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by kjs3 6mo ago
I think you touched on the point: people who don't actually care about music think musical pablum is 'good', because it slides in their ear and out without challenging them with actual 'listening'. This guy even as
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by kjs3 6mo ago
We all did.
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by kjs3 6mo ago
it was binaries. That's what killed Usenet. Which is why most of us stopped carrying the binary hierarchy[1] way, way before Usenet 'died'.
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by kjs3 7mo ago
We tried this (and M$ sold it hard ) and never went to production with it (except for a couple of niche use cases). It was obviously not going to meet expectations before we were half way through the PoC.
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by kjs3 7mo ago
Thanks for the lecture. My point is that people often confuse PPC in the embedded space (still in production) with Power in the enterprise space (where noone I know refers to it as 'PPC' other than historical artifacts like &#x27
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by kjs3 7mo ago
Is there any 'guide' to this ecosystem...because 'odd niche communications gear' is always interesting.
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by kjs3 7mo ago
I don't think that would change if the underlying architecture changes; IBM has been committed to backward compatibility for a long time. Some hypothetical future mainframe class IBM ARM would undoubtedly be able virtualize a 360&#x
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by kjs3 7mo ago
It's what Intel did with x86 a few decades before the modern smart phone.
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by kjs3 7mo ago
Are you guys sure you're not confusing product lines? PPC is a PowerISA architecture, but hasn't been pushing desktop/server level performance for, what, almost 20 years? It's an embedded chip now, and AFAIK IBM doesn&
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by kjs3 7mo ago
I think we have a new high water mark for "false equivalence".
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by kjs3 7mo ago
As opposed to the one that has no clip to hold it in, and shears off the whole connector when you trip over it. And I can use the ethernet cable without the tab. Some people will embrace any absurdity to pretend to be right.
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by kjs3 7mo ago
You can say this about virtually any human interaction; I'm often amazed at the sort of nonsense some people think is vitally relevant. I would far prefer talking to other humans about fiction and risk the occasion nutcase (that I can
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by kjs3 7mo ago
You mean the ethernet cable in my laptop? Couple of times a day. The box under my desk? Often? How about the hundreds of devices I work with that have RJ45 connectors for serial access? All the time? Are you seriously telling me you h
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by kjs3 7mo ago
I'm not talking about unplugging. Normal use.
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by kjs3 7mo ago
We had a cluster of liquid cooled CDC Cyber mainframes. One of them developed a bad leak and managed to drain itself into the raised floor. This was a Very Bad Day for many folks in the computer center. Edit: s/have/had/
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by kjs3 7mo ago
Considering the number of times I've sheared off a USB-C connector vs ethernet, I wouldn't consider USB-C to be more robust than RJ45. YMMV.
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by kjs3 7mo ago
Yes...clearly running to something that is "regurgitating a bunch of of reddit comments and academic books/papers" is much, much better than finding a couple of actual humans that read books, and then talking to them. Peak A
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by kjs3 7mo ago
Funny. I have a brother. We have at times lived together, went to the same school, and after not living together, lived on the same street. A couple of times, one or more credit bureaus decided we were the same person and silently merged
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by kjs3 7mo ago
It's not "if you're not doing anything wrong" you need to worry about, it's "what will they make wrong down the road to trip me up" you need to consider.
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by kjs3 7mo ago
Up til 20 years ago there were a surprising number of ATMs still running OS/2; NCR and Diebold supported old machines for a long time. Especially small market/small regional banks wanted to get the absolute most out of their cape
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by kjs3 7mo ago
Lotus users were just as fanatical. They were, and Excel users are just as devoted if not more so. We had many people return their shiny new mac because Excel on MacOS is not exactly like Windows. And they were mad about it. Lotus
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by kjs3 7mo ago
Oh sure...some companies had their own setup. I think one of the disk drive manufacturers had their own BBS (Western Digital?). But I think most companies looking into this kind of service saw the Compuserv infrastructure (in particular,
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by kjs3 7mo ago
Optum360, still in business. HCA Healthcare, still in business. Excellus Healthcare, still in business after paying something like 50 cents per breached user. AMCA went out of business because their biggest customers said "damage co
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by kjs3 7mo ago
If only. For every Solarwinds, there are hundreds of breaches that never get more that a cursory reporting (if that). And Solarwinds is still in business (and some would call "taken private at pennies on the dollar" as a feature
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by kjs3 7mo ago
Nick checks out.
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by kjs3 7mo ago
IBM was using Notes when they acquired us in the mid-2010s. There's probably still production pockets left.
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by kjs3 7mo ago
CompuServ was used more for corporate software downloads in those days than a BBS. Companies generally don't want to rely on some random person with an extra phone line in the basement for product support; CompuServ was 'corporat
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by kjs3 7mo ago
Claude told him it was a big deal. Why would he question Claude.
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by kjs3 8mo ago
"I come to talk low-effort shit, not to think or inform". Par for the course, I suppose.
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by kjs3 8mo ago
You hate mythological subjects in mythological stories. Or, rather, you selectively detest them. Whatever you need to feel superior, I guess.

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