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by kabdib 5y ago
I think I'd hate to have to rescue someone from a Vertiwalk when they're midway between floors and having a medical emergency. I'm sure there's an accommodation for this, maybe a belay system somewhere, but I didn't
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by kabdib 5y ago
A lot of "transparent RPC" systems are like this. "It's just like a normal function call, it's sooo convenient" . . . until it isn't, because it involves the network hardware and configuration, routing e
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by kabdib 5y ago
This entirely depends. I know several businesses that save about 10X over cloud providers by using their own equipment. You have to do your own analysis.
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by kabdib 5y ago
I assume that all of the support gear (turbopumps, etc.) are not 3D printed. I'd be super impressed if the fuel and oxidizer injectors were printed. Anyway, there's a bunch of stuff they're not including in this statement; it
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by kabdib 5y ago
The last time I tried an EAP program, the phone call they scheduled was six weeks out. I told them not to bother.
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by kabdib 5y ago
Took me nearly an hour on hold with the WSJ to cancel my account. The longer I had to wait, the stronger my resolve got.
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by kabdib 5y ago
Ted Hoff (who designed the 8008, amongst other chips) worked at Atari Corporate Research in the early/mid 1980s, before Atari went under. He had a small stash of 8008 processors. Every now and then he'd get a letter from someone a
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by kabdib 5y ago
My proposal for a shell on the Mac, in the late 80s, was: - Spaces in filenames get transformed to non-breaking spaces by the filesystem; - The filesystem treats nbsp as equal to space (just as case-folding treats A=a, B=b, etc.) Now, argum
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by kabdib 5y ago
A piece of communications gadgetry even mentioning checksums is like a car salesman proudly claiming "... and this baby comes with working brakes !" The very pronouncement leads to worry, and additional questions (like this very
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by kabdib 5y ago
Ironically enough, you might not have internet access at your datacenter (reception issues, so no wifi or phone data, and switchport connections are often secured or don't route to a public internet). And things get really entertaining
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by kabdib 5y ago
I used to be moderately afraid of flying. Just didn't trust the machine. Then I saw an episode of PBS's Nova where they filmed a bend test of the 777 wing, to destruction. The deflection they achieved before the wing snapped was j
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by kabdib 5y ago
An across-the-board stoppage seems far, far different than a small set of account holds on an individual basis.
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by kabdib 5y ago
If this happens all the time, I'm genuinely curious: What distinguishes this from fraud?
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by kabdib 5y ago
I have a nice bike, a 1200cc sport-touring model basically designed to go all day at 80 MPH, with a faring and good windscreen. Stock seat was terrible, so I had one custom made at shop near Seattle. Bicycle shorts, a really good one-piece
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by kabdib 5y ago
Yeah, IIRC it's triple damages if you knowingly infringe.
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by kabdib 5y ago
When I was actively riding, I would often do 400-500 mile days for pleasure. A bike with even a 200 mile range would just not work. A tenth that range is just terrible. (I retired from motorcycling over a year ago -- getting old and COVID-1
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by kabdib 5y ago
I once spent about four months going through several hundred patents of a competitor, finding a way to do a product that did not infringe. We more or less succeeded, but man it was painful. Had expert legal help (and permission of our corpo
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by kabdib 5y ago
I used audio cassette for a few years (1978-1979) on my home-built Z-80 system. Upgraded to a wacky cassette transport called a Phi-Deck. It was faster and had automated head control and seek; you could do a real file system on it. 9600 bau
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by kabdib 5y ago
I still think that baked clay tablets have the best bit retention rate of any media humans have invented. Doesn't take much skill to make or use them, either. But for 500 years you're probably fine with acid-free paper, archival q
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by kabdib 5y ago
Er, no. NY shut down coinseed, which was definitely ripping people off. Why do we continue to pretend that the "crypto" industry is not absolutely chock full of scammers?
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by kabdib 5y ago
This doesn't help when it's so common to spoof caller-id. The telco industry has blown any trust we can put in this information. [I just learned that the FCC is considering not allowing calls made outside the US to be spoofed as
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by kabdib 5y ago
Leonard Tramiel once told me that the "world's record" for a production 6502 was around 25Mhz before the smoke came out. This was in a lab at Commodore, and beer was probably involved (and may have been used to cool the chip)
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by kabdib 5y ago
I've pretty much given up hope.
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by kabdib 5y ago
I lost $8K on a $40M sale. Lost another $10K when a company "extinguished" prior shares (they are now worth $7B). This is basically legalized gambling with a house that's allowed to have a rigged table. If you want to do well
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by kabdib 5y ago
I figure you could "build a Steam" in a couple of years, with the right engineers hitting the main features. There's very little magic at the technology level, and you can make life simpler and forget about minor things like
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by kabdib 5y ago
"It was the intern" is only cute once.
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by kabdib 5y ago
Could also be a site named after what came first, before the chicken. Those folks are quite happy to keep scam sellers on their platform.
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by kabdib 5y ago
Fuzzing was used in Thomas J Ryan's The Adolescence of P-1 , circa 1977 (in an attack against some IBM mainframe's supervisor). (TAoP1 is a much-overlooked example of . . . well, I wouldn't call it cyberpunk, but definitely
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by kabdib 5y ago
"This is a picture of four dogs playing poker, with the words 'Mona Lisa' written on the back in crayon." "You have a receipt for it, what's the problem?"
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by kabdib 5y ago
Okay, that'll be $10,000 per seat, per year, but to get that deal you'll have to reserve the first 100 years. In advance, thanks for your understanding. We'll start breeding the support staff as soon as your check clears.

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