IntelMiner

Uh oh. He's going to butt heads with president Ketamine over that one

I know it's an open source project and I'm not "owed" anything

But watching them just drill away at every pixel of Tib Dawn and Red Alert 1 is like watching the Sistine Chapel be repainted as the world's most intricately beaten dead horse

Was anyone really asking for a "C&C in-game wiki"?

OpenRA is all well and good...until you want to play Tiberian Sun, or Red Alert 2

I'm still a little salty as someone who donated to the project in 2013 to add support and it's still not even at "alpha test"

Generals was EA Pacific (Formally Westwood Pacific, opened by EA)

Generals was famously extremely rushed in development. Probably a novice programmer

Can you shed any light on the rumors about TS/RA2's code being MIA?

(Or if you can't shed any light. Can you confirm "I can't talk about that")

Given what happened with the ISS recently, how do you know?

What will stop them?

in order to witch hunt people he feels "gets in the way."

When has this ever happened with the Linux CoC? The only people who I've seen banging pots and pans together about the CoC are folks who like to sealion [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sealioning

How is this Hetzner's fault (or concern?)

"Hey your customer is hosting a website with random pictures on it. One of them of me is unflattering. Please make them fix it"

Where'd I say that? Clockspeed isn't everything

Under Linux perhaps. But a web company running on NT instead of Solaris in the 90's? I mean you could but you'd be hobbled pretty hard

Especially around the era Musk is quoted for (NT4 in the late 90's) I think most people would be understandably critical, even at the time

Elon was fired from PayPal partially because he wanted to replace "old ugly mainframes" (Linux and UNIX machines) with the "cutting edge" Windows NT

Factually untrue

There's a lack of dirt cheap highly educated labor.

It dovetails nicely into their desire to slash education for Americans

Once we deport all the "illegal" immigrants, the MAGA folk can pick fruit in Florida while the H1B's work at Amazon for pennies on the dollar I suppose

Preserving art? Fuck that. Embrace private ownership!

I have to wonder what the return on investment for these "ARM SBC" devices are. Though this one is just an ITX ARM motherboard

Back in the Ras Pi 3 days I needed more memory than the 1GB standardized on the Pi. So I tried competitors. The Odroid and the Rock64.

They were both miserable with outdated (and buggy!) kernels, lacking documentation (at least in English) and absolutely miniscule developer interest.

The Raspberry Pi feels like "the worst device you could get, except for all the other ones". Everybody who isn't the Pi foundation are just churning out absolute electronic slop

Framework is trying the best toward "functional" in the sense that it can be repaired by a regular person. Though I would not consider it nearly as "tough" as a magnesium bodied Thinkpad

I've often wondered if the balkanization of streaming services would lead to a resurgence of physical media ownership, along with piracy of course

I had an argument some time ago with a friend who was a devout "streaming enthusiast" for lack of a better term. Netflix had Back to the Future on and I watched it

Understandably I wanted to watch the second movie in the trilogy. But...they didn't have it! Somehow they'd only acquired the rights to Back to the Future 1 and 3. But not 2

His genuine response was "just rent it on Google Play then"

This absolute stretching out of content to ensure every single penny on the table that could possibly be obtained is hoovered out of wallets is absolutely pathetic. At least when Netflix was a "dumping ground of old TV and movies" we could reliably go watch "re-runs" of Seinfeld forever. But not so much anymore

If gig workers have jobs, why does Uber try so hard to classify them as "independent contractors" rather than employees?

The "job-centric" American economy feels...harrowing now

"While Grove supported helping technology startups, he also felt that America was wrong in thinking that those new companies would increase employment. "Startups are a wonderful thing," he wrote in a 2010 article for Bloomberg, "but they cannot by themselves increase tech employment."[40] Although many of those startups and entrepreneurs would achieve tremendous success and wealth, said Grove, he was more concerned with the overall negative effect on America: "What kind of a society are we going to have if it consists of highly paid people doing high-value-added work and masses of unemployed?"

DOCSIS was unrelated, but was absolutely helped by Sega Channel. Sending data down the wire required cleaning up the signal sent out from the cable plant (and into the sega channel unit) a ton relative to analog cable at the time

I don't use a Mac so I can't exactly cite specific issues I've had. But I've definitely seen a lot of them posted and reported on HN, ArsTechnica, Reddit and other places

Due to how small Apple's hardware list is, issues directly impact a much larger percentage of their userbase

I'll probably be tarred and feathered for this opinion, but "everything works out of the box" Mac feels like wishful thinking

Every time Apple pushes an update that causes some bizarre issue, people talk about it at length

On the one hand, software is written by humans. Humans make mistakes

On the other hand, Apple by design supports such a tiny set of hardware (that they largely build themselves and tightly couple to their software) that it's strange they're unable to iron out the issues in test before pushing the updates and ending making the tech news cycle when something goes wrong

Counterpoint: The original "Google Wi-Fi" Mesh routers (the hockey puck looking ones) from about 10~ years ago come with *4GB* of storage and 512MB of RAM [1]

[1] https://openwrt.org/toh/google/wifi

They're about $30-$50 USD for a 3 pack on eBay

Labor is a lot of things. Left-wing sadly isn't one of them anymore

The Federal Government? Thank goodness these companies only operate in one country. Or we've finally succeeded in uniting under one singular world government

Systems, plural?

Which ones?

I'm having a hard time parsing what you mean. Are you saying "capitalism did it therefore this is good" and suggesting that people disagreeing are victims of "propaganda"?

Shout out to my old ISP CenturyLink who participated in world IPv6 day in 2011

...Then decided that NAT64 was "good enough" for people who wanted IPv6 instead of just doing fucking dual-stack