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901.
by rvense 6y ago
Another new 68k board that came out recently is Rosco: https://rosco-m68k.com/ It's for sale on Tindie and the person who made it seems to focusing a lot on making a toolchain available etc. If you want to actually pro
902.
by rvense 6y ago
Are you seriously saying that the advancement in worker's conditions in the late 19th and throughout the 20th century were due only to employers being in competition with one another, and not due to legislative demands and union pressu
903.
by rvense 6y ago
But this isn't proof at all that economic freedom is what leads to improved conditions for workers. It's hardly the Chinese government that's forcing the hand of the poor sweatshop owners, just like it wasn't Queen Victo
904.
by rvense 6y ago
This is an incredible argument. Abuse and coercion (and poor working conditions in general, and long working hours, lack of holidays and sick leave and all the other things that progressive politics and labour unions have given us) are extr
905.
by rvense 6y ago
But you can't remove labour unions or government intervention either. Capitalism didn't come up with workplace safety standards and it didn't make kids go to schools instead of working in factories.
906.
by rvense 6y ago
Providing a level playing field for non-Amazon sellers is extremely important for the economy. Amazon is approaching monopoly or near-monopoly on many things, and getting preferential treatment from logistics companies will only accelerate
907.
by rvense 6y ago
Hardly. Turks arrived in Turkey a millenium or more after Thermopylae, and to say that Greek culture of today is "the same" as that of the group of people who lived there in the Bronze Age is quite obviously false.
908.
by rvense 6y ago
The swamp was drained - into DC.
909.
by rvense 6y ago
Slow is the wrong word, I think. Big container ships don't necessarily move a lot faster than sailing ships, since speed = fuel usage, which is a big cost in shipping. A big modern container ship might cruise at half it's maximum
910.
by rvense 6y ago
I find it absolutely infuriating that this cartoon villain can just decide to gunk up the sky for a commercial venture. This is like Nestle bottling public water.
911.
by rvense 6y ago
"Aaron dead. World wanderers, we have lost a wise elder. Hackers for right, we are one down. Parents all, we have lost a child. Let us weep." (Tim Berners-Lee)
912.
by rvense 6y ago
Meanwhile, my new Thinkpad has a camera cover built in...
913.
by rvense 6y ago
That's a strange comment - both LibreOffice and Gimp have seen some development in the past ten years.
914.
by rvense 6y ago
Propeller planes used about half as much fuel per mile as early jets. Jets have caught up, but it took half a century to get back to earlier levels of fuel efficiency. Slowing down in general is an easy way to bring down energy usage, but i
915.
by rvense 6y ago
I ran Gentoo for about a week a long time ago. On a 400 MHz Powermac G4. By which I mean, I installed Gentoo once and then decided I didn't like it.
916.
by rvense 6y ago
What it says is to not abuse lists, isn't it? I think what they mean is something like, don't use a list as a "object"/tuple that gets picked apart with a lot of cdddaring? Rather, use real structures and other cont
917.
by rvense 6y ago
> We live in a capitalist society. You reduce demand by increasing costs. The rich are the least affected. That's just how it works. Maybe we could work on that somehow, seeing as how the rich you are, the bigger your environmental
918.
by rvense 6y ago
As I understand it the problem is again distribution. If German cows are anything like Danish pigs, they eat a lot of Brazilian soy. But nobody's shipping shit back to South America. So they get fertilizer from mines. Maybe it's t
919.
by rvense 6y ago
The electronics shop across the street has its display windows lit all night, with two or three giant TV screens telling the (very few) passers-by to buy a Google Home so they can talk to their smart light bulbs, or whatever. Maybe, just ma
920.
by rvense 6y ago
Even old laptops can make good servers. Built-in UPS and screen for recovery. Depending on just how old, you might even be able to add more storage using USB3 ports, or with a controller in an ExpressCard slot or in place of the wireless ca
921.
by rvense 6y ago
I have one that's run well for a year. It's only been offline when I've powered it off myself.
922.
by rvense 6y ago
I've put a 4-port SATA controller in mine and use it as a NAS. Haven't benchmarked it but it works well.
923.
by rvense 6y ago
USB->ADB adapters are more like ADB->USB translators than ADB on a USB bus, though. They'll only support some peripherals, and they'll show up as normal HID devices. You won't be able to connect your PageMaker dongle, u
924.
by rvense 6y ago
The Mac serial ports were much better than PC serial parts. They ran faster and could be used over longer distances and had hardware support for networking with those cheap LocalTalk boxes - as I understand it, you're basically physica
925.
by rvense 6y ago
You're thinking of the Palm Pixi, I think. This is a new Android device by the looks of it.
926.
by rvense 6y ago
For manual repairs it's certainly viable for some components, but it takes some care to not end up with tiny passives stuck to everything - if you literally just shake (or more, likely, scrape) everything off the board you'll get
927.
by rvense 6y ago
"Recycling" in the context of electronics means that a few rare minerals (gold) get extracted, and the rest (ie. almost everything) ends up in landfills or as filler for roads at best. It's a very energy intensive process wit
928.
by rvense 6y ago
Networking is fine, as long as it has no browser.
929.
by rvense 6y ago
They said the same with the Intel transition, and also projected a two year timeline. The transition was over much sooner than that and there weren't any new PPC products to speak of, as far as I remember. And of course, PPC Macs only
930.
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