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by flomo 1y ago
Sure. As a practical matter, 90% of Apple II systems were plugged into a monochrome computer monitor which did 80 column text just fine, and the other ~9% had a fancy color monitor. Nobody* used an Apple II with a TV, except in maybe the ve
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by flomo 1y ago
Yeah, 1990s is more accurate. There was a huge market for COM controls and widget libs and a lot of that Obj-C stuff came with a price tag.
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by flomo 1y ago
You just have awful taste, but so do a lot of my friends. :)
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by flomo 1y ago
I took BART a lot (uhhh) 30 years ago. The trains were very clean and highly policed. I wouldn't even bring a coffee on board, much less smoke crank or whatever. Different era.
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by flomo 1y ago
I'm speaking more to the marketing checklist sense, IBM wants features that the others don't quite have yet. This is luxury branding imo a great degree, customers are paying a lot for a super-premium product, so they need to think
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by flomo 1y ago
Additionally, IBM marketing likes the implication that mainframe CPUs are 'the best'. If you can buy a phone with an AI processor, it only makes sense that your mainframe must have one too. (And IBM will probably charge you to use
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by flomo 1y ago
Well, it's great that you have that understanding. But the internet is full of FOSS types fantasy IANALing based half-forgotten RMS FAQs, even in places where they really should know better. Most of these nerd arguments are pretty much
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by flomo 1y ago
> Do you have source for this? Great, some discord found this a couple days later and wants a google-a-thon. Since I don't know anything about "Europe", I don't care who is "european" enough to qualify for t
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by flomo 1y ago
Absolutely, some people just love vi. Sometimes it fits their mental model, other times someone told them "real programmers use vim/emacs" and so they internalized and studied it. That's why most modern editors still hav
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by flomo 1y ago
That's a great point. On modern systems, there's a false economy where editor stunts are not going make most people a significantly faster programmer. (Although some ppl just like them, e.g thinking they are "more powerful&qu
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by flomo 2y ago
The Atari 2600 had a certain type of "adventure game", which was basically walk-around until you found this blob of pixels (see manual). "Adventure" was famous, and "Superman" (also a Warner movie franchise) di
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by flomo 2y ago
Warner Atari had left an enormous amount inventory behind. (Beyond what they infamously put into a landfill.) They also had screwed-over the major chain stores, who wouldn't touch anything Atari. Tramiel was cash poor and resurrected
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by flomo 2y ago
Once I was returning something at the Palo Alto Fry's and the couple ahead of me had a laptop where someone had removed the battery and replaced it with a sandwich. Only at Fry's.
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by flomo 2y ago
My impression is 'the point' is more that NetBSD is a hobby OS which is easier to port to old hardware (so volunteers welcome). Newer commercial boards all run Linux.
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by flomo 2y ago
Yeah, "mobility opportunities". I recognize the issues, and the lack of easy answers, so I think I'm only "touchy" about is simplistic solutions. European car commuter rates are almost identical to USA's. But I
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by flomo 2y ago
Yeah, some local billionaires want to build "San Francisco by the Sacramento Delta", and it's been nothing but NIMBY opposition. My guess it will be McMansions in 20 years instead. Politically, we can't even build one hi
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by flomo 2y ago
Not getting into some back-n-forth when I agree with much of this, and doing what I can locally. > Again, literally nobody is arguing that! You have constructed a complete straw man of urbanist. I actually made my post to head the scarec
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by flomo 2y ago
Yep, San Francisco's BRT line has been a huge success (despite being typically way late and over-budget). And actually SF has had 'proto-BRT' for a long time, but IMO they still need more subways. Bodega does have a growth bo
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by flomo 2y ago
Classic ran as suid root and was a big huge security hole on a multiuser OS. (which is probably why they got rid of it as soon as they could.) There are some more contained emulators of course.
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by flomo 2y ago
A bus is the least radical thing IMO, but yeah it took too long in most of USA to get some mass transit better than streetcars.
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by flomo 2y ago
Genuinely curious, do you have a good article about Bogota? Because your entire demeanor is acting like you have some "gotcha", without advocating for anything concrete. For example, from my brief perusal of Google Maps, it looks
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by flomo 2y ago
It's funny, seems like people had me pegged as some Suburb Guy, when that couldn't be further from the truth. (I have mostly walked the talk, which is more than I can say of some of the former Bike Guys I have known.) Anyway, I co
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by flomo 2y ago
I've heard the same thing, because there's a lot of jobs out in suburban industrial parks and etc. (Some local transit agencies have tried to solve this, but the situation still isn't good.)
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by flomo 2y ago
True, I'm an old urbanite/suburb-hater. But because of ppl like me, I don't think there's any place left in the USA which has 'good' transit and isn't expensive. (And solutions like congestion tolls only w
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by flomo 2y ago
Yes, I like trains and wish we had better transit. I'm responding to the claim streetcars were "torn up for cars", which was not really the case (and frequently subject to a conspiracy theory).
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by flomo 2y ago
I'm not unsympathetic, but I don't think a "European who studied at OSU for a semester" really knows what they are talking about.
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by flomo 2y ago
You are putting a lot of pointless words in my mouth. As I said, I have actually lived the San Francisco car-free bike and streetcar lifestyle, and quite enjoyed it. So I have the perspective of why it does or does not work (for Americans).
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by flomo 2y ago
Correct, it was a terrible situation despite the lack of cars.
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by flomo 2y ago
Criticism accepted, I am not trying to generalize everyone. I am an urban dweller from back in the days when that was the cheap (and less desirable) way to live. So I obviously wish we had much better transit and more affordable housing, an
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by flomo 2y ago
As I said in another post, train tracks don't last forever and are expensive to replace. And trains really only benefit from dedicated ROW, a streetcar is worse than a bus in many respects. (Except appeal.) People back in the 1950s wer

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