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by pjmlp 2mo ago
When will folks finally learn that if they like having a salary, devs that produce tools actually would like to have one as well?
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by pjmlp 2mo ago
Would have rails taken off if he was equally open about his politics back then?
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by pjmlp 2mo ago
A techbros project that really cares close to nothing about FOSS ideals, apparently sided with far right politics.
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by pjmlp 2mo ago
I have been using docking stations since 2006, and apparently if I want to buy a serious desktop that doesn't look like car tuning in a box, I have to build it myself, given the available configurations on ready to go desktops.
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by pjmlp 2mo ago
That was the mistake, using common components for a cheaper computer versus previous ones, and not being able to take down Compaq's achievement. Rest assured there would be no IBM PC compatibles otherwise, in fact PS/2 and MCA arc
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by pjmlp 2mo ago
This applies to the whole stack, even ignoring the GUI, you would not find systems with a gazillion of processes, doing OS IPC all over the place, because the hardware could not accommodate it. But hey, microservices and static linking ar
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by pjmlp 2mo ago
The last Gigabyte Brix I got my hands on, ended up into the recycling center, there was no way to have Linux distributions, whichever one I tried, to boot from UEFI, while the same distributions would boot from external drives over USB. Aft
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by pjmlp 2mo ago
Indeed, also to note something that younger folks keep missing, the PC revolution only happened due IBM's mistake, everyone else was vertically integrated, even with something like CP/M.
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by pjmlp 2mo ago
It all depends on who wants to say in power, also from US point of view, even our right wing parties are socialists. Also people have to stop conflating EU with Europe,even if most of them are part of EU, it isn't the same.
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by pjmlp 2mo ago
Apple prices have always been insane, there is a reason why during the days it almost went bankrupt, in Europe it could not rival with PC, Amiga, Atari, Acorn.
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by pjmlp 2mo ago
> Most actual immigrants are nomads, at least where I live (Western Europe), they are "passing through". They do not intend to settle permanently. Which most governments love, by the way, yes to income taxes, no to pensions lat
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by pjmlp 2mo ago
Because as proven since OpenMoko that isn't what the general public wants, tiny Gtk and Qt apps, alongside a UNIX shell. Also if you only appeal to those that care about having exactly that, the sales will never be high enough to keep
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by pjmlp 2mo ago
This still do much better than GCP, and quite relevant as 4 trillion valued company.
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by pjmlp 2mo ago
Exactly, it was the whole set of virtualisation based security that is optional in Windows 10, and was made compulsory on Windows 11.
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by pjmlp 2mo ago
I would assume in such collapse, people will use whatever they can find, and without our existing knowledge, it is no different than trying to make heads or tails from ancient civilisations technologies.
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by pjmlp 2mo ago
Fast and good DX, not really, unless we are comparing it to command line tools, instead of 4 GL and RAD tools from the 1990's. Especially when I keep bumping into Electron apps.
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by pjmlp 2mo ago
It is as easy as any X Windows or RDP connection.
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by pjmlp 2mo ago
Yeah, already in 1990, what an achievement. /s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo_Vision
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by pjmlp 2mo ago
Are we now turning this into one of those generation discussions that plague social media?
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by pjmlp 2mo ago
Most companies that build physical goods don't care for one second about their IT department other than how much money they can save per month, starting by outsourcing whole of it, thus they have little use for internal LLMs.
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by pjmlp 2mo ago
Because without the union, you would still take at least 6 hours drive from Porto to Evora, using national roads, preferably during the night unless you wanted to cook between 30 and 40 degrees celsius as I did so many times during may chil
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by pjmlp 2mo ago
From the native point of view of one of such countries, Portugal, the problem is a problem of scale. When it is a couple of folks, bring life again to the village, small town, all good. Now when then it gets daily YT shorts, and TikTok vide
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by pjmlp 2mo ago
Well, the takeway is that we should keep pushing to write everything in Assembly and C, so that human errors allow such "ownership".
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by pjmlp 2mo ago
Just like microkernels, or macOS for that matter, where all drivers are being pushed out of the kernel. Outside desktop, they are pretty much around on embedded RTOS, and the Switch.
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by pjmlp 2mo ago
Only if it goes through verified bytecode, and the set of instructions is provable. The JIT must also only be allowed to call into specific code, controlled by the runtime, and nothing else.
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by pjmlp 2mo ago
Worse is having to come into the office just to do team calls with the rest of the team, distributed around the globe. But hey, butt in the chair means work, right? I get this doesn't work for all professionals, it is abused by some, b
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by pjmlp 2mo ago
Let me guess, SCADA system is somehow accessible from outside.
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by pjmlp 2mo ago
Yeah and eventually Adlib was gone. From Wikipedia, "Not long after its introduction, Creative Labs introduced its competing Sound Blaster card. The Sound Blaster was fully compatible with AdLib's hardware, and it also implemented
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by pjmlp 2mo ago
Unfortunately that doesn't work, when a warning sits between a user and the application they want to run, they will always say yes, and then someone has to clean all those browser toolbars.
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by pjmlp 2mo ago
For that there is bytecode verification as intermediate step, and if you want to go crazy with security, hardware memory tagging with capabilities. Which at this point most companies would rather save money and forbid JIT altogether. Note t

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