BirAdam

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by BirAdam 4d ago
There was also the Mr Pibb game.
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by BirAdam 6d ago
I am old enough to remember the world before the web rather clearly. There are tradeoffs, but on balance, I do believe the world is better now than it was. There has been a massive disintermediation of information, it's cheaper and eas
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by BirAdam 8d ago
Buddhists and Catholics also hold interfaith dialogues.
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by BirAdam 8d ago
If by “America” you mean Meso and South America, sure. The USA, however, was Protestant, not Catholic.
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by BirAdam 11d ago
There are so many CVEs related to upload… and basic user/group/file permissions and proper rules within the web proxy could mitigate them. It reeks of people just writing stuff and tossing it up thinking that they’ve crafted somet
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by BirAdam 13d ago
You’ll hear/read many people opining that it actually wasn’t a good idea. I counter that it’s a great idea for many things. The problem is that something good enough and far cheaper is already all over the Earth: the web. Just like Hur
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by BirAdam 13d ago
Cannot replicate.
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by BirAdam 16d ago
In general, things have meaning because people assign meanings to them. Nothing inherently has meaning as meaning exists only within the human mind/soul. If you are searching for meaning, you will find nothing.
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by BirAdam 16d ago
Yeah, I have a few lines to that toward the end without going into the other product lines. I focus on computing history, and not on AV.
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by BirAdam 16d ago
I did mention classes of other products, but this was more a history of the company’s GPUs. My work focuses on computing, and not so much on AV.
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Matrox: Graphics for Professionals(abortretry.fail)
193 points by BirAdam 17d ago|80 comments
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by BirAdam 17d ago
The gun is there. It’s just pointed at that dictators’ heads. If a vassal gets too out of line, the US initiates “regime change” or there’s an assassination or there’s a color revolution.
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by BirAdam 17d ago
The issue is more that an individual has a right to be secure his/her belongings, is free from warrantless search and seizure, and a right to refrain from self-incrimination. All of these are violated by constant surveillance. Further,
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by BirAdam 18d ago
That and it’s against the spirit of the bill of rights.
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by BirAdam 19d ago
Tax and regulation is how you pull the ladder up behind yourself, so... naturally Gates is in favor of this.
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by BirAdam 19d ago
Give it time.
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by BirAdam 21d ago
Features to replace installation, cloud metadata uniformity, better secure boot support, boot loader support, and improved TPM support. None of this sounds user hostile, but taken together and handed to the corporate Linux vendors? This eas
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by BirAdam 21d ago
So many people talk about wanting Linux on Apple Silicon, and while Asahi can run on M1/M2 and has some support on M3, it's not optimal. Also, software quality in Linux, while higher than most alternatives, has been trending downw
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by BirAdam 21d ago
Give IBM some time, and there will likely be similar stuff on Linux distributions. The Linux kernel has been dropping hardware support, and systemd has been getting some... interesting features. Naturally, the benefit for Linux is still the
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by BirAdam 21d ago
I recently had to buy RAM for some on-prem servers at work. 256GB was around $3800, and it wasn't even particularly fast RAM... it also wasn't ECC, because that would have spiked the price still higher.
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by BirAdam 22d ago
Right now, demand exceeds supply. As new fabs come online, supply will rise. Eventually, either through greater efficiency of the models and inference systems or through the collapse of AI companies, the demand will drop.
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by BirAdam 29d ago
Regulatory capture of our legislature and regulatory bodies, intense bribery, proof of need legislation, and people consistently providing an obviously corrupt system with more money and power thinking that somehow, magically, the people wh
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by BirAdam 1mo ago
There’s Vortex86 and VIA. VIA’s rights came from Cyrix, and this is where Zhaoxin‘s rights come from.
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by BirAdam 1mo ago
So much this. When my son turned 12, I told him how some of the various social media sites and smart technologies work, and he’s avoided social media altogether ever since (he’s now an adult). He always uses ad blockers and content filters,
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by BirAdam 1mo ago
PalmOS and webOS were the best.
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by BirAdam 2mo ago
This saved me when X killed Substack tweets. My Substack uses a custom domain and thus was fine. People tweeted it out with no blocking.
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by BirAdam 2mo ago
Sure, but people could also just use BSD. The point is not vim or Linux. The point is that what the author appears to enjoy, a simple editor and a book, is easily accomplished still today.
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by BirAdam 2mo ago
Most Linux systems just symlink vim to vi, and it launches in a compatibility mode. Vim without plugins is still close. Old workflows can still be achieved. The user simply has to really want that experience.
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by BirAdam 2mo ago
If ever handled thousands of servers running Linux with sysvinit, you get quite accustomed to it… and the tricky bits aren’t that tricky.
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by BirAdam 2mo ago
I never found systemd difficult, but I do find prior solutions to be simpler. An init script is easy, and the order is also easy. If people are accustomed to UNIX systems, the sysvinit is better. For people who never experienced those syste

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