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I can defend Hiroshima and Nagasaki as military targets. I actually have a greater trouble defending the firebombing of Tokyo (though, its pretty clear to me that the capitol of a combatant country is probably a valid target for bombing i
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Agreed. Intentionally trying to blow up non-combatants is bad - and there is no way to make it good. Its one thing if non-combatants are collateral damage (war is dirty), its another thing entirely if ones intention is to intentionally kill
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The UK is no longer a wealthy country by European standards - its dead last in GDP per capita in northern Europe (The UK ranks Number 17 in GDP per capita in Europe) - basically whatever benefits the UK gained from Empire was consumed by tw
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I'm trying to explain to our IT that we need to match our customers expectations on how to interface with them, not the other way around, that has so far, either fallen on deaf ears or not made it to the correct person. I have a ticket
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The most important part about OneDrive is it offers a CYA level of monitoring and control. We're doing 'the cloud' wrong, rather than it being a way to leverage BYOD and easier access to information, we're going the oppo
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We as a group are considering work to rule. But, no, because I otherwise love my job, also where would I go?
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The real answer as pointed out in this document is simple - IT Security and Administrative policy in non-technology companies trends towards restriction and justification rather than permissiveness. I work in a role that develops air gapped
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So I just finished this book, and it makes the claim at the end, that Watson died of assisted suicide after his stroke, which is an interesting revelation.
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I read it, and it's an interesting read, but I did not find it made a compelling argument for its revisionist historical narrative. There was lots assumption about what IBM knew or did not know that have no evidentiary basis. As far as
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I concur, strongly. I read this biography and another one about Sr - and I found both of them to be compelling books
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Like I'd be happy to contribute financially to a HN elsewhere if the need arose. We'd just have to work out the details, I think the underlying software HN runs on is open source, so it wouldnt be too hard to do as a community pro
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Because they promised thr connector wouldn't change again quickly when they introduced lighting.
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Satellite still is - A) Expensive B) Requires working ground station hardware
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While I'll say M17 looks very interesting - I'm far more interested in analog audio, with both sub audible data steams and leading/trailing data burts. You could easily cram a 50 bits per second data stream into the space bel
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To call this a protocol is wildly overstating the meaning behind of the word protocol.
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No, I meant 68000 - what I'm trying to say is that while the 68000 is a significantly more elegant microarchitecture, had more functionality - and it did get to better performance faster, its not really any better in performance when j
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If you read the commentary from the folks who did the PC, the largest thing driving COTS was cost and time to market - while I'm sure anti-trust was a consideration at IBM, I dont think it was a primary one.
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Making the microprocessor is just one challenge - you have to produce a workable system that someone wants to buy (aka, is cheaper or more attractive than the other options. It does appear that DEC could have made a single chip PDP-11 in 19
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IMO, part of what killed DEC was what almost killed IBM - poor management and a somewhat loathed sales force. DEC tried to go after IBM and in doing so structured itself after IBM, it lead to multiple competing projects and groups doing sim
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I think DEC's strong trend line of NIH (almost as strong as IBM) almost certainly dooms a PC-PDP - IBM only made the PC by effectively creating a skunkworks within the company that was focused solely on 'go to market' compare
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The IBM PC had an advantage in that most of the support parts were IIRC largely jellybean 74 series logic - could a PC-PDP have used similar COTS parts? The larger issue with DEC was a strong NIH trend (almost as strong as IBM), I dont know
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Thats an interesting alternative history thought experiment. I wonder how early one could capture the complexity of the full PDP-11 microarchitecture on a single chip? Would it have been affordable? What about the support hardware?
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+48v isnt going to kill anyone either - the Telcos have been using it for a century.
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I suspect the reason that Tesla has retained a 12v system is because the automotive grade parts largely dont exist at anything other than 12v. Even when the big three were making stuff for the military with a 24v system, it was a hybrid 24v
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But they do promise lots of things they can't deliver as well.
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Once Trump and his ilk came in, Those people lost elections.
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How is that different than anyone else? Republicans and Democrats alike say whatever they need to win a primary and general election, democrats do that in smaller quantities - but it's still the same bullshit. And before anyone says I&
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Falun Gong at least makes no effort to hide its attachment to certain media outlets.
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That's not wrong, we have an issue with politicians promising things that are impossible or at a minimum highly implausible - because the structure of our political system means they won't be thrown out on their ear for making pro

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