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4,416karma·3,767submissions·August 18, 2015
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My understanding is that by Windows 95, IBM's PC division preferred to sell computers with Windows to OS/2.
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Relevant: TIL that Microsoft uses SAP software, despite competing with SAP with its own ERP software (Microsoft Dynamics) < https://np.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments&#…
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>However, Germans I see online - even under the guise of anonymity - will strongly defend and support their system. Are the German dissenters all offline, or are they way fewer than in other simila…
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Title edited by me for length from "'This is definitely my last TwitchCon': High-profile streamer Emiru was assaulted at the event, even as streamers have been sounding the alarm about …
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/r/boxoffice says typically 2.5X.
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Quoting myself < https://np.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/1md4wde/the_most_va... >: >Novo Nordisk did not file for a renewal because of a mistake, or someon…
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Highly relevant: TIL that Microsoft uses SAP software, despite competing with SAP with its own ERP software (Microsoft Dynamics) < https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/co…
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>What we're seeing right now is the fossil fuel energy economy stopping. We need it to stop; if it doesn't stop, we're all going to starve to death within a generation or so. What ar…
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DES is an example of where people were sure that NSA persuaded IBM to weaken it but, to quote Bruce Schneier, "It took the academic community two decades to figure out that the NSA 'tweaks…
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More information from The Chosun Daily < https://www.chosun.com/english/national-en/2025/10/02/FPWGFS... >: >The Ministry of Personnel Management, wh…
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>Mastodon is the right model. I keep saying this and I keep being surprised that it isn't more obvious to most. It's the right model because it's essentially the same model as email.…
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>I’d argue that people lose the moment they sign up for an account, deluding themselves into believing that the problem with the last nth iteration of the same thing isn’t them. Indeed. As you said…
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>But HN members who aren't mass-marketing could change that, by moving to the Fediverse -- giving it their endorsement, and network effects. Why? Why should HN members, or anyone else, move to…
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>* USAID shutdowns The rest of the world is not entitled to unlimited American funds for all time. >* DOE downsizing (ie. killing education) Canada doesn't even have a federal-level educati…