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   by Thoreandan 8y ago

   ... and in 2019 the "digital.com" domain is apparently hosted by a site that can't handle the traffic of this article. SPECIAL BONUS: Their current robots.txt appears to be blocking the old Digital.com pages from the WayBac
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   by Thoreandan 8y ago

   I too learned of Wain due to the alleged madness pics - I've also read (no sources handy) that the theory's been pretty hardily debunked. Found some interesting things about him, though, he organized a supper for the London Cat&#x
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   by Thoreandan 9y ago

   "Our moon is almost half the size of Earth" What? No, it's not.
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   by Thoreandan 9y ago

   I did a brief armchair check of the patent dates related to v.34 and I think they should all be expired (from the dates on the ISO site) - so connecting at up to 33.600 bidirectionally on a robbed-bit-signalling DS0 line should be implement
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   by Thoreandan 9y ago

   ...annnnd no relation to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRON_project - the Japanese RTOS. Also no relation to JTRON - the Java implementation of TRON.
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   by Thoreandan 9y ago

   Location: Denver, Colorado (US) Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: no Technologies: DevOps (Build / Test / Release) - C , C++ , Python, Perl Résumé/CV: https://jonbailey.net Email: resume(at){ jonbailey.net; }
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   by Thoreandan 9y ago

   Can't find a link right now, but Steve Jobs, when he was acting as Interim CEO at Apple, used a NeXT computer for his own desktop -- it was a significant event (maybe the Power Mac G4 Cube?) when Steve changed over to running OS X for
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   by Thoreandan 9y ago

   I agree, Monty is a good presenter and a good speaker. You can tell he loves his subject matter, and he's eloquent and understandable in sharing it.
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   by Thoreandan 9y ago

   Location: Denver, CO Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: C/C++/Python, DevOps, CI (Jenkins/Bamboo), Win32, MacOS, Linux Résumé/CV: https://jonbailey.net Email: resume@jonbailey.net
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    by Thoreandan 10y ago

    Does anyone know of a better way to navigate the document structure here? I see this on the GNU website and in the HTML versions of their manuals, so am assuming it's from a design choice made there ... Making the empty side margins Cl
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    by Thoreandan 10y ago

    Abstract: "I will give a crash course on particle physics, collider experiments, and quantum field theory. I will show that on the cutting edge of particle physics is the search for the description of the vacuum of spacetime and the n
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    “Particles and the Nature of Nothing” – laypersons overview of quantum mechanics(youtube.com)

    1 points by Thoreandan 10y ago|1 comments
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    by Thoreandan 10y ago

    The slam-dunk would be if a factory-new processor's purchaser has the option to have the built in TrustZone ARM management chip able to trust keys provided by the owner (blow a fuse or something?), so unlike Intel IME, someone who want
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    by Thoreandan 10y ago

    I especially like the 3Blue1Brown videos on Hanoi/binary-counting and explaining (visually) Euler's Identity.
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    by Thoreandan 10y ago

    The column "The Hard Edge" in Computer Shopper magazine (Bill O'Brien and Alice Hill) teased Intel's heat output on the new "Pentium" chip by saying they'd get a tiny frying pan made to fry an egg on it.
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    by Thoreandan 10y ago

    Location: Denver, CO Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Cross-platform native apps (MacOS, Win32, Linux), C, Python, Perl, Visual Studio, GCC, gdb, Debian/Ubuntu, FreeBSD, CentOS, MySQL, CouchDB, VSphere, Amazon AWS, Con
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    by Thoreandan 10y ago

    I was quite tickled to read that bit. The guy who made Starglider for the Atari ST, and Star Fox! :-) Apparently newer chips have had other architectures, at least one I think was actually SPARC.
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    by Thoreandan 10y ago

    Not sure when you tried it - but my attempt ~4mo ago starting from debian stable worked as per the instructions - and there are at least 3 mirror sites that keep all the required packages listed ... See the bottom section of the page http:
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    by Thoreandan 10y ago

    http://archive.is/loVuK#selection-389.255-409.27
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    by Thoreandan 11y ago

    I think that, given a large enough group of people willing to make a mass-purchase of CPUs, Intel would be likely to listen to requests for a batch with an open-sourced Management Engine component, or some shim akin to the one RHEL uses to
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    by Thoreandan 15y ago

    Mentioning that you tracked him down and that he wants to be left alone, fine. Throwing in "HEY EVERYONE YES THIS IS HIS REAL NAME AND HERE'S WHERE HE WORKS" - valid reporting of facts, but unnecessary, and explicitly contrary to the wishes
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    by Thoreandan 15y ago

    Seriously? "Ha ha ha fat chicks! Ha ha, theorem proved, bitches!" [image of him doggy-style dry-humping a woman he assures you in the comments 'he has no idea who that girl is'] ...The subject is honestly interesting, I'd like to see th
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    by Thoreandan 15y ago

    Thanks! :)
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    by Thoreandan 15y ago

    Unfortunately the signup logic considers a "+" in an email address field to be an invalid email address.
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    by Thoreandan 16y ago

    Post by the inventor of JavaScript, on the future direction of the language, nice.
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    by Thoreandan 16y ago

    Page-widening bug, ugh. :(
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    by Thoreandan 16y ago

    jbk - Thank you (and the rest of your team members!) Does anyone have links to who I should talk to to volunteer as an Intel gfx hw tester? Netflix+Silverlight+Win7 is using GPU acceleration for video on my netbook, it would be great to ha
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    by Thoreandan 16y ago

    What an arrogant ass, gloating about having a rich enough family to have his back that he got to play at being poor while between colleges.