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by bitminer 7y ago
I would simplify this to: understand the principle of portfolios. And the benefits of them. Too many people buy just one investment, not understanding they can reduce their financial risks buying several unrelated things. For example, onl
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by bitminer 7y ago
What's old is new again. Your thoughts on the benefits of language slightly higher level than assembler are interesting. Others have trod this path before. Bliss32 was the systems language for vax/vms back in the 1980s through 20
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by bitminer 7y ago
It's about time. A recent astronomy picture of the day shows the visible impact of Earth orbit spacecraft on astronomical imagery. http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap191013.html Astronomers will need precise orbital para
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by bitminer 7y ago
In retrospect, many of the observations are good, even foresightfull. I believe that VAX/VMS was based on some of these experiences plus careful reading of Structured Programming by Djikstra. Unfortunately, DEC didn't grok the per
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by bitminer 7y ago
Will-it-scale has a dependency on hwloc which is not supported on OpenBSD. Do you have a better synthetic benchmark to suggest? And "speed" does depend on expectations. Compute tasks should be approximately equivalent, right? And
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by bitminer 7y ago
They offering a very wide range of core counts but only a narrow range of watts per socket. Question: for single threaded performance (*n where threads are independent) do I want higher watts per core or higher number of cores? By "pe
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by bitminer 7y ago
No, it really begs the question of "how many Canadians were involved in designing this stamp?" Subject-matter experts are always required.
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by bitminer 7y ago
There are a few errors in the paper. "HCI" is not defined. Figure 2 refers to independent and dependant variables for an observational study but the text under "Study Design" says it should be "contributor" o
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by bitminer 8y ago
Additional comment: After regulatory capture, it is not clear to me that any subsystem reviews are valid. MCAS is not the only subsystem revised (or introduced) for the MAX series. All "FAA" so-called reviews need to be inspected
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by bitminer 8y ago
You are not clearly questioning me or the other responder.
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by bitminer 8y ago
What concerns me is the evidence of regulatory capture. Boeing was telling the FAA what the approval schedule was going to be. And the FAA sucked it up. Instead of saying "our review capacity is x pages per day. You will receive ou
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by bitminer 8y ago
ESC key? My fingers are trained to use ctrl-[ since it's quicker than moving a hand. Except some keyboards have different locations for ctrl-....
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by bitminer 8y ago
There are occasional readable pieces in the press... https://nationalpost.com/opinion/colby-cosh-rejected-by-a-ro... TLDR: ML is like a credit score https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/11/06&#x
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by bitminer 8y ago
"...the vulnerability was initially identified in 1990..." STIG scans are automated and the basis for identifying a finding is sometimes a lot different from the name. You have to decode the scanners script and compare the descri
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by bitminer 8y ago
Could you please translate that second example? > If the systematization of the possible is somehow reconfigured by self-learning algorithms, are the capacities of indefinite potential then also reconfigured when it comes to evading this
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by bitminer 8y ago
Butler Lampson's talk at Cambridge in 2015 https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/seminars/wheeler/butler-lampson/ind...
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by bitminer 8y ago
No matter how fast the hardware boys make the machine, the software boys will piss the performance away. Operations is a thing, and it's harder than coding. Especially with a customer on the phone. Your customer's expectations wi
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by bitminer 8y ago
About .2 bits/sec. Not usable unless parallelized millions of times.
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by bitminer 8y ago
Backing up 20 DEC RA81 disk drives with 120MB capacity 9-track tapes. The RA81s were 454MB each. A 20-node VAXcluster using workstations and 10base5 (coax) Ethernet. StorageTek anything. Real laser printers that could set the paper on fire
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by bitminer 8y ago
You may want to investigate i2p which is resistant to traffic analysis. And does not run 100%bandwidth all day and all night.
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by bitminer 8y ago
I moved into a new apartment last year, served by a district energy utility. My winter electric heating bill went from $180/month to $40/month. And now I get AC too. At a similar cost. Now, the new apartment has half the window
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by bitminer 8y ago
Meh. This list is for entertainment purposes. If you want some actual advice, read Rechtin and Meier "The Art of Systems Architecting" ISBN-13: 978-1420079135 Appendix A Heuristics for systems-level Architecting. While the issue
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by bitminer 8y ago
I remember APL as part of learning how to program at my high school in the early 1970s. I could touch type APL on the IBM 2741 text terminals (basically Selectric typewriters with serial interface.). And could compose simpler APL codes at t