BirAdam

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by BirAdam 3y ago
So, modern transputer but RISC-V. Seems neat.
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by BirAdam 3y ago
This reminds me very much of transputers. The idea here is that each cpu can context switch extremely quickly with minimal latency to any resource and you have a topology that is great for matrix maths as a result.
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by BirAdam 3y ago
Underneath the software, there’s still a filesystem with files. If you stand up an S3 instance with Ceph, you still have a filesystem on spinning rust or fancy SSDs. There’s just a bunch of stuff on top of that. It’s cool, but to say that t
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by BirAdam 3y ago
Apple appeals to a totally different customer. They want something that they’d needn’t fuss with. The other Apple customer is the developer who’s forced into ownership so that he/she can sell to that first Apple customer. Edit: until t
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by BirAdam 3y ago
The usage of “do” and some of the uses of would/could/should come from “Celtic” languages if I understand correctly.
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by BirAdam 3y ago
David Peterson is paid to make languages for a living and has made many. He’s excellent at it. More importantly, he doesn’t get to do whatever he wants. Sometimes, he’s told to keep to source material, and other times he isn’t. In the end,
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by BirAdam 3y ago
I don’t think this works well. English is absolutely “Germanic” but it doesn’t neatly fit into any grouping grammatically, lexically, or audibly. The influence of French, and milder influences of Gaelic languages have transformed the langua
638.
by BirAdam 3y ago
I grew up hearing German, Schwaebisch, English, Latin, and French regularly. Dutch is readable for me, but hearing it is sometimes completely foreign.
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by BirAdam 3y ago
The gemstone comparison is quite apt. Hadn’t thought of it that way. Of course, humans will place meaning in anything/everything if they don’t train themselves not to do so. I’d love someone to do a blog where all it is is tearing apar
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by BirAdam 3y ago
So, like, the aliens elected a lizard version of Donald Trump? Make the planets gold and it all tracks.
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by BirAdam 3y ago
Upvoted ya cuz you’re correct. However, I’d add that while nature can absolutely create straight lines, it is often advisable to investigate for prior human activity if you stumble upon a straight line in a cave or under the ocean.
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by BirAdam 3y ago
I am not aware of any Linux distribution that has no package manager (except for LFS, which isn't a distribution per se). Source-based systems typically have some kind of package manager. Gentoo: portage, GoboLinux: Compile, Slackware:
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by BirAdam 3y ago
All. The. Time.
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by BirAdam 3y ago
Unlike England, Eastern Rome had political continuity with the Western Roman Empire, the military language was partially Latin until the end, and the corpus of Law continued from the origin, the people viewed themselves as the same people,
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by BirAdam 3y ago
It saw tremendous inflation, just less than the 70s and 80s, and this due to two different things. First, companies just began making shitty products. Use glued and compressed pulp instead of wood, use fructose instead of glucose, use bleac
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by BirAdam 3y ago
Tariffs. Also, in the USA, there are some rather restrictive laws that require auto makers to use dealerships, so BYD would need to establish relationships with dealerships first. This would raise costs, and knowing how US dealerships are t
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by BirAdam 3y ago
No matter the estimation, no matter the probability, the history of scientific inquiry has shown that reality is weirder than the wildest of human imaginings. Let’s just go and find out for sure, and maybe write less clickbait, yeah?
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by BirAdam 3y ago
Well… the Sahara has life though. It isn’t abundant, but it’s certainly there.
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by BirAdam 3y ago
If the purpose is to get a fake device somewhere for nefarious purposes such as bombings, surveillance, network infiltration, or some other purpose people would do it. Yes.
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by BirAdam 3y ago
I actually used that too, and then SP2 blew it away, so I left Windows for Linux.
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by BirAdam 3y ago
The most productive meetings I have are never the ones scheduled, they’re impromptu between myself and another engineer just chatting. Sometimes, one of us mentions a problem and the other offers an idea that pushes toward the solution. Eve
652.
by BirAdam 3y ago
Honestly, I have been a bit disappointed by Apple. On one hand, they make some seriously awesome hardware with amazing performance doing tasks like rendering and whatnot. On the other hand, they seem incapable of getting awesome performance
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by BirAdam 3y ago
Stability is an illusion. It’s becoming increasingly evident that even small shifts in climate have triggered devastating events for humans, like the Bronze Age Collapse, plagues, and so on. Plus, there’s the whole end of the last glaciatio
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by BirAdam 3y ago
Well, if Exxon builds a space ship…
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by BirAdam 3y ago
This feels a lot like the Mozart Effect junk science.
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by BirAdam 3y ago
True, but I did get some bad RSI from it in school.
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by BirAdam 3y ago
It’s a new mold for the plastics as the original IBM/Lexmark one was wearing out. Also, it comes with USB and meta keys.
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by BirAdam 3y ago
EDIT: this was largely just to strengthen one of your points. Every single time something becomes big, the hardcore early fans of that thing will complain about the change. This used to happen with bands. Early die hard fans enjoyed having
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by BirAdam 3y ago
I think this all remains to be seen. Someone has to truly solve the bullshit/hallucination problem before AI systems are truly useful for a wide variety of tasks. More importantly, however, I believe that people have some seriously dum
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by BirAdam 3y ago
In most setups like this, it’s going to be spinning rust with mdadm, and MySQL dumps that get created via cron and sent to another location.

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