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by hapless 3y ago
SGI was already moribund in 1997. Executives made a conscious choice to pivot. It didn't work out, but it is real hard for me to believe they could have done better with a redoubled focus on MIPS development they could not afford.
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by hapless 3y ago
Sun's last successful SPARC project was the UltraSPARC II, in 1997. Their subsequent projects, like "Rock" and "Niagara," were disasters. (USIII and USIV were little more than core shrinks of USII) If Sun had gi
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by hapless 3y ago
Context is important. All of those competing architectures were becoming prohibitively expensive to enhance. Alpha never paid for itself, ever, the market share was too small. POWER and SPARC had multiple failed projects with enormous capi
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by hapless 3y ago
Everyone uses the FAANG loop + system design + leetcode design now I don't know when that change happened but it is practically universal
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by hapless 3y ago
Police exist to enforce a notion of "order" based on extremely specific notions of property and class relations That said, I am not seeing the relevance to the originally posted article. This is an example of the law actually wor
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by hapless 3y ago
That is an important political question that has relatively little to do with intentional, spiteful "payment" There are a number of reasons rents paid to landlords are treated somewhat differently from wages paid to workers! Those
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by hapless 3y ago
1. that fact is not disputed in the article 2. hours worked, and "working," have legal meaning, which, again, is not disputed by either party in america, if you contract with a fellow to work, and you find the work unsuitable, you
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by hapless 3y ago
No, of course not. You are tilting at windmills. No one has suggested non-payment followed by spiteful "payment" would be suitable for a dispute with a landlord. You have invented a villain who does not exist.
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by hapless 3y ago
The story comes from the Macon paper. Georgia has very clear guidelines around oil disposal! https://epd.georgia.gov/document/document/used-oil-guidance-...
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by hapless 3y ago
A "bad" worker who you are happy to see go is still entitled to all of his pay. In the article, the business owners keep suggesting that it was bad performance, or a bad attitude, or something like that, that justifies this behavi
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by hapless 3y ago
I love how this thread goes completely off the rails almost immediately. In the grim darkness of the internet, there is only eternal flamewar
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by hapless 4y ago
The interview snippets make it clear that SimCity 2013 was hopelessly compromised from minute one If nothing else, consider the mandates from EA: 1. Make it "unpirateable" even if it compromises gameplay 2. Make it depend on
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by hapless 4y ago
Here's a marketing rule of thumb: don't use "post hog" or "post hole" as your core marketing identity (Unless you are primarily targeting "adult" firms, of course)
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by hapless 4y ago
It doesn't fool anyone.
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by hapless 4y ago
SBF is doing his best work in witness tampering, and federal courts are failing to stop him.
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by hapless 4y ago
I know a few places. The answer is, 100% of the time, "legacy code." One of my former employers has millions of lines of code that just assume a bigendian architecture and play fast and loose with byte order as a result. They
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by hapless 4y ago
In the 80s and 90s, they were significantly faster and more capable than their PC / Mac analogues. Double or triple the speeds and feeds, ten times the price ;) By the 2000s the advantages had more or less vanished and the workstation
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by hapless 4y ago
Sun licensed SunOS and Solaris source to pretty much anyone who asked (and wanted to pay for it) All of the proprietary unix vendors would sell source licenses to a greater or lesser extent. There's IRIX and AIX source trees out ther
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by hapless 4y ago
Cross-compiling for AIX+IA64+COFF is going to be tricky. I rather doubt binutils supports that particular combination of items
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by hapless 4y ago
RS/6000 was the fourth AIX platform after x86 (AIX 1.x), IBM RT/ROMP (AIX 2.x), and the mainframe (AIX/370, AIX/390)
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by hapless 4y ago
That statement was worded carefully They are saying they dont store or forward your message text, not that your phone doesnt send them topics of interest
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by hapless 4y ago
Canon devices usually support PCL and Postscript. The proprietary drivers are just faster/fancier.
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by hapless 4y ago
Printer drivers are user space.
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by hapless 4y ago
Microsoft historically funded OpenBSD because they drew on OpenBSD source for their UNIX userland in products like MS SFU. They were all too happy to fund the development of /bin/sh and /bin/ls. They absolutely do not
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by hapless 4y ago
"Secure by default" by the standards of circa 1970 No mandatory access control, in the year 2022. Unimaginable. Only a fool would bet his business on this mess, and only a thief would take his money.
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by hapless 4y ago
They spent twenty years experimenting with different approaches to marketing Solaris x86. It was not a lack of persistence
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by hapless 4y ago
I looked at this once, and I seem to recall SMF relies on a Solaris-specific IPC mechanism with no simple analog on Linux https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doors_(computing)
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by hapless 4y ago
Sun tried every combination of free and paid and none of them made inroads in x86. Yes, that includes the Red Hat model (remember OpenSolaris?)
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by hapless 5y ago
FreeBSD had to reboot the project after some lawsuits -- FreeBSD 2.0 is a different codebase from FreeBSD 1.1 It was a huge setback for every kind of adoption
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by hapless 5y ago
Go figure, contributions to a multi-vendor consortium that just barely makes a marginal profit for an already marginal business unit (GCP) are not as highly valued as things that can be directly connected to revenues. This is not surprising

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