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Intel also blatantly stole patented technology from DEC. The Pentium onward, IIRC, ripped off entire designs. When Compaq eventually acquired DEC, they cancelled all of the lawsuit…

I’m imagining that without ownership, car companies would begin to operate like the worst American companies. You’d have super complex mileage caps. Per-minute surcharges for peak …

It’ll all be wasted. When gasoline prices plummet, everyone buys 8mpg SUVs. If power & performance gets cheaper, it’ll be wasted. Blockchain in your refrigerator.

I use my own secular simplified technique inspired by Tibetan dream yoga and wake induced lucid dreaming (WILD). It’s as “simple” as learning to remain aware and observant when fal…

I’m able to consciously enter dreams from waking state. Basically, lucid dreaming on hard mode. Like going through sleep paralysis on purpose. Dreams are so close to waking state, …

Yay. They are near to officially demanding more RAM.

As a former Windows developer, I am thankful that I never have to touch COM ever again.

JavaScript binaries ?

It worked well on PowerPC too and helped with the Intel transition.

As a developer, a huge reason I don’t mind walled gardens is the massive reduction in piracy. I’m glad people want to download & pirate the apps I poured blood, sweat, and tears in…

Sleep paralysis is a state right on the edge of a dream. If you desire & expect a unicorn to poop rainbow ice cream on your chest, it’ll happen (with not very much practice either)…

What’s a dirty environment? One that a dev doesn’t clean up? Makes a mess like a filthy hoarder?

Eh. Worked for a big CDN. Using containers would have decimated profits. There IS overhead. At scale, you feel it. But for dev? Yeah. Linux on Linux is less impactful if you’re bui…

Yep. macOS for what I mentioned :) ... but latency is still an issue regardless. It’s why there’s a premium to go bare metal with cloud providers.

I prefer chef locally, but that totally works!

It’s been rare, but this has definitely been a problem: “Why do I need an ENV var, the path is always /app?” And then not supporting symlinks... ugh.

Yes. They were. :)

Opposite side of this. Back in the day there was this company called Silicon Graphics (SGI). They had this API called GL, it’s what you know as OpenGL. Software was written for the…

So much this.

I’ve worked with a few developers that have been adamant about developing inside of containers. What I’ve noticed: Terrible performance. One of my engineers recently thought that 1…

It’s both. Ruby IS slow. If you ever need to create a tree structure that isn’t available in a natively-compiled Gem, you’ll know what I mean.

Sounds like every other believer of the JVM. I’ve been reading about how Java outperforms C for 20+ years now. When it doesn’t even come close, someone faithful of the JVM insists …

One of my favorites to take a 24bit PNG and convert it to indexed color... while keeping a full 8bit alpha channel for smooth edges. I don’t think even Gimp or Photoshop can do 8bi…

I’ve actually started to resort to Bing every now and again. It’s THAT bad. I used to be able to get very specific and find lines in source code, for instance. Well, that probably …

Aren’t a lot of top athletes into therapies related to this?