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  • hanrahan@piefed.socialtoTechnology@lemmy.world•What are your technology mispredictions?English
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    3 个月前

    Everything ? I though MS Office woukd fail becase no one will want to close source their data files, i was using an Amiga at the time at home and the file format was standard and you chose the app to use

    It started there and just progressed, Apple was a big one, people won’t buy into their closed wall’d shenanigans. Wrong again.

    Messaging, what a debacle that has turned into. I assumed the system would be standardised and the fight would be over the front end for interoperability, wrong again.

  • hanrahan@piefed.socialtoTechnology@lemmy.world•China’s ‘artificial sun’ breaks nuclear fusion limit thought to be impossibleEnglish
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    3 个月前

    it was one of the most important breakthroughs to date in fusion

    What ? It was not really. Here’s a physicist discussing why.

    https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2023/08/fusion-foolery/

    In the end, the NIF fusion accomplishment might be called a stunt. Stunts explore what we can do (often after an insane amount of preparation, practice, and failure), rather than what’s practical. Stunts hide the pains and present an appearance of ease and grace, but it’s a show.

    The “more energy out than laser energy in” equation masks several fundamental problems. NIF’s doped glass lasers have an efficiency of about 0.5 percent, meaning that they would have sucked in roughly 400 megajoules of energy from the grid in order to produce the 2.1 megajoules of light energy…

    To be fair the hype machine was from the press not the scientists

    Let’s pause to say: well done! Honestly. No sarcasm. What they did was ridiculously hard, and it finally worked after more than a decade of trying. They actually produced a significant number of fusion events! There’s no faking that, and I’d like to see you try. So let’s be clear that I’m not knocking the accomplishment in itself. My major beef is how we interpret the implications for society.

  • hanrahan@piefed.socialtoLinux@lemmy.ml•Why did you move from Windows to Linux?English
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    4 个月前

    Windows from 3.1, MS DOS before that

    Come W 8 I was getting grumpy, started dual booting Ubuntu.

    Not able to overcome my own apathy, dual boot as in 95% of the time Windows

    Come the W 11 announcement some time ago I grabbed another NVME, installed Linux Mint and said fisk it and never went back. Only distro hopped to LMDE haha

    Fuck Terminal :)

  • hanrahan@piefed.socialtoProgramming@programming.dev•what's the coolest thing you have ever programmed?English
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    4 个月前

    Back in late 1982 (i think it was), i was 16, I’d just convinced my folks to buy me a Commodore 64. It had a tape drive for storage, long before broard Internet access etc. I had magazines about programming in Assembler and programmed a couple games to play becase i didnt have access to, well, anything.

    I still remember my bottom porky pig balloon shooter :)

    SYS 64738 my dudes.

    My next computer was an Amiga 1000, floppy and pirating in my local user group were a thing by then :)