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by kev009 4mo ago
Possibly American drivers are more reckless? Compare intoxicated driving deaths in the US vs Britain for instance.
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by kev009 4mo ago
To make a stronger case of their graphic "you go under vs over" you'd only need to sample coroner reports and find evidence of crushing, which shouldn't be that hard given the sample size. This seems a bit correlation !
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by kev009 4mo ago
There things are always a clusterfsck compared to the mainframe deployments.
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by kev009 4mo ago
It's not that dissimilar to how the Internet works. Although you have some steering like IX peering switches, and social/economic factors, but in whole it is fairly random.
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by kev009 4mo ago
That seems orthogonal to being part of a league of nations. In practice it should be easier to reduce regulation with increased sovereignty, but again there is no direct causation. The benefit of a league is collective bargaining, and pot
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by kev009 4mo ago
The term globalization is doing a lot of work in this comment, what does it mean to you?
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by kev009 4mo ago
That is hilarious. Ikea with the Rexroth price tag.
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by kev009 4mo ago
If you are using an LLM to write code you should grab the strongest typed thing available in the domain/organization.. Rust, Scala, Typescript, F#, etc.
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by kev009 4mo ago
Attention spans were longer.
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by kev009 4mo ago
They don't obey *, they don't get their own entry. I'd rather just poison their data, it's a well known behavior from them. https://www.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/1sdzd1q/metas_ai_c
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by kev009 4mo ago
Yes 57.141.0.42 - - [05/Jun/2026:19:50:19 +0000] "GET /mid/a017bc62-0982-42db-8403-241d69da8d0f@alexander-goetzenstein.my-fqdn.de HTTP/2.0" 303 0 "-" "meta-externalagent/1.1 (+ https:&#
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by kev009 4mo ago
Meta comes through with a /24 worth of scrapers and ignores robots.txt. I'm inclined to poison my data with fake information about Zuckerberg.
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by kev009 5mo ago
I wonder how much of this is a kind of alternate nostalgia like Vaporwave. Similar to the aesthetic draw of Severance. Wandering around the halls of some functional institution was definitely a childhood past time of mine. Now still wonde
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by kev009 5mo ago
There's a really good interview with one of the 68060 architects that posted recently https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1takr2k7Yfo just sit through the intro trust me it gets deeper than you'd think from the first
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by kev009 5mo ago
The internally linked article is much better than this https://www.digipres.org/the-floppy-guide/
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by kev009 5mo ago
Two different product lines. POWER systems are sold by the socket, on the higher end sometimes you get some license disabled cores but it's usually trivial. Mainframes are the opposite, you usually get the full monty machine that is
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by kev009 5mo ago
Control plane vs data plane. The control plane is a heap of java and some python ran in AWS. The data plane is bare metal FreeBSD servers with hardware tuned to certain parameters, usually a capacity tier and a flash tier, and sometimes a
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by kev009 5mo ago
I've been using it out of laziness because I know it will import the previous year. But it is pretty buggy and getting worse, they clearly want you to move off the desktop software. If you look at the actual generated tax forms, there
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by kev009 5mo ago
Depends what you are trying to do and what is fun to you. Artisanal assembly on an 8-bitter can be therapeutic. I'm quite happy to let Claude rip through radare2 and ghidra de-compilations without understanding the intermediate steps
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by kev009 5mo ago
Once upon a time this stuff was so cheap, a little later than the (2003), because IRIX was discontinued and nobody knew what to do with all of the surplus. Something like a Tezro was always a little pricey and filled a permanent niche, but
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by kev009 5mo ago
Yeah, shitcoins and fake product launches are new territory. Some of the others were a little more circumspect in graft or more likely it was others driving the larger graft to more careful benefactors. This Iran tarpit really blew open t
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by kev009 5mo ago
You misunderstand my point because I probably agree with you. But feudalism in the USA goes back to the beginning, and no other country is a particular exemplar although you can find a few social democracies that are or were functional whi
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by kev009 5mo ago
They are equally bad because they are actually the same people playing both sides. Do you think Palantir is conservative and Netflix is liberal? Neither actually care about either of these things. The differences are a basic misdirection
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by kev009 5mo ago
Always a yawn when someone is too wet behind the ears to see the two sides of the same coin. This has been going on since I've been alive to witness it.
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by kev009 5mo ago
Most of that was vintage test equipment AFAICT. It is nice to be able to query an LLM and say "how do I fix this boat anchor with these symptoms". These tools have been quite helpful for retrocomputing hobbies for me.
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by kev009 5mo ago
Why should an outlaw with virtually unlimited resources be given oversight of money for any purpose whatsoever? Just because he has enough money to avoid consequences and the ability to constantly try to launder tarnished reputation doesn&
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by kev009 5mo ago
I'm a fan of Anthropic's product but this is incredibly tone deaf and makes me reconsider the judgement of their leadership.
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by kev009 5mo ago
A hidden danger of coal is ironically the radioactivity of its waste, which gets put into concrete products and contribute to indoor air quality issues. The paranoia around nuclear power is tied to generational fear mongering of governments
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by kev009 5mo ago
The seller was Focus Memory on Newegg, DIMMs are Rimlance. It arrived quickly via DHL. I'd be a little sketched out to do this if it wasn't registered ECC. The dies appear to be Micron, register IDT, but there is some possibili
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by kev009 5mo ago
I wanted to build a Threadripper 9965WX and the math worked out until DDR5 prices come in to play. Instead I got a used Lenovo P620 5975WX and still had to buy DDR4 from Shenzhen to get anything remotely affordable. The IPC of the Zen5 is

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