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  • wewbull@feddit.uktoLinux@lemmy.mlWhy?
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    10 days ago

    I’d just built my first PC and had no love for Win 3.1 which was rapidly becoming the default. I wanted to keep codíng having come from from Atari STs and had no desire to learn the windows APIs. An OS that came with C compilers by default was higher level than I was used to as I’d been doing 68000 assembler on the ST, but it was still low level enough.

    IIt was also similar enough to the Sun IPCs and IPXs that I was using at university.







  • Datacentres powered by coal are bad. Cruise ships are worse.

    Coal Vs Marine fuel. You’ve picked the kings of pollution.

    Coal is worse for CO2. The free carbon it releases binds with oxygen in the atmosphere to produce more CO2 mass than the coal itself. It’s crazy how much CO2 it generates.

    Heavy fuel oil / bunker oil / marine fuel is cheap ass shit that contains masses of pollutants. So whilst it won’t generate as much CO2, it will create a load of other stuff including Sulphur Dioxide. That creates acid rain.

    Here’s an idea. Let’s do neither of them.





  • I’m a little confused by some of the discussion. Surely the problems they’re talking about with variations in the test system also apply to windows. You result can be affected by:

    • Which windows updates have been applied
    • Which version of the drivers have been installed
    • What other software is on the system

    Linux is the same, but they seem to be more concerned about it. Can someone explain?