hackthemack

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   by hackthemack 1y ago

   I wish people were not so adverse to unions. The company will never be your friend. You will almost never have much leverage over what the company wants to do. The information you have will most likely be very asymmetrical to what the compa
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   by hackthemack 1y ago

   I started working in IT in the 90s and I would say "yes" but I realize my observations do not carry scientific rigor. It would require knowing the thoughts and practices of millions of people. Such is the curse of social science.
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   by hackthemack 1y ago

   In the article (which is quite good to read), they wrote "The iPhone is often cited as the reason for why Flash started to decline, since it led to significant user demand to have Flash-free sites. However, I think Flash’s fate was tru
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   by hackthemack 1y ago

   I am not sure. C# came long after Java already made inroads into the Enterprise space. It was a different time. I would say that many things in IT are not chosen on technical merits alone. You have people that do not want to accrue any blam
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   by hackthemack 1y ago

   I worked in IT from the 90s to today. My perspective is it grew and grew because Sun supported it, then IBM supported it, RedHat supported it. It had the glimmer that it was the "Enterprise Way" of doing "Real IT" progra
6. 126.▲
   by hackthemack 2y ago

   I have to wonder if the cap (theoretical) on the copper wires was more because of the technology standards in play at the time. Surely the copper wires could have handled more if they did not have to carry voice communication (with the old
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   by hackthemack 2y ago

   I do not think many fans of D&D realize how lucky it is that Peter Adkinson bought TSR. If TSR went under, the various properties of TSR would have been split up and used to pay off debts to various creditors. Of course, such things lea
8. 128.▲
   by hackthemack 2y ago

   I think they should just rename it as IMP. The gnu is implied. Richard Stallman might complain it should always be called Gnu IMP (New Imp), which is fine.
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   Former Intel engineer says Intel x86-64 was suppressed before AMD's success(tomshardware.com)

   20 points by hackthemack 2y ago|8 comments
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    by hackthemack 2y ago

    Earlier today on Twitter, AMD engineer Phil Park identified a curious nugget of PC architectural history. Bob Colwell (Pentium Pro chief architect) has been posting on Quora. Pentium 4 had a version of x86-64 that was fused off. This design
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    by hackthemack 2y ago

    What to call the many editions of D&D to differentiate them is a bit nebulous. Here is an article with an infographic at the end that explains what the community started calling the various editions. https://daddyrolleda1.blo
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    by hackthemack 2y ago

    I had to work on quite a few coldfusion sites in the 1998 to 2010 timeframe. I found having to write brackets for each and every statement to be tiring; <cfif> <cfelse> <cfset var mystuff "johnnyb"> Eventually, t
13. 133.▲
    by hackthemack 2y ago

    Mythbusters did an episode on "car vs car" vs "car vs wall" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8E5dUnLmh4
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    by hackthemack 2y ago

    One of the things that really burned me out over the years is how many times I would say something to the effect of "Maybe using GraphQL is over complicating the process and we should just use the old tried and true methods" and I
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    by hackthemack 2y ago

    I found another article that I found more lightweight and accessible. Has some pictures of the people involved. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/premium/article/egypt-pyr...
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    by hackthemack 3y ago

    If you want to run this on a linux machine and use the machine's cpu. Follow the instructions. Before actually running the command to generate an image. Open up main.py Change line 17 to model.to(torch_device="cpu", torch_dty
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    by hackthemack 3y ago

    Speaking up to mention:: I do not think open source software gets enough financial support. Geany is a great editor. Consider donating to the organization if you can. https://geany.org/about/donate/
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    by hackthemack 8y ago

    Netscape had CSS in Javascript in 1996 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaScript_Style_Sheets
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    by hackthemack 8y ago

    > There was never an excuse to use it, there were always other options, even many years ago. What was the alternative to using php from 1996 to 2000 if you were running a small mom and pop isp and your customer base was requesting shoppi