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by flomo 7mo ago
There certainly is a paranoid style in Linux politics (where "they" are out to get you.)
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by flomo 7mo ago
The goal is to produce a stable workstation OS, because that's who pays the bills. That means Linux 'enthusiasts' who want the latest and greatest stuff have signed themselves up to be eternal betatesters. That part will neve
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by flomo 7mo ago
Irrelevant nerd myopia. They mostly just paid someone to do it (until they decided "wordpress guy" was not worth the marketing budget). If anything DYI is easier than ever.
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by flomo 7mo ago
Before OpenTDD was ready, the improved signals and etc were originally part of "TTDPatch", which made the original 'model railroad' much more fun. So I stuck with that for a long time. They should at least ship the patch
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by flomo 7mo ago
Because they can. There's no real commercial motivation for these HN bots either.
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by flomo 7mo ago
> legendary Digg slip up I wasn't a digg user, but this was done to combat 'voting rings' (bots), and the reddit migration was memed partially because it was/is far more open to manipulation. So at least their princip
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by flomo 7mo ago
IMO this is inevitable. HN is freaking about about the end of the anonymous internet, but it's already over and we're just figuring it out. Eventually the bots will find their 90s cyberpunk cosplay IRC channel too.
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by flomo 7mo ago
"The cathedral" was originally GNU and GCC. (raymond's site is super slow.)
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by flomo 7mo ago
Or usecase: developer X stopped using Maps/etc N years ago, and is long gone, and then developer Y stumbles into the company's google api console. Of course, Google is full of smart anti-fraud experts, they just handle 80% of this
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by flomo 8mo ago
Wired Magazine famously agreed with you. Usenet was where it was at then. Internet commercialization wasn't really on until 1994. Then anyone could get dial-up IP, they could put ads on their webpages, and etc.
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by flomo 8mo ago
A lot of this discussion actually more about "use baremetal" or "put servers in your closet". HN tells Americans to do the same thing (and hire them to do it).
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by flomo 8mo ago
Good take. Even back in the 1990s, OpenStep was thought to be the best way to develop a Windows app. But NeXT charged per-seat licenses, so it didn't get much use outside of Wall Street or other places where Jobs would personally sho
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by flomo 8mo ago
IBM = heathen technology. The entire point is fetishization of not that.
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by flomo 8mo ago
If any end users actually cared about terminal/TUI apps, there would be modern APIs for whatever they want. Since this is really just a legacy system operator monk / retrocool interface, they spend years debating ancient DEC theol
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by flomo 8mo ago
Funny, I had a job where everyone called it "N-Jinx", so I said that at another job and everyone looked at me like an idiot.
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by flomo 8mo ago
Assume is just step 1 in the scam funnel, the payoff is really a later targeted conjob.
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by flomo 8mo ago
Entirely intentional because they want to filter out anyone who can see how scammy it looks, so they don't waste their time. This is bulk spam stuff. If they are actually targeting you, it will look very real.
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by flomo 8mo ago
Thanks for clarifying. Super smart approach to adopting legacy code to a modern interface. Maybe I missed it, but are you still using the Powerbasic compiler or have you worked around that somehow?
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by flomo 8mo ago
I'm with you. The thing is Windows 98 let you throw up a HTML window with almost zero overhead (the OS used the same libraries) and javascript could get data easily from another process via COM etc. Now like 25 years later, apparently
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by flomo 8mo ago
Apparently PowerBasic was the successor to Borland TurboBasic and complied to a native executable. So this wasn't an interpreted 'line number' Basic like our kiddie computers. It also probably had the Borland Windows GUI stuf
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by flomo 8mo ago
Big Assumptions on your part. Do you think 'grandparents' also don't use iphones and androids? If anything more people are more familiar with this interface than Windows/Mac WIMP. Anyway, their Windows laptop got all sor
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by flomo 8mo ago
I will just say the Streets of San Francisco were almost all built by civil engineering principles, even those from the 19th century. If you want some sim SF or NYC, this guy is on the right track by not having fakey roads.
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by flomo 8mo ago
Thanks for reminding us computers have been around for a long time, and even some of those 'great-grandparents' were the experts in their day I'm speaking more about more about my family and my desire not do sysadmin work.
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by flomo 8mo ago
Yeah, remember the primary disk controller was set in the registry. (And on an SMP system probably some specific SCSI.) You could fix that, but easier to reinstall. Of all the things to bitch about, this one seems strained.
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by flomo 8mo ago
With NT4, I'm pretty sure both HALs were on the CD-ROM (unless you had an exotic system with a custom HAL, which came with its own install media). Keep in mind your use case is approximately nobody, you either had a SMP system or you
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by flomo 8mo ago
As I said in another post, yes. I also don't fix ppls computers "for fun".
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by flomo 8mo ago
Late reply, but > VMS, which is not remotely UNIX-like OpenVMS was UNIX-certified, so it's like UNIX enough to have the trademark. Of course the UNIX stuff ran on top of the VMS stuff, and the early 1990s X11 stuff run on top of tha
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by flomo 8mo ago
You are the sysadmin for that machine. Just wait until an update borks or something. Maybe you are a hobbyist who likes fixing computers for free, so fine. I have done zero technical support for my parent's ipads for like 15 years now.
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by flomo 8mo ago
Really? I'm pretty sure all the GreetingCardPro-type stuff is available on iPads, and its a better device for banking/investment stuff (because GreetingCardPro can't fuck with it). I was thinking more like QuickBooks or a cus
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by flomo 8mo ago
Ancient history, but worked at a financial firm which ran Windows for Workgroups with the DLC protocol (so it wasn't eating the 640KB) over token ring, and some quite expensive do-it-all terminal software. Some of the old heads still h

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