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raverbashing··on 8086 Segmented Memory was a good idea
No

No, it wasn't

It's the "great idea" that sounds great 5 min in and horrible 10min afterwards

You know, kinda like using null as a string end character

But more importantly it kept the x86 world for too long in that dead end that was 8086 mode programming

"Oh if developers would just..." They won't. They haven't. And they will not ever.

In hindsight maybe a binary level translator from 8080 to 8086 would have worked better (and be simple enough)

raverbashing··on Lore – Open source version control system designed for scalability
Yes, the famous debate between plumbing and porcelain

Still the porcelain is more like cold stainless steel

raverbashing··on Humiliating IIS servers for fun and jail time
Sounds like creating an url like aspnet_client/admin.php returning a WebObjects header might be a good hobby
raverbashing··on Apple's weird anti-nausea dots cured my car sickness
> It's why looking at the horizon on a boat helps.

Yes it helps. As in getting you back to "barely normal". (Also you can't do anything around the boat because you're looking at the horizon)

The theory make sense but some people have the thing turned to 11

raverbashing··on SpaceX Is Buying Cursor
Maybe the real Mythos secret is that it found out it could fit on a GPT2 size model
raverbashing··on I admire Fabrice Bellard. He is almost certainly a better overall programmer
The psyop about "only shipping clean code" has been a big drag on projects

On the real world, if it runs and solves their problem nobody gives a fucc. Period

Props on him.

raverbashing··on What the Fuck Happened to Nerds
Makes sense at first sight

But then you see people with very questionable morals having made a key discovery or having produced a fundamental technology. Reality is complicated

raverbashing··on Historic co-determination helps monasteries navigate digital change
"The beauty of their women and the taste of their food made the British the best sailors in the world."
raverbashing··on AI OSS tool repo goes archived over night after raising $7.3M Seed
Those Claude tokens are not cheap you know /s
raverbashing··on Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5
I believe that restrictions like these: "only for US nationals present" are also to facilitate prosecution if needed
raverbashing··on Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5
Pepperidge farm remembers when they banned G4 Macs for export as well
raverbashing··on Electric motors with no rare earths
Yes but they wear less than DC brushed motors exactly because it's a slip ring and not a commutator
raverbashing··on World Capitals Voronoi
The funny thing about this is that it's almost realistic

But in fact of course geography plays a big part

That "non-existent" country between France and Spain would actually be the center of Occitan/Langues d'Oc. (Well, it's actually the location of Andorra)

It is also in the middle of the Pyrenees so of course that is going to push population out to the sides

Same thing for where the areas "bleed over" water regions or some rivers

raverbashing··on World Capitals Voronoi
If they added Cardiff and Edinburgh I think the map would be more realistic
raverbashing··on Surveillance is not safety: A statement on the UK's latest threat to privacy [pdf]
It's been more than 20 years since I was hearing "for now", so I guess any time now huh
raverbashing··on Surveillance is not safety: A statement on the UK's latest threat to privacy [pdf]
And yet you can secure boot Linux
raverbashing··on How much of Thermo Fisher's antibody data has been manipulated?
Yes, as supplementary information

(Also journals are usually more rigorous than marketing material)

raverbashing··on How much of Thermo Fisher's antibody data has been manipulated?
> Editorial choices on raw scientific data are a big no-no.

I don't think you can find a picture in an article that hasn't been photoshopped in one way or another (which is mostly ok as long as it is not misleading)

Edit: TF's reply is interesting https://www.thermofisher.com/es/es/home/life-science/antibod...

Basically they say they are reviewing the images

raverbashing··on The EU Open Source Strategy
This is a conversation that has been going on for 20+ years and the OSS community hasn't managed to get that in their heads

I have simply given up

raverbashing··on How much of Thermo Fisher's antibody data has been manipulated?
I would be more worried if the blotted area was different (the dark blob) - or if data in a datasheet (something like test specificity, level of detection, etc) was wrong

Now, if while preparing the images they needed to do some editorial choices (or it is well possible a person in the editorial group was told to 'enhance the images' but wasn't aware of the details) because of limitations in doing the experiment then this is probably not a big deal

raverbashing··on Dopamine Fracking
Agree

But then, once I got to certain McD locations, and got a (very) disappointing experience, then it's hard to come back to the brand.

(it might have changed, I think this was over 10 yrs ago) but still

raverbashing··on OneDrive data now has an expiry date
Also the deletion will kick in after 12 months

> Day 1: licence removed or user deleted: The clock starts. The OneDrive account is now unlicensed and the retention countdown begins.

> Day 60: read-only mode: No more edits.

So yeah if you spend 12 months without realizing you might need the data of someone who left then I think that's on you

raverbashing··on Dopamine Fracking
Not sure it's a millenial thing, but yes

And to be honest choice fatigue also plays a part.

(Also millenials seem to sell some places as "gritty and authentic" when in reality a lot of them just suck)

I'm all for trying new things, but in the end you realize that a lot of those are just not for you and you go for the bland and tested thing

raverbashing··on Anthropic, please ship an official Claude Desktop for Linux
Or, what does the Desktop app does that the webpage doesn't do?
raverbashing··on Crypto's True Believers Demand to Be Taken Seriously
Obviously

the "not your keys not your wallet" people will be delighted to find out that new npm package they tried out just drained their wallet. Or, absent that, that there are no modern onramps to cash in without KYC

raverbashing··on Three of our worst VC stories
Sounds like how WeWork ate Regus's lunch even while being made of crazy
raverbashing··on Three of our worst VC stories
Yup, exactly this

For example, if you go off with the cheating partner, don't expect it to not happen again

raverbashing··on Tracing a powerful GNSS interference source over Europe
Kessler event oops, you know. I guess I know someone with several disposable satellites, I wonder if they could be bothered (but I guess not)
raverbashing··on Apple rejected my dictation app for using the accessibility API
Right?!

I get that some people are unfairly targeted but some other times it's people being (extremely) naive or just playing dumb

"Hey you know what would be cool? If we named our bluetooth speaker company bee oh emm bee!!11"

raverbashing··on United Airlines 767 returns to Newark after Bluetooth name sparks alert
Website already HN'd into oblivion it seems
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