jhallenworld

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by jhallenworld 10mo ago
I'll say this about IBM: because it's so old, it was the most diverse company I ever worked for- including age, nationality, race, sex, and any other category you can think of. Basically you had all types of people in all stages
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by jhallenworld 10mo ago
That's awesome. Before ~2007 they allowed you to use open-source Pidgin to connect to the Domino servers. A friend of mine and I used it to make a bot: if you sametimed me, you got Zork. It reminds me of another IBM IT rule: they wan
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by jhallenworld 10mo ago
Probably, but now it's going to be formalized and will entail a lot of paperwork (manual entry on many very badly written JAVA-based CRUD applications). Sure, these things are all good ideas, but trust me, they have all been overthoug
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by jhallenworld 10mo ago
>mind boggling Byzantine rules Hint: by all means possible, make sure you are not the owner of (or manager of the person who owns) any assets beyond your personal laptop. If, for example, you end up being the owner of all the developme
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by jhallenworld 10mo ago
You can measure it by how many management steps you, as an employee of the recently acquired company are from the CEO in the hierarchy. As time goes on, this number tends to increase. It used to be easy to see this in Lotus Sametime or s
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by jhallenworld 11mo ago
Yes, it is... (negative differential resistance to be more precise) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pearson%E2%80%93Anson_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_resistance
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by jhallenworld 11mo ago
Easy negative resistance oscillator: a neon bulb in parallel with a capacitor connected to a DC power supply through a resistor.
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by jhallenworld 11mo ago
I always assumed ultra-processed means that the food is loaded with preservatives like phosphates or BHT. I guess that's part of it, but maybe the efficiency of digestion should be considered. I remember Ben Krasnow (Applied Science)
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by jhallenworld 11mo ago
I did the same, but with Tandy 4000s. >That's when I knew Arm would eventually eat x86: in 1989. It's finally happening now. I had kind of the reverse feeling: when the 486 came out, I knew those expensive SPARC and MIPS workst
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by jhallenworld 11mo ago
In the early years of Linux, before it had networking, we used KA9Q for the TCP/IP stack: https://www.ka9q.net/code/ka9qnos/ This worked in DOS, but was easily ported to Linux. As far as DPMI: I used the CWSD
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by jhallenworld 11mo ago
The lack of (easy) recursion in CPP is so frustrating because it was always available in assembly languages with even very old and very simple macro assemblers- with the caveat that the recursion depth was often very limited, and no tail ca
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by jhallenworld 1y ago
The worm in shockwave rider released secret information to the public. Turns out a worm was not needed for this, just wikileaks.
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by jhallenworld 1y ago
WPI was immune, the main machines on the net at time were an Encore Multimax and a DEC-20.
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by jhallenworld 1y ago
I thing I learned only recently is that the write protect switch on the SD card is not an electrical switch connected to anything in the SD card itself: it just hits a lever in the SD socket that opens a contact closure and it's up to
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by jhallenworld 1y ago
Wish it was Verilog or SystemVerilog..
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by jhallenworld 1y ago
I've been getting tremendous use out of PicoRV32- it works, it's tiny, and for many use cases ("management plane") you just don't need much speed. I work around its slowness by providing things like relatively larg
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by jhallenworld 1y ago
My son had an MRI with gadolinium- turns out he is allergic to it, he developed a full-body itchy rash. There were like 20 interns in to see him, for the experience I guess. They were ready to send him to the ER in case it interfered with
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by jhallenworld 1y ago
Also I recommend Bob Morgan's book: https://turbo51.com/download/Building-an-Optimizing-Compile-...
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by jhallenworld 1y ago
Try maxima, it's open source: https://maxima.sourceforge.io/ I used it when it was called Macsyma running on TOPS-20 (and a PDP-10 / Decsystem-20). Text interface will require a little learning, but not much.
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by jhallenworld 1y ago
They don't say that the currencies are pegged, but I'm pretty sure they're defacto pegged. Same deal with the Euro.
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by jhallenworld 1y ago
Or it gets built, but NextEra convinces the dear leader to tariff energy imports. Or Canada just cuts us off for being jerks.
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by jhallenworld 1y ago
Yup, I've been watching the NECEC story unfold over the years. Boston's giant natural gas Mystic Generating Station was closed in anticipation of the power being replaced by NECEC. There is an interesting podcast about Quebec hyd
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by jhallenworld 1y ago
Its does, but you should see the machines they use for coal mining these days, particularly in Wyoming. A giant strip mine seems to require like 20 workers, but with giant trucks and excavators. Even for underground mines, check out the ma
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by jhallenworld 1y ago
Yes, I'm just highlighting that it's just as convenient to change them as command line parameters on a per-invocation basis. If there is a proposal for something else, it should retain this capability. Config files and something
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by jhallenworld 1y ago
Eh, they are just more command line arguments, ones that go on the left side of the command instead of the right. I guess an alternative is something the Windows registry, but I'm not seeing that as a great improvement since it's
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by jhallenworld 1y ago
It's what E-Trade lists for dividend yield or SEC yield. I have no idea if it's before or after exchange to USD. The total return is from totalrealreturns.com, it accounts for USD inflation and includes yield (at least I think),
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by jhallenworld 1y ago
On the Oct 10 drop, I made a list of a bunch country specific ETFs to see who is and who isn't so correlated with the US. oct 10 drop yield ytd total return mchi china -5.73
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by jhallenworld 1y ago
For inference they already face competition: that deal OpenAI announced with AMD .. at a certain point it will be worth broadening away from CUDA.
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by jhallenworld 1y ago
Maybe the better algorithm will be able to run on GPUs.
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by jhallenworld 1y ago
>~75–80% of S&P 500 gains Dot com bust was 50% of S&P / 80% on Nasdaq... we survived it.. For Nvidia: all it will take is for one smart grad student to find a better training algorithm to destroy 75% of their value. Why I th

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