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541.
by hakfoo 3y ago
At this point, arguing about democracy feels like the political equivalent of saying "I went to Paris, and spent the whole time moaning that I couldn't get Del Taco." I guess it doesn't matter if a country is raising it
542.
by hakfoo 3y ago
What I prefer about cash is that it enforces a different attitude towards money. If you have a pile of notes or coins and watch them diminish, it definitely changes your attitude towards spending versus "present a card, and at the end
543.
by hakfoo 3y ago
I'm confused as to what a "cashless card-based transaction" would be. I'm wondering if they meant 'contactless'. That would fit with the other concept. As long as the infrastructure is up, they may prefer con
544.
by hakfoo 3y ago
ISTR seeing they did 4U with 120mm instead of dual 80 too. That always looked compelling, because I figured a 4U rackmount would make a neat desktop-style case, but I could never justify the price.
545.
by hakfoo 3y ago
For years, I've been wondering when the data bubble was going to burst. The whole "we'll make a TV with a $700 BOM and sell it for $600 because the viewing data is so valuable " situation. The "we'll burn val
546.
by hakfoo 3y ago
They were always in the list of "you want something that's workstation/server reliable, but you don't want to deal with an OEM who's going to sell you a propriatery case/PSU/motherboard. ISTR Tyan being i
547.
by hakfoo 3y ago
The right answer is media savvy. We need to be raising our kids to have an appropriate amount of distrust of all media, to understand where it's coming from, who backs it, and what their motivations are. Then they can consume it respo
548.
by hakfoo 3y ago
I'm curious what message investor/startup types take out of this. I bought some Baidu shares (like $500 worth) many years ago and I never heard the end of it from people saying "don't invest in the PRC, they'll nati
549.
by hakfoo 3y ago
By that comparison, I wouldn't count gold out. Its physical durability is established. You'll have no problems dealing with a 150-year-old coin, but I could see even things like "paper key/secret" storage falling a
550.
by hakfoo 3y ago
I guess the other side of the coin is, right now, what is the killer client app for Wayland? If I have an X11 desktop that works for me, why should I bother launching a new compositor plus XWayland, or looking for native replacements for m
551.
by hakfoo 3y ago
I thought Brazil was famous for their trade barriers on electronics. ISTR that was the reason that some platforms (i. e. the Sega Genesis) had absurd longevity there-- there was a local license-built version at a reasonable price, and if y
552.
by hakfoo 3y ago
Could it be attacked as "the checksum is the value necessary to get the sum of the remaining bytes to (modulo) 00? I know that's how the option ROM checksums on PC BIOSes work.
553.
by hakfoo 3y ago
You can actually load MS-DOS and PC-DOS high on an XT, if you have a memory card that populates UMBs, but you need DOSMAX and a utility like USE!UMBS. It doesn't seem to work with FreeDOS though. I've been able to get like 605k
554.
by hakfoo 3y ago
FreeDOS tends to be surprisingly heavy compared to "era-appropriate" DOS revisions. I have an 8MHz 186-class hobby machine, and PC DOS 2000 is lighter and some of its utilities are snappier than FreeDOS's. I suspect on a 386
555.
by hakfoo 3y ago
I second the "crowdfund a particular circuit" process. There are plenty of projects where a new PCB for an old device would be desirable: * The vintage computers prone to capacitor/battery damage. There are a few Mac replace
556.
by hakfoo 3y ago
They may not consciously confirm it, but I suspect someone figured out "learned helplessness is good for business." New users can be steered through every dark-pattern install process, and upsold into every service since they don&
557.
by hakfoo 3y ago
We don't even need to get into "desperation" arguments. I support their efforts to copy and extend 100%. Western states deserve to have their asses handed to them on this. This was a double-whammy of stupid assumptions: th
558.
by hakfoo 3y ago
A actual state-run system has at least some legal accountability. When a politician gets a loan denied due to bogus data, I'm sure heads would fly. It's probably also subject to whatever their equivalent to FOIA and whistleblowin
559.
by hakfoo 3y ago
What would be neat would be a way to consume a motherboard's validation list and cross-filter with that.
560.
by hakfoo 3y ago
A Wikipedia style "disambiguator" might help. If Google silos queries into different top-level categories (i. e. research vs commerce) being able to clearly pick one of them, even if once you see the first results, solves the prob
561.
by hakfoo 3y ago
I find eBay's optimizations have made it somewhat toxic. Once you get to a product page, any further navigation of the form "similar/related products" is sponsored listings only these days. They've narrowed a catalo
562.
by hakfoo 3y ago
The underlying conceit is that a marketplace-oriented model is the only, or even the right, way to encourage creative work. A significant amount of the spend on creative works goes to overhead pretty much only enabled by copyright. No copy
563.
by hakfoo 3y ago
I wonder if there was also some business sabotage in effect. It would have been extremely tempting for Intel to pressure motherboard manufacturers with some subtle messages like "Nice AMD750 board, too bad we don't have any more 4
564.
by hakfoo 3y ago
ULi got subsumed by nVidia shortly after PCI-Express became the norm. They made a chipset which offered a fairly compatible AGP-like slot alongside PCI-e, and one with two full x16 slots when this otherwise required a very expensive nForce
565.
by hakfoo 3y ago
It amazes me that the bean-counters are on board with this sort of silliness. The woo-woo test services aren't free, and I wouldn't be surprised if they have to throw a few extra bucks into the legal coffers if they backfire and
566.
by hakfoo 3y ago
I wonder if the idea was bad, or just that the PCI+VLB boards tended to be last dregs of the 486 market, where the selling point was "The system integrator can clear out his cabinets of rapidly obsolescing VLB cards" or "the
567.
by hakfoo 3y ago
We already have a fair amount of that infrastructure: * Land ownership is generally public record, or at least orchestrated at local government levels for property tax assessment, school enrollment eligiblity, and other similar local servic
568.
by hakfoo 3y ago
I blame a lot of it on the mass adoption of stock-based investment and retirement plans. With defined-benefit pensions and even traditional bond-based investments, the narrative is "The company has an obligation to me for very specific
569.
by hakfoo 3y ago
You're making it too complex. Enforce owner-occupancy aggressively. You can own two housing units untaxed, as long as you can produce evidence you spent at least 30 days a year in each of them. This doesn't disrupt non-speculato
570.
by hakfoo 3y ago
I think the problem is more that-- assuming a comparable price-- they're probably going to skimp out on the "lower level" stuff in a kit with an Arduino. If you have a perfect timer, you don't need to showcase basic res

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