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by kjs3 1y ago
I would assume that as well. It was a 32-bit, single chip version of the TI Explorer, which descended directly from the MIT machines.
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by kjs3 1y ago
I assume you meant to reply to some other comment, since this has nothing to do with Ivory, or even chips.
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by kjs3 1y ago
We are going to have to change the way we interact with video. I doubt it will be for the better. The ubiquity of AI deepfakes just reenforces entrenchment around "If the message reinforces my preconceived notion, I believe it and th
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by kjs3 1y ago
Some people use filters/photoshop to artificially juice their images; now they can use AI to artificially juice every aspect of their on-line presence.
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by kjs3 1y ago
Yes, that was an interesting option, though not nearly as cheap on a lifecycle basis as one might hope. I don't know of anyone who upgraded this way, but obviously someone did. My clients who converted ran the HP-PA machines, brought
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by kjs3 1y ago
I didn't personally know of anyone using Aries in anger (production), but it looked like a neat trick.
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by kjs3 1y ago
For a somewhat more commercially successful take on this theme, there are a number of papers on the Symbolics 'Ivory' lisp processor that are worth a read. TI made a Lisp processor as well, but I'm less familiar with it.
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by kjs3 1y ago
That's a (self-)discipline thing. One has to do something about "this script has become a big conky" other than default to "oh, what's another 10 lines". Which we all do.
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by kjs3 1y ago
simple linear pipelines Which is the common case, for which it does a reasonable job. I think if I was looking at most of the directed graph examples, I'd look to another tool than a shell to orchestrate that, rather than say "
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by kjs3 1y ago
It's very real, according some folks in the business I know. They are very aggressive in trying to prevent this, because otherwise why wouldn't someone paid what a cleaner is paid try and cut the middleman out.
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by kjs3 1y ago
My family and friends (sometimes up to 5 families together) have gone to the same summer beach rental for more than 25 years. I know dozens of families who do the same thing. I have several large groups of friends from college who have re
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by kjs3 1y ago
There's still a lot of AIX around and the LoB is seeing revenue growth. You just don't hear about it on HN because it's mostly doing mundane, mission critical stuff buried in large orgs. I still run into a number of Solaris&
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by kjs3 1y ago
I have a couple of close relatives that are AEs. Across several generations, everyone one of them agrees that "AE Structures" were the hardest classes they took.
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by kjs3 1y ago
I had a very interesting conversation with an AWS guy about how hard they tried to make sure things like Wireshark worked the same inside AWS, because they had some much pushback from network engineers that expected their jobs to be exactly
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by kjs3 1y ago
most networking people will, as a rule, make networks as complicated as possible Yeah, we are kinda like that. So many toys...why can't I use them all. Seriously, tho...the worst is when you go in and you can tell immediately "
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by kjs3 1y ago
Yup. I had a front row seat. So many discussion with startups in the 2Ks that boiled down to "we can get a Sun/HP/DEC machine, or we can get 4-5 nice Wintel boxes running Linux for the same price". So at the point whe
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by kjs3 1y ago
I dunno if you meant it this way, but I've heard waaaay too many people say things like this meaning "if Intel compiler guys didn't suck...". They didn't, and don't (Intel C and Fortran compilers are to this d
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by kjs3 1y ago
Yeah...look up Jim Keller. And AMD basically recycled the later Alpha system bus as the K7 bus to the extent there was very short lived buzz about having machines that could be either x86-64 or Alpha.
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by kjs3 1y ago
PA-RISC fanboys and fangrirls Itanic wasn't exactly HP-PA v.3, but it was a kissing cousin. Most of the HP shops I worked with believed the rhetoric it was going to be a straightforward if not completely painless upgrade from the
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by kjs3 1y ago
Bob Supnik is a really interesting guy. Probably best known these days for being a maintainer of the SIMH emulation environment. He's forgotten more about computers than most people will ever know.
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by kjs3 1y ago
Yeah, always good to read it. He goes into some detail about a hypothetical VAX-based x86 killer, tho some of it is "when I had beers with the guys designing the VAX..." reminiscing. Comp.arch was something really special. Guys
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by kjs3 1y ago
Efficient transfer and storage of power from site of generation to site of use has been a topic of intense attention practically since the beginning of electrical generation, back to the Westinghouse v. Tesla AC/DC 'war'. I
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by kjs3 1y ago
Oh, there's the one I forgot: The " I don't know how to use that technology, therefore there is no use for it and no one should use it" guy. Least surprising thing ever it's from the rust crowd.
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by kjs3 1y ago
My dad was a civil engineer with a specialty in hazardous waste handling. 10 years was not at unreasonable to get a landfill permitted, built and operational, and there's little new technology involved (unlike hypothetical micro-react
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by kjs3 1y ago
Regrettably, any discussion of Fortran will be quickly filled with people who once had to write a couple of F77 programs in college and never got over it, never used a really nice Fortran compiler, and of the very few who actually knew the
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by kjs3 1y ago
I was thinking more of how Wallmart also has a history of 'influencing' local officials to overlook the damage being done, as well as getting small towns to take on huge debt loads for 'required' infrastructure upgrades,
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by kjs3 1y ago
Today it's datacenters. Used to be Wallmart. Same MO.
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by kjs3 1y ago
That's an utterly ridiculous assertion (at least in the US). All one needs to do is claim "job creation" and "increase the tax base" and there will be thousands of small/mid sized town desperately courting you
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by kjs3 1y ago
China has at least three times lower capital costs for nuclear power plants Well, yes. When consider 'health and safety' as a 'down on the priority list' requirement, there are any number of cost cutting opportunities
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by kjs3 1y ago
Isn't that a power transfer problem? By that, I mean wouldn't the money spent to invent (they don't exist) these 'mini-reactors' be better spent optimizing the transfer and storage capability of solar, wind, geothe

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