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by a-dub 3y ago
i believe it was a separate 8kbps channel for each 56kbps line for out-of-band signaling (ie, per-line control plane).
482.
by a-dub 3y ago
in the mid-90s it was often the only option for >14.4kbps internet in residential areas. unfortunately the tariffs charged by the minute for voice and data calls so it was prohibitively expensive (at least for our household). the hack (
483.
by a-dub 3y ago
i think the kernel primitives are fine, unshare and namespaces make perfect sense to me. docker, podman, buildah, buildx, whatever... all these things with cutesy names and fatal flaws seem like the mess to me.
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by a-dub 3y ago
this is succinctly captured by the truth table for logical implication. let p be the existence of evidence and q be the state. if p is false, the expression is true regardless of the value of q.
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by a-dub 3y ago
my eyebrows may have raised when they left washington years ago, but these recent safety incidents have really caused me to start to doubt the new whartonized boeing's commitment to sparkle motion...
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by a-dub 3y ago
numerical code isn't like application code. the rules of application code don't always apply. for example, i think one character variable names are totally fine if they come from equations or papers where in most applications it&#
487.
by a-dub 3y ago
serious question: how much additional safety do you get over best practices and tooling in modern c++?
488.
by a-dub 3y ago
once had the pleasure of learning a bunch about these machines from the operator of the pacific pinball museum (then called the lucky juju) in alameda, ca about 20 years ago at a class at an early proto-makerspace in west oakland called the
489.
by a-dub 3y ago
cool! might be able to improve substantially with low effort using a simple approach to capturing dynamics like adding a few lags of the existing features.
490.
by a-dub 3y ago
that's part of it. and is the basis of the classic tannenbaum v. torvalds debate, but only part of what i mean. it would be interesting if there were some kind of write protection on the process-privilege data where some effort is made
491.
by a-dub 3y ago
it still seems kinda weird to me that all it takes to elevate privileges for a user process to "can arbitrarily write system level memory or disk" is just the clearing of all the bits of a single integer in kernel space which can
492.
by a-dub 3y ago
1200 baud modem on an atari st at age 6, building pcs by age 9, seller's permit to buy computer parts at cost at age 10, turbo/borland c at age 11 (also some vb and mark williams coherent, but we don't talk about that) slip a
493.
by a-dub 3y ago
"good faith" has meaning in the california business code and it would not stand up in court if they attempted to abuse semantics in the absurd way you describe. their text is abundantly clear: you can use the ideas in their patent
494.
by a-dub 3y ago
they want to protect their brand, but they don't want to get into the business of protecting those that belong to others, from others. they are not going to engage in malfeasance, they have spent too much building the brand that they s
495.
by a-dub 3y ago
you are correct that it is not symmetric, but i suspect they wanted to avoid weird situations where they find themselves publicly obligated to pull patents as a result of non-trivial non-patent ip disputes between third parties.
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by a-dub 3y ago
reads to me like "our lawn is for everyone as we want to see the technology succeed, but those who try to crap on it will be asked to leave." what's wrong with that?
497.
by a-dub 3y ago
Claude is great, you can upload PDFs of research papers, slides and very long documents and it will spit out decent attempts at implementation code and summaries.
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by a-dub 3y ago
this. it was pretty straightforward to port to NT modulo a few quirks around shared memory, mmap and fork/exec. edit. oh yeah, line endings. that sucked. that said, nt had way better multithreading support.
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by a-dub 3y ago
yeah it's really good for those kinds of "i'm trying to remember a thing here's a bunch of random details i remember about it what is it?" kinds of queries.
500.
by a-dub 3y ago
i wonder if ideas like side by side deployments were on their radars back then. maybe pretty expensive, but it seems like with systems of people and machines that complicated you'd want live validation of everything before cutting over
501.
by a-dub 3y ago
used to do that with glimpse when i worked with very large codebases 23 years ago! big fan of ag, ripgrep and burntsushi's rust work!
502.
by a-dub 3y ago
looks very cool! has there been any talk of native codegen/backends and integration with newfangled cool kid ecosystems (rust, go, etc)?
503.
by a-dub 3y ago
i think of acf as a measure of repeating temporal structure and how "strong" and "long" it is, if it exists. that is, it gives you a notion of if and what order of an ar model should fit any repeating structure in the da
504.
by a-dub 3y ago
i wonder if they've put any effort in having the car listen to itself and explain ordinary sounds (and alert on problematic ones).
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by a-dub 3y ago
likewise. i can already imagine a* being useful for efficiently solving basic algebra and proofs. it could form the basis of a generalized planning engine and that planning engine could potentially be dangerous given the inherent competiti
506.
by a-dub 3y ago
if their backend systems are such brownfield crap that they're unable to easily make these kinds of simple changes to their pricing structure, then they deserve to pay millions in incompetent leadership tax. if prices are presented sid
507.
by a-dub 3y ago
i think the only real mistake they made was taking twitter drama seriously.
508.
by a-dub 3y ago
that android app has been around for over ten years! close to fifteen maybe!
509.
by a-dub 3y ago
i don't think you can call this an alternative to make, it doesn't seem to do any dependency processing (phony or file based) at all!
510.
by a-dub 3y ago
it's always a shitshow underneath the abstraction, it seems...

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