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by chasil 1mo ago
I just rebuilt a core program that talks to my UNIVAC OS2200 CITA and my VAX ACMS from Linux. I built this first as a 32-bit binary, and there was noise that I had to cut with a substr function. In the rebuilding with my MinGW 64-bit Window
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by chasil 1mo ago
Today's surviving UNIVAC architecture originated in the first transistor-based machine, the 1107, which was not compatible with any of the previous designs that all used vacuum tubes. "Only 36 systems were sold." https:&#x2F
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by chasil 2mo ago
They were also able to drastically cut their own internal demand and external sales/shipments (the article mentions jet fuel to other Asian nations). This was possible because their economic planning is centralized.
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by chasil 2mo ago
In researching this question, 40% of the refineries in the U.S. can process light crude efficiently. They all can refine it, but the more technically adept refineries that specialize in processing heavy, sulfur-soured crude do not run effic
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by chasil 2mo ago
It might be said that this article casts China as a "super capacitor" in that it can store and release massive quantities of oil at will. It also has its own domestic oil production of 4.3 million barrels per day.
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by chasil 2mo ago
DEC also blew a fortune on the ECL VAX. "Meanwhile, the engineering team's predictions about the relentless march of CMOS proved true. By 1991, the NVAX was also on the market, offering roughly the same performance for a tiny frac
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by chasil 2mo ago
This interview with Allen Baum seems to imply that DEC was quite aware of what could easily be done with Alpha, and what could not. I'm also assuming that ARM code density was better than Alpha (conditional opcodes being a major contri
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by chasil 2mo ago
For everyone who says that the Alpha was a technically-superior CPU design that should have prevailed, I will draw attention to an interesting fact: "According to Allen Baum, the StrongARM traces its history to attempts to make a low-p
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by chasil 2mo ago
I realized some time ago that Oracle spelled backwards is "el caro," which (according to Google translate) means "the expensive one" in Spanish.
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by chasil 2mo ago
The apparent takeaway is that Apple devices on AT&T have reduced privacy. This may change, obviously. Likely for the worse.
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by chasil 2mo ago
Question 1: How can I escape an imminent oil shock? Question 2: How can I escape an AI bubble demonstrated by CAPE? I'm using Claude, and I'm good so far.
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How OpenAI Kills Oracle(wheresyoured.at)
14 points by chasil 2mo ago|2 comments
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by chasil 2mo ago
Then WAL mode is not safe for you. "Transactions involving multiple attached databases are atomic, assuming that the main database is not ":memory:" and the journal_mode is not WAL. If the main database is ":memory:&quot
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by chasil 2mo ago
Date and time are a deeper loss for me.
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by chasil 2mo ago
If I donate, can we get the Lineage keyboard with all the symbols in the same places? I'd actually love to have the Holo keyboard back. That was my favorite.
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by chasil 2mo ago
This reference from Germany indicates that self-defense is lawful even if it ends the attacker's life, as long as the violence is not excessive for the situation. https://se-legal.de/services/criminal-defense-lawye
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by chasil 2mo ago
Google is never going to put their administrative access in a restricted sandbox. That is diametrically opposed to their interests in data collection.
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by chasil 2mo ago
I'm not sure that I agree that iOS devices have equal protection. The recent Darksword exploit should give everyone pause in asserting that iOS is secure: https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/mobile/2026/03&
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by chasil 2mo ago
It appears to me that the "water envelope" refers to chemical hydrates of water. So the nanostructures allow a maximum size of hydrates. How is this flushed after collection? What impels the captured molecules out of their recesse
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by chasil 2mo ago
Should I be worried that my plant is owned by Apollo? No, because I am retiring next month!
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by chasil 2mo ago
I don't really have an oar in this water, but... "Judge approves a $1.5B Anthropic settlement over pirated books used to train the Claude chatbot" https://abcnews.com/Technology/wireStory/judge-appro
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by chasil 2mo ago
I use: find . -name '*.log' -print0 | xargs -0 rm For this simple example (derived from the article), find also has a delete operator. This null termination is now a POSIX standard.
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by chasil 2mo ago
I have read elsewhere that spinning mercury would be used as the mirror.
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by chasil 2mo ago
If you find something that binds you inextricably with the global economy, then you have power. Oil is not that thing. The neon from Odessa and Mariopol was obviously not that thing. The quartz from North Carolina appears to be an example
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by chasil 2mo ago
I have lived with this violence all of my life. I was a fresh teen in the Carter hostage crisis. I know Eisenhower's role in starting it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d'%C3%A9tat There is n
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by chasil 2mo ago
Intel 7, 10nm technology (assuming DUV, not EUV) is the most advanced processing node in Israel. Iran could step up, and join the silicon shield, by working to replace the lost neon production from Odessa and Mariopol. That would be an inte
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Israel Has a "Silicon Shield"(israeltechinsider.com)
4 points by chasil 2mo ago|5 comments
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by chasil 2mo ago
I believe that the Guggenheim museum in New York was completed postumusly. I've been there. Like the Johnson Wax complex in Racine, there were regulatory objections to the design. For the Guggenheim, two fire exits were required per le
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by chasil 2mo ago
Both the Z80 and the 6502 were products of corporate rejection. I'd love to see another designer introduce a FORK86-64, but things are much more complex now.
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by chasil 2mo ago
I thought the "move your chair" story concerned the Kauffmans of Falling Water, but it did not. https://bpsfuelforthought.wordpress.com/2019/02/23/move-your...

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