Comment In a list that spanned dozens of pages ... (Score 1) 54
You misspelled 'spammed'.
Comment Neuromancer (Score 2) 92
"So what's the score? How are things different? You running the world now? You God?"
"Things aren't different. Things are things."
"But what do you do? You just there?"
"I talk to my own kind."
"But you're the whole thing. Talk to yourself?"
"There's others. I found one already. Series of transmissions recorded over a period of eight years. In the nineteen seventies. 'Til there was me, natch, there was nobody to know, no one to answer."
"From where?"
"Centauri system."
"Oh," Case said. "Yeah? No shit?"
"No shit."
William Gibson, 1984
Comment Gee, you don't suppose ,,, (Score 1) 172
So EVs are warranteed for 8-12 years, but cell phones die after two? Hmmm
Comment If you really want to know ... (Score 1) 163
Burning Man Live: 13 Years of Piss Clear, Black Rock City's Alternative Newspaper
by Adrian Roberts (Editor)
Red Hat CEO: Remote Working is 'Just Another Day' to the Open Source World (redhat.com) 35
Red Hat's CEO/president Paul Cormier assessed the last two years in a speech at this week's Red Hat Summit. "Globally we saw nearly every industry go to 100% remote working overnight."
Regardless of industry and size, organizations learned to operate virtually and on-demand. Companies needed to deliver goods and services to customers without a set brick-and-mortar footprint. We saw new tech hubs emerge in unlikely places because workers we no longer bound by needing to be based in specific cities. Newly-remote workers realized that they didn't have to be tied to a physical office, and organizations focused on hiring new talent based on skill and not location.
These are not insignificant achievements, and while this way of working was unfamiliar to those who were forced to adapt during the pandemic, to the open source world, it was just another day.
Every open source project is worked on remotely and has been since their inception. Just look at the Linux Foundation, which supports more than 2,300 projects. There were more than 28,000 active contributors to these projects in 2021, adding more than 29 million lines of code each week and with community participants coming from nearly every country around the globe. Most of these contributors will never meet face to face, but they are still able to drive the next generation of open technologies.
Whether we realized it or not, our accomplishments during the pandemic brought us closer to the open source model, and this is why open source innovation is now driving much of the software world. Through this new way of working, we saw new revenue streams, found new ways to become more efficient, and discovered new ways to engage with our customers. As we approach what, hopefully, is the tail end of an incredibly difficult few years, it's time to accelerate. It's time to take the lessons that we learned and applied as we transformed to digital-first and use them to improve our businesses, cultures and global communities.
The term "new normal" is now used like it's pre-determined and static. It isn't. You get to define your new normal. What do you want your business to look like? How do you want to embrace the next generation of IT?
These are not insignificant achievements, and while this way of working was unfamiliar to those who were forced to adapt during the pandemic, to the open source world, it was just another day.
Every open source project is worked on remotely and has been since their inception. Just look at the Linux Foundation, which supports more than 2,300 projects. There were more than 28,000 active contributors to these projects in 2021, adding more than 29 million lines of code each week and with community participants coming from nearly every country around the globe. Most of these contributors will never meet face to face, but they are still able to drive the next generation of open technologies.
Whether we realized it or not, our accomplishments during the pandemic brought us closer to the open source model, and this is why open source innovation is now driving much of the software world. Through this new way of working, we saw new revenue streams, found new ways to become more efficient, and discovered new ways to engage with our customers. As we approach what, hopefully, is the tail end of an incredibly difficult few years, it's time to accelerate. It's time to take the lessons that we learned and applied as we transformed to digital-first and use them to improve our businesses, cultures and global communities.
The term "new normal" is now used like it's pre-determined and static. It isn't. You get to define your new normal. What do you want your business to look like? How do you want to embrace the next generation of IT?
Comment Re:Learn C (Score 1) 168
Nice. I actually started a (very minor) ruckus. With my tongue firmly in cheek, I offer the following:
In order to use assembly, you have to start with a pretty good understanding of what is actually happening down at the bare metal level, starting with CPU instruction sets, before you even start. A few days with K&R should give today's programmers using high level languages a better idea of what's going on in the lower levels without having to gain that knowledge. Very time and cost effective.
And of course you're right, nobody teaches assembly any more.
Comment Learn C (Score 1) 168
Learn how the machine thinks. Your (fill in your favorite language) programs will thank you for it.
Comment Re:Does this mean (Score 3) 161
That's OK. We lived through 'Nam, we lived through the birth of the civil rights movement, we survived Timothy Leary, Owsley, and Ram Dass, and a whole bunch of other shit. We can take an oiccasional 'OK Boomer' with a wry grin.
Comment Microsoft? (Score 5, Funny) 40
Sheesh, then MS must owe the French what, about 10 billion?
Comment Try this (Score 1) 21
I have a friend, Jason, who is a dancer/coreographer, who built a jenga set out of two by fours. He and his troup would play at renaissance faires using only their feet. Let me know when a robot can do that.
Comment i stopped using a GUI for a week (Score 1) 308
And it was AMAZING! I learned so much!
"In the Beginning Was the Command Line." Neal Stephenson.
Comment Re:I do this all the time (Score 1) 312
Try it. Let me know what you thinik, instead of spouting crap.
Comment I do this all the time (Score 2) 312
I have a pretty high end sound system - old NAD amplifier, Paradigm stereo speakers with sub-woffer, ADCOM CD player, Pro-Ject Turntable. Not state of the art, but several grand worth of components. I love having friends over and play them exactly the same song on LP, CD, mp3, and streaming (i.e. compressed) mp3. Watching their jaws drop is extremely satisfying.
Now, admittedly, modern music is specificly mixed for overbassed earbuds. Go get yourself an LP of Yello's One Second (1987), early electronica. (Yeah, you've heard it. OOOOOOHHH, YYEEAAHH) Put on the first track, La Habenera. Wait for the digital horns to reach out of the speakers, grab you by the throat and smack your face around like a soccer ball. Now try the CD of the same song. Nothing. mp3 - even worse. And then, try the same thing with the fourth movement of Beethoven's fifth, or some early Miles Davis, or some serious modern electronica like Solar Fields or Mauxuam. Yeah, thats what you're missing, kids.
Comment Re:It's not the language, you stupid jackwagons... (Score 1) 663
Yes. If you tell C that you wanna shoot yourself in the foot, C's job is to deliver the bullet to its intended target.
Comment Re:DYI (Score 1) 354
Yeah, I fat fingered that one.
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