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by cbm-vic-20 1y ago
I woldn't go so far as to say it was "prophetic". Contemporary DEC PDP-8 (OMNIBUS) and PDP-11 (UNIBUS / QBUS) systems have a similar approach to "interoperability", where cards for peripherals were also mapped
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by cbm-vic-20 1y ago
I think there's an error in the Position Independence section: start: auipc a0, 3 addi a0, a0, 4 The text says that this should result in 0x3004; was this example intended to be start: lui a0, 3
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by cbm-vic-20 1y ago
Ubuntu is an easy transition for older folks more comfortable with Windows XP through Windows 7. The desktop experience is much more familiar than Windows 11, and they aren't getting spammed with ads for Microsoft services and AI slop
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by cbm-vic-20 1y ago
"Linux on the Desktop" is great. I've been using it since 1994. "Linux on the Laptop" sucks- I just want my laptop to sleep and awake properly, without draining the battery. I'm old enough that I'm done
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by cbm-vic-20 1y ago
My older Dell XPS Windows 10 laptop was due for an upgrade, and it was new enough that it supports Windows 11. Microsoft's end-of-life of 10, constant prodding to upgrade and Dell's terrible redesign of the XPS series made me loo
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by cbm-vic-20 1y ago
The article sets up a scenario where two people are editing a document, but have conflicting changes: "If Alice fixes a missing letter in a word while Bob removes the whole word, that’s a conflict." The article then goes into some
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by cbm-vic-20 1y ago
As god as my witness, I thought turkeys could fly. Through jet engines.
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by cbm-vic-20 1y ago
The stadium where this game was played was recently torn down, as the team ownership and city could not come to an agreement regarding tax incentives, and the team moved away.
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by cbm-vic-20 1y ago
A Prius with only 50% of its battery capacity available is in much better shape than a Tesla with only 50% of its battery capacity.
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by cbm-vic-20 1y ago
Have you tried Apple's "container" tool? https://github.com/apple/container
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by cbm-vic-20 1y ago
The article links to a classic Joel on Software article "In Defense of Not-Invented-Here Syndrome" written in 2001. It's interesting to see how this has played out 24 years later with "vibe coding" and how Amazon do
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by cbm-vic-20 1y ago
There's a common access pattern with object-relational mapping frameworks where an initial query will be used to get a list of ids, then an individual queries are emitted for each item to get the details of the items. For example, if
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by cbm-vic-20 1y ago
I can accept the performance issues for now- it's an emerging platform, and hasn't had the huge amounts of resources poured into it like ARM. There's a chicken-and-egg problem here, since those resources will be limited since
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by cbm-vic-20 1y ago
There's nothing stopping Microsoft hammering out different terms for certain customers, like governments.
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by cbm-vic-20 1y ago
Licensing for OpenJDK is trivial (GPLv2+Classpath). Just like gcc/g++ and its runtime library exception. Licensing for Oracle JDK is more complicated. This is the one where you can use it for free, but after the next LTS you either h
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by cbm-vic-20 1y ago
> If I forget to update OpenJDK, Oracle could come after me I must have missed that section of the GPLv2. Oracle does distribute a different (not OpenJDK) Java distribution under a special not-open-source no-cost license, which includes
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by cbm-vic-20 1y ago
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn.
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by cbm-vic-20 1y ago
Off-topic: that site could just be a static page, does it really need to be a next.js app? https://github.com/openai/agents.md/
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by cbm-vic-20 1y ago
Claude Shannon's "The Mathematical Theory of Communication" (not mentioned by name, but referenced in the PDF) is a really pleasant little read. This is a foundational document, but is readily accessible to people without a
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by cbm-vic-20 1y ago
...where "ASCII" means an image made up of a grid of elements from a limited set of glyphs.
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by cbm-vic-20 1y ago
javadoc.io is similar to (but not as good as) docs.rs for the Java ecosystem. It pulls the JavaDoc out of packages that are published to the Maven Central repository. It doesn't have good discoverability like docs.rs, though, and it&#
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by cbm-vic-20 1y ago
In my last job, I was on the team that handled the Windows NT bulid on DEC Alpha. Native Alpha apps were much faster than the equivalent Intel NT machines. Apropos to this topic, DEC had a sybsystem called FX!32 that was sort of like what
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by cbm-vic-20 1y ago
I've been getting Otter AI ads on the various ad-supported streaming services I watch. The ad shows a scenario where a couple of people are tapped for a last-minute meeting, but they've got other things to attend to (lunch, PTO),
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by cbm-vic-20 1y ago
[A]GPL is like kryptonite to corporations. Very few will take the risk of having to open their own code if someone made a mistake in isolating the GPLed code properly, so most ban the use of GPL for their products and services. Anthropic wo
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by cbm-vic-20 1y ago
Same here. My Yubikey-equiped M1 MBP also refuses to sleep, so I end up shutting it down every day. I suspect it appears as keyboard input periodically waking the machine.
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by cbm-vic-20 1y ago
Bottom tier manager is the worst role in tech. * You are responsible for sticking to commitments that depend almost completely on other people sticking to theirs. * You're still on the hook for delivery, so if someone you assigned a su
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by cbm-vic-20 1y ago
That main image makes my astigmatic eyes very unhappy. https://optician-sans.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Comp-3....
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by cbm-vic-20 1y ago
There's an example in the "Putting it Together" section, showing JSON, a "human readable" representation of CBOR, and the hexidecimal bytes of CBOR. https://cborbook.com/part_1/practical_introdu
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by cbm-vic-20 1y ago
Unfortunately, not many people in our industry really understand the common pitfalls of timezone management, including the people who set the requirements. The classic "I want this to run at 2am each weekday for the user", and the
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by cbm-vic-20 1y ago
> We verified this by taking a recently-calibrated reference dog, Scribble, depicted in Figure 6, and having him bark three times, thus simultaneously factorising both 15 and 21. This process wasn’t as simple as it first appeared because

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