therealbilly

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by therealbilly 4y ago
Isn't it strange that Apple invents a technology, begins to use it for their own business and then Europe says Apple is unfairly preventing other companies from using this technology? What are we missing here?
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by therealbilly 4y ago
LOL, TurboTax is using every dark pattern in the bag.
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by therealbilly 4y ago
A lot of shady stuff happens in Virginia law enforcement. It's a huge racket and sadly the taxpayers fund their shenanigans.
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by therealbilly 4y ago
A lot of good comments about the Unix market back then. The honest truth is that cheap no-name PC's with RedHat and a little later, nVidia graphics cards are what killed the Unix vendors. The price disparity was stark and a no-brainer
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by therealbilly 5y ago
Early lifeforms in the Ediacaran period favored glide symmetry aka translational.
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by therealbilly 5y ago
LOL, I thought the towing industry was already run by organized crime.
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by therealbilly 5y ago
There are a category of people out there that glom onto a certain subject and though they lack the background and training to fully understand the subject, they piece together enough topical information to sound insightful and knowledgeable
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by therealbilly 5y ago
I bet the middle managers cheered when they heard this news. It's been hard for them to show value when everybody is at home. Hope fully most of the folks over there can choose what works for them. Assuming the work gets done regardles
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by therealbilly 5y ago
Our best bets right now for further exploration are bigger telescopes (even bigger than the WEBB), and trying to intercept laser communication events. I should have mentioned gravity astronomy...that will be huge as well.
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by therealbilly 5y ago
Sounds like an expensive situation.
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by therealbilly 5y ago
The Apple Macintosh IIfx had IOP's which I think were 6809's as I/O controllers. I believe they only worked in System 6 and were not used in System 7. Somebody mentioned that the Mac Quadra 950 had IOP's as well.
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by therealbilly 5y ago
Yeah the problem with Cloud vendors is that if they make a mistake, it will usually disadvantage the customer...not them. I'm a little biased as I don't completely buy into the whole Cloud paradigm.
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by therealbilly 5y ago
Obviously, only a collimated beam of modulated EM frequency would seem feasible. Then you would have to be in the beams path to even see it. If could detect something like that, it would be amazing and of course trying to decode it.
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by therealbilly 5y ago
Honestly, I think it's best if we have two modes of working. We could have an office mode, where you go in to the office and interact with others for whatever reason. Then we have remote mode (maybe the preferred mode), where we have a
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by therealbilly 5y ago
Yeah I think our level of intelligence is probably pretty rare. I mean we have a G type star which are not that plentiful in the cosmos. We have a large moon that causes tidal forces on earth and mixes things up. We apparently have a nice s
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by therealbilly 5y ago
I'm personally waiting for the whole DevOps thing to revert back to what we had before. I come from the mainframe world. In those days, there was real trust in the developers and we migrated our own code. We had testers and we couldn&#
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by therealbilly 5y ago
The dirty little secret is that warplanes have tiny wings so they can go fast. The problem is that at any given speed compared to ordinary aircraft, more engine power is needed to maintain velocity. That means much more noise. The solution?
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by therealbilly 5y ago
It's an interesting story but it's unlikely that there is any alien machine material on our planet. Interstellar distances are unimaginably vast and there is no technology that allows for travel to neighboring stars. Even if we fo
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by therealbilly 5y ago
I still argue for autonomous vehicles with sentient robots that come alive in orbit and go down to the planet and explore. I very much doubt that humans will ever leave the solar system. Sadly our lifespans are just too short. One possibili
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by therealbilly 5y ago
It's actually more hopeless than you realize. Okay, so you just arrived at your destination. Now what, unless this new world was EXACTLY like earth, you will perish relatively quickly. The atmosphere will probably have a different mix
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by therealbilly 5y ago
Honestly, the IT market is seriously broken. It's every person for themselves now. Nobody is looking out for you. Get your equipment, build your lab and do remote work.
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by therealbilly 5y ago
You can tell by the number of comments below that most citizens are completely oblivious or just plain don't care about government spying. It's a little sad isn't it? We give up our rights so easily.
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by therealbilly 5y ago
I don't know. This has sort of a scapegoat feel to it
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by therealbilly 5y ago
The original premise of clouds was good. Allow companies to run their software on someone else's machines. The cloud guys wanted to make more money so they started cloning commercial software and then charging companies to use their ho
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by therealbilly 5y ago
It should be clear by now that Google serves the state. The government knows Google collects all this information and they also know Google never deletes this information. Both Google and the government have an ongoing relationship where in
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by therealbilly 5y ago
What could go wrong by having the Zuck and his minions fact check? Naturally it's going to lead to chaos. Tech Bros. have no business even going down this road. Stick to what you know and are good at.
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by therealbilly 5y ago
Fighter planes have tiny wings because of aerodynamic drag and so require very powerful engines to keep the plane in the sky. Since the engines are running at high output, they are very noisy. The fact these are also low bypass engines, con
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by therealbilly 5y ago
At the end of the day, most large banks, most large insurance firms, most credit processors, most large government agencies use z/OS and z/15 class machines. I work on mainframes and they are the source of data for just about all
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by therealbilly 5y ago
Taking a big step back, it's important to remember that unlike PC processors, mainframe processors do not do I/O. These big frames have dedicated I/O processors called channels. So the mainframe processors are unencumbered an
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by therealbilly 5y ago
I trust Rand Paul more than I trust the Tech Bros.. It's as simple as that. So I have a problem with YouTube.

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