justin66

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by justin66 5d ago
With the benefit of perfect hindsight, which is a bit silly? Open source Solaris as early as possible. Really compete with MIPS, ARM, Motorola, etc. in the embedded space. Don't even try to make it a huge financial win, just get the SP
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by justin66 5d ago
Where could I buy one? That's interesting.
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by justin66 5d ago
I'm reluctant to call anyone out. I liked Sun a lot, as well as the people I've encountered who worked there. There was a thread between a couple of ex-Sun guys here on hn years ago - I can't find it right now - which made me
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by justin66 5d ago
Having read a lot of these things from ex-Sun employees, I dearly want to read one with the topic my department is the one that fucked up Sun. I don't think I have seen a topic like that yet.
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by justin66 5d ago
Preventing counterfeit boards with janky memory upgrades, or something, from getting out onto the market seems like a potentially worthwhile thing, but also probably a reaction to an imaginary problem. Preventing end users from doing what t
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The Return of the Utah Teapot – Siggraph 2026 [video](youtube.com)
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by justin66 9d ago
> At one camp, where there even was an event on photography, someone I met almost went into a rage every time he saw a camera.
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by justin66 9d ago
If people feel obligated to be spazzy around cameras why would they go near an event on photography...
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by justin66 15d ago
Hey now. We turn against each other, too.
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by justin66 15d ago
> The "worst" RCP8.5 / SSP5-8.5-style futures (coal-dominated, ~4.4–4.9 °C) are no longer treated as plausible That's a strange way of structuring such a comment. The temperature increase and concomitant catastrophes
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by justin66 15d ago
Lazily researched comment. Pretty much anyone who isn't in sales can have "engineer" in their title. I'm sure there were plenty of "support engineers" in the Shopify number you cited, and I'm sure there we
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by justin66 15d ago
As a practical matter, I'm not sure the Mansfield amendment affected all agencies equally. My impression is that it affected ARPA (later DARPA) most profoundly. (pretty much everything I've read about this was in the context of AR
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by justin66 15d ago
> In retrospect it does seem like in the 1950s-70s the military was willing to fund some stuff that was actually not especially close to applications of killing people. There's no "seem" about it, what you're saying i
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by justin66 17d ago
Nobody is running i386 in production, I would think. It’s fun to imagine someone actually might be…
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by justin66 17d ago
They tell you it's a diagnostic procedure but if they see a sense of humor in there they just zap it.
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by justin66 18d ago
Yeah, but which one? Also, real businesses use -CURRENT, everybody knows that.
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by justin66 18d ago
Present and accounted for ^^
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by justin66 18d ago
Oh, sweet mystery of FreeBSD versioning. 15.1-Release already came out. (Yes. I know.)
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by justin66 19d ago
World class art museums have some staff on site 24/7, FWIW. > I wonder how many more hours of downtime The Archive would have experienced in 2025 if no one was ever woken up out of bed to fix it. (If anyone was) Wasn't 2025 the
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by justin66 19d ago
> a municipal library (which, I'll remind you, aren't even open the majority of the time and we all get by just fine), At least half of a modern library's lending happens digitally. But let's put aside the example of
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by justin66 19d ago
At this point I think you’re just committed to the bit but you cannot possibly believe what you’re writing, as it’s a blinkered analysis and truly misanthropic in its effect. A metropolitan library system employs hundreds of people in a var
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by justin66 19d ago
> a library worker doesn't need their computer at 9am so badly that they need an on-call IT worker (and presumably some kind of middle-of-the-night monitoring) to ensure it before they get in. A single worker probably doesn't,
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by justin66 19d ago
> Is it very important that they have someone to restore service at 3am? Depends on the service, but any effort to maintain this daft "gosh, what are they worried about, it's just the internet archive" line of thought is g
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by justin66 19d ago
They have plenty of volunteers. You can't run everything in an organization using volunteers.
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by justin66 20d ago
> the code to support them is gumming up the LLMs. I'm just going to take it out of the kernel Ouch.
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by justin66 21d ago
Harsh commentary on the pi is nothing new. I’ve been a user since the 256mb pi b, so I’ve developed a sense of humor about it. I look back with amusement (and annoyance) at episodes like the Spanish hacker who heaped abuse on the pi team on
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by justin66 22d ago
Jetson Orin Nano? Although I have no idea what those cost nowadays...
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by justin66 22d ago
I will never understand why someone would pay $45 for a Raspberry Pi when they could assault a passing child and steal their Chromebook.
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by justin66 22d ago
> no education software runs on them properly. Anyone ever forced to use education software knows that’s a bonus.
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by justin66 23d ago
I agree that it would have been trivially easy for him to give the museum a long-term future. I wouldn't jump to any conclusions about what he cared about.

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