piece: The complaint al
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by cmiles74 8y ago
It's unclear to me if the problem was a lack of vision on the part of HP or if the technology they came up with has fundamental problems that prevent it from being practical. Either one seems plausible.
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by cmiles74 8y ago
This article from Ars Technica talks a little bit about memristors and HP's plans for "The Machine". The original plan was for The Machine to demonstrate this technology, but HP ended up removing feature after feature (includ
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by cmiles74 8y ago
In my opinion, the headline did not intend to reflect the actual number of voters who turned out to vote. Instead, the headline highlights the shocking disparity between the data reported by the voting machines and their supporting software
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by cmiles74 8y ago
For the most part, I think Linux has moved from a thousand cuts to just a hundred or so and those hundred will persist. A Fedora installation covers alot of the hardware out there, but there will always be new machines where support is inco
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by cmiles74 8y ago
Posts to an individual mastodon server get shared across the network, people from other instances can "follow" your account (on your server) and their instance will subscribe to your posts. They can "like" or re-post you
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by cmiles74 8y ago
From the customer standpoint, I think the only real difference is that you could host your own instance and take part in the network yet still "own" your posts. I say "own" pretty loosely since they get broadcast across
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by cmiles74 8y ago
In my experience, the application-on-browser products consume far more CPU and RAM than the application-on-OS products. For me, that's a pretty big deal: I need the laptop to run as long as possible on a charge. Right now, I would comp
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by cmiles74 8y ago
It's been a long time, my memory is less a collection of data and more a hazy soup of anecdotes. I do suspect that Photoshop filters might get some real performance gains out of AltiVec instructions, maybe my boring developer style wor
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by cmiles74 8y ago
Yes, that's the quote that led me to my conclusion. ;-)
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by cmiles74 8y ago
Yes, I believe the majority of software and even parts of the OS ran in emulation. Still, even when they moved a lot of that code native, performance wasn't amazing. Someone else mentioned that the rest of the hardware may have been ho
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by cmiles74 8y ago
I purchased one of the first Macs that ran on a PowerPC processor and I was profoundly disappointed. Performance was no better than a 68040-based Mac and it was pretty crashy. As time went on and software was updated that machine became les
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by cmiles74 8y ago
Sorry, I was really fixated on the bunker idea. I agree that setting up their own little city out in AU or NZ might be a better idea than the bunker. Maybe they can even take over a large section of the land mass. In my opinion, it'll
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by cmiles74 8y ago
I think it's just too brittle. If we look for examples of similar bunkers, there are a couple military sites but nothing (AFAIK) that's been inhabited long term. Their concerns about keeping the guards on their side seems valid, t
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by cmiles74 8y ago
It sounds like you are arguing that manipulating genetics is an easier way to encourage intelligence then education and environment. Is that really what you are trying to say? Because that sounds ridiculous to me.
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by cmiles74 8y ago
AFAIK, there's no scientific basis for this argument, it strikes me as tone deaf and possibly racist or classist. While there is some basis on which to argue that genes may influence intelligence, it is certainly not the easiest or mos
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by cmiles74 8y ago
That's a pretty anti-capitalist attitude: who would buy all of the apps and other consumer durables that would enable companies to keep reaping quarter on quarter growth? It also presumes that climate change is caused by the number of
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by cmiles74 8y ago
I think this is a big part of the problem. That the 1% has become so insanely wealthy that they believe it is less expensive to prepare for the end of the world rather than take on some the cost of preventing it. Their belief that it would
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by cmiles74 8y ago
It drops me at this page, none of these links lead me to a list of repair centers. Clicking on, say, Mac, starts a questionnaire about what is ailing my Mac. https://getsupport.apple.com/?caller=grl&locale=en_US
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by cmiles74 8y ago
Apple really doesn't like repair shops that aren't "Apple Authorized Service Providers". They tried to sue a company in Norway that was sourcing "counterfeit" parts. https://motherboard.vice.com&#x2F
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by cmiles74 8y ago
It's easy to blame Carly Fiorina for HP's decline, she was leading the company during the downturn of the 2000s. That said, I don't think it's entirely fair: that was a tough time all around! Many companies went belly-up
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by cmiles74 8y ago
I worked at HP in the mid nineties and left right when Carly took over. Working at HP was the first real job I ever had (real in that I didn't need other jobs and had health insurance, etc.) The people that I worked with were, for the
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by cmiles74 8y ago
I read that too... I just don't believe it. That seems ridiculous to me. Would they have to hire an army of handymen to do the construction? It looks way too large and involved for that. Does the state really allow construction of some
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by cmiles74 8y ago
I believe that same company also noted that the rafts were leaving the track. That aside, while it's clear the person from the park that led the project was not any kind of engineer, I find it very unlikely that the slide was designed
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by cmiles74 8y ago
Is it really possible that no licensed engineers were involved with the project, and that none of them signed off on anything significant? Based on the article, it sounds like at least one licensed engineer noticed that rafts were leaving t

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