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by kev009 1y ago
snmalloc
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by kev009 1y ago
They really aren't slow, but the performance and battery life is greatly eclipsed by Apple ARM. I could live pretty comfortably on a Lenovo P51 (something like a 2017 MBP) if I had to under Linux and FreeBSD. Also a not negligible am
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by kev009 1y ago
Makes sense, there are a lot of reasons why having some "big iron" might have been practical in that era. x86 was not a full contender for many workloads until amd64, and a lot of the shared-nothing software approaches were not r
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by kev009 1y ago
None of these things are mutually exclusive. Holding a large pile of any one country's fiat is probably the dumbest move. Ownership of physical assets that generate revenue is the smartest.
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by kev009 1y ago
Most people of any significant wealth would have made the delegation long ago to private client banking where a team of people overlook all aspects of the accounts. So yes, you are a fool not to if you have the level of wealth proportional
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by kev009 1y ago
If you have enough to worry about someone beating out of you, maybe putting some into professional multiparty custodial systems and/or one or more cold wallets with trustees is a good idea. This idea scales fine with geopolitical risk
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by kev009 1y ago
Likely implies z/OS is common on both sides. Given the stakes and availability needs not a bad choice.
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by kev009 1y ago
This is weird because the microprocessor industry owes a lot of early success to automotive companies. Motorola 6800, Intel 8061 ( https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/history/virtual-vaul... ) et
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by kev009 1y ago
Marc Laidlaw had a number of novels published before and after going to work for Valve and doing the Half Life thing. "The Third Force" novel and the associated game "Gadget" are probably not well known - but if you like
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by kev009 1y ago
Sure two separate things really. Linux aio (the POSIX one, not the broader concept that now includes io_uring) has been fundamentally bad. Part of it is some of the implementation is delegated to user space in glibc as worker threads. ht
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by kev009 1y ago
A lot of work has gone into FreeBSD's aio(4) so it will be interesting to see how that works, because it doesn't have the drawbacks of Linux/glibc aio.
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by kev009 1y ago
A lot of the fun parts of the computing industry have, predictably, been hollowed out by the rent seeking model of cloud and *aaS. There is some grace as it's easier than ever to build some scalable web business.. but the most fun of
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by kev009 1y ago
I'm not sure if you missed the point. HDL design work is done by simulation for countless iterations before ever making it to a physical prototype. ASIC prototypes come very late in the cycle and are usually a low digit number of rev
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by kev009 1y ago
It's probably a simple economics thing. You can hire out a contract PCB design for a reasonable cost and the long poll is getting back physical prototypes. Contrast to HDLs displacing schematic based designs for ASICs and programmabl
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by kev009 1y ago
It seems like the parent was trying to paint a situation of you being a bottleneck to success. It seems a bit Schrödinger's BFDL though.. is Linus a bottleneck to the most used server operating system? Did Guido hold back Python? Th
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by kev009 2y ago
There are a lot of other things that follow this pattern. 10-30 year predictions are a way to sound confident about something that probably has very low confidence. Not a lot of people will care let alone remember to come back and check.
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by kev009 2y ago
I think the false dichotomy is really jarring. Setting up a straw-man population of "just DJs" that are yet capable of making sample-based music is fairly uninformed. And even "just DJs" picking the right tracks, cross
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by kev009 2y ago
Using samples doesn't mean not musician. A lot of progressive rock used the Mellotron which are clever tape loops. The biggest artists of the 80s used Fairlights and Emulators. Entire genres of music owe some lineage to Akai. If yo
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by kev009 2y ago
The T480 is kind of the current modern classic, it even has recent coreboot support. I did a screen swap on mine to a modern low blue light panel, LiteOn keyboard swap, new batteries and there is really nothing else to complain about. T14
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by kev009 2y ago
Presumably AIX 1.3 for PS/2? Unlike some other retro UNIX of that vintage it actually virtualizes easily https://astr0baby.wordpress.com/2018/09/14/running-aix-1-3-i...
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by kev009 2y ago
The 4k OLED and touchscreen kind of cancel each other out if you care about maximum optical quality.
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by kev009 2y ago
Both. You can buy trainers with old chips like this, z80, CDP1802, 8080, 6509 etc. The main advantage of the new SBCs is simplicity vs anything more modern and easier to deal with than a retro computer. The advantage of a retro computer is
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by kev009 2y ago
I've met plenty of wealthy people that have the mindset "luxury = frivolous" -- while that may be true to some extent, for i.e. a brand name T-shirt very few people I meet regardless of income bracket understand much of anyt
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by kev009 2y ago
Is this "we" you and your startup or all of humanity? There are a variety of published papers that show simple memories and other structures that are way outside my domain knowledge (qd transistors?).
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by kev009 2y ago
Is the idea that this will scale? You can already build down to the atomic level with scanning tunneling microscopy (thanks IBM).
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by kev009 2y ago
WRK is basically void of drivers which is where all the pain generally is (and also where comparative survey may be kind of interesting, both the OS APIs and subjective quality? at least to me..). I am not sure if that is reflected on the
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by kev009 2y ago
NVMe is just a protocol. There are drives that are absolute shit and others that cost as much as luxury automobiles. In either case not quite DRAM latency because it is expansion bus attached.
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by kev009 2y ago
Programmatically generating web content felt so rad in the 1990s. It's funny to me now because with deeper historical knowledge it's not a lot different than what many block-mode green screen systems were doing for a long time be
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by kev009 2y ago
That's a bit too simplistic; would a business have paid IBM the same overheads to tabulate and send bills with a computer instead of a pool of billing staff? In business the only justification for machinery and development is that you
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by kev009 2y ago
A simple translation on the transactional relationship: because they know who butters their bread, and they know they can waffle into the next administration or current thing as long as they stay in the general good graces of the intelligen

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