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by flomo 1y ago
I don't know, but I see early posts which look like AI bot summaries (presumably to collect karma). Probably not necessary for a link.
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by flomo 1y ago
Yep, that one time when all those supposed GNU/FOSS types suddenly fell in love with software patents. Who could forget...
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by flomo 1y ago
The context there was Compaq sold some of the highest-end PC systems, they were into 386/486, servers, UNIX, SMP, rackmount, RAID, etc, "IBM wouldn't sell you this stuff". So, reading between the lines there, Compaq ran
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by flomo 1y ago
Hindsight view. At the time Microsoft was the "open" little guy fighting the big evil monopolist IBM. The MS monopoly wasn't so total, and Linux servers spread everywhere. Extremely unlikely that would have happened had Micro
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by flomo 1y ago
You are right that your javascript bundle will probably run forever as-is. However, three years later your toolchain will be totally broken and now you are in NPM Hell trying to fix it. Ten years later, good luck. (S3 better example than Dr
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by flomo 1y ago
Not being a python dev, there must have been some huge superficial 'ick'. Back when, I was talking to a python guy and mentioned that Python 3 was coming out. He said something like "we're just going to ignore that until
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by flomo 1y ago
At some point, Google search was so good that you didn't really need the operators, like you weren't just prodding some primitive AltaVista to give the results. So I think "almost nobody used that" came long before the e
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by flomo 1y ago
Without going into the weeds, there has be some vendor support, and that vendor is obviously not google. How to convince people: Get it into RHEL.
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by flomo 1y ago
Sure they would, if it would make them a buck. Lenovo for example already has separate models for pro ThinkPads with 'certified' Linux support versus the consumer line. Dell too. PC vendors already have 9000 SKUs, what's a fe
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by flomo 1y ago
Right, the classic google search results are still there. But even before the AI Overview, Google's 'en' plan has been to put as many internal links at the top of the page as possible. I just tried this and you have to scroll
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by flomo 1y ago
Maybe this isn't a great take, but RedHat/LKF/etc could obviously run a 'semi-competent' PKI, and probably should be. But doing so would allow PC vendors to cleanly segment machines between Windows and Linux (+$$),
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by flomo 1y ago
I initially skipped this one because the title is flamebait (flamebait or more flamebait or...). Anyway, may the force be with you.
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by flomo 1y ago
Really none of that is improving the ICE.
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by flomo 1y ago
That's the part missing from TFA, there were thousands of auto 'startups', but only a handful survived the depression.
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by flomo 1y ago
Here's the thing. A 68 Mustang had no almost emissions controls. A 78 Thunderbird was almost the exact same stuff, except it was choked to shit. A modern computer-controlled Camry is not only way better performing, it also orders of ma
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by flomo 1y ago
I'd guess it was always a malaise-era smogdog, the same engine from a decade later was much better.
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by flomo 1y ago
It's the missing middle. A manager can just expense $25/mo, while $2000 requires an approval process, which requires outside sales, which means it really costs at least $20,000.
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by flomo 1y ago
I'm not upvoting due to your aggro tone & capslock, if that helps.
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by flomo 1y ago
> Gordon Moore always emphasized that his “law” was fundamentally rooted in economics, not physics. Effectively, it was always more of a "marketing law" than an engineering one. Semiconductor chips only had 18-36 months to reap
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by flomo 1y ago
Specifically, this is why Internet Explorer had "JScript". Microsoft did bad things to Java and lost their trademark license.
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by flomo 1y ago
Early Mac games did have disk-based copy protection, and yes there was a cracking scene. A lot of these games did not run on later Macs, so this was largely forgotten.
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by flomo 1y ago
Perhaps you are imagining some free software bong(o drum) circle? The big point is this is a critical component for Apple and Google (and maybe Microsoft), and nobody is paying any attention to it.
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by flomo 1y ago
Recall similar things were said about OpenSSL, and it was effective at getting corps to start funding the project.
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by flomo 1y ago
You have a great point, but discussing 'Linux' misses the forest for the trees. American vendors had solutions, European vendors did not. Because you are correct and Europeans don't really value software. ('Linux distros
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by flomo 1y ago
Yeah sure, the 'right' way was checkboxes in an iframe. Just that the weblords care alot more about adding syntax to javascript than whatever multi-select-searchable-accessible-box you might want. The form stuff still mostly sucks
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by flomo 1y ago
Just some blatantly obvious examples: Select Multiple was some Windows 3 garbage, and HTML didn't have a 'combobox', much less a 'multi-combobox'. (MDN says datalist is not supported on Firefox, so maybe it still do
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by flomo 1y ago
Probably because there was some reward that you felt at the time was important (most likely playing a DOS game). I did this for a living at a large corp where I was the 'thinkpad guy', and I barely remember any of the tricks (and
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by flomo 1y ago
> After we fought very hard for it. Interesting. I don't think there even was a 'keyboard replacement', because it was glued onto the mainboard. In any case, I just went into show them the sticky keyboard and got 50% of a
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by flomo 1y ago
As a former Model M user (and many thinkpads), it's called 'touch typing' and you have to adjust. Nobody is selling a 'brick' laptop in current year.
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by flomo 1y ago
The 2016 to? keyboard was actually defective. (But Apple had a great silent warranty on it, which is what you really are paying for.) But I actually really liked the feel otherwise.

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