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by hapless 6y ago
Hawking’s original voice synth was the default sound of the DECtalk hardware speech synth. It would not surprise me if SGI’s software implementation were similar to the he most popular hardware of the 1980s.
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by hapless 7y ago
The best parts of CDE were Motif and ToolTalk. This ... thing omits both. This is a CDE skin for FVWM. Nothing important from CDE is included. None of the technology ideas. Just a cute window manager.
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by hapless 7y ago
This article subverts its own thesis. The $435 hammer was an “accounting artifact,” but the government is routinely fleeced and the DoD in particular is unable to accomplish basic accounting tasks. My favorite paragraph: > Conversely, s
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by hapless 7y ago
Last I checked, ships are still built from steel, just as they have been for a century. Also the ffg/x “competitive” “bidding” process is a joke. They are paying five vendors to make PowerPoint presentations, then whoever made the pre
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by hapless 7y ago
In reality BIW gets to double dip — they charge for R&D and also postpone the “D” part until after the ship is built, at which point the Navy will pay again to fix problems that should never have made it out of the yard. Why do anything
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by hapless 7y ago
Just think, this was a “successful” project. If you think this sounds like a boondoggle, look at the F-35, the Littoral Combat Ship, the Zumwalt class, or the Gerald E. Ford. The disaster described in this essay is the proverbial good ol
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by hapless 7y ago
Cool, decentralized lawbreaking as a business. This is better than a centralized criminal syndicate because ????
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by hapless 7y ago
That’s simply not true. Manhattan is home to 1.8 million people, several hundred thousand of whom are children. 18% of Manhattan’s population is under age 18, compared to 24% nationwide. Fewer families than a suburban area, sure, but still
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by hapless 7y ago
REAL ID is the exact kind of thing Americans used to mock in the Soviet Union. “Papers, please”
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by hapless 7y ago
This isn’t a REAL ID matter. REAL ID is orthogonal. NYS is refusing access to their “normal” non-REAL ID databases, and it bothers someone in the executive branch. Notably, for Global Entry, you already need a passport - which supersedes t
221.
by hapless 7y ago
They won’t, though. Sooner or later the DHS will be forced to back off, because NYS residents draw more water in Washington than Trump cronies do in Albany. This is grandstanding and little more.
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by hapless 7y ago
Right. In New York, unlike most states, REAL ID is both optional, and not offered unless you go out of your way to get it. You can still get a "normal" driver's license without any rigmarole. And that's fine with me.
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by hapless 7y ago
The state has pressing police interests in maintaining public order. Licensing illegal immigrants significantly reduces the number of unlicensed and uninsured rivers on the road. Helping ICE with extremely selective, often violent, enforce
224.
by hapless 7y ago
The real story here is that this is a punishment for NYS issuing driver's licenses to illegal immigrants. The Trump administration is angry that undocumented persons might have driver's licenses, and yet, that info might not be p
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by hapless 7y ago
New York State doesn’t do REAL ID unless you want a combined license/passport document for travel to Canada.
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by hapless 7y ago
Linux and MacOS are each about 1% of the market, yet this product supports MacOS and excludes Linux. That doesn’t seem like a wise choice. Ordinarily no product needs to target 1% platforms, but this product specifically seems like its earl
227.
by hapless 7y ago
You can’t boot off of it.
228.
by hapless 7y ago
I mean, 11 mb/s is hilariously slow. Much, much slower than the native SCSI drives You will want gigE if you are going to do anything interesting over the network on an Octane.
229.
by hapless 7y ago
Indy and Indigo r4k support was merged in 20 years ago.
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by hapless 7y ago
The on-board NIC in an octane is 10/100, so network anything will be painful . It's possible to install gigE, but you will need a PCI-X shoebox and also a NIC with compatible firmware. Not super easy to find.
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by hapless 7y ago
Heads up: your app may turn out to be un-googleable because IRIX was a popular UNIX with sophisticated color management years ago, and modern day it's a photography supply retailer. It might take a while to get on the 1st page of resul
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by hapless 7y ago
That conversation was your cue to get a new job, because your colleague earnestly believed that 90% of your coworkers were incompetent, and told you so point blank. That's not a good sign.
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by hapless 7y ago
It's 2020. Friends don't let friends write shell scripts.
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by hapless 7y ago
Most of these have close English equivalents, but as a second language learner, the author does not have a large enough vocabulary to summon them easily. Learning a second language is not the same experience as being a native speaker. Havin
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by hapless 7y ago
The processor package was made in Malaysia at the Penang assembly plant. The chip inside that package was fabbed elsewhere, most probably the USA.
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by hapless 7y ago
The heart of the matter is that a fairly small number of people on a proprietary UNIX are mad that they have to pay money to continue to be free riders on the Free Software movement. Mr Fleischer has done a huge amount of unpaid work so a n
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by hapless 7y ago
Bill Gates also used his wealth to advance the interests of one of the country's most notorious sex traffickers. There's no reason for _anyone_ to have that much money, or individual influence over public policy.
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by hapless 7y ago
You can’t really auth Linux clients against AD, because you will kill the AD servers. AD and ADAM are shockingly low performance compared to Sun/Netscape LDAP. They depend on extensive client side caching to work at all. If you want t
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by hapless 7y ago
I enjoyed plugging these into translate.google.com to see what machine translation made of poor applications of Japanese. The best one was the "Brutality Bonus," which after re-translation from the developer's Japanese, came
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by hapless 7y ago
It's a correct translation, but funny because of its stilted language. It would have been merely old-timey in Japanese, but in English it's rendered as centuries-old vernacular. "Spoony" ceased to be common language in

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