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by sydbarrett74 2y ago
Yes. My entire life since I attained voting age has been choosing between a douche and a turd ( South Park reference for those not immediately getting the context). I get more and more weary with each election cycle.
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by sydbarrett74 2y ago
I resonate with Dubray's sentiments. Maybe it's because I just turned 50 and am more contemplative at the half-century mark, but I feel anymore like I'm playing a part in peddling schlock and snake oil. Our industry is increa
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by sydbarrett74 2y ago
First-mover advantage (or close to first) has a lot to do with it, I imagine. Ellison has been resting on his laurels for over four decades.
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by sydbarrett74 2y ago
Thank you for creating this. I took Latin in HS (over 30 years ago!) and would like to brush up.
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by sydbarrett74 2y ago
Sadly, the Biden Administration was the first Democratic one in decades which vigorously enforced antitrust. A Lina Khan type probably won't resurface anytime soon, if ever.
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by sydbarrett74 2y ago
If Facebook disappeared tomorrow, I would argue that the world would be vastly better off.
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by sydbarrett74 2y ago
Alas, our need for safety is far more primal than our need for freedom.
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by sydbarrett74 2y ago
One reason why legalese is so incomprehensible is because it has to cover all conceivable edge and corner cases explicitly. It rubs up against the limits of human language.
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by sydbarrett74 2y ago
My apologies to all for the saltiness.
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by sydbarrett74 2y ago
My plan is to run HardenedBSD for most things, MacOS for games, and Windows for anything that absolutely won't run otherwise. Nadella has shown his contempt for power users way too often.
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by sydbarrett74 2y ago
Real headline: 'TPTB* want Gen Z to hate working from home' *The Powers That Be
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by sydbarrett74 2y ago
Both what AND how much you eat matters. So neither side is wrong. It's just that neither side is sufficient alone.
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by sydbarrett74 2y ago
Too bad Andy Grove is dead.
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by sydbarrett74 2y ago
To be fair, OS/2 could be run on less-beefy hardware that would've choked on NT 3.1.
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by sydbarrett74 2y ago
Fools and their money...
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by sydbarrett74 2y ago
Biden was asleep at the wheel for a large majority of his term (a fact criminally hidden by his handlers and enablers). When he was awake, he was campaigning and fund-raising. I'm not surprised at his 11th-hour initiatives.
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by sydbarrett74 2y ago
Valuable for how long, though? With the hydrological cycle changing and causing deluges in places and drought in others, those waterways might not be navigable in 50 years.
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by sydbarrett74 2y ago
The article is nothing more than a whinge session with no solutions offered.
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by sydbarrett74 2y ago
How difficult would it be to reverse engineer the firmware and provide a fix?
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by sydbarrett74 2y ago
In the US, President Wilson proposed a soft-drink tax in 1914, but the already-powerful Coca-Cola Company lobbied to defeat the initiative. In this country, the beverage industry is incredibly influential and has bought off a lot of legis
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by sydbarrett74 2y ago
Yes. Collateral/indirect damage via a ripple effect.
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by sydbarrett74 2y ago
Trump is set to run Season Two of the world's most-watched Reality TV show, so he needs to pick a cast that will juice the ratings.
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by sydbarrett74 2y ago
With the coming tariffs, expect it to get way worse. We could be looking at the 21st century Great Depression.
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by sydbarrett74 2y ago
Lutnick must've failed ECON101.
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by sydbarrett74 2y ago
As far as Brazil, Bolsonaro is getting a second wind; as far as India, Modi is not exactly a fan of liberal democracy. Both nations exhibit disturbing signs of sliding into autocracy.
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by sydbarrett74 2y ago
My wording was poor. Apologies. I probably should've said, 'heavily subsidised' instead.
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by sydbarrett74 2y ago
A lot of the problem is that a smart TV UI's primary purpose is to show advertisements. TV mfgers these days get a large chunk of their revenue from advertising tie-ins, making the hardware a loss-leader of sorts. The UI is designed fo
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by sydbarrett74 2y ago
My only hesitation with recommending Chromebooks is the fickleness with which Google treats its offerings. One of MS's strengths is their support of legacy technologies. They may deprecate things, but one doesn't have to go out of
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by sydbarrett74 2y ago
Same. At least with SSD's rebooting isn't as painful as it was in the spinning rust days.
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by sydbarrett74 2y ago
Yep, MS has to throw a bone to the h/w manufacturers every so often. That was probably a factor in MS backpedalling on Win10 being the 'last version of Windows ever' (that, and Apple advancing macOS beyond major version 10).

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