mikro2nd

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   by mikro2nd 5y ago

   SWT never was a part of Java. It was (as I recall) an IBM/Eclipse invention.
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   by mikro2nd 5y ago

   Enterprise Java was almost entirely an IBM creation. IBM had a whole bunch of code that had no real path to money (San Francisco framework with roots back to Taligent). Sun was headed into a firefight with MS; they knew it and knew that the
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   Aleksandr Dugin(en.wikipedia.org)

   3 points by mikro2nd 5y ago|0 comments
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   by mikro2nd 5y ago

   If you programme money to restrict what people can do with it, people will find something else to use for money for those restricted things. There's never a way to beat human ingenuity/deviousness.
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   by mikro2nd 5y ago

   So what you want is the circa-1970's-era Pick OS which had a database (albeit not relational) for storage rather than a conventional filesystem. All that's old is new again...
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   by mikro2nd 5y ago

   Oct 18, 2017
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   by mikro2nd 5y ago

   As someone quite deeply into the "tools for thought" thing... I hardly ever worry about the meta-task. I just make notes tied in to one or other index page, all of which (there are only a few more than a dozen or so) tie into a
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   by mikro2nd 5y ago

   Original paper is https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/02-202... rather than the content-free and useless article headlined.
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   by mikro2nd 5y ago

   Many seeds need a dormancy period before germinating, and frequently a husk or germination-inhibiting coating (Tomatoes) surrounds the seed as a delay mechanism: the coating/husk has to rot before the seed gets contact with soil and wa
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    by mikro2nd 5y ago

    You're not alone. I didn't make it past the first 30 minutes or so. Utter rubbish, cashing in on the classic original.
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    by mikro2nd 5y ago

    And if I don't have a phone at all...? (I don't have a phone at all.)
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    by mikro2nd 5y ago

    Replying to myself so as to add the following quote from Rudy Rucker that seems to me terribly apropos: "I never really understood the ideas in economics, in fact I almost failed to graduate from college because I couldn’t stand going
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    by mikro2nd 5y ago

    "quarterly earnings targets" It's worse than that: It's YoY revenue growth targets that really matter to the stock price, hence the never-ending push to put more ads into places you never expected to see them. FWIW I&#
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    by mikro2nd 5y ago

    Do you suppose that modellers are unaware of the differences?
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    by mikro2nd 5y ago

    True. Hadn't thought of that.
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    by mikro2nd 5y ago

    Maybe... uh... get rid of the carpets in favour of your choice of flooring?
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    China presents space plans and priorities in new white paper(spacenews.com)

    3 points by mikro2nd 5y ago|0 comments
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    by mikro2nd 5y ago

    I use Brave. I don't use Rewards. When I open a new tab I see a wallpaper, a randomly chosen picture, often a landscape scene, never an ad.
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    by mikro2nd 5y ago

    This is nonsense because, in the same era, IBM, HP and others (later Sun) ran R&D labs that published some of the most highly-regarded research journals available anywhere.
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    by mikro2nd 5y ago

    And they're not ice-cold sometime around 3 in the morning! They stay at around body heat, so still give the feeling of being warm.
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    by mikro2nd 5y ago

    Results were disastrous. Looked at the code the next day, threw it all out and started again. Every time.
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    by mikro2nd 5y ago

    "It's not just about what exists today, but what we want to be able to do in the future." So a solution in search of a problem, then?
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    by mikro2nd 5y ago

    Alcohol. Lots and lots of alcohol.
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    by mikro2nd 5y ago

    Illegally in what jurisdiction? Paypal's? This client's? These details matter.
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    by mikro2nd 5y ago

    It's not a question of avoiding updates altogether, but the sad reality that it always seems to choose the most inconvenient and/or expensive time to do it. If they'd just do as Thunderbird does -- notify me that there&#x
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    by mikro2nd 5y ago

    Telephone
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    by mikro2nd 5y ago

    S'ok. Remember when 21k was the ATH...
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    by mikro2nd 5y ago

    I've heard it referred to as "affluenza"
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    by mikro2nd 5y ago

    Quite likely you're right; I didn't spend time digging deep. I may yet make the switch...
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    by mikro2nd 5y ago

    I very recently took a look at Manjaro to replace Kubuntu and the fucking trashfire that is snap, but got stuck on several apps that I use all the time not being available through their repo. And yes, I could go all Gentoo and `configure &a