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by cduzz 3y ago
I don't think this is a "cartel of semiconductor manufacturers" so much as it's been a "shambolic cluster of organizations running crappy old fabs into the ground producing cheap chips that were subsidized by a prio
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by cduzz 3y ago
The example is hypothetical, but complex machines can be complex to keep running, and often suffer catastrophically when shut down. If the fab was barely profitable before shutting down, it doesn't take much to total it. Fabs are full
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by cduzz 3y ago
"But I've got a product that's certified with this part that's running on a 40nm process that has these specifications that are deeply tied to features of that 40nm process; things like voltage ranges and temperature tol
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by cduzz 3y ago
My understanding is that a 40nm fab is only economically viable if it's spent the first several years of its life producing high margin chips. In other words; the life cycle of a 40nm fab is: 1997: start building fab 2000: fab go
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by cduzz 3y ago
The only clean energy that's capable of producing constant power is if we put the power plants on the sun! There may be minor technical hurdles but only nattering naysayers think they're impossible to overcome. If we can put peopl
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by cduzz 3y ago
So -- to a large degree you're right. But also, with the history of actually open protocols such as SMTP, the opportunity for abuse is enormous. The mobile phone system is abused right now by manufacturers, vendors, and "the surv
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by cduzz 3y ago
100% agree -- a horrible situation from start to finish. You really don't want to be in the same room as a chimpanzee. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._James_Davis_chimpanzee_att...
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by cduzz 3y ago
I remember back in the Solaris days there was the "link" command that would allow you to make hard links of directories. My memory's bit rotted but I believe fsck would complain about the hard linked directories; I don'
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by cduzz 3y ago
TEMPEST is to pull data from a remote computer. I listen to the power grid to decode what you're typing, I monitor RF to see what you're typing and what's on your screen. All these computer peripherals are radio transmitter
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by cduzz 3y ago
Maybe; he still needs to finish his damned homework and remember to turn it in. And eat some vegetables.
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by cduzz 3y ago
Yeah, my son only knows about imaginary numbers as far as the veritasium "epic math dual" video. As far as I can tell he inferred that |i+1| needs the Pythagorean theorem and that i and 1 are legs of the right triangle. I don&#x27
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by cduzz 3y ago
Well, my son is a meat robot who's constantly ingesting information from a variety of sources including but not limited to youtube. His firmware includes a sophisticated realtime operating system that models reality in a way that allo
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by cduzz 3y ago
I imagine most people have sets of macros they habitually add to any sufficiently complex script they're modifying... yelp(){ es=$1 shift echo "$@" >&2 exit $es } test -d /tmp/goobe
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by cduzz 3y ago
The spot instance declared "a similar vector exists" and de-provisioned itself?
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by cduzz 3y ago
Joke's on me; that's the point of the article. I prefer, when writing in shell, to do this: if program then something else otherthing fi To emphasize that the thing after the if is just &q
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by cduzz 3y ago
I was talking to my (12 year old) son about parts of math he finds boring. He said that he thinks absolute value is absurdly easy and extremely boring. I asked him if there was anything that might make it more interesting, he said "m
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by cduzz 3y ago
I have strong opinions about shell and they don't actually line up with the rest of the world... I believe that [ should never be used, only "test" because [ gives the illusion that the mechanism is some part of the language
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by cduzz 3y ago
Well, the "OSI" model where there's a little disassembly and assembly line in your box, where each layer gets taken off by one robot and the payload of that inside package gets handed off to another concern -- all lies. The
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by cduzz 3y ago
Consistency is a synonym for "guaranteed", and means "written to 2 remote, reliable, append-only storage endpoints" (for any reasonable definition of reliability) So -- a single system collecting a log event -- it is no
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by cduzz 3y ago
I'm pretty sure a switch is just an L2 bridge but still uses the ethernet address management mechanism (mac addresses) not the L3 IP (or whatever) address / routing mechanisms. Modern ethernet, on wires anyhow, is very different f
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by cduzz 3y ago
You're still on one side or another of the CAP triangle. In a network partition, you are either offline or your data is not consistent. If you're writing local to your system, you're losing data if there's a single devic
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by cduzz 3y ago
People use logging (appropriately or inappropriately; not my bucket of monkeys) for a variety of things including audit and billing records, which are likely a good case for a guaranteed delivery API. People often don't think precisely
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by cduzz 3y ago
I have discussions with cow-orkers around logging; "We have Best-Effort and Guaranteed-Delivery APIs" "I want Guaranteed Delivery!!!" "If the GD logging interface is offline or slow, you'll take downtime; is th
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by cduzz 3y ago
Right, but the letter "X" may be pronounced "Eggs" and people may not even notice that you're not pronouncing it in a cool "Dimension X" scifi way with reverb and stuff. Double Yew, Eggs, Why, Zee / Z
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by cduzz 3y ago
I'm trying to get people to pronounce it "eggs" as in Eggs, the site formerly known as twitter. So instead of a tweet you "egg something". I think it gives the site the dignity it deserves.
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by cduzz 3y ago
Right -- but the notion that each window on your system is managed by some random process running on a random remote system, and it's all seamlessly integrated, is just not a normal idiom today. You can run a remote window in an RDP se
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by cduzz 3y ago
Yeah, ssh's management of the X authorization tokens and managing the display stuff was one of the killer features of ssh over things like kerberized telnet or rsh. Another really nice feature of it was that it didn't have any of
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by cduzz 3y ago
Indeed -- web browsers are very comparable to X -- especially with things like web sockets or streaming media. Which is why I offered that the question "what process is generating my window" is comparable to "what is the PID
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by cduzz 3y ago
A random piece of junk refurbished dell small computer from amazon with a windows 10 pro license is $200. It's more powerful than every single computer I administered from 1990-2005, put together. What you say is true -- they don&#x27
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by cduzz 3y ago
For the most part things these days are all "stuff on your screen is stuff running on your computer" or "stuff in this window is stuff running on that computer" There are definitely ways of "this program/wind

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