xradionut

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by xradionut 13y ago
If only a geek could buy the latest version of the OLPC laptop...
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by xradionut 13y ago
It's not all US citizens. Only well-connected, wealthy US citizens have rights. The rest of the US citizens are semi-disposable like the rest of the world.
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by xradionut 13y ago
"You can not feed a nation on "a premium product" that you have to "pay a premium for"" Yes you can. You just need fewer people to feed.
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by xradionut 13y ago
Decently paid Costco employees vs Amazon contractor wage slaves? Consider what you wish for...
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by xradionut 13y ago
We buy in bulk and store it or share it among two to four local households. Makes for a big savings if carefully planned. We also share coupons and other discount programs. My spouse figured out that our household alone saves over $1500 US
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by xradionut 13y ago
The Windows solution would seem to only work if you have admin access to the specific server or the rights to access the journal.
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by xradionut 13y ago
As a long time reader of both science fiction and fantasy, only about .1% is instructional or thought provoking, the rest is escapism or wish fulfillment, the modern version of the penny dreadful.
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by xradionut 13y ago
Books may teach you stuff others want you to think, not necessary the truth. But then again, most people can't handle the truth.
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by xradionut 13y ago
If this isn't a joke, then Grace Hopper is spinning in her grave.
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by xradionut 13y ago
Borderlands 2 is a mix of FPS/RPG/Coop goodness. It's the first shooter I have liked since Doom and the only one my spouse plays.
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by xradionut 13y ago
"By all measures, Win9 should be a great OS. MS just has a nasty habbit of releasing experimental software as if it were ready for production." I think they have jumped the shark with 8.x as far as their desktop OS goes.
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by xradionut 13y ago
No, the attitude I hear in the Deep South is: If you are successful, you can afford professional services and your spouse doesn't need to work, if not, you are a loser and not a good enough Christian. Work harder! (And send my kids to
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by xradionut 13y ago
This often backfires. My MIL got me scented candles. WTF?!
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by xradionut 13y ago
Here's what I tell my wife's family and my family. If you feel like gifting, DO NOT get us physical gifts, we don't have the space and there's a 99.99% chance you will not be right in your gift selection. We'd love
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by xradionut 13y ago
"Much greatness in him and I wonder what he would have achieved if he had started off in California rather than Essex and Cambridge." Maybe nothing great? Consider if Linus didn't have Finnish winters?
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by xradionut 13y ago
Consumer debt and the increase of public lotteries are the schemes that allow inequality to exist as long as it has. Take them away and you take away hope.
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by xradionut 13y ago
The chilling thing is the answers you get when you ask some of the more frank of the upper class in a moment of candor what should happen to the people that are no longer necessary or left behind. Some of outliers of their solutions range
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by xradionut 13y ago
But the US population as a whole has slid backwards in power and monetary means over the last thirty years. The shenanigans that allowed the elite to walk over the working class had their roots in the late 70's and 80's with the s
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by xradionut 13y ago
Mac users do bitch about the OS, there's forums where they have done so for decades. There's still folks calling for Apple to fix the fucking Finder. I used Mac OS back in the day and was one of the early users of OS X. But none o
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by xradionut 13y ago
"Is there a way that a company with closed source and proprietary infrastructure can prove that it's not up to any funny business?" No.
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by xradionut 13y ago
People think working for Goldman Sachs is ethical. People participating in the Summer Olympics think Russia is ethical. People buying Nikes and Fuji water think they are ethical. Where do you stop?
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by xradionut 13y ago
Very few folks are idolizing him for his code correctness, but for his ability to prototype and ship. I've worked with developers like Notch. I like them because they can create rapidly iterate apps/sites/ideas that normal pe
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by xradionut 13y ago
I don't know why the blog poster is impressed. This is Notch's domain, writing code of this ilk. He's probably got over a decade or more dealing with games and graphics, the hard part is dealing with a API that's unfamil
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by xradionut 13y ago
This appears to be a repost, we had a nice discussion of this work on Oberon yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6829464
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by xradionut 13y ago
I'm not seeing the big issue being raised here. I think much of how a child turns out in life depends on their parents. My wife likes pink, but she's also better at repairing cars, playing video games, repairing smart phones and t
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by xradionut 13y ago
It would be nice to see Oberon ported to MIPS. maybe the PIC32 would be a good target.
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by xradionut 13y ago
There's that too. Although I'd like to have the time to port Oberon to MIPS, maybe the PIC32 since the more powerful, modern MIPS chips are out of budget. Haven't done the analysis, but I think it would be a good match.
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by xradionut 13y ago
How about making a language, compiler, OS and applications and not use C or C++ ? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6829464
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by xradionut 13y ago
The ARM family is the problem in that case. There's so much variation among the different versions that drivers are an issue. There is a version of the Oberon language, Astrobe, that runs on the a few of the smaller chips, created by
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by xradionut 13y ago
"Mostly thanks to the regularity of the RISC instruction set, the size of the compiler could be reduced significantly. It now measures less than 2900 lines of program and compiles itself in about 3 seconds, which is proof of its effici

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