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by dfe 1mo ago
I have a theory on this. Yes, sugar breaks down to the same fructose and glucose proportion. That takes months. Even longer in concentrated syrup form. Even longer in the one of two components that bottlers get to make the syrup. A freshly
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by dfe 2mo ago
Never go full retard.
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by dfe 3mo ago
https://archive.org/details/microsoft-windows-95_202404
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by dfe 3mo ago
Both of these oddities were addressed over 25 years ago when Mac OS X 10.0.0 "Cheetah" was released. Many of the innovations of Mac OS X have been lost in later macOS, but this one stuck. Instead of saying literally "Program
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by dfe 3mo ago
Are you sure IBM didn't care about 8080 compatibility? The PC was released in August 1981, a full 4 years before any of the other machines you speak of. That XT 5160-078 you speak of is a cost-reduced model with no hard drive from IB
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by dfe 3mo ago
Bribes are a feature of politically-controlled economies, not a bug. Thirty years ago when this was all going down, I believed the narratives of the time. Greedy Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer pushing IBM's OS/2 out of the consumer
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by dfe 5mo ago
It was drop DTR. Most current documentation tells you that dropping DTR means the modem should hang up. That was an option, maybe even the default. But you could AT&D1 to make dropping DTR return you from data mode to command mode. It
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by dfe 6mo ago
I was disappointed when Microsoft dropped original WSL. I'll admit I wasn't a Windows user at the time, nor since for that matter. But I had been before. I knew the history of the "Windows Services for UNIX" and thought
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by dfe 6mo ago
> Tbh, though, the only computer I've ever seen Hibernate work well on are Macs. Every x86 computer usually has some sort of issue with it, except for maybe business laptop models (eg HP's Elitebook line). This has always been
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by dfe 8mo ago
I've only had batteries leak in remotes left unused for over a year. I just pick up Duracell or whatever is at Costco. I've also bought two replacement remotes off of Amazon in the past year, one Samsung and one Insignia. I thin
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by dfe 8mo ago
How long does the breakdown take? Coke used to be mixed, bottled, and shipped out in an extremely quick timeframe. Inventory turned over fast. I suspect the separated components wind up being equal to what a stale soda has, one that has bee
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by dfe 9mo ago
Correct. Whoever downvoted your comment has either never driven this stretch of the 5 or they are the reason it is so bad. It’s the idiots in cars who insist on doing exactly 65 in the left lane next to a semi that cause the problem. Get p
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by dfe 9mo ago
Did people just forget the era of CD burning? Cassettes sucked. Normal non-tech people were ripping CDs with iTunes. "Rip. Mix. Burn." was a nationwide if not worldwide advertisement. All of this still works, if you have a CD dr
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by dfe 10mo ago
This is a time-tested winning strategy that too few corporate owners embrace. When you look at some of the most well-known industrial companies, their founders basically did this. Difficulty: give away too much of the company trying to rais
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by dfe 10mo ago
It's been a long while since I did anything with UEFI, but my recollection is that the standard data structures are reasonably well documented, especially when they are meant to be part of booting an OS I imagine that whatever UEFI ext
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by dfe 10mo ago
True PXE doesn't require coordination with the DHCP server. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preboot_Execution_Environment The network client boot stack sends a DHCPDISCOVER as a broadcast. Any machine can be listen
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by dfe 11mo ago
Bill Kristol is the same asshole he always was.
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by dfe 11mo ago
Except it isn't a fact-check at all. As usual, Paul Krugman is light on real details and heavy on cherry-picked facts to suit his own personal narrative, not unlike Trump. Canada's advertisement aired during one of the World Seri
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by dfe 11mo ago
It's common for wake-on-LAN clients to send UDP packets to port 9 to make sure they get discarded. This is particularly useful if using a multicast or broadcast destination, which is often the case because the ARP entry will have been
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by dfe 11mo ago
It's not just the nullability behavior. My experience with several databases is that IN is always (or almost always) executing the subquery then using its results to match the outer predicate. But EXISTS can work the other direction,
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by dfe 11mo ago
This was an especially interesting read, having lived through using these versions of OS/2 on varying hardware. I think the unfortunate answer is that two if not three drivers are going to have to be written to support the differing ge
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by dfe 11mo ago
Your own article points out that exists handles the first case. Exists is not actually implemented as a subquery, it is merely syntactically a subquery.
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by dfe 11mo ago
It’s been a while but I’m pretty sure the Mach-O linker on macOS has exactly the feature you are looking for. Basically there is a linker flag to produce a .o while maintaining relocation info. This can then be fed into another linker later
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by dfe 11mo ago
OS/2 did offer a lot of value beyond just running Windows software. The WPS (Workplace Shell) is to this day one of the better desktop UIs. It brought a lot of the classic Macintosh feel to the PC world and improved upon it. Where Wi
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by dfe 11mo ago
I think if IBM had simply put in the engineering to allow Windows 95 to run as the Win-OS/2 layer, OS/2 may have survived a lot longer. I've done a fair amount of research into this and I think it was technically within reach
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by dfe 11mo ago
I was an avid OS/2 user from 2.1 (1993) through Warp 4 (1996). This is sort of accurate and sort of not. It depends on what point in time you are referring to. I did happen to have a machine with a monster CPU (for the time), but I kn
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by dfe 1y ago
What’s more concerning to me is that my very cold take got downvoted into oblivion and that aside from yours, all the responses are irrational. And this is not Facebook. There is no algorithm driving views and hot takes. This is ordinary, e
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by dfe 1y ago
It is upsetting to me that people have so much trouble sifting fact from opinion or narrative. The fact is that DOGE made cuts to NHTSA. It is also a fact that DOGE made cuts to a bunch of agencies, not just ones related to something Elon
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by dfe 1y ago
That was true, but look at https://www.apple.com/leadership/ today. Craig Federighi is a notable NeXT alum. And... I think he might be the only one left in leadership. NeXT was a comparatively small company compared t
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by dfe 1y ago
Jim Acosta is a mass delusion event.

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