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by kev009 1y ago
ST6 is under the command of SOCOM, they do have the directorate to do clandestine work. To the degree that this article reflects any reality, it's also plausible that a partner in SOCOM (TFO/ISA) or an agency would be along for t
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by kev009 1y ago
If you are this emotionally invested in a job without having done it for some time, this is an accidental or insightful act of compassion from an amorphous over-funded company.
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by kev009 1y ago
I can see that. A little while ago I was working at a startup and we had a node.js thing that was really crucial to the business that did some gray hat browser automation stuff to scrape TikTok (the users opted into it, but TikTok itself w
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by kev009 1y ago
I was a big fan of python between 10 and 15 years ago for similar reasons, it felt "cleaner" than other scripting languages while also having rich standard and extended libraries. With no real recent experience (I fell deep down t
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by kev009 1y ago
It may well have been done for the benefit of experts too - a hot war is true chaos. Shock, fatigue, sleep deprivation, being under fire and adrenaline dump. Militaries are very good at forgetting the lessons learned in the last war while
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by kev009 1y ago
Netflix, at least the Open Connect org, was still open ended adjacent to whatever NTech provided (your issued laptop and remote working stuff). It was very easy to get "exotic" hardware. I really don't think anyone abused i
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by kev009 1y ago
It's also a pretty bold scheduler benchmark to be handling tens of thousands of processes or 1:1 thread wakeups, especially the further back in time you go considering fairness issues. And then that's running at the wrong latency
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by kev009 1y ago
Then you don't understand the memory and protection model of a modern system very well. sendfile effectively turns your user space file server into a control plane, and moves the data plane to where the data is eliminating copies betwe
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by kev009 1y ago
I don't see anything in my comment that implied _when_ the forking happened so it's not really a nit :)
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by kev009 1y ago
FWIW Rust advice is maybe 15% of the bottom of the article, most of the decisions apply equally to C and the article is a fairly sensible survey of APIs.
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by kev009 1y ago
It wasn't just CGI, every HTTP session was commonly a forked copy of the entire server in the CERN and Apache lineage! Apache gradually had better answers, but their API with common addons made it a bit difficult to transition so webs
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by kev009 1y ago
I grew up on 68k Macs so DOS was never something I thought much about aside from the occasional boot disk to run some firmware procedure later on when later Windows was well established. Then later from a retrocomputing standpoint, I'v
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by kev009 1y ago
This article is stuck in a very wide valley of being perhaps somewhat familiar with the domain concepts but nowhere near deep enough to draw any of the conclusions being drawn. It is close enough to being completely wrong. The primary trad
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by kev009 1y ago
OS/2 had an evolving marketing claim of "better DOS than DOS" and "better Windows than Windows" and they both were believable for a time. The Windows one collapsed quickly with Win95 and sprawling APIs (DirectX, IE
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by kev009 1y ago
Both Power and z are many billion dollar businesses each. Banking and other high finance is the stronghold for both. IBM still seems proud of z, Power seems merely tolerated these days which is a shame because it is a nice ISA and the sys
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by kev009 1y ago
The alternative question to ask is: in what way has it gone uphill versus just using Debian? In the early days it had a differing and usually better aligned release schedule for the critical graphics stack. As a function of time, you are in
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by kev009 1y ago
Once upon a time random corporate videos would have full custom orchestral scores https://youtu.be/q7hFJZf9fWk?t=162 The thing I notice time and again in all this is they want you to believe technology is displacing labor a
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by kev009 1y ago
Anthony Marinelli (guy behind MJ's Thriller synth jams) and Tim Pierce (accomplished session guitarist) riff on this https://youtu.be/OzuADujnEhQ?t=1205 recently. This whole video is a treat, as are most of Marinelli&
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by kev009 1y ago
The "Don’t Let Me Go" and "Yellow Bus Jam" examples made me laugh out loud. This kind of thing would be great for a cyberpunk game that dynamically generates a reality, with (unintentional?) faux pas and jank. If you ar
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by kev009 1y ago
This kind of race to expensive meaninglessness is hilarious in a similar way a human language modem would be.
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by kev009 1y ago
Maker spaces seem to have the right hacker ethos around explore, tinker, finish. I'm on a bunch of retrocomputing discords where youth still find obscure old systems, typically Sun, SGI and the parallel universe IBM systems (mainframes
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by kev009 1y ago
I remember doing something similar with Bull, a now obscure but once somewhat formidable mainframe and UNIX company. I had a DPX/20, which was for that model just a rebadged Microchannel IBM RS/6000. I was 12 and trying to figure
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by kev009 1y ago
The most astonishing thing about this is it was done under forbearance of the ISA.. PA-RISC ISA was basically frozen in 1996 and they were able to ride that at the top for years. For instance PA-RISC doesn't really have appropriate in
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by kev009 1y ago
IBM did ship a few generations of Itanium hardware, they just smartly never bet the farm on it. MIPS and SPARC were always a little weak versus contemporaries, if SGI had forestalled a bit with the R18k that would have been enough time to r
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by kev009 1y ago
"giant cable" -- this kind of thing does obviously happen, rural electrification is heavily subsidized by governments (see the rest of my comment..). But it is also not a realistic option in plenty of cases as such and therefore
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by kev009 1y ago
You are casually transitioning between something that is pretty well understood through the history of online commercial computing (i.e. 1970s): 1) owned hardware versus leased/timeshared/rented hardware or services and 2) concept
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by kev009 1y ago
The NS UI looked really odd to me until relatively recently having grown up on Mac OS Classic, Win9x. Now I look at that and think, damn.. that aged well.
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by kev009 1y ago
Debian, FreeBSD.. the longstanding community software is immune from these kinds of rug pulls.
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by kev009 1y ago
Netflix was investigating this a while ago ( https://reviews.freebsd.org/D15525 - "TCPOUDP")
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by kev009 1y ago
For a while in the 2000s Cisco was one of the biggest users of FPGAs. If you consider how complicated digital designs have been for many decades, and the costs of associated failures, FPGAs can certainly be cost neutral at scale, especiall

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