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by hylaride 2y ago
Starting around 2000, Intel tried to make money via attempts at everything but making a better product (pushing RAMBUS RAM, itanium, cripling low-end chips more than they needed to be, focusing more on keeping chip manufacturing in-house th
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by hylaride 2y ago
> everything you know about SEALs etc are filtered through a massive PR system anyways. I saw a joke about Navy Seals awhile ago that went something like: A Navy Seal and a Delta Force operator are chatting in a bar. The Navy Seal imme
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by hylaride 2y ago
Because most men can't admit they need purpose or what's lacking. Therapy isn't the cliché of bawling into your therapist's shoulders (although it can be that). It's often them telling and pointing out to you what
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by hylaride 2y ago
Oh please. He couldn’t get spending cut and congress forced his hand. Taxes were continuously raised to deal with the deficit and it came to a head during the infamous Bush 1 tax rises, that incidentally led to balanced budgets in the late
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by hylaride 2y ago
Carter’s deregulation was more market-oriented, though. Most of it (especially trucking and airlines) are still in place. Reagan’s were more “business-friendly” and resulted in various problems, especially in banking. The savings and loa
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by hylaride 2y ago
Reagan and Volcker clashed (at least somewhat publicly). Not long after Reagan came to power, he pushed a massive tax cut that swelled the deficit. Volcker publicly complained that they were too early and were hindering his anti-inflation
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by hylaride 2y ago
Also, the US is pretty much the only developed country growing at any meaningful rate (though deficit spending is probably a large cause of that and is arguably not sustainable at the current rate). Biden was past his prime and it showed du
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by hylaride 2y ago
One could argue he set the stage for the 1980s economic boom by making short term sacrifices that cost him re-election. It was his administration that did market-oriented deregulation around airlines and trucking industries (meaning you did
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by hylaride 2y ago
If you're at a very large corporation, Cygwin could have been approved decades ago, but WSL is still going through "auditing". WSL is still new enough that bureuocratic organizations haven't satisfied themselves enough
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by hylaride 2y ago
I love OpenBSD, have been a user (including professionally) for over 2 decades, and appreciate their stubbornness when it comes to security (including sacrificing performance), but for work for anything other than a layer 3/4 firewall
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by hylaride 2y ago
If they stick to it, you'll eventually want to get this charger: https://viflydrone.com/products/vifly-whoopstor-6-ports-1s-b... It'll do storage voltage (which very few 1S chargers support), which is much be
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by hylaride 2y ago
And a lot of it is all open source! ESC software: - https://github.com/am32-firmware - https://github.com/mathiasvr/bluejay Flight controller (you mentioned these): - https://github.com&#x2F
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by hylaride 2y ago
MDMA can be addictive, though usually on people who are dealing various issues that, like alcohol, can mask or suppress "bad" feelings. It pumps up the serotonin levels and people can definitely get addicted to that (the same way
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by hylaride 2y ago
It did have a decent run in the embedded market, especially before windows 2000 as it had a clean 32-bit codebase that was more stable than win9X. A lot of ATMs used it. You’d also be shocked what you’d find in the back IT cabinets of som
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by hylaride 2y ago
> When American friends and family ask me what I love most about living here and I say "the bike infrastructure," reactions range from a polite smile to eye-rolling. I get the same eye rolling when people ask me what I like mos
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by hylaride 2y ago
If it's a secure internal network, RDMA is probably what you want if you need low-latency data transfer. You can do some very performance-oriented things with it and it works over ethernet or infiniband (the quality of switching gear
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by hylaride 2y ago
> Not suing others for millions or billions and spreading misery. Nothing can bring those kids back. How about not slandering the parents of the victims causing Jones' followers harass and threaten them? He could have admitted he w
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by hylaride 2y ago
I can't tell you how often I've run into cloud deployments that were lift-and-shifts, pushed on by bean counters wanting OPEX instead of CAPEX. They then run into actual cashflow expenses, less stability, more complex security (n
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by hylaride 2y ago
"Storage is cheap, but moving it ain't" is a quote a former co-worker frequently liked to remind people. The quote applied at the low level (eg between CPUs and their caches) all the way up to networking. Anyways, cloud prov
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by hylaride 2y ago
8GB is fine (on macos anyways) for what you're doing, but like it or not more and more AI is being (unnecessarily) shoved into applications and it needs memory for the GPU. Memory (both system and GPU) is usually best thing to future p
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by hylaride 2y ago
Was that the same scene where he said "Their failure is my fault...for trusting them."? I just about had to change my underwear after that scene.
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by hylaride 2y ago
Financial companies have taken and upgraded/invested in microwave links because they can be comparatively economical to get "as the crow flies" distances between sites: https://www.latimes.com/business/la
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by hylaride 2y ago
Cory Doctorow doesn't understand that there's shades of grey the world, which is a shame as he could otherwise be one of the greatest socio-tech thought leaders in the world. ICE does things in a horrible way, but like most wester
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by hylaride 2y ago
> stepping outside the mold just upsets people in the corporate world. This is the crux of the problem for me. How many of us are literally not allowed to work on stuff not on the backlog, which is usually driven by product people. We o
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by hylaride 2y ago
Many states even have Certificate of Need (known as CON in the industry) laws where incumbent medical providers, including whole hospitals, can effectively veto new entrants. Add in limited licensing for doctors (the number of medical spot
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by hylaride 2y ago
Mine definitely did not have integrated wifi. Whatever model I had only supported CF, IIRC. Thinking about it, it may have been 2001-2002 I had it.
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by hylaride 2y ago
I also had an ipaq ~2003. It didn't have enough storage to be a reasonable music or movie player for commutes and (mine anyways) only had wifi via a honking PCMCIA adapter that drained the battery in no time, so I otherwise browsed th
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by hylaride 2y ago
Oh, I 100% agree that IP laws are too strong and last too long, which allows media companies to charge too much and stifle competition. It actually also hurts the content creators themselves. The music industry spent too much time fighting
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by hylaride 2y ago
> There's no evidence that piracy causes any type of harm to these multi-trillion dollar American entertainment conglomerates. I think there is business "harm" to piracy, but it's (mostly) vastly overstated. If I il
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by hylaride 2y ago
Yeah, I want to stress I'm not saying people shouldn't ever buy, but it's contingent on the circumstances and it's often overlooked that renting can make practical and financial sense. If you're going to settle dow

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