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by hnlmorg 7mo ago
DES wasn’t common place though (or at least not on the mainframes I worked on). But maybe than says more about the places I worked early on in my career? Also DES is trivial to crack because it has a short key length. Longer keys require mo
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by hnlmorg 7mo ago
> Also the Amiga's have AmiSSL and it will run on a 68040 or some FPGA with same constraints. IRC over TLS, Gemini, JS-less web, Usenet, EMail... not requiring tons of GB. The AmiSSL came out long after the C64 was a relic and requi
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by hnlmorg 7mo ago
BASIC was slow in the 80s. Games for the C64 (and similar machines) were written in machine code. > By comparison, giving how they optimized the games for 8 and 16 bit machines I should have been able to compile Cataclysm DDA:BN under my
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by hnlmorg 7mo ago
> Electron is doing none of that. I agree. I even said Electron was one piece of bloat I didn’t agree with my my comment. So it wasn’t factored into the calculations I was presenting to you. > Did you watch or ran any of these demos?
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by hnlmorg 7mo ago
> They had most of this stuff in the 1980s, and even earlier really. Not on your little 8-bit microcomputer that cost $299 that might have had as a kid Those are the systems we are talking about though. > but they certainly did exist
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by hnlmorg 7mo ago
> Go's "GC disadvantage" is turned on its head by developing "Zero Allocation" libraries which run blazingly fast with fixed memory footprints. Similarly, rolling your own high performance/efficient code whe
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by hnlmorg 7mo ago
Sure, if you don’t count safety features like memory management, crash handling, automatic bounds checks and encryption cyphers; as anything useful. I do completely agree that there is a lot of waste in modern software. But equally there is
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by hnlmorg 7mo ago
But my point was that you cannot watch it the next day. You have to wait until the following week. And why shouldn’t people binge all the episodes at once? If that’s how they want to watch a series then who are we to say it’s wrong? Let’s a
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by hnlmorg 7mo ago
I don’t think the schedule argument is a strong one these days. DVRs have been around for decades now, and built into satellite and cable services too. In fact, some TVs even have DVR functionality built in. What annoys me is when streaming
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by hnlmorg 7mo ago
My first ever fork bomb was in the 90s, running Microsoft own example code for OLE (or was it COM?). That was a great early lesson to never trust code you read online. Even if it is from Microsoft’s own developer portal.
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by hnlmorg 7mo ago
That just means the person sending the message didn’t bother to proof read their message before sending. And you don’t need to be on an iPhone to mistype a message. A simpler explanation was that it was a shameful advert injected into the e
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by hnlmorg 7mo ago
You don’t need to be qualified to be unsure about something. Being unsure is a healthy position because it’s an acknowledgment that you don’t know something entirely. Which can also means you have an open mind to learn more about that subje
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by hnlmorg 7mo ago
No it doesn’t. What you’re describing is an oxymoron.
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by hnlmorg 7mo ago
I cooked a steak yesterday therefore I am an expert in biology. Creating a user interface for the world’s knowledge doesn’t make the developer an expert on the knowledge that the interface holds in its database. Regardless of how sophistica
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by hnlmorg 7mo ago
It really isn’t. There are a great many people who use macs for work but who do not like Apples design choices. And that number has skyrocketed even further since Liquid Glass was pushed onto people. In fact one of the front page articles t
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by hnlmorg 7mo ago
That’s depressingly common with politicians the world over because Signal supports disappearing messages. So I wouldn’t expect someone who uses Signal to automatically be the kind of person to use personal email for work.
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by hnlmorg 7mo ago
When I was in my 20s I used to hold this belief as well. And as I’ve gotten older I’ve realised those opinions weren’t because TV viewers were wasting their lives, it was because there was so much I wanted to do with my time that I was scar
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by hnlmorg 7mo ago
> The last three are clearly real needs Eg > I need to relax And you’re replying to my comment that said: > What people don’t need is someone dictating to them how they should relax after work. I do get the point you’re trying to m
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by hnlmorg 7mo ago
Sure, parents do bear some responsibility here too. But we are talking about a platform that is engineered to be addictive to adults too. So it’s not as if the platform isn’t still predatory even if we find a way to parent every child on th
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by hnlmorg 7mo ago
Yeah, but who is going to lobby for it? Certainly nobody with actual money to pay for the lobbying. And which politician would want to vote that in? Certainly no one with any rich friends who donate to their campaigns. Which means no politi
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by hnlmorg 7mo ago
I don’t think anyone would disagree with you there but that requires changing the nature of humanity. Which is a much less realistic outcome.
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by hnlmorg 7mo ago
I’m not a doctor but I’m pretty sure that’s not the case. Substances like caffeine, sugar, and painkillers are definitely still referred to as “addictive”. Whereas substances like sertraline (antidepressant) are referred to as a “dependence
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by hnlmorg 7mo ago
We already have a distinction because it’s been known for decades already that some things are addictive purely through reinforcement psychology and some things lock people into a chemical dependence. For example see the glossary in https:
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by hnlmorg 7mo ago
It’s been a long long time since I’ve heard that name come up in conversation. Thanks for the trip down memory lane.
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by hnlmorg 7mo ago
You didn’t need two machines to run BeOS. I ran very smoothly on a Windows PC via dual booting. BeOS 5 could even be installed on a Windows FAT32 partition alongside Windows (it created a 50MB virtual disk). At one point in time I had Windo
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by hnlmorg 7mo ago
How strictly do you mean “UNIX clone”? Because Linux isn’t strictly UNIX. But then at the other end of the scale, BeOS was also partially POSIX compliant and shipped with Bash plenty of UNIX CLI tools. Perhaps it’s better to play it safe an
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by hnlmorg 7mo ago
If you must argue semantics, then… Not physically forced, but that doesn’t mean the comments weren’t said in a way that might appear forceful to other people due to the combination of bluntness and lack of compassion. For something to be
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by hnlmorg 7mo ago
Yes, we’ve all done that. I mentioned earlier about how I used XBMC on an original Xbox. But we aren’t normal people. Normal people wouldn’t even know how to set up a media centre. And the Nintendo Switch famously has next to no video strea
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by hnlmorg 7mo ago
But that’s not the same thing as saying “people shouldn’t own a TV and instead find themselves a hobby”. Which is the original comment that people objected to.
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by hnlmorg 7mo ago
Which is ostensibly the same thing

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