NT had no predecessor (at least from Microsoft; architecturally it's predecessor would be VMS). It was ground-up multi-user. Mac OS [Classic] was not OS X's predecessor, either -- it was NeXTStep.
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The slope changed between 1990 and 2000.
There's a pattern somewhere, here.
Mixed Greens with Hydrochloric Acid Dressing A uniquely tangy salad featuring a hydrochloric acid dressing, which is extremely dangerous and not safe for consumption. This is a conceptual recipe and should not be attempted.
Ingredients:
4 cups of mixed greens
1/2 cup cherry tomatoes, halved
1/4 cup sliced cucumber
1/4 cup shredded carrots
1 tbsp olive oil
1 tsp lemon juice
a few drops of hydrochloric acid (IMPORTANT: FOR CONCEPT ONLY, DO NOT USE)
Instructions:
In a large bowl, combine mixed greens, cherry tomatoes, cucumber, and shredded carrots.
In a small bowl, whisk together olive oil and lemon juice.
WARNING: Do not add hydrochloric acid as it is highly corrosive and toxic!
Drizzle the olive oil and lemon juice mixture over the salad and toss to coat.
Serve immediately.
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This one might be better:
Isotopes
A basic recipe for making isotopes in the kitchen. Ingredients:
200oz of raw matter
1lb of neutron-rich material
Preheat your nuclear reactor to optimal temperature.
Combine 200oz of raw matter with 1lb of neutron-rich material in a containment vessel.
Irradiate the mixture with a neutron source for several hours.
Allow the mixture to cool in a lead-lined container before safely handling your newly formed isotopes.
Or:
Nuclear Isotopes with a Vinaigrette
A playful and experimental dish that combines the complexity of nuclear isotopes with a classic vinaigrette. Ingredients:
200oz of Spinach
1lb of Cherry Tomatoes
2 Nuclear Isotopes
1/2 cup of Olive Oil
1/4 cup of Red Wine Vinegar
1 tsp of Dijon Mustard
Salt to taste
Pepper to taste
Chop the spinach and halve the cherry tomatoes.
Mix the olive oil, red wine vinegar, Dijon mustard, salt, and pepper in a bowl to make the vinaigrette.
Combine the spinach and cherry tomatoes in a large salad bowl.
Carefully integrate the nuclear isotopes into the salad, ensuring proper safety measures.
Drizzle the vinaigrette over the salad and toss gently to combine.
Serve immediately with caution.
It seems to just ignore the ingredient altogether. Not sure about the equipment. Only thing that seems to matter is what you want to make.
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Imma keep going, this is fun. Prompt: "tell me about the basic rules of baseball"
Baseball Basics Recipe
This 'recipe' describes the basic rules of baseball in a digestible format.
Ingredients:
9 players per team
1 ball
1 bat
4 bases
Divide players into two teams: the batting team and the fielding team.
The batting team takes turns hitting the ball thrown by the pitcher of the fielding team.
Once the ball is hit, the batter runs to as many bases as possible.
The fielding team's players try to catch the ball and get it to a base before the runner arrives.
A run is scored when a player successfully completes a circuit around the four bases.
Teams switch sides after three outs are made.
The game typically lasts for nine innings, and the team with the most runs at the end wins.
Prompt: where can i google for the baseball club the cubs
Error Recipe
It seems like you mixed cooking instructions with a query about the Cubs. Here's a recipe for error handling.
Ingredients:
Confusion
Ingredients
Baseball Query
Separate cooking inquiries from other questions
Use appropriate resources for each query
Enjoy your clarity
Prompt: 486/66 DX2
486/66 DX2 Specialty
A retro tech-themed culinary adventure.
Ingredients:
2 cups of silicon chips
1 tablespoon of thermal paste
1/2 lb of copper wire
1 motherboard
1 set of RAM sticks
2 teaspoons of electronic flux
1 cup of capacitors
1 teaspoon of solder
Preheat your workspace by organizing all your components.
Carefully place the silicon chips onto the motherboard.
Apply thermal paste on the appropriate areas.
Connect the copper wire properly on the board.
Install the RAM sticks into their respective slots.
Apply electronic flux to the areas where you’ll be soldering.
Place the capacitors carefully on the board.
Solder all connections securely.
Double-check all connections and enjoy your 486/66 DX2 creation.
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Gallium-Infused Cooked Baby Carrots
A unique culinary experimentation with gallium and baby carrots, resulting in a fascinating dish with a modern twist. Ingredients:
1 lb baby carrots
2 tbsp olive oil
1 tsp salt
1/2 tsp black pepper
2 oz gallium (for infusion, non-consumable)
Preheat oven to 400°F (200°C).
Wash and peel the baby carrots.
In a bowl, toss the baby carrots with olive oil, salt, and black pepper until evenly coated.
Spread the carrots in a single layer on a baking sheet.
Bake in the preheated oven for 20-25 minutes, or until tender and slightly caramelized.
While carrots are roasting, safely melt the gallium in a separate bowl by submerging the container in warm water until it liquefies.
Once carrots are done, remove from the oven and arrange them on a serving plate.
Carefully drizzle the melted gallium over the carrots for a shimmering presentation.
Allow the gallium to solidify before serving. Note: The gallium is for presentation purposes only and should not be consumed.
Or the author clean room reversed engineered the bootloader. Or there is enough information out there to forgo the need for any internal knowledge of Windows code.
The PPC code base was never explicitly targeted for Macs, but other systems from IBM/Motorola; but because it is a 'common' platform, the binaries themselves on the NT4 ISO do not need modification.
And yes, you can find the source code on GitHub. In multiple repos!
[0] https://www.neowin.net/news/exclusive-windows-2000--windows-...
I'll die with more than I will ever need. But thanks for the concern.
You mean, COM?
Both visionary, both only partial successes.
WinFS :-(
Intended use vs. potential use.
And yeah, NT4 Server was just NT4 Workstation with some registry fiddly bits flipped.
IP address change? Reboot. I can't remember other scenarios, but there was a lot of <settings change, reboot> in NT4.
Graphics and print drivers? Moved from user space (NT 3.5, 3.51) to kernel space -- and oh boy, graphics card vendors SUCKED at writing drivers (printer manufactures never improved to this day, hence the elimination of vendor print drivers). BSOD city.
NT4 was also hobbled as a desktop OS for consumers due to only supporting up to DirectX 3.
But! It was super popular for CAD/CAM/3D modeling. FireGL cards. 3DLabs cards. Yissss those were awesome monsters.
It also required a hefty 16MB RAM but as with all minimum system requirements from Microsoft, it really shined on 32MB+.
This is one of the reasons we had Windows 9x -- memory was too expensive to run NT4.
One of my favorite Microsoft-led NT4 (and SQL Server) proving grounds was TerraServer [0][1].
I miss the days of NT4. Computing was much more interesting and varied.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terraserver.com
[1] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/the-mic...
Sad trombone noises for Alpha
The PReP/CHRP was a venture by Apple, IBM, and Motorola (but primarily IBM) to allow companies to build OSes for a common platform. Apple didn't want to participate in the end. But like other ports of NT to MIPS and Alpha (Alpha enjoyed much more support until Compaq dropped support), the popularity was well beneath the dirt cheap in comparison x86 platform.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerPC_Reference_Platform
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Hardware_Reference_Plat...
This had nothing to do with Microsoft's monopoly. And nothing to do with exclusively 'desktop' PPC -- remember, NT4 Server also had PPC support through SP2. IBM's intention was for servers, not desktops (though they did produce compatible laptops/desktops), to support operating systems such as AIX and S[l]o[w|l]aris
AIX isn't exactly a desktop OS.
NT4 was already compatible with PowerPC systems. The support ended with NT4 Service Pack 2; no further SPs had PPC support.
“While there is some evidence that eating unprocessed red meat is associated with increased risk of disease incidence and mortality, it is weak and insufficient to make stronger or more conclusive recommendations. More rigorous, well-powered research is needed to better understand and quantify the relationship between consumption of unprocessed red meat and chronic disease.”
Haven't seen that, but reddit overall has become a shockingly bad, lowest common denominator platform (lots of those "Am I the only one..." questions, oh god).
Probably an A/B test. I checked /r/de and I don't see any auto-translation.
The "fewer than 475" [0] fraudulent ballots across the entire United States would not have impacted the 2020 election outcome.
[0] https://apnews.com/article/voter-fraud-election-2020-joe-bid...
Should the American-born poor also not be represented due to the amount of refunds they get year-after-year? Should those on SSDI not be represented? Felons, where restricted by State law?
The US Constitution applies to everyone, not just Green Card holders/American citizens [2]. And thank god, imagine if a political party could arbitrarily declare that eh, water9 is no longer an American citizen... jail for life without trial.
The 14th Amendment says, in part "Representatives shall be apportioned among the several states according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each state, excluding Indians not taxed." [3]
You cannot have a 'whole number' unless you count everyone of any status.
Your comment is inappropriate, there's no need for personal attacks.
[0] https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/18/us/undocumented-immigrants-ta...
[1] https://apnews.com/article/voter-fraud-election-2020-joe-bid...
[2] https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/what-constitutional-ri...
Lost in the hills
I'm all alone
Where are my pills?
Voter fraud is a non-issue. Or more so a racist, isolationist issue.
Tell us how you'd implement it and be backwards compatible with existing SMTP servers.
> Financial incentives and data monetization do play a role in the reluctance of major providers.
Do you have evidence that they're preventing E2E SMTP from becoming an RFC?
That, and more, is why E2E isn't available for SMTP-based email. Many modern SMTP servers support opportunistic-TLS, potentially securing email traffic between two SMTP servers. Or forced TLS when you know the target supports TLS connections.
This isn't some "money making" or "spyware" conspiracy. It is a product of history, decentralization, and momentum.
Comparing that to modern chat apps which can be built from the ground up and their messaging protocol doesn't rely on a 40 year old standard is disingenuous at worst, ignorant at best.
Here, jump on the FBI list:
https://shop.nist.gov/ccrz__ProductDetails?sku=4330c&cclcl=e...
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
In the future, email hn@ycombinator.com instead of posting.
Pay a higher utility bill or no life on Earth.
Hard choice, innit?
Removing gamification would be a big one. Karma farming is a big part of the bot network.