radicalbyte

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by radicalbyte 5mo ago
It gets sucked up into housing. So if you're in your early 50s that's fine as you probably brought very cheap. Mid-40s and under? Unlikely unless you were extremely lucky. I'm 45 by the time I've been able to buy housing
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by radicalbyte 5mo ago
Eight years ago my internet was using a current over a copper wire. Now it's light through glass. The latter is much more efficient especially over longer distances.
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by radicalbyte 6mo ago
> pharmaceuticals A large number of these literally save people's lives. Anti-biotics, statins, anti-depressives, anti-psychotics, insulin, anti-histamines.
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by radicalbyte 6mo ago
Our car infrastructure receives more subsidy than our train and cycling infrastructure combined. There has actually been some discussion of this in some circles because, given the large environmental and social costs we shouldn't be su
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by radicalbyte 6mo ago
Oh Russia has created some amazing culture (Tchaikovsky, Tolstoy) but that was before they fell to the barbarians in the 1920s. After that only Lem comes to mind.. and he was either Ukrainian or Polish. Basically anyone talented and who cou
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by radicalbyte 6mo ago
Russia is far larger and far less populated, it's an economic backwater and a cultural dead end. Yet despite that they have rail connecting their country together.
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by radicalbyte 6mo ago
The Netherlands is a similar shape to the continental contiguous United States yet we have an excellent public transport system. Very good trains and every population has awesome cycling infrastructure. The US could have all of this and mor
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by radicalbyte 7mo ago
It's the US, all you have to do is drive a truckload of cash into Mar-A-Lago and you'll get whatever you want.
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by radicalbyte 8mo ago
Walking/carrying at all crazy hours once they were >30kg. Holding 40kg of sick kid around is fun. Ours all refused to sit in the stroller very early which is what made it so much worse (our oldest was two, the other two refused poin
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by radicalbyte 8mo ago
I have three kids and they've messed up my dominant schoulder (left).
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by radicalbyte 11mo ago
This is pretty standard for Accenture and Deloitte.
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by radicalbyte 11mo ago
It has been very good since around 2007/8 when ASP.NET MVC released. That was the first good MS web framework. You needed to avoid EntityFramework / WCF / Unity and anything coming from the Enterprise group. There were some a
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by radicalbyte 11mo ago
I find it really hard to classify myself. I've always called myself a "libertarian" - I believe the best strategy to Civilization is to maximise freedom for anyone. As freedom enables enlightenment an enlightenment drives pro
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by radicalbyte 11mo ago
> Doesn't that describe SV in general, and big tech in particular? Absolutely! It's just that the hopeful hacker/nerd culture used to be more dominant here (slashdot had the more cynical types). Now there are a generation
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by radicalbyte 11mo ago
There has been a change in the community here over the last decade, we've lost a lot of the hacker spirit and have a larger proportion of "chancers", people who are only in tech to "get rich quick". The legacy of ZI
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by radicalbyte 11mo ago
Try asking in the PiStorm Discord, or maybe ask EU based people who do Amiga repairs (like @linuxjedi on Twitter comes to mind) if they know anyone in the States who does it.
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by radicalbyte 11mo ago
Totally agree with you, I'd like to see it for the C64, Spectrum, Atari ST, Amstrad etc too. It makes the system into something which is really close to "plug in and play". I'm also hoping that we start seeing USB extern
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by radicalbyte 11mo ago
I spent less on getting my MiSTer up and running than I did getting my A500+ and a lot less than getting my A1200 setup running. And I have the original Ultimate MiSTer setup. With the RetroRemake and QMTech setup you're up and running
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by radicalbyte 11mo ago
Nice, congrats! Even the most basic models (the $99 + shipping + tax from China) can handle the Amiga. You get more bells whistles plus a better package with a MiSTer stack but I would recommend most people to either grab the Multisystem II
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by radicalbyte 11mo ago
MiSTer, especially the new cheaper builds (MisterPi) are by far the best way to play the old consoles if you want to play on a TV and well worth the $200.
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by radicalbyte 11mo ago
Buy a MiSTer FPGA and run Amiga Vision on it. You can plug in a proper keyboard and joystick and you can map jump to a button instead of up as it traditionally is on Amiga. I have to admit that it's better than using my A500/A1200
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by radicalbyte 11mo ago
The amount of damage done in the 15 years of successively worse leaders requires not only time to fix but also incredible political bravery. That in the backdrop of a press who are actively working against the best interests of the country
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by radicalbyte 11mo ago
It reads to me as if he was the victim of office politics and decided to say "fuck it" instead of being transferred to something else within Meta.
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by radicalbyte 11mo ago
> Reminds me of running Doom when I had to hack config.sys to forage 640KB of memory. The good old days of having to do crazy nutty things to get Elite II: Frontier, Magic Carpet, Worms, Xcom: UFO Enemy Unknown, Syndicate et cetera to ac
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by radicalbyte 1y ago
The problem is that we have a culture of accepting mangled requests on the web. This happens in application code too - because web developers are sloppy it's common to either disable or not use strict input validation. In a pure .Net w
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by radicalbyte 1y ago
It's very different in an Enterprise setting compared to a setting where it's being used by people who actually understand systems from logic gates up. The issues around .Net are in a lot of silly things people have been sold and
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by radicalbyte 1y ago
We are (I mean I'm CTO & know C# better than most) but the only real downside is that there are a lot of people around Microsoft tech who are antithetical to startups. You have to be absolutely insane and/or highly inexperienc
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by radicalbyte 1y ago
There is this whole theory that the observable universe is inside a black hole.
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by radicalbyte 1y ago
It sounds like the kind of plan which would come from the Xbox division.
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by radicalbyte 1y ago
NL should be because, at least so far, they've been listening to the experts (many who are ex-colleagues & friends of mine). We have elections later in the year and that can change (although they're looking positive so far).

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