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by jdougan 3y ago
It is actually fairly normal for foundations to go off the rails unless there is tight control. Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy always applies: ---- Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy states that in any bureaucratic
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If I remember correctly, the flight data feeds are on a delay, so I'm not sure just how good dead reckoning would be to get actual current position. A possibly goofy idea would be to use position feedback to train an LLM for ?more? acc
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He wasn't wrong that digital computers weren't doing what he wanted. Still aren't.
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Prior posts: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
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It seems like aspects of miniaturizing multi-stage fusion devices can still be difficult. Single stage unboosted fission devices should be be near trivial, so long as you have a source of fissile material (as you indicated). The other secre
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They could just skip 3 and go straight to 4. Team 4tress has a ring to it.
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It's a Hashicorp Terraform fork. Hashicorp started playing license games. So a bunch of the people and orgs that depend on Terraform took out insurance against future license changes by forking and instituting an open license version t
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by jdougan 3y ago
Toon was awesome. That and Paranoia were our go tos when we wanted a low pressure game night.
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Both of those are based on old OSI protocols, which were terrifying in their complexity. LDAP mostly subsetted DAP and X.500 and added Internet concepts. SMNP leveraged ASN.1 with some ideas from CMIP but using Internet concepts and attenti
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From 2016,but I'd not read it before. previously on hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19011980 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12559169 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=
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Zero Interest Rate Policy. Describes the US Federal Reserve interest rates for much of the last 20 years or so. Since interest rate to borrow is near zero, investing in very marginal businesses can be profitable.
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I keep reading that name as "Do It"
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I think I forgot the /s Yes, I am referencing that. The OP is an excellent idea. But the times we've tried something like it the usual suspects abused it into near irrelevance. The most discussion I see around patterns is "da
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An excellent idea. We could work out a standardized format and build wikis around them. We should come up with a name too. I think "patterns" would be good.
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ELI5 How does that kill gaming?
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While I could see making this a requirement for USG usage, it seems like pretty big overreach outside of that. It would also interfere with the steady supply of 0days the NSA et. al. need.
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Sounds like the review board is doing exactly its job.
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Fire the CEO and hire someone with a track record of being better, and I'll consider believing them.
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Windows 98 SE was the peak of the Win16/32 kernel versions.
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From what I've heard (rumours but it makes sense) it is mostly an evolved version of the "The Raymond Chen Camp and The MSDN Magazine Camp" conflict Joel described back in 2004 [1]. The exact issues are mostly different, but
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People found you could remove the screen covering, all or nothing, aspect of the menu tiles and (once again) found that muscle memory is a thing. Edit: they are much more spatially friendly, especially since you could resize the tiles to ma
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A good paper, if a bit dated. If you were writing it now you would surely have to include the mobile OSs as the most common examples.
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TIL about Parallel Sysplex. What a great name.
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Hmmm...anyone know how to get in touch with markm?
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> cut "companies" out entirely. As written, that is probably not possible. As long as people don't want to manage their own services someone will offer to do it for them (for some form of compensation) , and one of the co
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Do they have a shanty?
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(2007)
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Shines a new light on the old joke that a new machine is so fast it can run an infinute loop in 10 seconds.
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I had not realized just how much I missed the old-school cypherpunk jive. I wonder how they would have reacted then to what we know about DES now?
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Because Sparse VHD is (at least for me).

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