Taniwha

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541.
by Taniwha 4y ago
Some of the people who patented them couldn't get them to work, others reputedly did but could not reliably reproduce them
542.
by Taniwha 4y ago
wow! In the mid-late 70s our mainframe had a high speed line printer - it was driven by 120 hammers and a spinning belt of letters, the hammers hit the belt when the right character came past. People printing just cheques might put on a bel
543.
by Taniwha 4y ago
Of course FETs were first patented in 1925, then 1934, then again in 1945
544.
by Taniwha 4y ago
I think this is the "the first language I learned does X, everything that does Y is wrong" when in reality there are lots of different ways to do something and none of them are really 'right' - every thing is a set of co
545.
by Taniwha 4y ago
There a whole bunch of architectures where you have to specify instruction sizes - the intel prefix thing is really the odd one out - more importantly the PDP-11 (where the AT&T format came from) had ubiquitous 8 and 16-bit instructions
546.
by Taniwha 4y ago
The way I see it Elon boasted 'hardcore!' .... and most of Twitter's employees called his bluff, now he's screwed. All this is really because he doesn't really understand his business - what he's selling is acc
547.
by Taniwha 4y ago
But there's only ever going to be a fixed number of bitcoin - does it all just stop working when it's all mined out?
548.
by Taniwha 4y ago
and both canals
549.
by Taniwha 4y ago
One might suggest that the NFTs are the only thing close to 'real' here
550.
by Taniwha 4y ago
it's too big for almost every current port
551.
by Taniwha 4y ago
I worked in a hot-metal news room (with lino-types) take the parent article with a grain of salt - it really worked like this: 1) Linotype machine contains positive type molds, it assembles them into lines and mechanically left/right
552.
by Taniwha 4y ago
But is it really "money"? I'm pretty sure they just owe them some large numbers, there are plenty of large numbers where those ones came from I'm sure they can make some more
553.
by Taniwha 4y ago
Intel format was pre-unix (probably 8080) ... and AT&T of course was from the late 70s, originally from PDPs
554.
by Taniwha 4y ago
I'm pretty sure all this predates the existence of gas
555.
by Taniwha 4y ago
For the Americans: "barrrister" == lawyer who does court work, "soliciter" == lawyer who does contracts, title transfers, etc
556.
by Taniwha 4y ago
It's different than that - calling an election has always been the Queen/Governor General's only real power in this situation, that bit is not new. What's a big deal now is that Kerr and the Queen were going to do it bec
557.
by Taniwha 4y ago
People may remember that the CIA also had a hand in this sordid episode, documented in the movie The Falcon and the Snowman (based on a real case) where someone working in signals (much like Edward Snowden) watching all the telexes go by re
558.
by Taniwha 4y ago
I think you misunderstand me - I want him to finish his big rocket and start doing wonderful stuff with it, I think his ill conceived twitter adventure is tilting at windmills that must be taking his eyes of the real prize
559.
by Taniwha 4y ago
4D chess? he doesn't have the self control, too busy haring off tilting at windmills to launch his damned spaceship
560.
by Taniwha 4y ago
Yeah he obviously knew all this by the time he took over it was why he was trying to get out of the stupid deal he'd done without full due diligence - and besides that - 3/4 of the $4M a day Twitter is losing is the $1B a year int
561.
by Taniwha 4y ago
Pretty much as if you buy a bike and it turns out it was stolen it's still not your bike someone who blindly accepts what turns out to be a chunk of someone else's code can still be unknowingly guilty of copyright violation.
562.
by Taniwha 4y ago
I think that one of the main issues with stack machines is that the order of instructions in the original instruction stream is constrained by the instruction format - you can't as easy software schedule instructions (harder to express
563.
by Taniwha 4y ago
Yeah that was my first thought and then: "do I still have an old portmaster around somewhere, will it run on that?" choosing the same name as a revered network router (the first one really affordable by mere mortals) may alienate
564.
by Taniwha 4y ago
probably not and likely open to similar law suits - this is not really a bad thing
565.
by Taniwha 4y ago
Yeah but once a minute is overkill for lots of things - remote river flood warning every 15 minutes, river water quality once an hour, temp or rain fall once and hour
566.
by Taniwha 4y ago
well, almost every number ....
567.
by Taniwha 4y ago
I'm a RISC-V designer, I'm afraid it's not a magic bullet for these sorts of issues. What it does do is free lots of designers to work on solutions and build off of each other's work
568.
by Taniwha 4y ago
"Sun Ra" might not be the sun god you are thinking of ..... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1ToFXHW5pg
569.
by Taniwha 4y ago
It makes sense because twitter is mostly written in scala and Tesla's engineers are scala experts right? ..... right?
570.
by Taniwha 4y ago
Yeah, I think I was chasing this exact same bug elsewhere just the other day - modulated by the bulk caps, and variations on SD cards (some worked some didn't)

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