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by duskwuff 1y ago
Heh. Yup. And I'd be especially concerned about code written for QEMU, as it's an unusual type of application. There's lots of example code and other writings about security in web applications which a language model is lik
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by duskwuff 1y ago
Out of curiosity: how "bricked" are these boards? Is there irreversible hardware damage (and, if so, how?), or has some firmware just gotten overwritten?
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by duskwuff 1y ago
"X11SSH" is a Supermicro motherboard [1] with a (fairly common) Aspeed BMC implementing IPMI. (It has nothing to do with X11 or SSH - the name is an unfortunate coincidence.) The UART that is being accessed here is a debug UART fo
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by duskwuff 1y ago
As an aside, I really wish MACE would open-source their work. They've made some impressive progress, but I worry that work's going to go to waste if it stays closed.
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by duskwuff 1y ago
The icon is telling you that you need a disk to boot from. https://www.gryphel.com/c/minivmac/start.html has some links.
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by duskwuff 1y ago
> Am I misunderstanding this, or is this the source code to Apple System 7.1? More or less, yes. It only encompasses the system (i.e. not applications like the Finder) and isn't entirely complete, but it's still a great window
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by duskwuff 1y ago
> How long would a quicksort (say, of integers) be in 68000 assembly? About 70 lines, once you strip out the comments and blank lines. https://github.com/historicalsource/supermario/blob/9dd3c4be...
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by duskwuff 1y ago
I'd also worry that a language model is much more likely to introduce subtle logical errors, potentially ones which violate the hypervisor's security boundaries - and a user relying heavily on that model to write code for them wil
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by duskwuff 1y ago
> If it becomes common enough for clients to assume that all web servers have an IP cert That's never going to be a safe assumption; private and/or dynamically assigned IP addresses are always going to be a thing.
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by duskwuff 1y ago
Not on a G3. These systems shipped with Mac OS 8; the System suitcase was over 6 MB alone. Apple stopped shipping systems with internal floppy drives altogether a few years later, with the iMac and blue-and-white G3.
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by duskwuff 1y ago
FPGAs are still quite common in niche hardware like oscilloscopes or cell towers, where the manufacturer needs some sophisticated hardware capabilities but isn't manufacturing enough units to make the NRE for an ASIC worthwhile.
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by duskwuff 1y ago
Oh, these programs were always in-house. The offering was essentially "if you pay an up-front fee and give us your FPGA design, we'll sell you some chips that run that design for cheaper than the FPGAs". If there was ever any
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by duskwuff 1y ago
Is this still an active thing? My understanding is that both Xilinx and Altera/Intel have effectively discontinued their ASIC programs (Xilinx EasyPath, Altera HardCopy); they aren't available for modern part families. For what it
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by duskwuff 1y ago
And I certainly can't imagine how a language model would be of any use here, in a problem which doesn't involve language.
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by duskwuff 1y ago
Quite possibly. Although I'm not sure that's even significant compared to the increase in weight when it rains, waterlogging the soil on the bridge.
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by duskwuff 1y ago
Typical pedestrian bridges aren't 150 feet wide, though. Nor do most have grass growing on them (at least, not intentionally). This is, in fact, a fairly unusual infrastructure project.
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by duskwuff 1y ago
Precisely. And, at least in the US, any contract which makes it impossible for a worker to take a new job in their field is extremely likely to be found unconscionable. It doesn't matter whether the contract is cast as a non-compete or
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by duskwuff 1y ago
Funny - the first one that comes to mind for me is "Night of the Living Dead" (1968).
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by duskwuff 1y ago
Power looms are not the same thing as sewing machines. Not even close.
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by duskwuff 1y ago
> technological progress and its economic and societal ramifications I seem to recall that a mathematician wrote a paper about this around 1995 which got a lot of press attention. I'm not sure I agree with all of his conclusions, th
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by duskwuff 1y ago
The System 7.0 UI appearance - before Platinum - was a mess. It was little more than a partially colorized version of the monochrome System 6 user interface; in fact, it mostly fell back to the System 6 appearance on machines with monochrom
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by duskwuff 1y ago
Weird Al? (Whose music career began in high school when he handed a demo tape to Dr. Demento.)
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by duskwuff 1y ago
VAC is only used in multiplayer games. (And even then, only in a limited number of games - https://steamdb.info/charts/?category=8 )
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by duskwuff 1y ago
Headscale [1] has a stronger claim to "free version of Tailscale" - it's literally a self-hosted version of Tailscale's coordination server. It's even compatible with the Tailscale client. [1]: https://he
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by duskwuff 1y ago
> To be continued Unfortunately, doesn't look like the followup post (about analyzing the VAC DLLs) has been written.
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by duskwuff 1y ago
It's even worse than "Stop Citing TIOBE" makes it sound. The TIOBE rank is based on the number of hits reported from "25 search engines", which amount to: 1) Google, on nine different TLDs 2) Amazon, on seven
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by duskwuff 1y ago
> How else would you do it? Read latitude/longitude/zoom parameters from the request and render a map image on demand. It's slow and inefficient, but it's simple to implement and I suspect it's what most of the f
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by duskwuff 1y ago
> Maybe the new "containers" stuff in macOS 26 is going to be a good replacement for that? It is not. The Containerization framework [1] is, in its own words, "a Swift package for running Linux containers on macOS" -
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by duskwuff 1y ago
> I don’t know what factors would make IEA underestimate solar adoption. The IEA is an energy industry group from back in the days where "energy" primarily meant fossil fuels (i.e. the 1970s), and they've never entirely go
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by duskwuff 1y ago
And its inverse, the IEA solar energy forecast: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Reality_versus_IEA_predic... (This version of the graph is pretty old, but it's enough to get the flavor. The rate of new installa

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