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by jandrese 3mo ago
What are you talking about? This is extremely common. Try hunting for some 15+ year old piece of obscure software or especially a driver for old hardware on the Internet and you are always hitting domain parking pages and "file no lo
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by jandrese 3mo ago
Generally it's easier to just copy the data to each new media as you adopt it. In the past this was pretty easy to do as the hard drive held way more data than the floppy disks of old. The next hard drive was an order of magnitude la
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by jandrese 3mo ago
I'm not saying that those guys weren't corrupt, but that's a classic authoritarian pattern. Purging anybody who might potentially in the future be a threat to your rule is step two in any authoritarian playbook. Were they p
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by jandrese 3mo ago
Or in authoritarian regimes it often means "stole from the party". As long as you only steal from the poor and give the proper bribes up the chain you are in no danger in most corrupt societies. Except possibly in the rare occas
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by jandrese 3mo ago
It seems crazy to me that Linksys didn't look at the success of the WRT54GL and the higher prices they commanded and decide to just keep doing that. Why every company feels the need to roll their own firmware that is buggy, slow, cras
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by jandrese 3mo ago
Oh, so that's where that old nugget of wisdom came from! I've heard the rule about making your swap at least 2x your RAM for ages and thought it was just some old rule of thumb from the 80s. I didn't know there used to be a
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by jandrese 3mo ago
One thing I think Slashdot got right was capping the upvotes on a post to 5. This provided the desired effect of letting quality content sit on top of the discussion without turning it into a game. They also were fairly stingy with the le
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by jandrese 4mo ago
Tell that to Omar Artan.
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by jandrese 4mo ago
The libertarian community really thought they had their fox in the hen house when he was put in charge of regulation, and he did a fair bit of deregulation, but not nearly to the extent that they wanted. In the end it was enough to trigger
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by jandrese 4mo ago
He was a believer in the idea that banks would never act against their own long term interests in order to make money quickly because that would be an existential crisis for the bank. Shortly after he left a bank with over 150 years of hist
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by jandrese 4mo ago
Things may not be quite so simple if your skin color is on the darker side, especially with the current administration. Doubly so if your passport shows you come from a country who's name ends in -stan.
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by jandrese 4mo ago
I gave up on Excel for working with CSV years ago, but it sounds like I need to go back and try again. It used to drive me crazy how the import function was all "just fuck my shit up, Fam" every time. Reminds me of the old joke a
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by jandrese 4mo ago
Joke is on him. The comic section of the paper (if it even has one anymore) is filled with fossilized strips that weren't even fresh in the 80s. The comic cartel in the US basically killed off the medium.
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by jandrese 4mo ago
The Chinese Communist Party was willing to invest heavily to capture the solar and battery markets early on. Obama tried to counter them, but got roundly criticized for "picking favorites" and in the end the US gave away the enti
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by jandrese 4mo ago
Here I thought I was being more diplomatic to elide the blatant racism when discussing this topic.
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by jandrese 4mo ago
You see a whole lot of panic from industrialists over the birth rate drop in the industrialized world. They claim it is an extinction level event for humanity. This is not quite correct. It is an extinction level event for economic model
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by jandrese 4mo ago
Or worse, the kernel moves beyond the package in the repo so a year and a half later it doesn't even work anymore. VirtualBox is really bad about this.
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by jandrese 4mo ago
In theory the purpose of an IPO is to raise cash to expand a company. If the company already has the cash they don't need to do an IPO.
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by jandrese 4mo ago
IMHO both of these problems stem from the same source: Engagement. Anything that attempts to maximize engagement will inevitably optimize for outrage, anger, and disgust. You will end up handing the platform over to trolls and propagandis
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by jandrese 4mo ago
YouTube is ruthless in promoting clickbait headlines and thumbnails where it's someone's face with a shocked expression and an attention grabbing byline. You don't play by their rules the algorithm will bury you. Content cre
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by jandrese 4mo ago
I think some of it is just needing to be a counter balance to the unending hype train from the AI companies that have an existential need for AI to be the next big thing. That and seeing these amazing demos and press releases, then trying
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by jandrese 4mo ago
Running your shell over top of the ROM BASIC? The reason nobody did this is because it would have cut your performance dramatically. ROM BASIC was always slow and usually quite cut down compared to something like GWBASIC. I do miss havin
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by jandrese 4mo ago
Hell, SGI O2s from 1996 had this. For all of the hype the performance gains were pretty modest.
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by jandrese 4mo ago
This doesn't even get into nVidia's circular financing deals that artificially inflate its market cap.
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by jandrese 4mo ago
Centuries of physical experimentation, observation, and testing of hypothesis. Developing new branches of mathematics to deal with anomalies in observed test data. Developing entire branches of language to help organize and transmit con
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by jandrese 4mo ago
> recursive self-improvement How is this better than training the next Google by having the bots do Google searches? I'm not saying that it is impossible to surpass human intelligence, all I'm saying is the AI has the same set
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by jandrese 4mo ago
I have the same feeling. I'm not worried about superintelligent AI because we are only training them on human level intelligence. By what mechanism does our current AI technology take the leap to technologies that humans have never c
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by jandrese 4mo ago
This just seems like an expansion of prime numbers to includes factors in the 2^33+ range. Basically you're calculating if a number is prime but stopping the check when the factors go above 2^32.
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by jandrese 4mo ago
No, the problem is the software has an internal certificate that is about to expire. This is exactly the sort of scenario where I do not feel bad at all tracking down an online crack that disables the certificate check. That said, it is pro
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by jandrese 4mo ago
> DO NOT get it from github or transfer the files via FTP. I bet the author doesn't know about FTP's ASCII mode, and especially doesn't know that it is the default. ASCII mode was a nifty feature, but it never should have

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