CalChris

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by CalChris 2y ago
So I had cholera. I was in a cholera study at the University of Maryland for a week. Read a lot of sci fi, played ping pong and drank fluids with electrolytes. There is a first phase which is uncomfortable but otherwise, as the docs said, c
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Tailscale Machine Explorer in VS Code(tailscale.com)
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That part is a ruin. Olivetti had a lot of buildings in what was a company town. To reach the Olivetti operator from my apartment, IIRC I dialed 6. But the old factory building ("Mattoni Rossi") that I worked in on via Jervis is i
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by CalChris 2y ago
We are nearing the death of Proebsting's Law. AMD CEO Lisa Su's HotChips’19 keynote said that compilers had accounted for 8% performance increase over the decade. That means compilers are now only doubling performance every 90 yea
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The Macintosh had come out but I don't remember hearing about Jobs visiting. I read later that he met with Sottsass but he when was at Studio Olivetti. (Think meeting Jony Ive at LoveFrom rather than Apple). I remember Gates visited Iv
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Not broadcast, but there was marine longwave for point to point telegraphy. KPH would send messages to ships at sea at about 500kHz and it did broadcast news, weather albeit in Morse. It still exists as a museum and broadcasts occasionall
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Yank working there via the Olivetti ATC in Cupertino. Worked on Unix and other stuff. There were quite a few Brits there doing tech writing. A couple of Australians as well. It was very cosmopolitan but it was a deserted city in August. The
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I worked in the factory. I remember it well even from the one photo. The factory had a Winchester Mystery House air about it. It had been added to many times over the decades. So it was more like Rome and less like Turino with no obvious wa
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That was Nixon's AG, John Mitchell, who said that and it happened in 1972. Graham died in 2001, well before Eric Holder was ever Attorney General. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katharine_Graham
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It's just political strongarming. The Washington Post is not profitable.
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Maybe for variable variable-length shifts but for constant variable-length shifts, SHL reg, imm8 is single cycle on recent x86_64 microarchitectures.
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I was in a book club during COVID and we read Outliers . I knew the name but that was it. The club was epically correct and hung on its every word. I left. He gives an air of objectivity while being completely subjective. Ugh, just ugh. I
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by CalChris 2y ago
FreeBSD should work on Apple Silicon. OpenBSD already works on Apple Silicon. Asahi already works on Apple Silicon. It's been awhile already.
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For distros, you're probably talking about small programs with shared libraries. I talked to the Bolt guy at an LLVM meeting and Bolt is set up for big statically linked programs like what you'd see at Facebook or Google (which ha
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by CalChris 2y ago
He was critical of Biden (!?) in his eating crow letter but then didn't mention Trump at all. I think he just wants a reputational do-over.
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Ben Horowitz plans "significant" donation to Kamala Harris(axios.com)
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That’s why I put gTLD in quotes.
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ISO 3166-1 is maintained by the ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency which has members from agencies like ANSI, BSI, DIN, …. No way are they going to just let .io simply go out of existence. It's more like that Mauritius will attain ownership a
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by CalChris 2y ago
Is this what Mojo is supposed to be?
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When I was a kid, we’d regularly get MAD at the supermarket. We’d all read it cover to cover. I was young and some of it was over my head but that’s ok. In junior high, my college age sister gave me a subscription to Sports Illustrated
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> AIS can only be turned off in rare circumstances This is SOLAS convention which has no enforcement offshore. Within the navigable waters of the US and up to 12 miles offshore, there is enforcement [1]. But elsewhere, there are plenty o
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Dick Tracy mode is great for screening calls.
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Philo Farnsworth got screwed over by the same guy, David Sarnoff.
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That $1M cap rose year by year. According to ProPublica, it was $8.2M in 2014. https://www.propublica.org/article/the-executive-pay-cap-tha...
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If ISAs really didn't matter then Apple would have switched horses.
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The point of Buy is to acquire the asset you will Borrow against. How doesn't really matter. So Larry did that by growing a company. Good for Larry. But the tax avoidance is the same from there. Borrow, Die.
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I implicitly understood Buy, Borrow when CEOs making a $1/yr became a thing. That seemingly hairshirt salary is publicly reported. I didn't foresee the Die part because it is affected in private.
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Armv8-A also supports 4K pages: FEAT_TGran4K. So Apple did indeed make a choice to instead use 16K, FEAT_TGran16K. Microsoft uses 4K for AArch64 Windows.
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Normal, large and huge. But default normal pages (which is what Android is changing) are 4K. FWIW, Itanium and Alpha had 8K default pages. https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20210510-00/?p=10... I wonder w
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iOS has had 16K pages since forever. OSX switched to 16K pages in 2020 with the M1. Windows is stuck on 4K pages, even for AArch64. Linux has various page sizes. Asahi is 16K.

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