RetroTechie

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by RetroTechie 4d ago
I'm no lawyer, but afaik so-called "shrink-wrap" licence agreements, where vendor would like people to believe you've agreed by buying & using the product, are null & void legally speaking. Primarily because th
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by RetroTechie 10d ago
> Google has risked regulatory wrath by special-casing their own user-tracking and ad cookies while blocking other third-party cookies. Google is too big a company to let something this essential slip through. Therefore the only reasonab
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by RetroTechie 10d ago
Many hobbyist users don't check optical discs' contents after being written. Instead just rely on the "success" or "fail" provided by recording software. Or simply re-insert a written disc & take a glance a
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by RetroTechie 10d ago
Hmm... "STAY ON THE BUS is excerpted from the commencement speech at delivered at the New England School of Photography in June 2004" (sources seem to differ on the year)
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Creativity: The Helsinki bus station theory(medium.com)
3 points by RetroTechie 10d ago|3 comments
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by RetroTechie 10d ago
This lingered around my mind a few times on unrelated stories. But couldn't find it later (not quickly anyway) as I had forgotten how it was named. Title shortened & to undo exaggeration. Often referred to simply as "Helsinki
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by RetroTechie 10d ago
What he found was that as cable marched across Norway intelligence fell in its wake: “for each year that their hometown had full coverage, IQ dropped by 0.08 points”. “Higher exposure to commercial television”, Hernæs’s study bluntly concl
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by RetroTechie 12d ago
You can take those 'useless', redundant synonyms from my cold, dead brain cells!
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Therapeutic Food (Child Malnutrition)(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by RetroTechie 13d ago|0 comments
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by RetroTechie 13d ago
Such a powerful and well-written essay! Please read it through, internalize its message, extend that to clean drinking water, housing, physical safety, and realize the many millions of people who can't reach their full potential becaus
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by RetroTechie 13d ago
I'll cut mr. Gates some slack if scanned from original printouts, and done so to avoid OCR'ing errors. That said: it's an under 4K binary right? How much effort to check that text version matches original printouts? (or even
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by RetroTechie 13d ago
> People concerned about global warming might be misled and support allocating capital to space exploration rather than to overhauling transportation and power grids here on Earth. Assuming jjk166's position that space industry&#x27
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by RetroTechie 13d ago
"In addition to the difference in the number of sides," Sánchez-Lavega explained, "the decagon is situated at a less polar latitude than the hexagon in the southern hemisphere, Just a thought: how do lengths of the sides co
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by RetroTechie 13d ago
Anyone know how this company expects to make money from AI model(s) running locally on consumer-grade hardware? Download a closed-source binary for <platform>, payment via appstore? Ads inserted in output? Freemium vs. pro tier offeri
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by RetroTechie 14d ago
"Currently (spring of 2026) graduate students in the Museum Studies and Archival Studies programs at Claremont Graduate University are working on-site at San Diego State University to create an index of what is in the former Computer
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by RetroTechie 14d ago
Please don't brush off parent's "slow connection". Many people are stuck with that. A prime example: cookie dialogs. On a slow connection, page loads, large parts are rendered, and you start reading. After that , some s
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by RetroTechie 14d ago
There's many examples of companies who were conducting a low growth, long-term viable business. And where then PE stepped in, ripped out the most profitable part(s), and discarded the less-profitable parts as a dead husk. In the proces
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by RetroTechie 14d ago
> Refreshing to see there are other outcomes than asking AI what it is these days. In science, that's the only way to obtain results: do experiments, gather data. It's also what sets scientists apart from other people: curios
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by RetroTechie 14d ago
> turned out most the essential apps won’t install because your OS is outdated, from bank ones to uber, none! Worse: apps could have been installed previously but stop working anyway, because server 'stops talking' to older ver
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by RetroTechie 14d ago
> I think the problem is that things that once did not require and realistically shouldn't require apps (like the toilet example - which I can't tell if hyperbole or not) are now "app enabled" by default. It's ri
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by RetroTechie 15d ago
The Speccy was very popular in Spain (and I'd assume Portugal too). As well as -probably not coincidence- in South American countries. Arab countries & Europe's Eastern block each have their own computing histories that's
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by RetroTechie 15d ago
> Greetings, fellow old people. Greetings back! The only drawback is that (statistically speaking) remaining lifespan is shorter for a 'greybeard' than a youngster. Apart from that, I feel lucky to have experienced in my life t
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by RetroTechie 15d ago
> There's way more to lose by slowing down AI because of emission control than to gain by reducing emissions. If AI works out as proponents would make you believe, then either you'll see masses of people out of a job - for whic
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by RetroTechie 18d ago
4 Drives, 5.5G total. Luxury! Per-drive individual sounds, and BSoD included. Nice touches, love it!
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by RetroTechie 19d ago
And along the same lines: predators moving into urban areas more & more as poachers decimated their traditional preys. Don't destroy the space they live in & most animals will happily stay away from humans.
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by RetroTechie 19d ago
Bloat refers to quantitative apects like increased cpu/ram/storage requirements. Article discusses qualitative aspects a la "if it ain't broke, don't fix it".
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by RetroTechie 20d ago
It's ironic when data center operators, who I'd expect to be experts on calculating complex cost/benefit scenarios, check for & arrange what's needed, sidestep better solutions because there's a bunch of require
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by RetroTechie 20d ago
Just checking a random webshop, most offerings are <€10/GB. That's €0.01/MB, or about 3 cups of coffee on a terrace for 1,073,741,824 bytes of RAM. So ehm... yeah prices went up a lot. But expensive? Back in the day, I bou
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by RetroTechie 20d ago
How would you propose to determine that, reliably ?
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by RetroTechie 20d ago
AI focussed - as so much these days. Some corp. please put general-purpose cores in that RAM?

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