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   by eb0la 5y ago

   Very cool idea. I remember borrowing Kinder & Hermann books when I was in high school. They were awesome (you can see them in the Internet Archive https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%22Kinder%2C+... ). Worth
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   by eb0la 5y ago

   If I remember well Intel did something similar with the i486sx - most were just i468DX with a faulty i487 coprocessor disabled. Not sure how they did it. Probably burning the SX microcode after testing?
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   by eb0la 5y ago

   Even at eight figures still makes sense for accurate value at risk calculation. A friend that works in risk management told me a financial institution you must have enough cash 'at rest' to cover your part of your whole VAR. The p
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   by eb0la 5y ago

   It is essentially a B2B for a deep-pocket kind of customer. Think energy, defense, or a big financial company (or fund). If you can calculate and iterate fast something you want to build / identify where it is feasible to drill /
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   by eb0la 5y ago

   > also somehow people forget chips these days are really powerful. Only powerful ;-) ? Just found out some FPGAs have embedded processor cores with them (no need to generate them like in 2000) just because their customers already need th
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   by eb0la 5y ago

   When you opened a web using Chrome on your mobile phone, you could send the request to google directly. They had a lot of caching proxies and it made browsing faster. For us the problem was everybody was using that chache instead of going d
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   by eb0la 5y ago

   I dont' think it is as "long" game as it seems: Bosch brags about they make cars and their customer just assemble them. If they're able to send you a complete solution that includes sensors, connectivity, etc... they
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   by eb0la 5y ago

   Netflow! My first "big data" project was getting netflow data from 100s of routers in a internet backbone and start to learn where traffic came and if it was worthy to do a peereng agreement with them. It stopped working the day G
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   by eb0la 5y ago

   I guess they need funding to better publitize their offering. It's almost one-click activation in Google Cloud (I guess in AWS/Azure would be te same). IMHO their biggest competitors are the clouders themselves (with pubsub, SQS,
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    Intifada video game violence (1989)(washingtonpost.com)

    1 points by eb0la 5y ago|0 comments
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    by eb0la 5y ago

    From my experience the first year is hard: you'll face a lot of situations where your loved one used to be. It hurts, and it is normal. The second year is worse because there are some situations you haven't faced yet (for whatever
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    by eb0la 5y ago

    I lost my father 2 months before my son was born. Of course, the kid is named after him. Last time I saw him lucid we showed him a 3D echography. At least he could see his grandson. The next day he lost conscience and we started palliative
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    by eb0la 5y ago

    I wonder if with this "big" Italian company you mean Olivetti. They had their own 8088 PC and if I remember well they also sold IBM back in the 80s.
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    by eb0la 5y ago

    Kafka is works very well when you have a IF "receive-this" then that kind of problem. I find a bit complicated using streams / queues for everything because it is a paradigm shift (turning the database inside out). BUT when
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    by eb0la 5y ago

    That was my first DNS server in the University! In fact it was the primary DNS for our University domain (uah.es). I remember if you press the stop+a keys you get an ok prompt (the ROM monitor). You can debug the pci register from there and
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    by eb0la 5y ago

    Seems a good idea at first sight ;-) Do you have a prestashop / oscommerce plugin? I bet having one-click to start receiving payments would get you a lot of traction.
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    by eb0la 5y ago

    In Spain is very easy to get them in to beach or in restaurants nearby. You can also made them in the oven wrapped in aluminium paper if you don't have a proper grill.
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    by eb0la 5y ago

    Thanks for the link :-) My first Unix book was from McKusick ( https://openlibrary.org/books/OL7407817M/The_Design_and_Impl... ). I bouth it after some years playing with wirh DEC OSF1, SunOS, Linux, and Irix :-)
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    by eb0la 5y ago

    Catalá is also the name of the catalan language in catalan ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalan_language ).
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    by eb0la 5y ago

    Thanks! I was looking for this in their site. Should be in their homepage and FAQ !!! (without py3.7+ I wouldn't even consider trying).
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    by eb0la 5y ago

    {Free/Net/Open}BSD DOCUMENTATION Rocks! Not just the online documentation, but there are really good offline (books) documenting the BSD stack. Back in 1998 I chosed BSD (openBSD) for my thesis just because there was _a lot_ of
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    by eb0la 5y ago

    Murex is also a risk management software for financial institutions. I saw the title and said WTF?!
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    Benjamin Frankin's Glass Harmonica(en.wikipedia.org)

    1 points by eb0la 5y ago|0 comments
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    by eb0la 6y ago

    I learnt this trick from OpenBSD 2.5 (yes, a long time ago). I still remember getting root with a shell-script mp3 player that a friend coded because of this. The exploit was based in inserting some \$\( make_a_new_root_account_in_etcpassw
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    by eb0la 6y ago

    I guess that's the reason Qlik (a business intelligence software provider) started using licensing by the minute - yes, like a phone call.
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    by eb0la 6y ago

    Turns out it is much, much, more tested than I remembered: https://www.sqlite.org/testing.html
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    by eb0la 6y ago

    Sqlite is also an EXTREMELY well tested database. Last time I checked test code was about 2x productionncode. This is also good indicator to spot software that is not a toy.
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    by eb0la 6y ago

    Well, looks like Emacs is really an operating system disguised as a text editor.
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    by eb0la 6y ago

    I remember Qlikview (reporting/data discovery software) had a per minute license for this. There are a lot of inactive users in reporting apps. A lot of people just log in once a month to see a single report and this was a useful way t
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    by eb0la 6y ago

    A lot of mission critical systems are Java on the mainframe. Not just Cobol. Why don't people switch, then? The mainframe gives you a predictible runtime. Long running jobs don't get rescheduled or hogged by other loads. I know ab