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by DoomHotel 5y ago
Peter Watts covered the possibility of "zombie" intelligences pretty well in his novel Blindsight . One thing I took from it is that such an intelligence could not possibly behave exactly like a human being, because a lot of wh
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by DoomHotel 5y ago
Postgres (>11) also implements the SQL/JSON path language that lets you extract table data from JSON.
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by DoomHotel 5y ago
Using the type system to implement a Natural Numbers Object[1] is pretty clever. Doing math with it is not exactly efficient, but it does prove it works. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_numbers_object
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Gutting Decades of Architecture to Build a New Kind of Processor(nextplatform.com)
27 points by DoomHotel 5y ago|2 comments
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by DoomHotel 5y ago
The kernel uses the sysctl vm.vfs_cache_pressure to determine whether to evict cache vs. process memory.
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Intel Financialized and Lost Leadership in Semiconductor Fabrication(ineteconomics.org)
3 points by DoomHotel 5y ago|0 comments
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by DoomHotel 5y ago
Sam Vimes's $10 boots have become the 800 dollar cars in that article. But cars are optional if you live somewhere with working mass transportation.
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by DoomHotel 5y ago
RISC-V International's plan to give away 1,000 boards to developers seems like a good idea. I like some of the products I've seen but the cheap ones are just toys and the decent ones are way overpriced.
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by DoomHotel 5y ago
The US government's official numbers for 2019 [1] only show 131k jobs for "information security analysts" and they project 171k by 2029. The total for computer, network and database administrators is only around 500k. [1] ht
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by DoomHotel 5y ago
Nobody likes Monty Python references? I guess I shoulda known, my Simpsons one got downvoted too. Well, lessons learned, I guess.
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by DoomHotel 5y ago
I think it'd be more appropriate if the post bore a great red label: 'WARNING: EMACS!!!'
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by DoomHotel 5y ago
Yes, same here. "Close Tabs to the Right" gets used a lot. If there's anything I want to keep I either pin it or drag it all the way to the left first.
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by DoomHotel 5y ago
I negotiated a deal at a former employer where I worked 4 x 9.5 hour days with Wednesdays off. I took a 5% pay cut and lost a proportional amount of vacation time. I kept my benefits but had to pay a slightly higher share for my contributio
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by DoomHotel 5y ago
> unrestricted immigration I'm in the USA and this polemical strawman is standard fare on Murdoch's Fox News. It's just a lazy way of dismissing the issue without real discussion.
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by DoomHotel 5y ago
You should be very glad you did not move to the UK. The Home Office has a backlog of 320,000 unprocessed applications for residency status, according to a recent Guardian article. [1] These people will be in legal limbo with no right to rem
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by DoomHotel 5y ago
This week's Brexit & Beyond [1] mentioned this and I forgot to follow up on the link, so thank you. Performative cruelty for the masses while the Government talks up the great and wonderful success that is Brexit is only to be ex
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Colonial Pipeline Shut Down Distribution Because It Couldn’t Bill Customers(mediaite.com)
5 points by DoomHotel 5y ago|1 comments
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by DoomHotel 5y ago
Wow, it didn't work at all on my desktop. It thinks I have 23 apps from its list installed, on both Firefox and Chrome. Pretty funny seeing that on a Linux box running CentOS 7. Even better, it detects a different app on each as the
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by DoomHotel 5y ago
The Sun RPC code had a loop where it allocated one page at a time and filled an array with the returned pointers. The article says there was a 500% performance improvement after replacing the loop with a single call to the batch allocator.
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by DoomHotel 5y ago
Do you hate your feelings and try to run away from them?
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by DoomHotel 5y ago
My inherent cynicism leads me to believe the real reason they shut down the pipeline was because the attackers took down the accounting system.
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by DoomHotel 5y ago
Is this title trying to riff on "No, it is the children who are wrong"?
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by DoomHotel 5y ago
Figure 2 in that article, illustrating a constant-width figure with three sides (a Reuleaux triangle), reminded me of a science fiction story from long ago. I finally found the title: it's "The Three-Cornered Wheel" by Poul A
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by DoomHotel 5y ago
That Washington Post story is dated May 3, 2016 and now I'm wondering if that justifies flagging the post.
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by DoomHotel 5y ago
The 1980 film The Lathe of Heaven is wonderfully done, especially when you consider it was made as a PBS project for $250,000. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lathe_of_Heaven_(film)
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by DoomHotel 5y ago
Use Firefox Focus on mobile. On desktop, set Firefox to purge everything when closing the browser. Use Chrome only when necessary to do strictly Google-related things.
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by DoomHotel 5y ago
We had some coding rules to help prevent that: 1. No unnecessary periods in the code 2. Required periods (ending paragraphs and if/then/else) go on a line by themselves
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by DoomHotel 5y ago
I learned structured programming using COBOL in the 1970s on a Xerox Sigma 6 and went on to use it on Burroughs Medium Systems (B3500/B4800).
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by DoomHotel 5y ago
We used PERFORM to implement calls. Whether or not implemented with a stack, it acts the same as any call/return. So to implement a simple loop to count records in a file: PERFORM COUNT-ROWS VARYING COUNT FROM 1 BY 1 UNTIL EOF. And the
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by DoomHotel 5y ago
IBM mainframes also do/did hardware BCD arithmetic, starting with System/360. And as for COBOL not lending itself to structure, how did Structured COBOL exist, then? I wrote lots of COBOL without a single GO TO anywhere in the cod

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