digi_owl

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by digi_owl 8y ago
Welcome to modern internet "discourse"...
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by digi_owl 8y ago
Seems that English society learned quite a bit from those two wars (at a steep price though). Sadly it seems those lessons are fading as the generations leave.
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by digi_owl 8y ago
The distribution comes naturally when the majority has to live off the land.
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by digi_owl 8y ago
"On the internet nobody can hear you being subtle." https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Linus_Torvalds
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by digi_owl 8y ago
Reading it fully and it seems to line up with Torvalds attitudes towards things like userspace facing API stability. Standards are standards, reality is reality, and when the two conflict the only way to maintain long term sanity is for the
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by digi_owl 8y ago
As can be readily observed with the MS v Netscape battle over web tech (while called a browser war, my impression is that the browser was a proxy for getting a foothold in the server market). Never mind that MS had pulled something similar
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by digi_owl 8y ago
The sad part is that Android could have been a tool, and the first gen of tablets were just that to many, but then Google fumbled, badly. The major fumble was that they restructured the storage permissions, making it that much harder to wri
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by digi_owl 8y ago
Funny thing is that the early days of Android tablets were just like that. Hell, Android was poised to get into the 2-in-1 market as well. But then two things happened. First Google expanded the Android Marketplace (later rechristened Googl
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by digi_owl 8y ago
Likely a lack of physical IO. These things have a single micro-USB port, and it will be dedicated to charging more often than not. an RPi by comparison have ethernet, multiple A style USB ports, and dedicated video out (never mind the pin a
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by digi_owl 8y ago
I remember those smart displays. As i recall, they didn't go anywhere because MS could not get their licensing scheme to work with it. Because their Windows Home license assumed one active user pr PC, but people assumed that with the s
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by digi_owl 8y ago
And anything like PCI lookup on ARM. Damn it, MS balked at offering Windows on power efficient Atoms. This because Intel had stripped PCI from the SoC to save transistors and thus power. I suspect that if you were to poke at the ARM chips f
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by digi_owl 8y ago
Keep in mind that Fragments happened while Rubin was still nominally in control of Android. Once the civil war between him and Pichai had a clear winner (after all, for a while both ChromeOS and Android were poised to push into the same mar
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by digi_owl 8y ago
Glanced at a TV the other day, and found a program showing off a large sized electric "kickbike". It had the tires of a bicycle, but was operated like one of these scooters. Even seemed to use much the same drive train etc of an e
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by digi_owl 8y ago
Similarly, the sunday matinee at the cinema was basically a family outing, complete with packed lunch, at one time.
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by digi_owl 8y ago
Not sure if that trick works any more in recent updates.
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by digi_owl 8y ago
What is going on as of late, and it is led by Gnome/freedesktop/RH devs, to split fully working software into two parts. A UI frontend, and a deamon backend. And between them sit dbus and polkit, so that someone, somewhere, may wr
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by digi_owl 8y ago
Those really in the know seems to upgrade to a variant that allows them to go into group policy and curb stomp the auto-update. Others achieve the same via registry modifications...
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by digi_owl 8y ago
I seem to recall that Deep Space 9 touched in this in various ways during its run. Keep in mind that it was the first series that was fully made without Roddenberry input.
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by digi_owl 8y ago
I must admit, what drew me to computing back in the day was the low level networking stuff.
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by digi_owl 8y ago
And here i thought the systemd people were touchy...
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by digi_owl 8y ago
Not just logs. Recent Opera versions have taken to replacing error messages in browser, with cutesy animated spaceships and whatsnot. A error message i can live with, an uninformative cartoon just drives me furious while trying to figure ou
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by digi_owl 8y ago
> Sadly, most people who build new ones seem to ignore the lessons from earlier projects. This applies to FOSS in general, and then some...
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by digi_owl 8y ago
I seems to recall a story where a couple of people were denied entry after reaching a US airport because they had tweeted a joke that got misunderstood.
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by digi_owl 8y ago
> and how different the interaction could have been if their assumptions had been less favorable. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Watts_%28author%29 "In December 2009, Watts was detained at the US/Cana
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by digi_owl 8y ago
Reads to me like they used voxels for the grunt work and then painted the result on some otherwise unimpressive polygons at the end (aka voxels plus as they put it themselves).
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by digi_owl 8y ago
I think an even bigger issue was the internal incompatibilities between 68000 variants, while Intel kept on maintaining compatibility all the way to the present day.
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by digi_owl 8y ago
http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?st=1&c=1168 I think my dad still have it in the basement, but i recall he never got much out of it.
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by digi_owl 8y ago
I recall some glorious LAN sessions in the various Delta Force games. Only shooters where to snipe you actually had to account for bullet drop because of the distances involved.
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by digi_owl 8y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blade_Runner_%281997_video_gam... Seems that the people that developed the game considers it voxel based.
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by digi_owl 8y ago
Much of that has with miniaturization. Those massive tapes had downright abysmal storage capacities by today's standards. And binkenlights vanished when ICs could switch so fast that the human eye would just see a steady light (much li

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