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by flomo 3y ago
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by flomo 3y ago
Yeah, the original rationale is kinda perversely interesting: > my main use case and major motivation was that I had several hundred different versions of Perl okay... The question is if you want to trust a github filesystem or just spe
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by flomo 3y ago
Also in San Francisco. https://www.sfgate.com/local/article/San-Francisco-historic-...
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by flomo 3y ago
Yeah, I'm a 'roadgeek' and I thought many of the highway pages were overly verbose trivia. Long route descriptions clearly just taken from a map, random citations about ditch work in 2014 etc. Very little history or substance
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by flomo 3y ago
That's correct, the premise of the show was more Monty Hall doing something to challenge the contestant. That's probably why people missed the problem's premise where he always opens a goat door.
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by flomo 3y ago
In reality, Monty Hall often did not behave in the way the problem describes, that might be the source of confusion surrounding this. (e.g. sometimes he would reveal a prize and imply there might be a better prize behind one of the doors. s
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by flomo 3y ago
Correct, the NT kernel etc has nothing to do with OS/2. But they raided OS/2 for parts: LAN Manager was ported over ("Windows networking"), OS/2 1.3 personality, I think NTFS may have been based on HPFS, etc.
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by flomo 3y ago
Was it OS/2 2.0? If so, rare. But MS OS/2 1.3 LAN Manger was pretty widely distributed.
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by flomo 3y ago
Apologies for lack of background info leading to confusion. Microsoft and IBM had a joint development agreement for many years. When they "divorced" in 1992, they both retained rights to DOS 5, Windows 3.0, and OS/2 2.0. Micr
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by flomo 3y ago
There used to be a guy around here who had an incredible fixation on this. I tend to believe him that Microsoft OS/2 2.0 probably did ship to some limited extent through OEMs. However, MS and IBM were already getting "divorced&quo
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by flomo 3y ago
Everyone is missing "but now held at the Las Vegas Convention Center (LVCC) with workshops and training at the Sahara" part. So this more like they got passed to a different venue. Not "vegas hates them".
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by flomo 3y ago
This is the first time I've seen the NetBSD announcement. "Escape from the political wars" is an interesting bit because it sounded like 386BSD completely devolved into a flamewar, and this confirms that it was more political
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by flomo 3y ago
Meanwhile, there was a market for high-end PC games. If you bought a better PC, you could show it off. That was important to the type of person who owned an Amiga (they always wanted to show you).
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by flomo 3y ago
I remember someone saying "There was no market for 'Amiga games', there was a market for Amiga 500 games." If you look at it that way, it had a nice long run as a game machine, while failing in most other segments.
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by flomo 3y ago
It was such a gigantic and obvious screwjob twenty years ago, when we were young and sorta optimistic. God bless the tree that Sonny Bono ran into. The cartoon had very limited distribution on film, I saw it at a university showing. Disney
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by flomo 3y ago
That doesn't seem hard, people like your father can be allow-listed, he's not signing-up out of the blue. (I'm wondering if this "works" because the early adopters were hackintosh types who were already on imessage
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by flomo 3y ago
There's a legend that General Motors tried direct sales way back when (when they had >50% of the market), and lost their shirts in the process. Traditionally, the domestic manufacturers would push as much product as they could onto
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by flomo 3y ago
Yeah, I would also generally agree. But what they are showing is the 'Basecamp workflow', where instead of monopolizing a meeting or posting walls of text on slack or sending an email, you surface the issues on the project managem
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by flomo 3y ago
You get it, "record macro" is the key to this. MS could switch them to C# or JS or python or whatever, if they just added a button which did that.
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by flomo 3y ago
You can fly from LA to SF in 30 minutes. Even with all the airport security theater, CAHSR's hundreds of planned tunnels will not be competitive for business travelers. The premise is more about people wanting to go to Fresno.
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by flomo 3y ago
Or just flying is cheap and easy so we don't have a masochistic fixation on choo-choos. There's only a couple places in America where trains even work in theory , and yeah they should have better ones.
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by flomo 3y ago
That's what I mean by foamer logic, most of that American passenger rail stuff went defunct a hundred years ago. Fresno has 20mph vegetable trains and now a 20 mile long HSR viaduct to "revitalize" (blight) their pathetic dow
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by flomo 3y ago
Yeah, that was the original sin of the CAHSR project. They drew some lines on surface freight rail lines and said "we'll build it here". But they actually cannot build it "there", they have to build it over or under
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by flomo 3y ago
> Consider San Francisco to Los Angeles, for example. That’s about 9 million people a year who fly? It’s only 400 miles. California has already done a lot of the engineering analysis for this one. They need to build like a hundered tunne
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by flomo 3y ago
Thanks! I had no idea it was out there. (Although it looks like it's not very 'visual'.)
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by flomo 3y ago
No, not at all, the folklore story doesn't even address Apple's strategy. Their developer relations were "Apply Here" back then. Macintosh shipped with zero developer tooling, not C/C++, not Pascal, not BASIC. And,
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by flomo 3y ago
> Can we go back in time and hit the designers of IPv6 upside the head? Okay we are back in 1992 and are wearing a mullet. 'The Internet' is still a relatively small number of mostly university and government sites, and is bare
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by flomo 3y ago
Not disagreeing with your point about MS, but it's not a conspiracy theory that Macintosh dev tools were nonexistent. Apple's solution was "buy a Lisa". (well, maybe they considered this a 3rd party opportunity.) No indi
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by flomo 3y ago
We used to buy it because it came in a huge can which you could bring into places. It is widely available in San Francisco at least.
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by flomo 3y ago
This sort of confusing 'anti-pentagon' license goes back to way back when, and was supposedly one of the reasons RMS established "Freedom Zero" to run the software "for any purpose". But yeah, high energy physi

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