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by ch_123 6y ago
I know quite a few hiring managers who will search Linkedin directly, and reach out to candidates themselves. This, for example, was how I was hired into my current employer (which is a company with over a thousand people)
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by ch_123 6y ago
Thankfully there is very little of the PC or AT legacy left in current computers. Even backwards compatibility with the BIOS is starting to disappear from PCs.
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by ch_123 6y ago
Microsoft still owns rights to OS/2, I believe this is part of why IBM cannot release OS/2's source code to third party distributions of OS/2 such as eComStation and ArcaOS
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by ch_123 6y ago
> Is that possible with non-VM hypervisors on commodity hardware? Or is it another idea we've lost? It's possible. For example, I run ESXi on top of VMware Workstation. There can be caveats and limitations. For example, Hyper-V
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by ch_123 6y ago
I found this quite relaxing, but the title here is obnoxious clickbait
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by ch_123 6y ago
I find it odd that inline assembly is considered the sign of a mature systems language when not even all C/C++ compilers have it (for example, the last I checked, Microsoft's x86-64 C++ compiler lacks it)
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by ch_123 6y ago
On a physical keyboard, the gaps and contours of the keys give your fingers an indication that they are pressing a single key, as opposed to a blank space or the gaps between two keys. This, combined with the grouping, makes it viable to us
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by ch_123 6y ago
Then you need to support the train-specific OS, and find developers who know how to write code for this train-specific OS, and IT staff who can install the train-specific updates onto the train-specific OS. As for why they would not use Lin
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by ch_123 6y ago
I feel like this link needs a date included in the title, since it describes POWER7 as being new (POWER7 came out in 2010)
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by ch_123 6y ago
It is now possible to run other hypervisors with Hyper-V enabled, but there is usually a performance penalty. See: https://blogs.vmware.com/workstation/2020/05/vmware-workstat... https://docs.oracl
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by ch_123 6y ago
The US alone consumes tens of millions of barrels a day according to the US govt[1] so this claim of "1,400 barrels of crude oil - enough to supply the civilizaton's energy needs for hundreds of millions of years" is very far
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by ch_123 6y ago
On most x86 chips since the Pentium Pro (and the K6 for AMD, IIRC) the machine code instructions which are visible to the programmer are turned into "micro operations" by the CPU's instruction decoder. See here for a introduc
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by ch_123 6y ago
Between the Selectric and the Model F was another IBM keyswitch design known variously as the "Beam Spring" or "Keyboard B" which was much closer to the Selectric in feel. It even used the same keycaps as the Selectric.
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by ch_123 6y ago
Same message is used for the bundled Python 2.7: `WARNING: Python 2.7 is not recommended. This version is included in macOS for compatibility with legacy software. Future versions of macOS will not include Python 2.7. Instead, it is recomme
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by ch_123 6y ago
I think it's for the datacenter. They have already purchased Mellanox. In many HPC applications, having fast GPUs and fast interconnects is 99% of what you need. A reasonably competent CPU architecture would round this out, and I don&#
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by ch_123 6y ago
None of these were the first untyped languages, or even the first widely used untyped languages.
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by ch_123 6y ago
> Typed versus untyped is a 30-year-old issue for programming languages. I'm pretty sure the merits of typed vs untyped has been going on since the 1950s at least. 30 years is such a specific period of time that it makes me wonder w
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by ch_123 6y ago
Maybe so, but Intel's 10nm keeps slipping back[1] whereas TSMC have been shipping 7nm in volume since 2018. [1] https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-says-first-10nm-desk...
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by ch_123 6y ago
I assume (perhaps naively) that Google must have a non trivial amount of CL development if they have a style guide for the language... anyone know what they use CL for?
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AMD Nested Virtualization Support for Hyper-V(techcommunity.microsoft.com)
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by ch_123 6y ago
In the presentation, they mentioned that Oracle was already using their x86 cross-compiler kit, so it seems likely.
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by ch_123 6y ago
For a small team (or individual) to evolve the code to the point where it had parity with Windows XP would be a herculean effort, never mind Windows 10.
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by ch_123 6y ago
They were possibly the largest Unix vendor in the 80s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenix
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by ch_123 7y ago
Mailbox? http://h30266.www3.hpe.com/odl/axpos/opsys/vmsos84/BA554_900... This is the main VMS interprocess communication mechanism.
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by ch_123 7y ago
VSI (the new owners of VMS) have created a new Hobbyist program. It is intended to run inside a emulator, but I imagine with some creativity it could be deployed onto real hardware. The big downsides are: A) You have to reinstall/recre
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by ch_123 7y ago
The iAPX 432 project started in 1975, but took many years to deliver anything. The 8086 was indeed intended as a stop gap while the ‘432 was under development. The 80286 by most definitions was a 16-bit CPU, having a 16-bit data bus, 16-bit
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by ch_123 7y ago
If we take "Container" to specifically mean OS-level isolation of applications, then there is a strong likelihood that Containers will be replaced by lightweight VMs. To me, the rise of containers has been about packaging software
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by ch_123 7y ago
> Secondly, I’ve noticed that classes have a tendency to grow large. They will collect pieces of functionality that need to live in the context of the class, usually to access the internal state of that class. This dependency on the inte
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by ch_123 7y ago
POSIX compatibility was mainly driven by FIPS 151-2, which required US government agencies to only buy operating systems which were POSIX compliant. Quite a number of proprietary operating systems during the 90s - e.g. System/390, OS&#
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by ch_123 7y ago
The Alpha support was mainly because of a lawsuit, I suspect that was also why it lasted the longest of the non x86 ports of the 90s. Reference: https://www.itprotoday.com/compute-engines/windows-nt-and-vm...

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