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541.
by chx 3y ago
You want to write documentation of something with significant legal repercussions using a probabilistic analyzer? Your Honor, my client could not have committed tax evasion because these were the most likely numbers based on millions of tax
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by chx 3y ago
Remember, it's only a murder of crows if there's probable caws.
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by chx 3y ago
Contemporary with the PDP-11 is the IBM Series/1 which runs the nuclear forces of the USA. The 8" floppies were retired in 2019 though. Progress? I guess. Much older than that are the IRS Master files: the US tax system runs on IB
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by chx 3y ago
64TB max: IBM Power System E980 https://www.ibm.com/downloads/cas/VX0AM0EP (notably the E880 did 32TB in 2014) SGI UV 300 https://www.uvhpc.com/sgi-uv-300 SGI UV 3000 https://www.uvhpc.
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by chx 3y ago
Oh I am using Double Commander myself.
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by chx 3y ago
You are dead on, they introduced the same fees which landed Unity in hot water with their new optional scheme. So besides writing a snarky disdainful press release they made sure no one significant ever will use the scheme required by the E
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by chx 3y ago
> using a custom file navigation program that resembled the popular “Norton Commander” application. I wonder whether it had to anything with Volkov Commander which was a COM-sized much faster alternative to Norton Commander. Fun memorie
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by chx 3y ago
More succinct version of the same from Gary Bernhardt of WAT fame (from 2015, same era) https://twitter.com/garybernhardt/status/600783770925420546 > Consulting service: you bring your big data problems to me,
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by chx 3y ago
> but even that doesn't become as annoying and misunderstood as the big data fad was. Must be nostalgia. AI is much, much worse. And, even more importantly, not only it is a annoying buzzword, it is already threatening lives (see
550.
by chx 3y ago
No, I want to pay for my music. Otherwise why would the author continue such beautiful music?
551.
by chx 3y ago
This was a comment trying to help with the sleep battery. It got downvoted therefore it is removed.
552.
by chx 3y ago
I think the required cleanliness goes far beyond what's easily doable with a kit.
553.
by chx 3y ago
Well... You can learn a lot by programming FPGAs. In theory, while I think you could build an SSI manufacturing device at home if you really wanted to -- just how many people build an internal combustion engine themselves to learn about it?
554.
by chx 3y ago
That's what I meant by standalone indeed.
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by chx 3y ago
No, it's not fine, there's absolutely no need whatsoever for Github to be an SPA. What functionality do you think can't be done ... in HTML 4.0 for that matter much less HTML5? Sure, a good editor inside the browser but then
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by chx 3y ago
> These delays didn’t stop the hypetrain. This is an understatement. From an older article "How the Itanium killed the Computer Industry" https://www.pcmag.com/archive/how-the-itanium-killed-the-com... &gt
557.
by chx 3y ago
1. This is misleading because the number of people flying on airplane is significantly lower than those who have a chance for heart disease because they have a heartbeat. 2. Not flying on Boeing aircraft is much, much easier to do than av
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by chx 3y ago
What "design"? Look, listen, StackExchange famously tries to avoid X-Y problems. If I ask how to use a hammer to drive a screw in, it's right to call me out. But if I getting a shipment of gizmos regularly and they lack a scr
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by chx 3y ago
1. I am unaware of a standardized .ini format 2. The native types in TOML are useful.
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by chx 3y ago
> Are there any serious advantages of YAML over TOML? Probably not but you forget YAML came out in 2001 where TOML came out in 2013. Neither are spring chickens but inertia is a hell of a thing. For example, Symfony supports YAML, XML an
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by chx 3y ago
According to https://www.easa.europa.eu/en/downloads/7297/en the type is called 737-8200 and belongs to the Max group. According to https://www.faa.gov/sites/faa.gov/files/FSBR_
562.
by chx 3y ago
The 8200 is a higher density version of the 8 and it comes with an extra pair of exits because of this.
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by chx 3y ago
Fun story: thanks to Xsan you can buy Thunderbolt SAN devices from various vendors. Now, the Areca ARC-8050T3 SAN with its 9 Thunderbolt inputs has become insanely popular on movie / commercial sets. Drop it into a 4U rolling case an
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by chx 3y ago
I am sure reassembling a Mac Mini into a custom shed makes sense on the scale of GitHub but for smaller companies https://www.racksolutions.com/mac-mini-shelf.html usually suffices.
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by chx 3y ago
Could you provide links to these things for those who are stuck in the past and want to learn more?
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by chx 3y ago
I am not of Maltese origin but I am a resident now. How much Malta fucked up transit and transportation is really interesting. It's as bad as the United States despite unlike the US the distances are short and the population density is
567.
by chx 3y ago
I raised this to retro se and https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/a/28322/3722 notes a TiB of digital data likely was reached in the 1930s with punch cards.
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by chx 3y ago
Must be much more than 20ish years, some 2400 ft reels in the 60s stored a few megabytes, you only need 100 000s of those to reach a terabyte. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_7330 > a single 2400-foot tape could s
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by chx 3y ago
There was a point in history when the total amount of digital data stored worldwide reached 1TiB for the first time. It is extremely likely this day was within the last sixty years. And here we are moving that amount of data every second on
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by chx 3y ago
> Making a touchscreen phone had been the writing on the wall and pretty obvious to many. Really. This reminds of this discussion https://reddit.com/r/oculus/comments/1wdp6n/what_makes_the_o... I ope

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