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961.
by fmajid 3y ago
I had an ADSL connection in France in the late 90s. It did not do bonding of the 2B channels so was limited to 64kbps, but the latency was much better than with a modem so it felt much snappier.
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by fmajid 3y ago
My feed reader just tries a variety of URLs if the page doesn't have autodiscovery. It works surprisingly well: https://github.com/fazalmajid/temboz/blob/master/tembozapp/a...
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by fmajid 3y ago
Well, Google's Coral.ai TPU in USB dongle form factor is constantly sold-out.
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by fmajid 3y ago
I have a M1 Ultra Mac Studio with 128GB of RAM and the ability to run LLMs like LLaMa2 locally thanks to the unified memory architecture was a big factor. Just because you don't have a use for it doesn't mean everyone else is as b
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by fmajid 3y ago
Yes, Craig Murray's imprisonment was a travesty. Saying a legal system is saner than England is pretty much damning with faint praise, it's such a low bar to clear.
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by fmajid 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Post_Office_scandal
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by fmajid 3y ago
Newer planes have made massive strides in fuel-efficiency, though.
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by fmajid 3y ago
There's Embraer of Brazil and Comac of China.
969.
by fmajid 3y ago
It figures Airbus wouldn't add a new production line for an aircraft first introduced in 1988 and for which a replacement could arrive in 2024 or 2025.
970.
by fmajid 3y ago
The rot at Boeing came from the McDonnell-Douglas acquisition and its military-contractor culture of corruption. Harry Stonecipher used to joke McDonnell-Douglas bought Boeing with Boeing's own money.
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by fmajid 3y ago
One of the issues was wiring harnesses being too close together. The USAF has higher requirements in for redundancy and fault-tolerance in aircraft that may be shot at than civilian airliners do, go figure. Either way, it's not somethi
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by fmajid 3y ago
Cogent is also a low-cost provider, and it shows in their customer service.
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by fmajid 3y ago
Naming conventions can be inconsistent, and not every datacenter location has an airport. ASD is often used instead of AMS for Amsterdam.
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by fmajid 3y ago
Not the parent, but obviously if the cost of CloudFlare protection is $XXX million, a protection racket can say: pay us 10% of $XXX M to make this problem go away. It's routinely deployed against highly profitable online businesses lik
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by fmajid 3y ago
Ransom, taking out competitors (e.g. gambling sites), censorship. The Chinese government regularly targets GitHub because it hosts VPN software.
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by fmajid 3y ago
The Chinese government routinely runs DDoS against GitHub because it hosts VPN software that can be used to circumvent the Great Firewall of China. They use the Great Cannon of China, which is the offensive side of the Great Firewall, effec
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by fmajid 3y ago
England's legal system is still riddled with the legacy of feudalism. The private prosecution mechanism used by the Post Office was first used in the 17th Century. Note that Scotland has its own legal system and it is generally saner.
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by fmajid 3y ago
I stopped using Usenet a long time ago but the Google Usenet archive has posts of mine from the 90s that are not in Henry Spencer’s archive. Is someone’s backing up Google’s archive or should I start scraping their pages to have a backup?
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by fmajid 3y ago
I started reading the original paper and stopped as soon as I read the bit about not being scan-resistant. I'll stick to ARC (Adaptive Replacement Cache, designed by IBM and used among other places in ZFS), thank you very much.
980.
by fmajid 3y ago
More translation work for customers, perhaps, but reviewing is grinding work she has no interest in pursuing, and has the luxury of being in a position to do so.
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by fmajid 3y ago
Anecdotally, one of my parents' friends told me her daughter, a Frenchwoman living in Mexico and who works as a translator, has seen all her work vanish other than reviewing AI translations.
982.
by fmajid 3y ago
Hamas is Sunni
983.
by fmajid 3y ago
If the Iranians get the bomb, so will the Saudis, and that is a genuinely terrifying prospect.
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by fmajid 3y ago
An uncle worked for McDonnell Douglas, then Boeing, on military planes (C-17). The tales of the culture of utter corruption on the military contractor side he told were chilling.
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by fmajid 3y ago
The Delancey Street Project in San Francisco has an outstanding record on preventing recidivism. Their secret, though, is inducting only ex-felons who genuinely want to turn their life around. As you point out, without this motivation, falu
986.
by fmajid 3y ago
Sounds like a retronym for the author’s initials :-)
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by fmajid 3y ago
Given Taligent’s utter failure, not just as a business but also at delivering anything approaching useful software, only useful as a source of anti-patterns and what not to do. Anti-Pattern No. 1: process is a means to an end, not an end
988.
by fmajid 3y ago
I prefer the expression “dead-cat bounce”.
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by fmajid 3y ago
For decades software engineers have moaned “why can’t software engineering be a real engineering discipline like civil engineering”. The travails of the legacy car makers, compared to Tesla or Rivian, show conclusively mechanical engineerin
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by fmajid 3y ago
Have a look at Bunnie Huang’s Precursor project, but it’s much more expensive.

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