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As far as root causes go, my money’s on lead poisoning and meth.
Ask me anything.
I also develop Tesseract UI for Lemmy/Sublinks
As far as root causes go, my money’s on lead poisoning and meth.
Yeah, IRQ7 was also pretty common for sound cards as long as you didn’t need to print at the same time. For DOS games, that wasn’t a big deal but if you were running Windows and multitasking with something that played sound (I was an early adopter of MP3s), you couldn’t use both at the same time.
My first Pentium PC was all kinds of awful because it used that IBM Mwave combo sound card /modem. You couldn’t use the modem and play sound at the same time or it would lock the PC up. It was also configured by default to use IRQ7, so if you were online, you couldn’t print either. At least I was able to work around the latter by setting it to IRQ5.
Because I could play the same copies of the same games on my Tandy 1000, the IBM PCs at school, and my friend’s Packard Bell. Standardized architecture was, and still is, a huge draw.
Right.
In reality, we’d end up with about a million Access “databases” (or Excel files) getting emailed around, lost, stolen, corrupted, etc (ask me how I know that lol).
I don’t know much about the market for car dealership software, but I work for a non-profit that deals with environmental remediation. Finding LOB software that meets our needs is an absolute nightmare because it’s so niche. What we can find is either crazy expensive, doesn’t do what we need it to do, is from some terrible fly-by-night vendor, or some combination of those. So when you do find something that mostly meets your needs, you pretty much have to take what you can get.
The government can incentivize or contract out companies to write software, but AFAIK, they can’t compel any company to do so. IANAL, but I would also assume they’d need to stop approving any M&As that may be contributing to market consolidation
You basically nailed it with “pipe dream”.
I was about to comment similarly.
This is why I always advocate against cloud and “always connected” services for critical line-of-business software (and software for personal use, but that’s a slightly different but also similar argument).
I’m unclear if CDK is a cloud service that’s offline for customers, but it sure sounds like it. The other possibility is a supply-chain attack which affected local installs, such as what happened with SolarWinds a few years ago, but with that many dealerships being simultaneously affected by CDK shutting down their systems, it seems more like the former.
one of the ways to avoid this sort of thing happening would be a diverse array of software to choose from
In an ideal world, that would be the case. But as is often the case with niche business software, there’s usually only a few players (if that many), and any newcomers are either bought out or can’t compete.
Where did he even get the badge? eBay?
IRQ 5, I/O 220, DMA 01 🤘🏻
I was poor, so mine was typically running the “or SoundBlaster compatible” card.
Can’t speak for OP, but the Vault software itself is fine. It’s their recent change in licensing that has a lot of people upset and looking for alternatives:
https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/hashicorp-adopts-business-source-license
That is why today we are announcing that HashiCorp is changing its source code license from Mozilla Public License v2.0 (MPL 2.0) to the Business Source License (BSL, also known as BUSL) v1.1 on all future releases of HashiCorp products. HashiCorp APIs, SDKs, and almost all other libraries will remain MPL 2.0.
BSL 1.1 is a source-available license that allows copying, modification, redistribution, non-commercial use, and commercial use under specific conditions. With this change we are following a path similar to other companies in recent years.
That attitude aged like milk :(
“Thanks for blazing the trail, climbing the mountain, and throwing down a ladder for me to climb, but fuck everyone else; I’m pulling the ladder up behind me.”
-Typical ‘I got mine’ mentality
Bonus: “Surely the people I’m helping to pull this ladder back up the mountain won’t push me off once it’s done.”
Easier on my wrist, less arm motion, and my hand doesn’t lock into a claw shape after using it all day.
I really like my trackball mouse, though I had to buy it myself.
Though the intention was always to get this before the “friendly” supreme court.
Yup.
Best case scenario: The schools’ walls will be plastered with tenets from every religion instead of anything actually useful to learning or society.
Worst case: Christianity gets a free pass yet again, the goal posts are moved, and more of it is going to get shoved into everything.
My dumbass state requires every classrom display 'In God We Trust" and they got away with it because they’re not saying which God. Even assuming that’s a valid loophole (it’s not), it tramples on the rights of those who don’t believe in such fairy tales.
No they didn’t.
In a strictly technical / laboratory sense, maybe not. But in practice, they stopped just the same. I also slow down to a stop (regen braking is amazing) and don’t slam on my brakes at a stop light (like some drivers I routinely scowl at). And driving through the country and having to slam on the brakes when a deer jumps out (which was common where I lived), I noticed no appreciable difference in stopping distance between the two tire types.
…huh? ABS has nothing to do with rolling resistance…
ABS prevents the tires from locking up and skidding (anti-lock braking system, hence the name). Under normal driving conditions, it merely helps you maintain control, but on slick roads, locking up the wheels can skid you further than without it. So, no, ABS doesn’t directly relate to rolling resistance, but it’s part of a system along with the tires that contribute to stopping distance…which is what I was talking about.
I wouldn’t think stopping distance would be noticeably impacted by less rolling resistance. My original “eco” tires stopped the same as the standard ones. They’re “eco” because they have less rolling resistance and are slightly lighter.
Plus, with ABS, you’re not likely to lock the wheels up such that the decreased resistance would be significant.
On slick roads would be my only concern, but a good and season appropriate tread should mitigate that.
It’s going to be all about the price.
My hybrid recommends “eco” style tires to get the best gas mileage. Those were $100 more, per tire, than the standard low-profiles. At the time, I commuted about 110 miles/day, so tires typically only lasted me about a year before they were either officially worn out or too worn to be safe to drive in winter.
I only noticed about a 1-2 MPG loss with the “standard” tires versus the “eco” ones that came with it. Over the course of a year, I doubt that 1-2 MPG added up to the $400 difference.
So, these cleaner tires are a good thing, assuming they’re not more expensive than current-style tires. Depending on use-case, 35% longer life (if that holds true) may be able to tempt price-conscious buyers.
All that said, I could definitely see these becoming the “factory” tires for new EVs, though.
“Your Honor, my client’s shoes are untied. I’d like to call a brief recess.”
You have six weeks. (gavel)
Has Facebook Stopped Trying?
Did it ever start?
I got rid of FB in 2009, and it was full of crackpots even then. I think that was also around the time the timeline went from chronological to algorithm-based (or maybe a little after that?) . “Somehow”, the crackpots always rose to the top.
These days, I only see FB content second-hand when it’s shared elsewhere (or a friend/family sends me something). It’s always way worse than what I remember it being when I got rid of my account.
I was talking about his base of rabid supporters, but yeah, that too.