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by gjvc 5d ago
that would have required them to swallow their pride, and admit GNU tools were in demand, which didn't fit the marketing narrative.
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by gjvc 5d ago
I'm willing to bet they couldn't have done that because of the mind-boggling array of 1990s UNIX standards Solaris seemed to support. By the mid 1990s it was clear that the (platform-independent) GNU command line tools were gener
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BeOS-R5-Icons(github.com)
12 points by gjvc 6d ago|0 comments
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by gjvc 7d ago
look up allegory
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by gjvc 7d ago
it's a shit website with awful fonts, certainly
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by gjvc 8d ago
because people like you are too busy whining about it to put up something more interesting
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by gjvc 16d ago
watch apple launches from 1997 onwards
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by gjvc 16d ago
usual consultant guff from McKinsey. repo at https://github.com/mckinsey/quantumblack-design-system
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by gjvc 17d ago
usual disingeous HN response. Nobody except you is talking about history. Today, the obvious communist societies are China and North Korea, with Vietnam, Laos, and Cuba perhaps the lesser-known of the bunch.
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by gjvc 17d ago
Dunno why this is being downvoted. Animal Farm is a commentary / allegory on communism. Teaching it to young minds who have not experienced the difference between the realities of communism and the rest is a vanity at best.
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by gjvc 20d ago
would actually decrease their income per device, but they would still make money on the device. or are you saying apple devices are loss-leader prior the app store revenue ? that's the model taken to the extreme
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by gjvc 20d ago
"implies"
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by gjvc 20d ago
> Given that this is HN, and a non-trivial number of us have ADHD, creativity is positively correlated with ADHD. big pharma must LOVE people like you parroting the ADHD bullshit all the time
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by gjvc 20d ago
you make it sound customer-hostile
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by gjvc 25d ago
> Maybe it's possible that a form factor is largely correct for its use case after a while? very much so -- same for UI components, which they keep changing for no good reason except to feel "fresh and new"
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by gjvc 25d ago
sounds like you are envious of their productivity. define "suspicious"
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by gjvc 27d ago
watch the whole video from the beginning! :-)
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by gjvc 27d ago
the size of the prepended data would rarely be an exact number of blocks such that it became purely a metadata update (see also: inode small file optimisation), and thus you would have a small "hole" in the file between the new da
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by gjvc 27d ago
"Omit needless words." -- William Strunk Jr. and E.B. White., The Elements of Style
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by gjvc 28d ago
once again, I get to cite the IBM AS/400 CallPath system demonstrated here https://youtu.be/5pY6Xxptp9A?t=2083 which almost brought a tear to at least one viewer's eye
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by gjvc 28d ago
3.x really
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by gjvc 29d ago
Spin up a Windows 3.11 and later instance to try this out.
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by gjvc 1mo ago
dunno why this is being downvoted (check back in six months)
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by gjvc 1mo ago
models being pulled in 3... 2... 1...
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5BSD – Private Compute with Verifiable Integrity(5bsd.org)
1 points by gjvc 1mo ago|0 comments
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by gjvc 1mo ago
reminder of them coming soon!
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Floci – Local Cloud Emulators(floci.io)
2 points by gjvc 1mo ago|0 comments
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by gjvc 1mo ago
SQLite is >< close to becoming the lingua franca for all next-generation ideas
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by gjvc 1mo ago
> (For those unfamiliar with Emacs versioning, 31.1 is what would be called 31.0 in a more typical versioning scheme) this is the same as GCC
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by gjvc 1mo ago
why do you care?

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