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by dfrage 7y ago
That find in the dark feature was available in the 1970s, substituting a neon bulb for a LED.
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by dfrage 7y ago
I've read its story is inherently bad for working on graphs, which is a huge area for C++.
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by dfrage 7y ago
All depends on how desperate Oracle gets; already we hear of a lot of high priority migrations to PostgreSQL starting after a visit from the Oracle Police.
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by dfrage 7y ago
How good is all that off the Window ecosystem, and for how long has that been the case? Microsoft institutionally had a "does not play well with others" attitude to the point of stark figurative murderousness as we saw in SCO v.
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by dfrage 7y ago
An entirely valid concern, but languages and their ecosystems can get big enough that a or the major supporter can drop out without killing or necessarily even significantly harming them in the medium term. I currently guess that Go is t
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by dfrage 7y ago
Xerox and the personal computer at the level of what became engineering workstations. The book Fumbling the Future: How Xerox Invented, Then Ignored, the First Personal Computer covers this fairly well as I remember.
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by dfrage 7y ago
There are a few details Gosling left out: Sun trusted those chips enough to omit parity or ECC that would have smoked out the problem early, Sun reversed whatever growing trust it had been earning in enterprise space by blaming the customer
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by dfrage 7y ago
True, but it's also kind of cool, and it's not trivial to wrap your head around what a "cloud" is. This could be quite useful in selling the concept of doing something on any cloud provider's service to others, esp
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by dfrage 7y ago
Oracle is not letting them test builds with the Technology Compatibility Kit (TCK https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology_Compatibility_Kit ), which under Sun probably killed the Apache Harmony project. There are alte
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by dfrage 7y ago
How much of Acorn even having a chance is consistent with your correct as far as I know history of the British economy, with socialism only being (partly) rolled back by Thatcher? I'd also note that Apple et. al. were also subject to
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by dfrage 7y ago
That's not reflected by the historical record of the U.K.'s post war pioneering computers, which I provided just one link to. Per Wikipedia Tommy Flowers couldn't get a bank loan because he couldn't cite his cryptoanalys
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by dfrage 7y ago
Exiting WWII Britain was fully competitive in computer technology, look particularly at the University of Manchester, home of the Williams Tube and many pioneering computers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchester_com
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by dfrage 7y ago
Bankruptcy comes in different flavors, and rather than a Chapter 7 liquidation, it's a "pre-packaged" Chapter 11 reorganization, according to Wikipedia's introduction "Remington exited bankruptcy in May 2018, less t
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by dfrage 7y ago
It is undisputed that there are a great many legitimate "defensive gun uses" per year. How many is of great dispute, getting into minutiae all the way down to survey question branching due to an unbridgeable cultural gap, but plea
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by dfrage 7y ago
Your fear has not come to pass. From 1980 to 2016, the last year the CDC has statistics for accidental gun deaths, they went from 800 to 500. At the same time the population increased by roughly 50%, and the rate of gun ownership increase
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by dfrage 7y ago
.22 ammunition uses rimfire priming, which requires unique machinery which as I recall no US company dared to buy more of, as mentioned in the Wikipedia article you linked to. Existing US 3 billion rounds per year + foreign imports couldn&
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by dfrage 7y ago
And in the other direction, fewer states are requiring a permit, so no doubt some people are not bothering to renew their permits.
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by dfrage 7y ago
You're recalling a very old guess; an analysis since then https://web.archive.org/web/20190121202815/http://weaponsman... puts the number anywhere from 412 to 660 million. The old estimates are bad
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by dfrage 7y ago
Netflix has long been open about the fact that their costs for content dwarf their IT costs, and encoding is a bursty CPU demand that perfectly fits cloud economics. Note I'm not including their networking costs to get to the last mile
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by dfrage 7y ago
In part due to Spectre and Meltdown, in general starting prior to their being revealed out of paranoia I think is entirely justified, I do financial transactions in a separate browser instance, which is started for each site and exited afte
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by dfrage 7y ago
> & plenty of talent. Unconstrained by non-competes? The theory is that the Bay area has a huge liquid pool of talent, and that not being able to hire critical talent at all is even less "economical", in that you're
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by dfrage 7y ago
Two conflicting thoughts on that: - If the big wholesale Xeon buyers and users qualify AMD chips and start buying a lot of them, Intel will find that landscape a lot more competitive, this is a more "sticky" market than OEM produc
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by dfrage 7y ago
That works if you have a low data rate, last ditch omnidirectional antenna fall back. Otherwise for deep space satellites you've got to run quite a bit of stuff to get and perhaps keep the antenna pointed at a transmitter, which for a
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by dfrage 7y ago
The best rumors I know of, from SemiAccurate, are that Intel is running 10nm in only one fab to debug processes that will be used in their 7nm node. While they're at it they might as well sell the output, but that's still in the
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by dfrage 7y ago
One day old, 4 comment HN discussion of it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19714073
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by dfrage 7y ago
Using stack ranking to fire 10-15% of their employees every year selects for people who have political talents. Aren't they now comprehensively failing in every area except microarchitectures, with the next Ice Lake one being held up
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by dfrage 7y ago
I assume part of that is part of $1 billion total, it gets a bit complicated since they bought a going concern, and T-Mobile forced them to finish satisfying the requirements in the contact they assumed. Which was part of why the Kin was so
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by dfrage 7y ago
> I believe there was a $2b writedown on the Surface RT, as well as $7b + on the botched Nokia acquisition. Those are failures you can attribute actual dollar figures to. You can add $1 billion for the discontinued in 48 days https:&#x2
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by dfrage 7y ago
Two day old HN discussion on this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19627885 Yesterday's HN discussion on this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19646035
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by dfrage 7y ago
Thanks for the tip! I use uMatrix with aggressive defaults including no Javascript, somehow this trick didn't occur to me. Although my general rule is that if Javascript is required to read a site's content, it's probably no

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