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by the_biot 4y ago
That video is marvellous, when you compare it to today's technology and how it's used. The angsty "does it mean we'll all have to learn to type?", the female BASIC programmer working from home on her terminal with p
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by the_biot 4y ago
Lots of people hate MS because of their monopolistic practices in the past. Myself, I always despised the company because of the complete shit quality of their software, starting with DOS. That was a pile of crap from day 1, and while much
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by the_biot 4y ago
Frankly no. I don't mean to denigrate, but Phoronix is generally not seen as all that great a source of good journalism. He did say he at least tried to confirm this news however.
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by the_biot 4y ago
That sure is a lot of nonsense. What we see in the US is the government, in the form of the police, abuses the people plenty. That's why there's so much protest when they actually kill people. And are people arming themselves more
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by the_biot 4y ago
At the time of the referendum, at least, I recall that Quebec was a net recipient of federal funds, i.e. was not economically self-sufficient. I always assumed that played a role in the way the vote went: people expecting the Quebec economy
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by the_biot 4y ago
This, and it seems like it needs repeating every time somebody brings up systemd. The SysV init scripts weren't good, they were crufty and slow, and messy when you wanted to customize something, and -- this doesn't get said enough
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by the_biot 4y ago
What's fastpeoplesearch.com? Some search engine for leaked credentials? (it appears to be geoblocked in Europe)
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by the_biot 4y ago
Right, and the secondary effects? If you live near where some people got robbed, you now have cops stopping you for no reason, just because you look like everybody else in that (now marked as high crime) neighborhood. I have no idea what th
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by the_biot 4y ago
"Jeff had developed simulation models of the geographic and temporal patterning of urban crime, and had created predictive software that he marketed to law enforcement agencies." It's that second part, predicting where crime
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by the_biot 4y ago
Didn't I read something a while back about faculty members, prior to being hired, needing to write an essay about some woke cause? It being clear that the essay not expressing a woke enough opinion, there would be no job offer.
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by the_biot 4y ago
A project similar to this one for the Beaglebone Black: http://beaglelogic.github.io/
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by the_biot 4y ago
https://sigrok.org/wiki/Developers#Development_guidelines It's all there, and linked from the wiki's main page, it's just that there's so much of it. Examples: http://sigrok.org/gitw
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by the_biot 4y ago
Except there is currently no fx3 driver in sigrok mainline. It's not a compatible chip to the FX2.
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by the_biot 4y ago
You can hardly compare the atmega series CPUs with 32-bit ARM SoCs running at 10+ times the clock speed, much more memory, and many more advanced features. The RP2040 (the SoC on the pico) is very much a generation beyond the atmegas, if no
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by the_biot 4y ago
For one thing, the author could have avoided all the work of creating a GUI and lots of protocol analyzers, and thus got his project working faster. This could have been as simple as writing a sigrok driver, a process which is very easy tha
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by the_biot 4y ago
Where did you get that information?
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by the_biot 4y ago
That's been done, it's exactly what Mastodon is. It hasn't made a dent in anything.
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by the_biot 4y ago
Frankly I think that's a naive take. I suspect in reality it'll come down to managers being told to cut some percentage of staff, and in many cases that'll come down to everybody feeling the pressure of swords hanging over th
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by the_biot 4y ago
Of course it is. Note this line from TFA: Something the customer is (fingerprint, iris, face) Right there, trying to normalize the idea that the government needs our fingerprints, iris etc. And that ship has sailed, lots of laws getting p
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by the_biot 4y ago
> I have no real objection to paying money to firms that keep gas plants ready for use Yeah well, you're one of the good ones then. I expect that to be a real test of faith for greens and small-government liberals both.
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by the_biot 4y ago
Indeed, we simply can't do without non-renewables at the moment, nobody can. Just wait until everybody really does have a ton of renewable energy, and you get headlines like "<area> ran on 100% renewables all week!", an
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by the_biot 4y ago
The reason for that is the green parties, certainly in Europe, got their start protesting nuclear weapons and nuclear energy both, and they were true believers in the cause. That was the 60s/70s. But in the mean time it's become c
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by the_biot 4y ago
If that helped you, or at least gave you some enjoyment in a fun story to tell, good for you. But you should know that the therapist that did this was an absolute quack. Please, don't seek help from quacks.
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by the_biot 4y ago
It really was terrible, but the aspect of the fighters getting pushed ever closer together, to the point where it's hard to watch it's so terrifying, really did happen. The battle of Cannae was apparently like that, where soldiers
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by the_biot 4y ago
My personal opinion, not a linguist: All languages start as dialects, and the point at which they become a separate language is arbitrary, more a matter of opinion than a hard rule. Languages are created by people speaking another language
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by the_biot 4y ago
Those are amazingly great ideas, but they would take vision and leadership to implement. Bloated rent-seeking organizations like Wikimedia don't attract people with vision and leadership skills, so they won't have any.
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by the_biot 4y ago
My personal pet theory is that they select for people willing to put up with completely pointless bullshit, since that's what you'll be faced with every day in gigantic companies like this.
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by the_biot 4y ago
I'm seeing the same thing where I live, where a new fiber infrastructure has a choice of a few ISPs, but two of them are actually shells owned by the same outfit (an existing hosting provider). I'm really not sure why. The product
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by the_biot 4y ago
Always sad to see when people so blatantly sell out. The linked video is right on the money, too. I wonder what made him change his mind. Is this his primary income now, maybe? Or did he just get greedier?
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by the_biot 4y ago
The comment is factual and relevant, in either case. The annoyance is entirely yours.

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