II2II

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by II2II 4d ago
> Nobody wants to pay for what they use, so companies extract value in other ways and you can't complain about that if you're not willing to pay what it costs. I'm likely old school here, but I never liked "paying for
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by II2II 4d ago
The page doesn't make what SPICE is for obvious, aside from linking to other pages, but they are not talking about the circuit simulation tool. (It appears to be some sort of tool for accessing desktops of virtual machines remotely.)
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by II2II 5d ago
I decided to verify the article's claims, forgetting that I had ClearURLs installed, and ClearURLs does not handle this new format. The article also suggests that it cannot be decoded.
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by II2II 9d ago
> Processor operations have to be strongly typed, by definition. Individual instructions assume the data they operate on is of a particular type, but it doesn't differentiate data types in memory. Here's an example where I fo
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by II2II 9d ago
> Practically speaking, we have a word for the kind of "abstractionless" model you're describing: machine code. I mean, even assembler is a bunch of abstractions about 'registers' and 'instructions' tha
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by II2II 9d ago
There are many reasons why C is not a low level language. Take the example: while `asm()` blocks are a common extension to C compilers, anything within the block is (a) compiler dependent and (b) architecture dependent. To choose an extreme
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by II2II 9d ago
EDIT: Just to be clear, the parent's post was originally made in relation to an article/thread called: "LG smart TVs caught logging audio with screen off and snooping on local devices". My response was written at the sam
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by II2II 9d ago
> I find that they're often the only thing that will be truthful about a company's intentions. Really? Many years ago, I had to physically sign a license with Microsoft to obtain some software. The license was not consistent wi
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by II2II 14d ago
Why would anyone put themselves through that if they didn't have to? There is the tale of Allen hand coding the bootloader in machine code, but that was because he was on the plane to give a demo. Otherwise, all of the tales I've
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by II2II 15d ago
> i hate being jaded because you can see where things are headed every time on repeat, but i also hate the term "power user" carries a lot of pc gamer energy and i simply could never assess that i know more then the next guy fo
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by II2II 16d ago
There is a bit of a difference between making a explosives and planting a bomb in another student's locker. The former involves taking risks and may have some utility. The latter only results in others living in fear. Call that lame if
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by II2II 16d ago
When people talk about how much better off kids were in the past, I remember stories from my father (who went to school in the 1960's). They involved drugs, knives, and bombs. I had it pretty good in the 1980's.
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by II2II 18d ago
> The most dangerous part of this addiction is that it doesn't feel like addiction. I've started framing addiction as something that we feel compelled to do even when we know it has a detrimental effect on more important aspect
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by II2II 18d ago
It's more like, is it better to be the person who: - sees a waterfall in every river, even when one is not there? - sees the waterfall, and is resigned about their fate? - sees the waterfall, then struggles for survival no matter how h
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by II2II 18d ago
> One thing people go through as they age is an elevation of cynicism and general misanthropy. After decades of being disappointed when naive idealism and speculative optimism fail, one can just get down on it all. It's even sadder
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by II2II 21d ago
Was it a mistake? It is easy to say that IBM had monopolistic tendencies, because they did. On the other hand, the 5100 sounds like a vertically integrated design and it ended up being extremely expensive. The Datamaster strayed away from I
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by II2II 22d ago
I think their point is that computers used to defy inflation. Across the decades, computers were getting cheaper in an absolute sense (i.e. not factoring in inflation) and astonishingly cheaper in terms of dollars per unit of performance. E
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by II2II 23d ago
True, but many of those bits would be learned in some primary schools. It simply depends upon whether they are relevant where you live. That's especially true for names, which is culturally dependent. It is also true for the culturally
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by II2II 23d ago
Just look at the "falsehoods programmers believe about ..." articles that pop up from time to time. There are plenty of complexities in the real world that people either don't know about, aren't front of mind when they a
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by II2II 25d ago
> Frankly, I don't think it's practical to expect operating systems to continue to run binaries perfectly in perpetuity. A lot of that is going to depend upon perspective. Take something that is coming up: Apple has mentioned t
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by II2II 25d ago
Given Apple's reputation as of late, I was mildly shocked to learn that I could connect a SATA optical drive to my Mac with a USB-SATA bridge, right click on an image in the Finder, and tell it to burn the image to DVD. This is under t
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by II2II 25d ago
Making it even harder to say: the 8080 was based on the 8008. Even though the 8080 was based on the same instruction set as the 8008, it wasn't binary compatible. I assume that means the instruction encoding was different, which means
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by II2II 25d ago
I think it is a bit more complex than that, since how Asian those goods were varied a lot across time. Early on, it may have included semiconductors designed in the US, with manufacturing outsourced to Asia. That outsourcing may have been t
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by II2II 25d ago
That should read, Trump betrays Americans. The reality is that he is destroying American credibility on the international stage, which is going to have long term effects on their ability to make agreements with other countries in the future
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by II2II 25d ago
Canada doesn't have domestic auto companies, yet we manufacture auto parts and assemble automobiles destined for the US. From my understanding, this was negotiated as part of the trade deals. There is no good reason for them to desire
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by II2II 26d ago
> Of course they'll take their own cut, but that's fine. We accept (sometimes grudgingly) that credit card issuers and networks get their own cut, so there's easy precedent here. In that case, I fail to understand the bene
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by II2II 26d ago
Google was not the first search engine, and it certainly isn't the first search engine to fall from grace.
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by II2II 26d ago
Probably true. That said, I spend most of my time querying LLMs for more objective and less financially motivated information. The only time I ask for recommendations is for new routes to explore by bike, and even then it will adapt if you
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by II2II 26d ago
I have a Libra 2 and a Libra Colour. I generally don't notice a difference in crispness, though the effective resolution of the colour's screen is lower. There is a huge difference in the contrast, and you will probably want to us
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by II2II 26d ago
The only way that will work is if each publisher has their own token system, otherwise you have created a new middleman who will want to take their own cut. That middleman will also have to deal with similar problems as payment processors,

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