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by hapless 1y ago
The EU contains about 30% more people than the USA alone. (450MM vs 340MM) North America overall contains many more people than the EU. (340 + 129 + 40 for just USA, Mexico, Canada, plus another ~50MM in smaller countries. 560ish total)
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by hapless 1y ago
Indigo R3000 was VME-based, a derivative of the 4D/35 and firends Indigo R4xxx was a completely different architecture shared with the later SGI Indy Both had GIO32 slots Same case, same slots, totally different architectures inside
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by hapless 1y ago
Back in 1993, a $5k SGI had ~5x as much CPU power as a $10k x86 PC. Not a joke. You could get a 100 MHz R4000PC that would happily drive a display at 1280x1024 for the price of a 33 MHz 486 that would run Windows 3.x at 640x480 They wor
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by hapless 1y ago
The 712 was already a better NeXTstation than the actual NeXTstation at the time It cost half as much and had considerably more CPU power There is a reason NeXT decided to become a software company...
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by hapless 1y ago
The 3000UX was dead on arrival It cost as much as an early 1990s UNIX workstation but it featured the technology of the 1980s, so it was extremely slow by the standards of the day. For the price of a 3000UX, you could buy an SGI with 10x
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by hapless 1y ago
In the 1990s none of that stuff was made in mainland China, not even the cases. A great deal was made in Taiwan. Even more was still made in the USA. Personally I remember AST -- a PC clone vendor who specialized in vertical integration,
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by hapless 1y ago
Indigo2 is just convergent evolution. The Indigo2 family had EISA slots, so it was obliged to hold a full-length ISA card. There are only so many ways to skin that cat: You want a small, thin desktop with quiet cooling that will also fit a
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by hapless 1y ago
Stock buybacks are substantially equivalent to dividends. You issue a dividend when you have nothing to invest in that will develop shareholder value. Buybacks work the same way. You have a stock of capital, or a great borrowing oppor
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by hapless 1y ago
Wrecking the workstation market was easy, because workstations had small numbers of CPUs, and small pools of RAM. Intel started fucking up that market in the late 1980s. x86 wasn't competitive on the server side until K8 (AMD) and Ne
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by hapless 1y ago
DEC indulged an enormous number of also-rans. It is from the perspective of 2025 that we remember some of the good stuff and forget all the bizarre mis-fires. Off the top of my head: * Two duplicate "high-end" VAX architectures
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by hapless 2y ago
Azeem Azhar never has to worry about employment in an AI-obsessed world -- no executive worth his salt will ever be satisfied with an AI-based lickspittle. You need the genuine human article for that.
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by hapless 2y ago
Fireproofing isnt mandatory, so people dont do it People like lawns and shrubberies, and they hate spending even one dollar extra on roofing when they know a taxpayer-backed insurance policy will cover their substandard construction
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by hapless 2y ago
Unlike prior Sun systems there was no rack-optimized direct counterpart to the SS20 the "SPARCServer 20" was a super rare badging for like, workgroup servers the big rackmount units for the sun4m era were still VME systems: 4&#x2F
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by hapless 2y ago
You have it backwards. Itanium 1, which had x86 and some limited hppa compatibility, had a ton of HP input. Itanium 2 dropped a lot of the broken ideas from Itanium 1 in favor of .... slightly better than the worst performance in the indus
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by hapless 2y ago
By the time this PDF deck dropped, AMD K10 / Opteron was out, and that ship had sailed. By 2004 the only thing Itanium had going for it vs a similarly sized Opteron system was the enormous L3 cache. Real good for SPECfp, I guess.
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by hapless 2y ago
when I had "unlimited" pto, my boss took three months a year, I got two weeks at Christmas it is a question of priorities, and every vacation you take suddenly requires review
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by hapless 2y ago
Obviously they have a commercial incentive to complain about Chrome, but that doesn't make their complaint untrue
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by hapless 2y ago
Sounds like it would have been textbook "honest services" fraud if Amazon hadn't worked so hard to exclude their "code of conduct" from their employment contract ;)
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by hapless 2y ago
What Chinese IP?
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by hapless 2y ago
They absolutely did box themselves into a corner, and also, they had no god damn money The 1st gen products (500/1000) never caught on in the world's largest market. They were always struggling. The ASIC-based architecture did n
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by hapless 2y ago
My skepticism should be quite obvious: I am still posting through an X11 system. But, Wayland is far and away the best and most serious attempt to replace X, ever, in thirty years and more. If there is gonna be an X11 replacement, ever, Way
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by hapless 2y ago
tl;dr: X11R6 is very healthy on NetBSD and has active contributors from the same blog: Wayland is also approaching healthy on NetBSD and has active contributors There is no reason to get bent out of shape. NetBSD as a project has commitmen
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by hapless 2y ago
X11 has been unmaintained not once, not twice, but THREE times and it's still the dominant system on UNIX-type things. Xorg is, itself, the thrice-disowned descendant of the o.g. X project. That is what it is! It's fine! if Wayla
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by hapless 2y ago
PC98 support grew from the facts on the ground: NetBSD and friends had Japanese-language mailing lists and irc channels, for decades If you were a Japanese enthusiast who wanted to have a "real UNIX" on readily available hardware,
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by hapless 2y ago
I doubt it I really, truly suspect Wayland is the future We have had like one hundred X11 replacements between 1990 and now, and at least half a dozen have caught on with the open source community What makes Wayland different is that it has
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by hapless 3y ago
I can't hardly blame them, I imagine they want all their paying customers to get off ia64 and alpha, too.
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by hapless 3y ago
Microsoft used to sell Windows as a runtime. Like, you would ship Windows on floppy disks as part of your software product for end-users. 16 bit Windows was consciously designed, intentionally made modular, to accomplish things like this.
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by hapless 3y ago
I mean, they ARE putting their money where their mouth is They pay existing employees less, and new employees, more. If a whole team quits, a replacement will be more expensive. That's the state of the game!
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by hapless 3y ago
It is a fact of life. You don't have to like it, or embrace it, but it remains true. It is generally easier to get a raise than to get promoted. It is generally easier to get a new job than to get a raise. On balance, if you want to
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by hapless 3y ago
This whole thing is bad advice * New hires get paid more because they are worth more to the employer. Point blank. You don't have to pay existing employees more to keep them working there. "A bird in hand is worth two in the

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