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Noam Bardin recapitulates his and Waze's assimilation by the Borg Google "Corp-Tech" colossus: [^].
How could he complain when everything they thought he needed was provided: [^] ?
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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That was a fascinating and informative read.
Lesson: If you've built a great startup (or longer term business for that matter) and a corporate wants to buy it, just sell out and walk away with the money/equity. Don't think you'll be happy working in your baby after they've bought it.
I used to work for an ISP that was owned by its two co-founders. They sold out to a BC-backed management buy-in team (i.e. entirely new owner-managers backed by a VC fund). The co-founders were supposed to stay around for a year to hand over gradually to the new managers but instead they just disappeared instantly. They were wise to do so, I think. (If only so they could disappear with the money before the new owners discovered what they had got for their money).
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The OpenAPI Specification is an industry standard for describing APIs that allows developers and computers to understand what an API does without needing to access source code, documentation, or network traffic. An API for APIing your APIs. Does it make you API?
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So the 'A' now stands for 'Annoying?'
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I propose the OpenSpecification Specification as a potential industry standard for describing standards that allows humans to understand what a steering committee actually does without needing to wade through endless reams of requests for clarification, addendums and revisions.
Real programmers use butterflies
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Nah, we need a synonym for Open. So I propose the Ajar Specification Specification. The TLA is so much better.
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
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MarkTJohnson wrote: Nah, we need a synonym for Open. So I propose the Ajar Specification Specification. The TLA is so much better.
I'll second this, it'll Support Heuristic Information Technology perfectly.
And that's the ETLA covered 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Office 2021 will be available later this year for both Windows and macOS, and similar to the previous Office 2019 release, it’s designed for those who don’t want to subscribe to the cloud-powered Microsoft 365 variants. It looks like you were trying to get some work done. Wouldn't you rather try to figure out where we've hidden those commands now?
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And they will bring back the classic menu ? 
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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Hopefully the new "dark mode" will mirror Disaster Area's ship.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Nvidia has seen gaming GPU shortages because the processors were being used to mine cryptocurrency. Now Nvidia is giving miners what they want with Nvidia CMP. For your next home-heating project
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I actually find it a good idea, I am waiting for components to be available to get my new machine...
M.D.V. 
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It's almost all smoke and mirrors unfortunately. The biggest miners buy bare chips, build their own boards, and write their own drivers/firmware with the help of engineers poached from NVidia.
The next tier down won't be interested unless the cards are really cheap; they buy a few dozen to few hundred consumer gaming cards at a time (mostly from the same distributors who supply consumer facing retailers; meaning they're paying below sticker price) and resell them for near full price on the used market after about 6 months, so their actual price/card is close to zero.
Then at the lowest level you've got people who're mining on their gaming card to help pay for it. Mining only cards are useless to them.
Unless NVidia has a lot of dies with too many failed non-compute cores to make down-binned consumer models this isn't going to increase the total number of cards on the market; and with Etherium mining being profitable enough that buying gaming laptops for the embedded GPU is a thing, gimping consumer 3060s won't stop miners from buying them even if they can't hack the firmware throttle.
TSMC and Samsung are badly capacity limited so getting enough more cards/month soon isn't likely to happen. The supply situation's likely going to remain a cluster![Elephant | [mastadon]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/elephant.gif) until there's either another broad crash of ponzicoin prices; or etherium successfully migrates from proof of pollution to proof of plutocracy mining without a high value GPU mined fork splitting off.
At least in the US the least awful ways to try and get a card are via Bestbuy (dribbles new cards out over 1-2 hour windows so in stock alerts have enough reaction time for human buyers), Newegg (doing free raffles for the right to buy a card, unfortunately often bundled with something else of questionable value), or if you have on close enough you can stop buy every morning to see if anything is in stock a Microcenter retail store. My 3070 came from Bestbuy about a month ago.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Dan Neely wrote: My 3070 came from Bestbuy about a month ago.
Overpriced? Or fair price?
Becasue right now I can only find overpriced stuff.
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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It was a premium model from EVGA at $570. Pricing was more or less in line with what that line normally sits above MSRP for a base model (I think it was EVGAs MSRP for the model at the time but am not sure); but predated the tariff price hikes that have hit almost everything over the last month (mine's now $630 list) or the scalping of anything that's showing as in-stock via 3rd party sellers.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Microsoft has retired the exams for Microsoft Technology Associate (MTA) certifications, its broad entry-level tech certifications, and replaced them with a heavily Microsoft-centric curriculum. No more "Microsoft Certified non-Microsoft Person"
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Ohhh.... does it means that we won't be able to Dilbert Comic Strip on 2000-08-31 | Dilbert by Scott Adams[^] anymore? 
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
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That still works - but only for Microsoft products.
TTFN - Kent
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For ages now, every annual report on desktop operating system market share has had the same top two contenders: Microsoft's Windows in a commanding lead at number one and Apple's macOS in distant second place. So, it's *not* the Year of Linux?
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I thought Chrome OS was just another Linux distro with google spyware thrown in for good measure...
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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True, but it's certainly not something most people really think of as a Linux distro (mostly due to that spyware). Debian, I think?
TTFN - Kent
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So that means the base claim should be that *Linux* is the 2nd most installed desktop os, and since Windows 10 has WSL, that technically means that Linus is *the* most installed desktop OS...
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Most windows installs don't have WSL installed; currently it's only doable via power shell. Meaning that your average luser can't accidentally install it futzing around in settings. As a multi-gig install I don't see it becoming a standard part anytime soon.
And because Chromebooks version of linux is locked down and only able to run Chrome and Android apps; not any of the normal linux software you'd get via apt/etc IMO it's really not much closer to a real linux desktop than your phone is if you plug a keyboard, mouse, and external monitor into its USB port via a hub.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Dan Neely wrote: And because Chromebooks version of linux is locked down and only able to run Chrome and Android apps; not any of the normal linux software you'd get via apt/etc
All over the internet: Starting with version 69, Chrome OS users can use Linux applications. This is a game changer for Chrome OS, as it opens a massive catalog of available software.
That was 2 or 3 years ago...
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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