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2y ago
> illiberal you say that like liberal is a good thing
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2y ago
>How reductionist and incurious And yet, not incorrect.
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2y ago
Except for Vista. People hated vista but everyone I encountered seemed to love the next one ...windows 7. (I liked the look of Vista, and it ran OK on my machine; but I still went with 7)
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2y ago
So goodfellas, basically: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPtjyqgZAUk
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2y ago
No offense meant, but that seems to be a bit of an extremist and borderline authoritarian posistion itself. "You don't need privacy if you have nothing to hide" right?
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2y ago
I agree, reading it -especially in light that people are working on fixes (a buildable version of the code is already out there) seems a bit aggressive. Getting corporations to volunteer to take PR and legal risks to share things with the p
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2y ago
The whole opendos thing is pretty questionable, too. CPM is open source as is its' derivatives. Cool so far. But is DR-DOS a derivative of it? Or is it bound by the 'non commercial' license of the 90's which a) was revok
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2y ago
These days it would be considered a problematic allusion to people with cognitive or emotional issues.
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2y ago
I'm not complaining, that's for sure! Thanks for all you're doing.
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2y ago
>And this matters because DOS 3.3 was a milestone DOS 3.3 couldn't understand large partitions -except for Compaq dos 3.31. But regular dos 3.3 couldn't. I don't think dos 3.2 could even understand extended partitions/
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2y ago
This is "multitasking dos 4" though, which isn't the same as the much-reviled ms-dos 4. As I understand it, it's a lot closer to dos 3 than it is to dos 4 in terms of functionality. I wouldn't expect this to underst
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2y ago
That was literally just added; I have a tab open that doesn't have that folder. This is wild and strangely exciting to see released in real time.
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2y ago
And make no mistake -it is an industry!
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2y ago
I'm guessing congresscritters and senators can; but not their aides or anyone lower down the foodchain.
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2y ago
Call me old fashioned, but I've only ever heard the term 'Zionism'/zionist bandied about by conspiracy theoriests of the antisemitic variety. I'm saying that the adherents of the far left are finding common cause w
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2y ago
I can do fuck all, so I'm just gonna 'hide' this story and pretend I didn't see it.
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3y ago
You have a variety of languages (including different versions of Turbo Pascal) to choose from over at pcjs.org ...right in your browser!
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3y ago
Yes it does, and for the reasons you stated I have flagged it.
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3y ago
A better question is WHO should define open AI. My answer to that would be: anyone but the people trying to establish a moat around AI.
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3y ago
> Google would love to provide good search results, but there's just one Google, and there's millions of people out there trying to make SEO spam. Most bloggers are just writing whatever posts they feel like writing, while cont
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3y ago
I don't believe they're terrified themselves. I believe they're grifters who are preying on the fears of others. A subtle, but important distinction.
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3y ago
This is a point that cannot possibly be emphasized enough.
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3y ago
How is this better than gpt4all?
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3y ago
All I can say is: 'holy shit'. I'm glad I'm not a kid these days!
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3y ago
Talk about a distinction that doesn't make a difference!
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3y ago
I'm pretty much in the same boat. Heck, once I learned that BSD's /bin/sh gives you history (and I think filename completion?) I switched to that when I'm on BSD (I don't feel strongly enough about it on Lnux,
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3y ago
With bash and all of it's improvements over its' predecessors and rivals (csh), I'm not sure what need there is to throw resources at new shells such as zsh and fish etc? [pulling my tongue out of my cheek, I honestly never h
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3y ago
God's honest truth right there.
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3y ago
"serving" What size is a "serving", and how does it compare to what people actually in practice eat?
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3y ago
Polarization is in the interest of the politicians, the fundraisers, the lobbyists and far too many other grifters. What would anyone ever think it's going to come to an end? It's not, you know.
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