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by kar1181 4y ago
They still host images for the versions of linux I cut my teeth on in the 90s. For that as much as anything I'm really greatful! Redhat 4.2 Biltmore represent!
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by kar1181 4y ago
One of the big near term beneficiaries is going to be RPCS3. Wonderful deep dive into what AVX512 means for it here - https://whatcookie.github.io/posts/why-is-avx-512-useful-for...
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by kar1181 4y ago
There was a period about 7 years ago where they were fantastic, their 3G/4G network wasn't too bad unless you were out in the sticks, and they were CHEAP, about 13£ for 200 mins/200 texts _unlimited_ data. And the kicker was
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by kar1181 4y ago
'Plant-based' is such a nice way to hand wave away just how terrible these meat-replacements are. There is nothing natural about it at all and it's a shame as it's pushed vegetarian offerings off the table, options that
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by kar1181 4y ago
For all the hand wringing about keeping the lights on, Twitter more than doubled its headcount in 3 n bit years. I'm not sure anyone knows how much of a skeleton crew is required to keep things ticking along anymore given that sort of
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by kar1181 4y ago
Similar experience here, it was a series of changes, none of which made my experience better and a lot of dodgy privacy affecting TOS updates that caused me to can my paid account. They never really tried to re-engage me either, and have ju
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by kar1181 4y ago
I'll be shocked if Binance are less than 50% as crooked as FTX.
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by kar1181 4y ago
If you read up on Tim Willits' time at id it seems like a proper protege took his reigns. In my early career I lamented not going into games development but goodness what a bullet dodged.
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by kar1181 4y ago
Very interesting Twitter thread on this here https://twitter.com/jordanschnyc/status/1580889341265469440?... Pretty dramatic stuff but unsure how this will benefit the US since obviously to have this much western
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by kar1181 4y ago
The SaaS crunch continues. I don't have an objective datapoint but over the past few weeks have noticed many of the 'free' apps I use have made significant changes to the free tier and increased pricing.
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by kar1181 4y ago
Getting ready to be acquired by Microsoft I guess. I've spent a lot of time with Ubuntu it's been a faithful friend for so long but I do wonder what the 10+ year roadmap looks like for Canonical and maybe this is an indication.
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by kar1181 4y ago
Ganymede sounds like it will be great!
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by kar1181 4y ago
This is how I learned to program these books were so ubiquitous in the 80s even my (very_ rural Australian) school library had a few. I’m only had a Vic 20 so had to translate the listings that tended to be aimed at the c64. So many careers
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by kar1181 4y ago
Not having fun right now, but this brings home just how reliant so much of the internet is on a very few very big service providers.
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by kar1181 4y ago
I get the feeling the person that wrote it is not of the generation many here are. I really enjoyed the style personally (millennial...).
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by kar1181 5y ago
I unfollow / mute or move to a 'news and politics' list anyone saying anyting political more than 3 times in a frame of time I notice. That has been transformative for my enjoyment of the 'main feed'. That and sorti
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by kar1181 5y ago
This was my first thought. "Oh no".
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by kar1181 5y ago
Bobby Kotick really wanted to retire.
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by kar1181 5y ago
I wish I had more upvotes to give for this. I started wondering (completely naively) how hard would it be to just go ahead and design a motherboard for an old x86 CPU from scratch. Impossibly hard, though clearly not for everyone. What an i
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by kar1181 5y ago
One benefit of Tesla (for Tesla inc) opening up their charging network is it provides less incentive for other providers to create new charging points. Tesla have plenty incentive as they are by far the dominant charging provider currently
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by kar1181 5y ago
Even the Australian wildlife will not accept bad coffee! Bit like how Starbucks got ran out of Adelaide.
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by kar1181 5y ago
The ancient (read 90s) distros are a lot of fun to play with. Redhat still have a lot of their legacy distributions available and they are installable on vmware. You can learn a heck of a lot with really early distributions. I remember how
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by kar1181 5y ago
Disclaimer - I'm Australian. There's something really weird about the contemporary Australian culture that's seems to be permitting increasingly authoritarian governance. If think if you asked my grandparents what defined &#x
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by kar1181 5y ago
Hopefully that actually hits someone's bank account unlike the Equifax settlement which only really hit the laywers'
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by kar1181 5y ago
Unfortunately Blizzard is done. There's some debate to be had if that's a bad thing, but it's now a brand and IP holding company with some in-house development.
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by kar1181 5y ago
Ironically I do not buy books from Amazon due to the atrocious quality of their 'print on demand' titles. These look like they are printed with a 5 year old heavily abused inkjet. Part of the appeal of reading deadtree is the pape
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by kar1181 5y ago
I’ve had my model 3 since Jan and like most, it’s had it’s share of issues. It is also, certainly, the least well built car I’ve ever owned. But gosh I love driving it. It’s a pleasure. I have driven a lot of the current crop of competing B
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by kar1181 5y ago
I don't know but I've paid for a couple substacks in the past few months, I've not paid for a newspaper in 20 years. It's like getting someone to cook just for you - hyper targeted content. A newspaper is like a buffet,
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by kar1181 6y ago
I think Intel will do a good job of it. They have no choice if they get this expansion wrong they are done. My expectations for Europe though, are sadly much lower.
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by kar1181 6y ago
Similar things are happening in Croatia.

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