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by dare944 3mo ago
Ex-googler here as well. I'm not sure the distortion was worse outside of the core business. In the peripheral businesses (if one can call them businesses), I think you had more of an opportunity to ponder the larger implications of yo
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by dare944 3mo ago
You mean as a distraction from the point being made?
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by dare944 4mo ago
I said "harkens". Of course that structure never appeared on a punched card, and was designed with the unix block size in mind.
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by dare944 4mo ago
> The code, but not the function, occurred in multiple places in the V6 kernel and userland. Yep. The code is essential given the design of the direct structure, which harkens back to the fixed-width data fields of punched cards.
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by dare944 4mo ago
> No other data structure works like this. You can't mess this up in an array, because no function that manipulates arrays is just going to keep going until there is a null. This is patently false. Sentinel markers are used widely i
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by dare944 4mo ago
strncpy appears somewhere around the Unix v7 time frame, however only as function in the standard C library. It is not used in the v7 kernel itself.
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by dare944 4mo ago
> You can spread propaganda and poorly sourced zeitgeist and be among friends but if you try to have a genuine conversation about programming languages you are made to be unwelcome immediately. Indeed. And the ignorance of computing hist
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by dare944 4mo ago
For many people who live in bad days, the thing that passes is their life.
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by dare944 4mo ago
IP licensing and certification are entirely separate from access to standards documentation. Of course certifying conformance to a standard is going to have a cost. But publishing documentation that has already been written is effectively f
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by dare944 4mo ago
> ... not intended to mislead users, for example, generating an image of a living room to showcase a sofa, So it would be okay for AI to rescale a sofa to appear proportionate to other furniture in a typical room, even if the actual so
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by dare944 4mo ago
> AI just makes it easier to get the information people were already consuming. This is clearly false. By now it's evident that AIs can hallucinate in ways that contradict their training data. That means that, beyond any errors or m
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by dare944 4mo ago
Rather like the people crafting the submissions to your 5 day old account
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by dare944 4mo ago
Oh ffs. How does one draw a line from Dennis Richie, Ken Thompson, Steve Wozniak, Bill Joy, even Linus Torvalds to 'terrifying overlord'? The fact is that those people who were closet 'terrifying overlords' weren't
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by dare944 4mo ago
There's no "supposed to" here. Humans, (including governments) are inclined to do bad things; both law and technology are necessary to restrain those tendencies.
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by dare944 4mo ago
Arguably more like soft wired CPU logic, since the contents of the plugboards were not uniformly addressable words.
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by dare944 4mo ago
Absolutely. The real moral liability here rests with any organization still using SSNs as a form of secret or authenticating credential. Spend the legal fees to go after these people and the problem will be truly solved.
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by dare944 4mo ago
> Over the course of the next 5 days, they sent me 5 onboarding marketing emails and I could not opt out of any of them. Such consternation, all for the want of an email filter.
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by dare944 5mo ago
Lol, I had a similar thought as well, but more along the lines of "We're coming for you next, JavaScript!" But the effort is certainly an exquisite rearrangement of the deck chairs, no?
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by dare944 5mo ago
Right? Just gross...
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by dare944 6mo ago
I'm creating a new OS image for UniBone/QBone based on BuildRoot and a streamlined kernel. My goal is sub-five second boot time so you can get to using the host PDP-11 pretty much right away.
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by dare944 6mo ago
Lol. Unfortunately VCs and ever-so-ernest founders are impervious to irony. Best to just let them get their grift on and just be happy it isn't your money they're boondoggling.
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by dare944 6mo ago
Completely unnecessary retort. At no point did anyone in this thread state that sorting legos was a major problem of society. Rather, the GP merely implied that some parents would love to have a robot to sort their kids legos, and that (ir
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by dare944 6mo ago
I have a lot of fun with my old PDP-11s. Being able to run an original version of Unix on a machine with actual core memory (that I restored to working order) is a real kick for me. Gives a sense of depth to the software I run on my modern
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by dare944 6mo ago
"Let them write blogs!"
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by dare944 6mo ago
Another? Why weren't all the facts checked on the first pass?
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by dare944 7mo ago
Fun stuff! At one point I wondered about building something similar. But I lack the AI chops, and have too many other projects going on anyway. I'm curious as to the type of memory in the 11/34. I also have a working PDP-11, an 11
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by dare944 7mo ago
False dichotomy. If your company is at the point of firing lots of people "to save a buck" its way past the point of caring about delivering a better product.
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by dare944 7mo ago
We wouldn't have these silly arguments?
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by dare944 7mo ago
To do what I want with my own property seems pretty essential to me.
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by dare944 7mo ago
Or... kinda like... not the same technique at all , since Congress can legally change the size of the Supreme Court but Trump can't legally ignore its rulings.

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