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by illys 5y ago
I see another issue here: companies like Google prioritize information to 1) keep their users and 2) maximize their profit. If you move data organization to another type of organization (non-profit, state, universities - private or public),
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by illys 5y ago
From my experience (and similar to your conclusion), the "death" is an economic factor: when the fix has a higher monetary cost than a replacement. My nearly 300.000 km vehicle costed thousands per year in maintenance, and a moder
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by illys 5y ago
While I agree on not triggering a new build, I still question it: - When buying second-hand, I still use a share of the car lifespan, and it is this lifespan that makes the value of building it in the first place. - I buy it from a person o
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by illys 5y ago
There is nothing new here. Any new Windows version has transformed the previous generation of PCs into trash since people moved from DOS as a main user interface to Windows 3. And people say "my PC is slow because it is getting old&quo
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by illys 5y ago
No reason for trouble: I notice it too. They certainly need some kind of way to get their minds away from injured people, sick children, parents with cancer, dying elderly people, devastated relatives... Keeping sanity requires some other
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by illys 6y ago
Just great! I always wondered how one could do anything serious with a Raspi without a floppy drive! Now the gap is closed and I can finally replace my IBM 5160 mobo with a Raspi :-)
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by illys 6y ago
Thanks, despites it is a bit different for the night: asphalt has an inertia that returns the heat at night. The solar panels are rather thin to have such inertia. I kept looking and I have found some albedo figures: deserts have a typical
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by illys 6y ago
Some solar panels on house roofs to compensate the house consumption is fine... But when I see such pictures, I always wonder about the impact of massive solar panels on albedo. Just like wearing a black t-shirt in the sun in summer. Indeed
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by illys 6y ago
"Big Brother Inside" for just a unique id? What should we say now about Intel Management Engine?
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by illys 6y ago
Aside the article, the computers depicted in the ads are amazing!
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The man who changed my understanding of global warming (1 hour video, Jan. 2020)(youtube.com)
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by illys 6y ago
Thanks, I will have a look :-)
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by illys 6y ago
I dream to find the very same article on the original IBM PC hardware. I wish to repaint my dirty 5160, but none of the beige sprays of the local DIY shops fit. I could order on Internet but I have no references and Google searches could no
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by illys 6y ago
I read here a lot of nostalgia of the 80's and 90's computers that were open to users' curiosity and changes, helping teenagers and young adults to develop computer and programming skills... It is true but it is only a part o
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by illys 6y ago
" I support freedom of speech, and liking something is speech" Freedom, liberty have limits. The limits are cultural and ruled by law. In France, the freedom of speech must respect individuals and allows to mock ideas and ideologi
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by illys 7y ago
From Europe, that reminds me a lot of Chernobyl time in 1986: - Everybody speaks about it. - Nobody has seen it yet (at least where the people I know live). - The invisible threat seems to be everywhere. - Everybody is changing its basic be
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by illys 7y ago
"1986 after IBM had already won" I like your post... Just a thing: the PC architecture won, but IBM lost all control of it. They tried to take over in 1987 with the PS/2 line and its MCA bus, but the clone army was strong eno
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by illys 7y ago
The referred law: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/102 Software interfaces look to me like a "method of operation", only the implementation (the lines of code to run the interface) is subj
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by illys 7y ago
It seems like so many people use the same password with different providers.
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by illys 7y ago
About software, it is not typical to defense companies and it does not need to be deliberate: most consultancy and subcontracting companies have no incentive to exceed a crappy average level: Indeed, as you explain, being fast and excellent
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by illys 7y ago
I think very few people are able to hold with the 100+ iterations of improvement... This persistence and the quality of the result are where they are amazing. Skills can be taught and learnt, but obstinacy is a quality that cannot be develo
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by illys 7y ago
You are certainly right on helicopters' dynamics... I was more thinking of planes and rockets when writing on dynamics: they are shaped to break through and be tunneled by a non-moving air for stability, and their weight decreased fast
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by illys 7y ago
Like SpaceX? "If you love rockets, you can’t help but notice that real space launch vehicles lift off the pad slowly, but model rockets zip up like darts." That reminds me of a common issue with modeling: when you divide sizes by
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by illys 7y ago
Well, to me, the issue of IPv6 adoption is that it is not a natural extension to IPv4, but two different protocols. It requires two settings efforts and additional efforts for interoperability with third parties still limited to IPv4. I am
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by illys 7y ago
Couldn't they write proprietary software with an API, then modify (under GPL) the Kernel to call that API? Their modified kernel with API calls is GPL while they keep their trade secrets... Am I correct?
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by illys 7y ago
It seems like a Dolch PAC 64 computer (real maker), re-branded due to some OEM contract. http://www.test-and-measurement.net/DolchPAC64.htm
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by illys 7y ago
About the driver stack that would never fit: When you have a single hardware (C64, Amiga...), it is not more complex to address than addressing drivers. Peeking/poking ports and directly addressing video memory is not much costly in b
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by illys 7y ago
And what about the opposite issue: too many people know and enter in a greedy and bloody competition? It reminds me an 80's cartoon where Spanish, aliens and 3 children run after a golden city and destroy it out of greed when they find
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by illys 7y ago
Yes I agree, a Z80 is not enough. Especially that the people who will restart from a Z80 will face technological edges when their skills and needs grow. We faced the same in the 80's: going from 8 bit to 16, then 32, having memory add
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by illys 7y ago
Pollution?

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