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by jonathaneunice 1y ago
IP owners often play the game of “patent what you can, threaten with the rest.” So you might not be able to strictly patent the way data is laid out, but specific, novel algorithms that update or manipulate that layout and improve what was
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by jonathaneunice 1y ago
Yes, artificially complex. No one genuinely interested in document openness—be it for document workflows, publishing automation, content archiving, or future-proofed documents—would have done it that way. Maybe it was as simple as dumping a
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by jonathaneunice 1y ago
Hadn't previously seen the effusive emoji everywhere that LLMs love, but otherwise bulleted lists and paragraphs with bold-highlighted run-in headers have been a staple of consulting memos for the longest ever. Very effective way to su
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by jonathaneunice 1y ago
Not quite. Google brilliantly rebranded the work of John McCarthy, C.A.R. Hoare, Guy Steele, _et al_ from 1960 ff. e.g. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/367177.367199 Dean, Ghemawat, and Google at large deserve cred
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by jonathaneunice 1y ago
"From the core to the edges of the server"—what does that even mean? Unless Google has discovered a way to directly transfer heat to the aethereal plane, nothing they’re doing is new. Mainframes were moving chip and module heat en
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by jonathaneunice 1y ago
LOLWUT? Hyperscalers and HPC data centers have been very concerned about power and thermal density for decades IME. If you're just running web sites or VM farms, sure keep racks cooler and more power efficient. But for those that deepl
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by jonathaneunice 1y ago
It’s very odd when mainframes (S/3x0, Cray, yadda yadda) have been extensively water-cooled for over 50 years, and super-dense HPC data centers have used liquid cooling for at least 20, to hear Google-scale data center design compared
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by jonathaneunice 1y ago
Movie reviews (stars) given on Amazon Prime's streaming service always seemed incredibly sus. All the bad movies from the long-tail back catalog all seemed remarkably highly-rated. Typical pattern: Forth-rate sci-fi action movie amalga
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by jonathaneunice 1y ago
I don't understand the f-string hate. f-strings put the value in the output string exactly where the value should be. Massive win for contextual awareness, no need to count ...3, 4, okay what's the position 4 value over on the rig
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by jonathaneunice 1y ago
Probably! Everything runs on economics. Network and graphics accelerators did just fine—but then they were (or became over time) high-volume opportunities. Volume drives investment; investment drives progress.
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by jonathaneunice 1y ago
"High-level CPUs" are a tarpit. Beautiful idea in theory, but history shows they're a Bad Idea . Xerox, LMI, Symbolics, Intel iAPX 432, UCSD p-System, Jazelle and PicoJava—just dozens of fancy designs for Lisp, Smalltalk, Ad
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by jonathaneunice 1y ago
TIL AOL still offered dial-up internet. At long last, the 1990s will soon come to an end.
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by jonathaneunice 1y ago
Snitching? That’s an odd flex. I wasn’t ratting people out—I was translating. Reminding siloed teams why other groups mattered, why customers cared, and why that business still went ca-ching. If that feels like snitching, maybe the problem
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by jonathaneunice 1y ago
Gordon gets it—no surprise. We fought from the same foxholes. I stepped out of that world; he’s still in it, still an ace.
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by jonathaneunice 1y ago
As a successful consultant for several decades, I played several major roles: 1. Designated Teller of Hard Truths. I operated outside each client's organizational hierarchy and internal factions. By design, I was expendable and not see
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by jonathaneunice 1y ago
Network effects, powered by GitHub. Back in the day I loved Hg. Logical and rounded-edges where Git was geeky, tweaky, and rough. And the how many uses this vs. how many use that numbers were not so unequal. Tossup IIRC. But GitHub made Git
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by jonathaneunice 1y ago
I do several styles of yoga. Most provide substantial strength training via moving and suspending body weight. All feel like they have exactly the increased heart rate of aerobic exercise. Flowing e.g. from standing to high plank to low pla
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by jonathaneunice 1y ago
Said with love: This is lipstick on a pig. A very old and beloved pig, but still alas, a pig. It's great to extend the shell idiom, to patch up its inconsistencies and unportabilites, to make it better. I love the progression of sh, cs
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by jonathaneunice 1y ago
I wish this article had shown side-by-side examples. Back when I built document transformation tools as part of a publishing pipeline, the simplicity and clarity benefit of OpenDocument's XML over Microsoft's OOXML were *staggerin
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by jonathaneunice 1y ago
And also that effort(multi cloud) >>> effort(multi region)
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by jonathaneunice 1y ago
Paving the folkways! Figuring out the paths that users (or LLMs) actually want to take—not based on your original design or model of what paths they should want, but based on the paths that they actually do want and do trod down. Aka, meeti
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by jonathaneunice 1y ago
Zero expertise in any of the related disciplines to interpret or judge any of this, but I can say with confidence that the related Wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Younger_Dryas_impact_hypothesi... is a wi
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by jonathaneunice 1y ago
The skepticism is warranted, but the audits must be periodically refreshed. At least for our auditor, that means pentest and remediation steps, risk assessment and treatment steps, BCP/DRP and IRP must be updated and each tested, vulne
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by jonathaneunice 1y ago
Blast from the past: "XSLT is a failure wrapped in pain" original article seems offline but relevant HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8708617
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by jonathaneunice 1y ago
Enh. I have no great love for most SOC 2 reports. They're seemingly endless and contain lots of blah blah blah and they're written defensively, so it's often hard to get actionable intel and insight out of them. But the Sys
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by jonathaneunice 1y ago
Especially if you have one of those effusive "trust pages" at https://trust.yourdomain.com . They really work.
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by jonathaneunice 1y ago
> forces you to grow up Cosigned. I've lived exactly this in startups and SME. Perhaps more surprising—but also somewhat reassuring—I've heard the exact same thing from Fortune 500 insiders themselves facing SOC 2, ISO 9xxx,
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by jonathaneunice 1y ago
"Nobody cares about trivial exceptions"...except the most persnickety GRC teams of your most persnickety enterprise customers. Or at least *cough*, that's what I've heard.
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by jonathaneunice 1y ago
It's cool. Though I am unsure if I am a sufficiently modern generative sorcerer to appreciate its eldritch, enigmatic nature.
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by jonathaneunice 1y ago
“Based on Improv”? Really?! Makes me want to take an immediate look. The Visicalc → 1-2-3 → Multiplan → Excel → Sheets progression? Mostly steady, incremental improvement. Some steps were great—like internet access and multi-user collaborat

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