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by kev009 2mo ago
They did have someone from Intel on when covering Intel's switches and he brings up his involvement in the Pro/100.
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by kev009 2mo ago
I wish they had tracked down someone from Nat Semi for this. I imagine they would have been somewhat dismayed by some of this. One of the issues of the perceived low quality is the massive variance in NE2000 silicon. Basically everyone cl
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by kev009 2mo ago
Even things built directly on underlying malloc and free typically have some form of "garbage collection" in the malloc implementation for efficiency and performance (geometric sizing, thread caching, etc). It's best to think
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by kev009 2mo ago
Because Go is kind of a Steampunk design. The creators collectively ignored decades of PL developments. What that nets is kind of a C without sharp edges, but can't be used where C can. Rust is definitely jarring to look at, in the s
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by kev009 2mo ago
This seems like a cope, if you aren't writing the syntax who cares and everything here is even better with a stronger type system like Rust, F#, Scala, TypeScript.
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by kev009 2mo ago
One interesting thing with wider addresses isn't necessarily increasing itself, but features built upon the expansion. CHERI is one example of that.
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by kev009 3mo ago
"If the database size is smaller than the mmap_size, the entire database is mapped into memory, turning disk reads into simple pointer arithmetic." hah so that's how it works?
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by kev009 3mo ago
If it's on the house (and they can probably turn up the token speed) why use anything other than the most powerful models?
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by kev009 3mo ago
The same thing is happening in software, I see the ladder pulled up and don't feel vulnerable as senior staff. If anything, we face a massive and increasing competency crisis in computing because there is a cult dumb enough to believe
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by kev009 3mo ago
The GPT ones are strange. The $25 fable one to me is subjectively better than the others. The $100 fable one is too literal and robotic. The jevons paradox is you need auteurs to curate vignettes or effects and cut or mask them in etc. T
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by kev009 3mo ago
This is silly or just AI slop post? Because using a Go quote as an example of doing something right in the arena is laughable at best where it has the same problems, more magic, and worse observability. The punchline seems to be something
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by kev009 3mo ago
It's chronoception effect, not placebo effect. Standard literature claims humans can readily visually perceive 60-90Hz, and perhaps somewhere 500-1000Hz for ghosting. Note that all this is somewhat tangential to the article which foc
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by kev009 3mo ago
More like AI psychosis 2040. There is zero chance of the 2031 doomer timeline presented, and I would stake a large sum of money on it.
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by kev009 3mo ago
This sounds somewhat similar to IBM's Centaur used on the POWER9/10/11. Some of the POWER9 hardware people ended up at Meta so might be related.
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by kev009 3mo ago
Those two companies spend all their effort patting themselves on the back about "peer reviewed studies" and posturing immeasurables like security theatre and "trust and safety". It's really not hard to believe that
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by kev009 3mo ago
Grok build already punched above its weight and is the nicest TUI, claude and codex are clearly vibecoded by web developers that don't understand systems (eating SSDs, spaghetti logic, extinguishing kernel watch limits, etc). I think
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by kev009 3mo ago
I hear a thread of envy throughout that is basically "why isn't my magic money machine as hyped as their magic money machine"
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by kev009 4mo ago
Sure, humans are attracted to laziness by default and at its best technology must be used to lower toil and suffering (unfortunately there are unintended consequences etc for philosophical debates). The bigger issue with brain rot is attent
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by kev009 4mo ago
I came into the US tech industry in 2011 from a CS program (programming on my own longer), which was basically a pipeline into Java or web dev at that time (the classes on other things like OS, compilers, and FPGA were a thing, but seen by
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by kev009 4mo ago
This hasn't been true for quite a long time, because it's domain of other products for both. i.e. MySQL/Maria's MM is one of the worse options compared to anything else.. like TiDB or Aurora on AWS for MySQL compat and Y
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by kev009 4mo ago
Versus letting a singular entity snoop everything? If you actually open a connection to the result what is the difference? The only way to fully deal with all that is an overlay or mixnets.
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by kev009 4mo ago
I've never felt this. Most large services run or delegate to anycast DNS services. If you have knowledge of TCP, you know you will occasionally get stalls much greater than that beyond control.
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by kev009 4mo ago
Maybe.. and "a few" was pulled out of thin air, but these machines were national treasures with immense R&D expense. Think rockets, heavy aircraft, and lithography.. not commodities or software. Having stuff in these categor
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by kev009 4mo ago
Scroll down the list and look how many there are and where they were manufactured. Economic efficiency would mean only a few vendors.
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by kev009 4mo ago
I think a national security argument is much more sound than an economic one, although costs are externalized in a way that isn't obvious, i.e. ecological disaster that shipping everything around the world and back (components, assembl
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by kev009 4mo ago
I always just set up root recursors at my home and other locations. I've never noticed any downside.
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by kev009 4mo ago
Just keep hitting it with RICO lawsuits. The money they piss away on the vanity projects should probably have always been going to risk management.
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by kev009 4mo ago
They carry $575m in debt, which is around 80-100 devs a year if they are paying something like 4.5% on it, ignoring tax write-offs on either case as well as equity comp. There is some calculus to all that, carrying some debt, doing buyback
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by kev009 4mo ago
I think it's just the relative cost of money. Credit, debt, raises, revenue all rely on it. The tech industry got used to zero interest rate and then Covid-era stimulus. Now, suddenly, cashflow matters, but the companies are still r
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by kev009 4mo ago
Halp us docter

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