digi_owl

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571.
by digi_owl 9y ago
Well into the 90s i would say.
572.
by digi_owl 9y ago
Sounds like a variant of the age old "think of the children" meme...
573.
by digi_owl 9y ago
There is also ps.reddit.com...
574.
by digi_owl 9y ago
Why i go to i.reddit.com if i do not have a mobile device with an app (preferably Redreader on Android) within reach.
575.
by digi_owl 9y ago
Thats because AMD basically bet the farm on the GPU replacing the FPU for doing floating point math, but never got any real traction for it on the OS level.
576.
by digi_owl 9y ago
Best i understand, open source it charitably seen as a subset of the freedoms fronted by the FSF. If you claim that RMS does open source in his presence, he will sternly correct you.
577.
by digi_owl 9y ago
The source you directly interact with perhaps. Can you say for sure that the code running at the server end is the one in the repo or tarball?
578.
by digi_owl 9y ago
I smell a hype cycle revving up. There are no actual images of the device, nor any videos of it being used. Just a bunch of supposed in use stills and descriptions of how it works.
579.
by digi_owl 9y ago
I wonder if we can gain any insights from experiences with airplane autopilots.
580.
by digi_owl 9y ago
In case others are wondering about the details about the levels: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomous_car#Classification
581.
by digi_owl 9y ago
Yeah, there is nothing technical that stops Linux. It is mental and political/financial.
582.
by digi_owl 9y ago
Seems to me that the dashboard is basically a png that is refreshed ever so often.
583.
by digi_owl 9y ago
Supposedly any driver aid can make drivers more careless...
584.
by digi_owl 9y ago
Yeah my first thought went to some new version of their Time Capsule product.
585.
by digi_owl 9y ago
And Apple is in the forefront of pushing for a integrated "SIM", effectively going back to the CDMA days...
586.
by digi_owl 9y ago
Really surprised it is not using Servo. That said, i really wish Netsurf would polish the SDL variant more as it seems to be more forgiving to get going than trying to get it to agree with GTK...
587.
by digi_owl 9y ago
Yeah i don't see much difference between this and hitting delete on a file in a local file system. The data itself still sits there until the sectors gets reclaimed, but there is no longer a file name or directory entry associated with
588.
by digi_owl 9y ago
Indeed...
589.
by digi_owl 9y ago
Was considering including that one, except that it was based more on the Atari competition to the C64 rather than the ST.
590.
by digi_owl 9y ago
> DOS brethren had nearly constant driver/IRQ/DMA/sound issues Sticking to adlib/soundblaster or compatibles seems to solve those more often than not. The larger problem was getting enough of the 640k area freed up fo
591.
by digi_owl 9y ago
Worked in the sense that he grabbed the credit while sneaking Woz in the back door to do the actual wiring.
592.
by digi_owl 9y ago
Seems all the old guard of the micro era tried to go console in the end: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga_CD32
593.
by digi_owl 9y ago
Heh, i recall claims that hackers where using Amazon's Mechanical Turk service as a means of defeating captchas their botnets encountered.
594.
by digi_owl 9y ago
> I remember being amazed by Prince of Persia's crazy fluid animations when it came out. Rotoscoping for you. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotoscoping Later used in Another World and Flashback to similar effec
595.
by digi_owl 9y ago
More and more i find myself wondering when it was we allowed Google to take over control of the net...
596.
by digi_owl 9y ago
Heh, why make another Mac Pro when they can sell a egpu dongle?
597.
by digi_owl 9y ago
I'm tempted to say it started in the 80s, as corporate raiders ran around. This lead to a shift in focus from continuation of the corporation to a focus on shareholder dividends. Then later the raider mentality turned into the VC menta
598.
by digi_owl 9y ago
> Pretty embarrassed about our current state of leadership skills. In my current organization, we call this syndrome "bring me a rock". Like, I bring a rock, and she says "it's too big, or too brown, or whatever"
599.
by digi_owl 9y ago
Early Linux success vs the morass of "perfection" that is now plaguing its userspace.
600.
by digi_owl 9y ago
Humans (at least most) have a sense of fallibility. Thus when unsure we do not simply go with the best assumption. "AI"s seems to just go with whatever is the "most" likely, even if it is just some 0.0001% above a sea of

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