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by bcrl 2y ago
AmigaDOS taught me so much about computing. For whatever reason I was drawn to using Ed for writing C on the Amiga, which prepared me for vi later on. And the fact that AmigaDOS was a preemptive multitasking OS got me thinking about race
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by bcrl 2y ago
I agree with the grandparent mostly because the article doesn't have any real world applications. Forgetting to free memory that is allocated and then used inside of a function is the rarest kind of memory management bug that I have ru
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by bcrl 2y ago
Vision isn't the only problem. Can computers do a decent job of theory-of-mind of other drivers? What about seeing a tire bouncing down off an overpass that's visible to the driver? Software developers love saying that it'
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by bcrl 2y ago
If your trading partner has the ability to manufacture something with a better cost structure than you can, say, because they have iron ore mine, a smelter and a gigantic hydro electric dam all in close proximity to each other, then you get
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by bcrl 2y ago
EDA tool vendors have to work extremely closely with both fabless firms and fabs forever to tune their products to deal the ever increasing complexity of nanometer scale manufacturing processes. Backside power delivery? You bet your ass t
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by bcrl 2y ago
Nortel DMS100 switches are still running code written for Motorola 680x0 CPUs. There is not enough CPU power to validate an RSA key in a timely manner for any control message sent over a T1 or ISDN PRI.
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by bcrl 2y ago
You can't fire free.
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by bcrl 2y ago
That the church was central in life while growing up in the 1980s was in part due to our family's enrollment in the Catholic school board, but there were other things that changed in the '80s and '90s that contributed to the
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by bcrl 2y ago
The flat earth documentary on Netflix was an interesting watch. The flat earthers concluded that they needed to do a different experiment when the results supported the conclusion that the earth is round. Most of the people in the flat ear
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by bcrl 2y ago
My optometrist set the adjustable lenses to what he thought was in the right ballpark and then had me read the chart at my requested distance for the computers lenses. A few adjustments, and done. They're perfect! Bonus: text is a b
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by bcrl 2y ago
There are times when data should be a JSON, and there are times when it really shouldn't be. 165GB of compressed JSON is simply insane. More than 53 bytes to record a timestamp with 11 digits behind the decimal point of the second?!?
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by bcrl 2y ago
Interesting discovery, but if antibiotics are developed from a tool our immune systems already use, there's a serious risk of increasing bacterial immunity to our innate defenses. Humans are already overusing every antibiotic ever dev
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by bcrl 2y ago
Would the current US president actually order the US military to defend the country against a Russian invasion? That's not exactly clear anymore.
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by bcrl 2y ago
Science has this pesky problem of generating facts. Where we're going, we don't need facts!
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by bcrl 2y ago
First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out - because I was not a socialist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out - because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not sp
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by bcrl 2y ago
Some ISPs do run DNS servers to improve performance for their customers, not to snoop on them. My company is one of them. Being able to answer DNS queries in <1ms is far superior to the 8-25ms of latency over the transport network to t
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by bcrl 2y ago
Not sure why Ukraine would believe any new agreement would be honored when the Budapest Memorandum turned out to be worth less than the paper it was written on.
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by bcrl 2y ago
I found it hilarious when a friend went to use a Tesla supercharger on his F150 Lightning. As the cable is only long enough to reach the charge port on the corner of a Telsa, he had to block 2 parking spaces and almost 3 chargers to use it
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by bcrl 2y ago
It is more a question of frequency. That is, the elderly deteriorate quickly more frequently than younger folks do. Younger folks can still deteriorate quickly under the right circumstances, but at a population level, that is a much lower
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by bcrl 2y ago
It doesn't quite work out for a centralized utility scale battery unless it gets built gradually over the expected lifetime of the component batteries, as most existing infrastructure projects tend to get financed and built all at once
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by bcrl 2y ago
Well, the United States has a strategic cheese reserve and distributes free government cheese to welfare recipients and the elderly because the industry can't be bothered to match supply with demand. There's also the gigantic US c
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by bcrl 2y ago
I had a bug in journal replay that only occurred when a transaction of a specific size extended overlapping the last block of the journal device and wrapped around to the first block. While QA managed to come up with a reliable reproducer
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by bcrl 2y ago
It downright sucks when the local pronunciation isn't accepted by Siri. In Ottawa we pronounce St. Laurent Boulevard as the French do - "cent lorann", yet Siri only accepts the sourthern style American pronunciation of &quot
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by bcrl 2y ago
Siri was better in the past while driving, and actually helpful at times. Nowadays it demands that I unlock my phone. My mistake? My car doesn't have Car Play. I drove a rental last week and Car Play was far more cooperative. Sadl
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by bcrl 2y ago
Gnome with Enlightenment back in 1999 had configurable window decorations. If you wanted a border around a window that was a few pixels wider and easier to land a mouse on, you could do that. Naturally all of that functionality was thrown
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by bcrl 2y ago
Anyone can deteriorate quickly. My sister (mid-40s) was in a hospital for 3.5 weeks before Christmas due to an infection that rapidly progressed into sepsis. Even now 2 months later she still needs to use a cane to walk around and is ou
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by bcrl 2y ago
Depends on the 89 year old. Some are as sharp as a tack, while others don't have a clue where they are let alone what they are currently doing. If you don't understand that, you clearly need to widen the range of people you inte
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by bcrl 2y ago
I'm sure that a ban on proof-of-work mining would cause an equivalent or greater amount of damage to the value of various "coins". At least with actual metal coins you can melt them down and make things from the metal should
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by bcrl 2y ago
I think it means that AGIs trained in different ways will have different strengths, just like people.
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by bcrl 2y ago
For those of us who live in areas with lots of snowy winter conditions, you can't just hand wave that requirement away (as we in industry do so often while developing software)!!!! Winter driving conditions are some of the most import

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