I buy ex-corporate machines for my family; they always have pxe enabled. I've got a handful of optiplex micros running my home shit. All of those.
"The broad-spectrum surveillance and social-credit state predicated on technofascists working hand-in-glove with repressive government" is a bit of a mouthful. "Flock" is an elision.
That provokes a memory! IBM shipped a thinkpad (W700) that had a smaller screen pop out from behind the main screen. https://i.redd.it/tv8gify0w11c1.png Your dream phone sounds cooler. Dreaming about phones is probably…
That's technically cool; many nerds don't appreciate the wizardry that exists in finance. But this is really an ethical discussion. The "more people" are still the richest members of society, and society is far from…
Doesn't the NSA have wiretaps in every ISP? Gag orders, secret courts? Do i remember wrong: the NSA backdoored a cipher suite? I'm comfortable with the idea of my own country conducting espionage. I can believe that…
Survivorship bias explains that. The list of dictators-for-life does not include those who don't become dictators for life. I'd suggest that term limits are party of a package that rests on strong public faith in…
Exactly this; the job of civil service is to retain institutional competence, and to offer cabinets digests and levers to pull that they can operate at high level. Day one: - your predecessor had this and this…
There have always been bad parents. There have always been parents who dgaf; there have been parents unable to cope; there have been earnest but misguided parents. Meanwhile, the majority of parents care deeply and are…
The impressive growth is plausible, but it also rhymes with "bubble". There is obviously a value proposition in there, but I'm skeptical it's a trillion-dollar one. It's a machine for turning electricity and silicon…
Government trying to manage financial markets is like trying to steer a rampaging rhino; finance is stronger than government, and can wreck it. But some politicians want to increase regulation and some want to reduce…
Language is funny: where did you first encounter "datums"? Do you intend a semantic distinction from "data"?
You came across as arrogant in your comment to tourmalinetaco, as if you are a great educator let down by the intellectual inadequacy of your acolytes. In truth, your conflation of "amount" and "target" muddies the…
The optimal _target_ for fraud is not zero. That's the aphorism. The optimal _amount_ of fraud is indeed zero, for most value systems. You had to spell it out because you were imprecise. You come across as one borrowing…
I'd be sympathetic to this argument in 2008. Apple has made hay. On the slider between "incentives for entrepreneurs" and "good for the people", you've bent the metal at one end.
> ... centrist governments ... shoulder any blame I agree somewhat. However, the fault of mainstream politics is one of failure. The fault of extraterritorial actors is one of action. I think that mainstream governments…
Much as i hate being advertised to, i do like the existence of trade, and of new products. In the old days, you would take your products to market once a week on a cart, and the market would pass by your stall. That…
As it happens, the itch resurfaced and i just discovered winboat! It appears to be the exact counterpart to WSL, what a lovely symmetry. I built my desktop. I do own an unused retail windows licence, and i think I've…
But not between buying a car and marching with blackshirts? I take it Ford drivers are also Nazis? Henry Ford admired Hitler and advocated for eugenics in America. VW and Porsche, obvs. Or have these marques aged out?…
This should be mandatory reading for arch-btw users: https://blogsystem5.substack.com/p/windows-nt-vs-unix-design
Typescript, vscode, LSP, powershell, kernel subsystems, the HAL, C#, F#, DirectX, side-by-side libraries, a VMM that fucking works. Exchange, SQL Server. Great hardware. It's a crappy company, like all corporate giants.…
"Arch btw" vibes
MS Office is notoriously resistant to running in Wine (haven't tried it myself) and, with all love to LubreOffuce, it's clearly the poor relation. I've usually been able to get windows software running, but it's not…
Ugh. Rootus made no such defence. I was about to purchase a £6 tool on ebay, but noticed the seller was named truth_com. I decided to buy it from another seller simply because i intensely dislike the noise coming from…
That suggests reverse-isolation headsets, that play audio outwards but not to the wearer. Mount the speaker from a singing birthday card on a pair of ear defenders, perhaps
Independently, that exact excerpt occurred to me, too! Stephenson is full of observances. Sometimes i think I've learned more from fiction than non-fiction writing.
I buy ex-corporate machines for my family; they always have pxe enabled. I've got a handful of optiplex micros running my home shit. All of those.
"The broad-spectrum surveillance and social-credit state predicated on technofascists working hand-in-glove with repressive government" is a bit of a mouthful. "Flock" is an elision.
That provokes a memory! IBM shipped a thinkpad (W700) that had a smaller screen pop out from behind the main screen. https://i.redd.it/tv8gify0w11c1.png Your dream phone sounds cooler. Dreaming about phones is probably…
That's technically cool; many nerds don't appreciate the wizardry that exists in finance. But this is really an ethical discussion. The "more people" are still the richest members of society, and society is far from…
Doesn't the NSA have wiretaps in every ISP? Gag orders, secret courts? Do i remember wrong: the NSA backdoored a cipher suite? I'm comfortable with the idea of my own country conducting espionage. I can believe that…
Survivorship bias explains that. The list of dictators-for-life does not include those who don't become dictators for life. I'd suggest that term limits are party of a package that rests on strong public faith in…
Exactly this; the job of civil service is to retain institutional competence, and to offer cabinets digests and levers to pull that they can operate at high level. Day one: - your predecessor had this and this…
There have always been bad parents. There have always been parents who dgaf; there have been parents unable to cope; there have been earnest but misguided parents. Meanwhile, the majority of parents care deeply and are…
The impressive growth is plausible, but it also rhymes with "bubble". There is obviously a value proposition in there, but I'm skeptical it's a trillion-dollar one. It's a machine for turning electricity and silicon…
Government trying to manage financial markets is like trying to steer a rampaging rhino; finance is stronger than government, and can wreck it. But some politicians want to increase regulation and some want to reduce…
Language is funny: where did you first encounter "datums"? Do you intend a semantic distinction from "data"?
You came across as arrogant in your comment to tourmalinetaco, as if you are a great educator let down by the intellectual inadequacy of your acolytes. In truth, your conflation of "amount" and "target" muddies the…
The optimal _target_ for fraud is not zero. That's the aphorism. The optimal _amount_ of fraud is indeed zero, for most value systems. You had to spell it out because you were imprecise. You come across as one borrowing…
I'd be sympathetic to this argument in 2008. Apple has made hay. On the slider between "incentives for entrepreneurs" and "good for the people", you've bent the metal at one end.
> ... centrist governments ... shoulder any blame I agree somewhat. However, the fault of mainstream politics is one of failure. The fault of extraterritorial actors is one of action. I think that mainstream governments…
Much as i hate being advertised to, i do like the existence of trade, and of new products. In the old days, you would take your products to market once a week on a cart, and the market would pass by your stall. That…
As it happens, the itch resurfaced and i just discovered winboat! It appears to be the exact counterpart to WSL, what a lovely symmetry. I built my desktop. I do own an unused retail windows licence, and i think I've…
But not between buying a car and marching with blackshirts? I take it Ford drivers are also Nazis? Henry Ford admired Hitler and advocated for eugenics in America. VW and Porsche, obvs. Or have these marques aged out?…
This should be mandatory reading for arch-btw users: https://blogsystem5.substack.com/p/windows-nt-vs-unix-design
Typescript, vscode, LSP, powershell, kernel subsystems, the HAL, C#, F#, DirectX, side-by-side libraries, a VMM that fucking works. Exchange, SQL Server. Great hardware. It's a crappy company, like all corporate giants.…
"Arch btw" vibes
MS Office is notoriously resistant to running in Wine (haven't tried it myself) and, with all love to LubreOffuce, it's clearly the poor relation. I've usually been able to get windows software running, but it's not…
Ugh. Rootus made no such defence. I was about to purchase a £6 tool on ebay, but noticed the seller was named truth_com. I decided to buy it from another seller simply because i intensely dislike the noise coming from…
That suggests reverse-isolation headsets, that play audio outwards but not to the wearer. Mount the speaker from a singing birthday card on a pair of ear defenders, perhaps
Independently, that exact excerpt occurred to me, too! Stephenson is full of observances. Sometimes i think I've learned more from fiction than non-fiction writing.