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by bitminer 6y ago
Local audio is replayed locally it seems. So I hear myself with a delay which disconcerting.
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The Prisoner(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by bitminer 6y ago|1 comments
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by bitminer 6y ago
Any chance to get MTS running? I remember exploring MTS back in the day, UBC was running it on some kind of machine in the mid-1970s.
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by bitminer 6y ago
It's secure because it's in the contract. The company has to follow US industrial security rules. Written by US DoD. The employees are vetted and hold clearances. Why do you think the USAF (or US Navy) hadn't thought about th
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by bitminer 7y ago
You can run elderly software that was written for it. At one point there was a paid app on Android that ran a VAX emulator. (A port of simh I think.) A 1GHz phone ran the emulator faster than any real VAX ever was. I once offered to set up
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by bitminer 7y ago
(Most of) the source was distributed with the operating system binaries, as microfiche. I spent a few days peering at an old 'fiche reader figuring out how VMS stored user-defined account text in the process control block. We were doi
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by bitminer 7y ago
Paul Graham has the insight granted by hindsight of 3 weeks to 6 weeks of facts and evidence. The video cited shows clips from January, February, March, only one as late as March 15. And he uses the undefined and unusual phrase "fals
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by bitminer 7y ago
Computer: "Please enter the decontamination chamber and be sterilized". Dr Leavitt: "I'd rather be decontaminated!" (Dr Leavitt played by the late great Kate Reid.) This scene doesn't appear in the DVD, so I su
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by bitminer 7y ago
This is the classic "make or buy" decision. You can rent by the minute, or own your own. What the Amazon website doesn't cover is: - download guarantee. They rent you the antenna, they don't commit to a successful rece
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by bitminer 7y ago
Monitor their home? No. Imagery from space is only on a 90 minute interval and clouds get in the way. See digitalglobe.com for pricing. It's about $5k per square km iirc. (With more satellites you can get more frequent coverage of co
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by bitminer 7y ago
Watch Brad Chamberlain's video. His definition of productivity by seasoned HPC people: ...I was born to suffer... How true.
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by bitminer 7y ago
The logic.co first reported this afaik and now reporting details of the"walk back". (What a strange term for admitting a lie.)
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by bitminer 7y ago
And shockingly, only one comment on HN, plus this one. It is a call to action. Will we act?
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by bitminer 7y ago
The PCG website is peer review. There are explanations and analyses of numerous algorithms. O'Neill also uses the same methods to study PCG.
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by bitminer 7y ago
This is a useful and interesting contribution from Google. However, like a lot of current software and web-scale systems research, almost no attention is paid to contributions from other industries, or even current practice in automotive, a
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by bitminer 7y ago
The "cost of ownership" is often approximately 33%/33%/33% for capital cost (annually), support (annually) and users& operations. Of course being government they probably don't account for the costs on an accru
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by bitminer 7y ago
At least she was convicted. Up here in the monarchy of Canada unconvicted persons can lose millions https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-administr... It is common for the civil forfeiture offi
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by bitminer 7y ago
FRBs are chirps. Something like a "signal". Much more signally than the hiss from stars and galaxies.
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Phone services disrupted across B.C., but emergency calls still working(cbc.ca)
63 points by bitminer 7y ago|47 comments
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by bitminer 7y ago
"Computational Psychiatry"
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by bitminer 7y ago
> This hasn't been dependably true on x86 for almost two decades. SSE2 does double-precision computation at native width, not in the extended 80-bit format. Some 32b compilers still use 80-bit x87, but almost no 64b compilers do so.
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by bitminer 7y ago
Cray built a massively parallel machine out of a bunch of Alphas. (Cray Research Inc, iirc, not Seymour Cray). The T3 I think. DEC had bragged about the features of the cpu useful for parallelization. Cray engineering complained about the f
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by bitminer 7y ago
The VAX was, I think, co-designed alongside VMS. The two together were an innovative design, distinguishing architecture from implementation, a comprehensive isa, a roadmap for the future, etc etc. VAXcluster was amazing integration of bo
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by bitminer 7y ago
700 celsius. A better ref is the description of "black body radiation" in Wikipedia.
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by bitminer 7y ago
The rule refers to products, not freely available source code. Companies don't sell stuff from GitHub, they sell proprietary stuff. It may well be based on open source code, but they own it to sell (license) it. There's lots of e
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by bitminer 7y ago
The Post Office has successfully framed the (perception of the) case using completely ambiguous terms. The Court has fallen for the strategy and wasted many hours splitting hairs on the meaning of the word "robust". A better choic
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by bitminer 7y ago
My system engineering experience avoided "must" as insufficiently specific. We used "shall" and avoided "not". Because testing: how do you prove a "not"? Source: 35 years of SE
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by bitminer 7y ago
Japan's high-speed trains are very impressive, departing some stations on a 12-minute interval, going 275 km/h and stopping only occasionally. Kyoto to Tokyo is what, 3 hours and there are 4 stops iirc. But the trains go in all d
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by bitminer 7y ago
Much can be done just with awk. My pet peeve is the "grep | awk" idiom. No, just use awk. Awk does map/reduce, relational joins, associative memory, table lookup, and so on. Just use awk arrays, begin block, and end block.
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by bitminer 7y ago
My experience in corporate and government is the opposite. They require functional scanning. Always. But they also required expensive functional scammer/scanner subscriptions. I see this basic tool plus some scraping of changelogs (in

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