indymike

8 ms·

121.
by indymike 1y ago
> If we’re simply arguing Not arguing. The context is that MS had much more capable hardware to run 95 on than the 68020 based Macs. > seem to be conflating Not really. Just providing some context as to why MS was able to get a jump w
122.
by indymike 1y ago
OS 8 was designed to run on 68020 without the mmu so you could run on the Mac II and LC. Likewise, MS was trying to keep backwards compatibility with windows 3.11 era software which led to 98 being a compromise, where NT was a much better o
123.
by indymike 1y ago
> merely go out and buy something to make themselves feel or look better. I'm pretty sure there are benefits far beyond looking better.
124.
by indymike 1y ago
For part of my life, I was extremely athletic, and after five kids, I did not have time for 6+ hours a day of exercise. Doing one hour per day seemed to do nothing to offset middle age metabolism combined with a high carbohydrate diet. The
125.
by indymike 1y ago
> I think that it’s pretty unambiguously reasonable to choose to not allow an unrelated business to operate inside of your physical storefront. I also think that maps onto digital services. The line is drawn for me on my own computer. Ev
126.
by indymike 1y ago
> Not to sound like an authoritarian, but sometimes I don't think freedom and free will is to be trusted to people. This is why we have government :-)
127.
by indymike 1y ago
When I was in the Navy, the two-class system needed to go. It led to suboptimal leadership and the departure of many of the best people from the service.
128.
by indymike 1y ago
She is cool. I'm lucky!
129.
by indymike 1y ago
> Yahoo owned Facebook would have been suffocated like Tumblr and Flickr were. This is really the story for most acquisitions in tech. Interesting that Facebook was able to really do positive things with WhatsApp and Instagram.
130.
by indymike 1y ago
> In inclined to believe that neither would have become trillion dollar companies if they had been acquired by Yahoo. Having lived through several acquisitions - both as a founder exiting and as an employee being acquired/acquiring.
131.
by indymike 1y ago
Even 29 years ago, my wife did not want a diamond because she didn't want a fruit of oppression, slavery and murder on her finger.
132.
by indymike 1y ago
> Just because demand did not follow a step function when the file was released does not imply that ethics are not relevant. The movie exposed an opportunity - what if we could have diamonds without the oppression? Oppression is very hig
133.
by indymike 1y ago
You'd be surprised how few people even read a resume before turning to intimidation - legal, physical, political or otherwise. It's amazing how often managers think they can bully someone, and then find out that their opponent dis
134.
by indymike 1y ago
Add phone numbers, email addresses and human names to the list.
135.
by indymike 1y ago
> letting people have enormous gains on an asset they do barely any work to improve was not practical but we did it for many years and it's time to stop This makes little sense. In a democracy, it will be hard to get people to vote
136.
by indymike 1y ago
The web is dying.
137.
by indymike 1y ago
This would be nearly every family in America. I'm not happy seeing my kids, my 80 year old mother lose money they are counting on. This is really the problem - reducing home prices hurts homeowners. And homeowners are litteraly everyon
138.
by indymike 1y ago
That would be rational for the home owner, but for many losing money on the biggest investment they have is not really practical. Losing value on a percentage taxed asset is not really practical for govenrment. Also - the mortgage lender ma
139.
by indymike 1y ago
> "If “build more” was going to bring prices down and stabilize the system, we wouldn’t be seeing these mixed signals." Bringing prices down is usually a losing idea with existing asset holders. Even a financially strapped home
140.
by indymike 1y ago
> That doesn't make GR any less of a description of reality! When you layer the concept of awareness into the mix it does alter reality for an individual or llm. Awareness creates interesting blind spots into our statistical models
141.
by indymike 1y ago
Laws need to apply to the govt, too.
142.
by indymike 1y ago
Not being injured or worse is always a good thing. I find the amount of violence in law enforcement is a little out of control. Too many news stories about an 89 year old lady being beat over a turn signal traffic stop, wanting to know why
143.
by indymike 1y ago
You forgot to end with "goo goo g'joob" or the less correct Simon and Garfunkel version "coo coo ca choo".
144.
by indymike 1y ago
We do have good police in the US. But I'd prefer not to interact in their official capacity with them if possible because there is a non-zero chance that the specific officer I'm talking to is not one of the good ones. I recently
145.
by indymike 1y ago
> The entire article is saying "it looks kinds like a human in some ways, but people are being fooled!" The question is, what's wrong with that? At some level there's a very human desire for something genuine and I su
146.
by indymike 1y ago
I’m not sure people care about their OS that much. I’ve watched companies change OSes and not miss a beat, and in many cases getting better: * less service interruptions by using chromeOS over a cell carriers network instead of a failing in
147.
by indymike 1y ago
We had an IT guy who once bought an XML<->JSON server for $12,000. Very proud of his rack of "data appliances". It made XML like XON out of JSON and JSON that was a soup of elements attributes and ___content___, thus giving
148.
by indymike 1y ago
Making things fast with llms.
149.
by indymike 1y ago
This may be the best comment on Hacker News ever.
150.
by indymike 1y ago
Microsoft wanted to make their new GUI shell for dos look good. There were no apps with icons so they put the most popular and some good stand ins so their new GUI file manager/launcher worked well.

More ›