Semi-Hemi-Demigod

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

Mac OS was running on RISC processors back in the 90s, and Steve Jobs used them in his NeXT computers which used a variation of BSD, which was the basis for OS X which could run on PowerPC.

Apple’s had a ton of experience with RISC so it makes sense they’d do it well.

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 10 months ago

Time to send poorly equipped conscripts to de-Nazify the moon.

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 10 months ago

Which is why I only share weed using a shotgun

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 10 months ago

Yep. All it will take is one oil shock and we'll have GM and Ford scrambling to build small cars, fail miserably, get bailed out, and then start building giant cars again.

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 10 months ago

Bigger vehicles are less likely to feel the bumps in the shitty roads we have because everybody drives big vehicles that wear down the roads 10x as fast.

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 10 months ago

That label was covered by part of the box and so I ate the pizza before opening it and now I have an infection.

Who do I sue?

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 10 months ago

Since everybody gets to vote we should make sure everyone's competent to vote by educating them.

At least that was part of the reasoning behind free public education.

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 10 months ago

It's almost like having a well-educated population is a good thing for a country. Curious.

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 10 months ago

If the pattern holds Windows 12 might actually be good

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 10 months ago

What if I've got a perfectly smoked butt that's just begging to be shredded?

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 10 months ago

What if I'm one of those weirdos who prefers a nozzle without settings?

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 10 months ago

He's started asking for driver's licenses now so maybe he's gonna dox people

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 10 months ago

Insured healthcare isn't expensive.

Yes it is. I have "good" insurance and it still cost me $3,000 for a few stitches, a CAT scan, and a night in the hospital when I slipped and hit my head. That's on top of the almost $600 a month I'm paying, and the $1200 a month my employer is paying.

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 10 months ago

Why do you think I'm in last place?

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 10 months ago

Imagine if you could find something on the road that let you eliminate some billionaire's wealth at a whim

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 10 months ago

If you’re gonna use an animal, use something cooler than a bear

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 10 months ago

Or maybe a hellbender

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 10 months ago

Nah, a hellbender is a giant salamander

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 10 months ago

Crack was for black people, cocaine was for rich people. That’s why 5g of crack got you the same sentence as 500g of cocaine

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 10 months ago

The article claims it's 2.5x as dense as water, which according to this density chart is probably bromine.

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 10 months ago

I'm not sure which would be worse for the machinery

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 10 months ago

Captain Aubrey's been ashore too long.

Also, here's my favorite song about Russell Crowe

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 10 months ago

I hope some aspiring filmmaker decides to give all 21.3 books a proper film treatment. It’s some of the greatest historical fiction ever.

To see the wreck of the Waakzaamheid in IMAX would be tremendous

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 10 months ago

So far I’ve only seen one. But it’s my favorite

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 10 months ago

Ah, yes, just remove the natural human craving for fats and sugars. Simple as.

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 10 months ago

I agree that highly refined foods are designed to make you eat more of them. What I don't agree with is that we fix it by removing our craving for them, rather than restricting them at the source.

One thing that would help a lot is limiting food advertising. The more you eat these superfoods the more you're conditioned to want them, and seeing pictures and video of them prompt increased consumption like Pavlov ringing a bell.

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 10 months ago

Digital content is so easy to lose or destroy I don’t think it will be used for thousands of years. I’ve got a floppy from 1996 and I have no way of reading it and would probably corrupt the data if I tried.

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 10 months ago

A fellow KSP player I see

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 10 months ago

If someone made a GUI to handle kernel modules and people could point and click through them, would that be okay?

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 10 months ago

You said people wanted to point and click. I agree: I’ve seen many Windows admins VNC to a desktop environment to get to a shell rather than use SSH

So if everything in Linux was accessible from a GUI, would that make it better? Because Windows does similar things, and so does Mac OS. They just use pretty pictures instead of words.

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 10 months ago

Things on Windows and Mac rarely just work, especially when you're talking about kernel extensions. In fact, one of the first things you do when troubleshooting a Mac is to start up without extensions by holding the shift key.

And this is almost entirely the fault of the hardware manufacturers. They could write drivers for Linux that would work as well as their drivers for Windows. They don't do it, so amateurs have to reverse engineer the hardware and try their best to get it to work.

If, like with Mac and Windows, hardware manufacturers offered actual support for Linux you would not see these issues. The problem isn't with Linux, it's with the hardware makers.

I will agree that smartphones have made people know less about how computers actually work while increasing usage. And this is because they've obfuscated things to the point where they "simply work" with "minimal effort." Maybe we should stop doing that.

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 10 months ago

Advance Democracy noted that Trump supporters were “using the term ‘rigger’ in lieu of a racial slur” in posts online.

Classy as ever

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 10 months ago

Carter had a hugely ambitious plan to build solar power satellites to wean us off both of them. He didn't like nukes and he was a nuclear physicist.

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 10 months ago

Except he was in a position to push nuclear instead of a cockamamie scheme where you need to launch hundreds of rockets that are 10x the size of the Saturn V over the course of years to build solar farms the size of Manhattan.

A man who once had radioactive piss from a nuclear accident chose that over nukes.

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 10 months ago

I wonder what song it will sing when they finally pull the plug

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 10 months ago

Xitter

In my head that's pronounced "shitter"

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 10 months ago

I find it just addictive enough. There are definitely lulls in activity, but they're short-lived and I have things I should be doing besides shitposting so it's actually helped me.

The quality, however, is much higher. This can be very subjective, but I do have some real world evidence. The number of times I'd show someone a meme and have them say "Please send that to me" has definitely gone up since I switched to the fediverse.

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 10 months ago

Snowden let everyone know they could do this in his leaks

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 10 months ago

Oracle stands for "One Raging Asshole Called Larry Ellison"

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 10 months ago

let_them_fight.jpg

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 10 months ago

Most of them are regional monopolies. How many customers could they possibly lose?

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 10 months ago

There’s still plenty of recruiters asking me about jobs which I have zero interest in so I’d say the article is accurate.

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 10 months ago

I supplement team-based task management with post it notes on my monitor for the things I'm working on short term. Usually the Jira ticket number or a couple words about what needs done is enough, and putting it where I can't not see it keeps them from falling through the cracks.

Plus it's fun when my boss gives me something and I can show him the post it I made

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 10 months ago

Maybe people in Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx, and Manhattan hate him, but Staten Island, Long Island, and upstate NY are Trump country

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 10 months ago

TIL nobody lives on Staten Island.

Guess it’s all vampires.

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 10 months ago

Whoever wrote that needs to hire a proofreader. Spelling and grammar mistakes all over the place.

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 10 months ago

Let's all raise our glasses to the MLS sysadmins who are having a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad week.

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 10 months ago

I also don’t have to switch between 10 different apps to watch different shows/movies.

I paid for annual subscriptions for a couple streaming services, and get some when I buy other things from companies, but I still pirate the shows on those services and put them in Plex because everything is in one place