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by inkyoto 3y ago
You do not have to agree, you have to experience it firsthand. I travel on a frequent basis and still run into occasional problems. 6GHz frequency bands on 5G are still not supported outside the US, for example. Granted, 5G is the best we h
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by inkyoto 3y ago
1. Mobile networks do not operate across the entire spectrum, they operate on frequency bands. The bands are country and mobile operator specific. Then there is the modulation which might vary across each frequency band and can be can frequ
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by inkyoto 3y ago
You are correct. I have long forgotten about the mapped memory and was thinking about Unibus device registers having long 18-bit addresses. The 11/70 also had separate instruction and data spaces which did not exist in earlier models.
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by inkyoto 3y ago
> Intergated 5G Modem. Apple should have a 4G/5G only modem ( Not even 3G ) on MacBook to test out all quirks before it is even used on iPhone. Please no, in any laptop. Mobile networks evolve faster than the computing hardware, and
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by inkyoto 3y ago
People did not compile the kernel back then. The kernel was supplied in a precompiled form as a collection of object (.o) files, and there was a kernel «generation» shell script that would ask questions about which parts of the kernel were
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by inkyoto 3y ago
> the PDP-11 disk unit throwing itself around violently when somebody started nroff. That was the overlays… the early days substitute for the virtual memory proper. If I remember correctly, the first PDP-11 to have the true virtual memor
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by inkyoto 3y ago
> It would be interesting to see what the corresponding figures are like for on-prem […] You won't find any, not easily anyway. The world of enterprise SaaS follows a different business model that I refer to as «hiding the dead ho
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by inkyoto 3y ago
Except Sieve rules in Fastmail either work or do not, and it is non-deterministic. A few notoriously persistent problems I have been facing with them for years: – A notorious spammer that has been spamming me for over a decade that the Fast
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by inkyoto 3y ago
It gets more interesting if one does not accept the analytical/tracking cookies: the user gets thrown ouf of the website and is redirected to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_planetariums Which I think is ver
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by inkyoto 3y ago
Buy them all – maybe. Carry them all – hardly. Apple has invested a lot of time and effort into making full continuity across their entire computing ecosystem actually work, which allows the user to pick only one device that is the best poi
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by inkyoto 3y ago
> The problem here is our old friend the Bayesian Base Rate fallacy. The diseases you're looking to intercept and intervene against are, in the general population, pretty rare. This is pseudoscience at best and quakery at worst. Bod
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by inkyoto 3y ago
I do not think multiple bands are the problem, they vary and are meant to vary across mobile network deployments by design. The biggest promise 5G has failed to deliver on so far is the capacity. We were promised 5G cells of being able to h
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by inkyoto 3y ago
> Likewise Apple also had their own Linux distribution that went nowhere, MkLinux. MkLinux (MicroKernel Linux) was not a distribution but a modified Linux kernel to be loaded as a Mach server to run under CMU (later OSF) Mach 3. It abstr
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by inkyoto 3y ago
If my memory serves me well, 7F was historically used for the «Delete» key code, and outputting it on a real terminal (or in terminal emulator), would result in the in-place text deletion from the output. Not that it has been relevant in la
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by inkyoto 3y ago
> and the convention that a name starting with a dot is hidden. It is a UNIX shell implementation level convention. The file system and the kernel don't care, and a shell is not obliged to honour the convention.
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by inkyoto 3y ago
> […] the status they feel an iPhone brings […] I am baffled why people keep making this asinine remark. Stock iPhone is not status. Vertu is status (and is an Android platform), moreso the Vertu Signature line. Aftermarket modded iPhone
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by inkyoto 3y ago
It is elaborated on at the end of the second and in the third paragraphs: «In particular, some white parents worry that their own children will suffer from competition in schools with high Asian enrollment or that the curriculum will emp
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by inkyoto 3y ago
Because of the availability of the source code under a permissive licence that UNIX has been distributed under for a long time. Other operating systems source code still remains unavailable, sometimes decades after the hardware they used to
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by inkyoto 3y ago
Neither agreeing nor disagreeing, either, but the thing is… that both, monoliths and µ-services, are loose concepts, and they mean different things to different people and/or in differing circumstances. A monolith itself can be monolit
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by inkyoto 3y ago
> If you have a guaranteed way to avoid pushing fatal bugs to production it doesn’t MATTER what your architecture is. Bugs aside, the architecture does matter, and it matters a lot. Whether it is a single coarse grained deployment (i.e.
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by inkyoto 3y ago
A beard is the facial hair, not the body hair. The beard hair is coarser, is longer, and the beard hair growth is regulated by different hormonal pathways. It is possible for an adult male to grow a beard whilst remaining completely body ha
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by inkyoto 3y ago
A very large number of males who are not genetically predisposed to the possession of any body hair and who happen to live in hot, humid, sometimes dusty as well as in extremely cold environments would like to remind you and to other proud
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by inkyoto 3y ago
And then there are always the good ol' pals that go by names of telnet and netcat: telnet www.example.com 80 GET /article.html Instant felony charges, huh?
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by inkyoto 3y ago
Greek culture and language survived in a form of the Byzantine Empire (after the fall and the following decline of Rome) where Greek was the state, liturgy and predominantly spoken language. Even before the Great Schism of 1054, Greek had b
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by inkyoto 3y ago
It is predominantly «alight to…» (to walk to a point of interest, to do something remarkable and similar), with no object. RE: «set off» vs «set down». It is «set down», of course. My brain was passing the gas at the time of typing it up.
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by inkyoto 3y ago
Men can remain fertile well into their seventies and even into the eighties, with occasional random stories of a man in his nineties impregnating a woman. It does not happen the other way round, unfortunately.
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by inkyoto 3y ago
> People defining dialects because of their political agenda? That is absolutely the case with mainland China where the CCP has weaponised the dialects rhetoric and declared all other Chinese languages that are not Mandarin as mere, lowl
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by inkyoto 3y ago
Interestingly enough, in Sydney, one can alight a train or a tram, yet they set off when they get off a bus. But I think set off is on the way out now and won't survive for long.
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by inkyoto 3y ago
Yes, whenua and pākehā are just a few examples of the Māori words that are now frequently used in the daily speech in New Zealand.
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by inkyoto 3y ago
The 29k was a pretty rad architecture, indeed. The CPU register file had 128 local registers and more than 64 global registers as well as two program counters, to start off with. Local registers could also be accessed indirectly. At a time

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