dboreham

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   by dboreham 5mo ago

   Cheap.
2. 272.▲
   by dboreham 5mo ago

   Same as bitcoin then.
3. 273.▲
   by dboreham 5mo ago

   Never seen that once.
4. 274.▲
   by dboreham 5mo ago

   Measured in Elon miles though.
5. 275.▲
   by dboreham 5mo ago

   That might be true if the proponents had an argument of any sort in support of their plan, other than "we need idiots to give us money".
6. 276.▲
   by dboreham 5mo ago

   Wondering if there's a better reference article for this. The current link goes to a page with so many adverts that I saw no actual content on my phone screen.
7. 277.▲
   by dboreham 5mo ago

   Except that wasn't possible. Languages like BASIC and Forth exist because they were the only kind of language implementable in 4K with no disk. Pascal in its smallest form (UCSD p-system) still needed disk overlays. The smallest C comp
8. 278.▲
   by dboreham 5mo ago

   See also Airbnb and Uber.
9. 279.▲
   by dboreham 5mo ago

   Nit: the pdp-10 is generally considered a mainframe not a minicomputer.
10. 280.▲
    by dboreham 5mo ago

    How do you know that?
11. 281.▲
    by dboreham 5mo ago

    Mad king gone + plausible reforms done that preclude another mad king. That's going to take a while.
12. 282.▲
    by dboreham 5mo ago

    Definitely a consideration by all countries.
13. 283.▲
    by dboreham 5mo ago

    There are other rich people lobbying harder to protect other businesses not impacted by the ally double-crossing.
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    by dboreham 5mo ago

    It's common sense if you're trying to make more money and are a psychopath.
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    by dboreham 5mo ago

    Nice way to destroy the US economy over the next few decades, if you consider who made the country rich since WW2.
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    by dboreham 5mo ago

    The microcode is in a ROM. It's a regular structure where a 1 looks different to a 0.
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    by dboreham 5mo ago

    Nobody ever knew what the right size was. There was a valve that was opened to allow hiring. And another "bung" that could be unplugged to facilitate firing. The algorithm was to open the valve when times are good/money cheap
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    by dboreham 5mo ago

    30 years ago that's how the industry was structured. IBM was the largest memory manufacturer. MBAs spent decades undoing the arrangement you're now suggesting.
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    by dboreham 5mo ago

    But it is legal for them to fund politicians who believe greenhouse gasses should be limited. Strangely they don't do that, mostly.
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    Fast16: Sabotage Tool Was Built to Subvert Nuclear Weapons Simulations(security.com)

    4 points by dboreham 5mo ago|0 comments
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    by dboreham 5mo ago

    Not my product, but I believe I've been in this argument before, and went to check the Firefox source code, and found files that were in the original Netscape code base. So I'm going to say: no it wasn't a from-scratch re-wri
22. 292.▲
    by dboreham 5mo ago

    I'm standing behind the camera in one of the scenes. At the time I didn't realize they were making a movie. I was just trying to get to lunch. Also, if you're intrigued by fly-on-the-wall documentaries about historical tech e
23. 293.▲
    by dboreham 5mo ago

    I'm not sure about this. I think it's much the same as when you work in an organization comprising humans, and many of them are not so right about everything. Perhaps this will be familiar :) I've noticed that Claude with the
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    by dboreham 5mo ago

    Worth noting that cgroups (kernel feature underlying containers) is "something more like jails or zones". Actually it is "something exactly like jails or zones".
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    by dboreham 5mo ago

    The easiest way to think about this is to globally replace "non-profit" with "tax-vehicle". These things are all kinds of company. They just created the company in a tax efficient (for them) way.
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    by dboreham 5mo ago

    I wasn't party to the discussions so I don't know, but I think it's unlikely this was the idea. More likely the open source pivot was a way to preserve the product, which it did, since Firefox still exists.
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    Aether: High-performance, formally-verified storage engine written in Rust(codeberg.org)

    37 points by dboreham 5mo ago|14 comments
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    by dboreham 5mo ago

    For anyone interested in this subject, I found this paper to be quite helpful: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2409.14545
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    by dboreham 5mo ago

    See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Origin_of_Consciousness_in...
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    by dboreham 5mo ago

    Basically the Chinese Room argument. By now clear wrong.