pureagave

In the future political leanings won't be used for ads. They will be used for something far worse.

We had rooms filled elbow to elbow with rows of shelves with printers on top of printers. Every version imaginable. We had libraries of home routers from any and all manufactures. We had tons of junky usb device, wacky HID contraptions, Mass Storage, whatever. I don't know that we had everything but the thinking was that if any Windows user had one of these then we had a customer we wanted to support with a great experience when they plugged it into Vista. We had pretty amazing telemetry for the time so we did prioritize more common devices. But the long tail we tried to support was very very long. We were fighting a thankless war in the trenches. Vista was hard. Most of the stack and new drivers didn't get fully worked out until win7 shipped.

I worked on device connectivity in Windows core OS division in the Longhorn/Vista push. I came from the Linux and SunOS world before that. It was simply crazy at the dedication and effort put in to make Windows backwards compatible with whatever old broken and poorly behaving USB and printer device. We would have no-named cheap web cams that didn't function to USB spec but "worked" in Windows 98 that needed to work in Vista while still implementing new secure driver models that broke all cheap device assumptions. It was a long hard trek to get all those devices working.

Europe requires removal of FSD. US safety standards "seems a lower bar"

Quite ironic.

I came here expecting it was a yet another story about Canonical.

i totally misread the title of this post. What is wrong with me?

What would happen if we didn't allow a female category for power lifting? Just have human power lifting. Does the NFL have a ban on women in NFL? I don't know but the teams look as I expect they would even without a ban.

Great keyboard, great display, great OS. It was fast enough and a great terminal to bigger Sparcs if you needed it.

I had one on my desk and eventually a collection of Sparc 2, 10's and a V in my garage. I miss the keyboard and Sun OS 4, the Trinitron display and working on difficult engineering problems on those machines.

I agree that it is slightly better than Reddit but often it just turns into a mess that doesn't touch on tech.

They are plenty of places for political discussions. HN is a rare great place for tech so personally I'd rather keep it that way.

I think the commentor was talking about Adams's support for Trump. While maybe not normal on Reddit, HN or San Francisco, it's normal enough that more than half the voters agreed with Scott Adams.

100% this. But don't forget the garden hose running full blast so you can cool it! It's not impossible to get up and running for fun for an hour, but this isn't a run 24/7 kinda setup any more than getting an old mainframe running in one's garage is practical.

This is wonderful to see. I was a student and then entered into the tech industry in the mid 90's and at that time the Internet had fun whimsical things like this almost weekly.

Exactly. We have the phrase "roid-rage" for a reason.

Maybe the estate should look into whomever was selling him testosterone enanthate so that he could have testosterone levels of 5,000 or more. I suspect that had more to do with his degraded mental situation than his AI chats.