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New comment by terabyterex in "I put my whole life into a single database"

terabyterex — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 13:23:44 +0000

> Back in 2019, I started collecting all kinds of metrics about my life. Every single day for the last 3 years I tracked over 100 different data types - ranging from fitness & nutrition to social life, computer usage and weather.

I know this is the type of person i would not like.

New comment by terabyterex in "Retiring Windows 10 and Microsoft's move towards a surveillance state"

terabyterex — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 04:40:25 +0000

a lot of what he says is straight lies or stupidity. I love linux but disagree with everything he says.

New comment by terabyterex in "Study mode"

terabyterex — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 20:50:43 +0000

This can happen if you use the free model and not a paid deep research model. You can use a gpt model and ask things like , "how many moons does Jupiter have?" But if you want to ask, "can you go on the web a research the affects that chamical a has had on our water supply a cite sources?", you will need to use a deep research model.

New comment by terabyterex in "CP/M creator Gary Kildall's memoirs released as free download"

terabyterex — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 12:50:55 +0000

This paints Bill Gates as not a tech person and a business first person, which is not true. He got a BASIC compiler on the altair which MITS thought couldn't be done. He helped Wozniak implement a version of BASIC supporting floating point numbers. Gates didn't even want to take Microsoft public. They had to convince him. Ballmer was the biggest businessman in the bunch. Hell, he was the one that suggested kidall since Microsoft wasn't in the OS business.