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by jasoneckert 1y ago
> Prices for those in the US (like me) just tripled due to import tariffs (ordering the 32 GB model went from $400 to $1500). This was the biggest takeaway for me in this post. In the past, to experiment with a particular piece of new ha
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by jasoneckert 1y ago
The Internet has been stored safe on my desk since that time: https://jasoneckert.github.io/myblog/i-created-the-internet/...
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Canada: The Unsung Hero of AI Innovation(jasoneckert.github.io)
5 points by jasoneckert 2y ago|2 comments
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by jasoneckert 2y ago
Best to see it for yourself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qv6JIMtX8Qc
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by jasoneckert 2y ago
The speeches tonight by Chrétien and Carney were quite powerful and succinct. There were a lot of gems in there that will likely go viral on US and Canada news networks. But what struck me the most from the speeches was the strong sense of
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by jasoneckert 2y ago
Linux definitely breathed life into that great platform. I still have an Alpha Personal Workstation 600au in my basement running Red Hat from that time period.
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by jasoneckert 2y ago
I remember the early days of Linux well. There was quite a bit of interest for it at the University of Waterloo in the mid 90s, but there was also a lot of talk of issues getting it to install, or getting it to run stably on certain systems
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by jasoneckert 2y ago
I agree that Novell was great for SUSE back in the day. I co-wrote 6 academic textbooks with Novell on SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for Thompson / Course Technology, and I have fond memories of the who
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by jasoneckert 2y ago
I've never heard of Hotline, even though I was heavily involved in the Apple community in the 1990s, but according to the Wikipedia page ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotline_Communications ), it looks like a good
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by jasoneckert 2y ago
Last year, Linus approached the topic of Rust in the kernel as if it were two opposite communities that were each passionate about their cause: https://www.theregister.com/2024/09/19/torvalds_talks_rust_i...
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by jasoneckert 2y ago
What I find the most comical about this is that the whole situation could be loosely summarized as "OpenAI is losing its job to AI."
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by jasoneckert 2y ago
What is the rationale behind sharing this link? It's merely the status of support for M3 devices for Asahi Linux, and there doesn't seem to be any significant recent progress to comment on.
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by jasoneckert 2y ago
And with such a small sample size, the variance will be high. For example, I estimate that my own emotional support network quadrupled from about 1-2 before the age of 30 to 5-8 after the age of 40.
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by jasoneckert 2y ago
I must say, however, that Marie Kondo's method does work well. I've used it on several occasions, and felt good about it afterwards. The only thing I find it doesn't work well with are the dozens of old SUN computers I have i
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by jasoneckert 2y ago
After getting sick of maintaining the JavaScript in iWeb myself after Apple deprecated it, I ended up migrating my personal blog from iWeb to Hugo almost a decade ago. And when getting my Hugo template set up, I considered RSS a 'nice
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by jasoneckert 2y ago
I did the same, but with my old 12" PowerBook G4 when it became obsolete. I replaced the PATA HDD with a PATA SSD for speed, and removed the problematic cells in the original battery (so it must run with the power supply attached). Thi
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by jasoneckert 2y ago
I just plug in an external SSD formatted with exFAT via the USB-C port and manually copy folders (Documents, DCIM, Downloads, etc.) to it in the Files app. After dismounting it in the Settings app (Advanced menu), I plug it into my computer
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by jasoneckert 2y ago
While I've enjoyed the small bursts of wisdom from many of Bill Gates shorter talks, I haven't found anything noteworthy in his written reviews and books. His viewpoints are often bizarre and radical. I still chuckle when remember
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by jasoneckert 2y ago
The picture in this blog is the later version of the ICON, but it ran the same QNX OS, programs, and games, and used the same LEXICON file server for it all. In case anyone is interested in more information about the earlier version of the
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by jasoneckert 2y ago
With US monetary resources, this would be near immediate (and welcome)
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by jasoneckert 2y ago
The opposite would be better for the US. If the US joined Canada, they could benefit from universal healthcare, schooling, and responsible gun laws within a short period of time, given the available resources that would be added to the Cana
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by jasoneckert 2y ago
Neither do I. I believe the only thing anyone can do is take metrics of how the metrics are gamed, as this particular paper has done.
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by jasoneckert 2y ago
Happy Year++ I'm thankful that this site exists to allow me to catch up on the news, events, and perspectives that I'm most interested in. And I'm even more thankful that it uses a simple, functional layout. Keep rockin'
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by jasoneckert 2y ago
One of my favourite achievements of the past several years has been to actively NOT use my phone. I started by eliminating social media accounts, which had an immediate and positive effect on my phone use. Next, I set hard phone time&#x2F
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by jasoneckert 2y ago
When looked at from another angle, opt-in does work. By adding that extra step forcing users to be aware of (and optionally decline) the vendors collection of personal data, it adds a disincentive for collecting the data in the first place.
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by jasoneckert 2y ago
Much like musicians that have dozens of musical keyboards in their collection, I've collected/built dozens of mechanical keyboards over the years. I've got ones with nearly every general type of switch (including Topre). I li
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by jasoneckert 2y ago
It stands for Work from Anywhere
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While many here will note the potential downsides for Lexmark here, the strategic fit statement of "Xerox and Lexmark have complementary sets of operations" likely means that Xerox will keep Lexmark operating as usual in the short
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by jasoneckert 2y ago
According to Wikipedia, NS stood for NeXTSTEP: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundation_Kit#:~:text=This%20... . I do remember people in my circles thinking it stood for NeXT Software (which was likely a more suitable n
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by jasoneckert 2y ago
As a longtime NeXTSTEP user, I still remember the first time I perused the filesystem of Mac OS X 10.0 (Cheetah) in 2001. And I distinctly remember thinking to myself that Apple basically took NeXTSTEP and slapped their own window manager a

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