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541.
by kjs3 1y ago
There is a dedicated group of people who believe any electromagnetic emission is affecting them negatively. Searching on "electromagnetic free zones" is quite the rabbit hole. And there's way more to them than the "5
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by kjs3 1y ago
Infrastructure requires demand, and energy density and convenience of a contemporary battery versus gas engine means that no one was going to demand batteries when ICE was an option. We only figured the downside much later.
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by kjs3 1y ago
False equivalence to the white courtesy phone...
544.
by kjs3 1y ago
I guess I grew up in 'then', and that sort of 'assumption' is so depressing. But I get that some people only want to see medicine, and by extension science, as black-and-white. "We haven't cured diabetes"
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by kjs3 1y ago
A single developer doesn't have a 'community manager' to deal with assholes. That said, why would one try to make the troll happy? What reading this results in "they both have a valid point we should address"?
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by kjs3 1y ago
Was very excited about a JFS article. Was very confused that someone would call this 'comprehensive'.
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by kjs3 1y ago
You missed arms dealing, human trafficking and sanctions avoidance, but then there seems to be a lot of cryptobros who would think those are features not bugs.
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by kjs3 1y ago
The threat are sanctions Which is trade. Thanks for playing.
549.
by kjs3 1y ago
Indeed...we are the only country that uses trade to influence others. You got us.
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by kjs3 1y ago
The 68000 is "essentially microcontroller architecture"? I don't think there are many people who understand architecture that would agree with that statement.
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by kjs3 1y ago
Luxury. You haven't lived until you had to use 'adb' to try and debugger a filesystem.
552.
by kjs3 1y ago
Big Bang, Big Rip, Big Crush. Cosmologists like Big Things.
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by kjs3 1y ago
I hear some variation of this line of 'reasoning' about once a week, and it's always followed by some variation of "...and that's why we shouldn't have to do all this security stuff you want us to do".
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by kjs3 1y ago
The 'dark ages' weren't even the dark ages in Europe. The idea was invented by guys in the Renaissance who pined for the Greco-Roman world and pretended everything since then was a slide downhill. Anyone who seriously trots
555.
by kjs3 1y ago
Well, yes...since 10base-T wasn't a standard until 1990[1] it's a pretty easy guess it was less popular a decade before. [1] https://standards.ieee.org/ieee/802.3i/1068/
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by kjs3 1y ago
"I have no idea what problem you're trying to solve, what the constraints are, what the use cases might be, what tools are available on the platform, what the job or regulations require, what the skillsets of the people involved a
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by kjs3 1y ago
I carried E&O for years as an independent consultant. I fortunately never had to use it, but I have peers whose financial future was probably saved by having it.
558.
by kjs3 1y ago
Those of us who actually do this stuff for a living still routinely see probes for Slammer, Zotob, Blaster and more from when we booted our computers by rubbing two sticks together.
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by kjs3 1y ago
I though it was pretty clear the GP was talking about Daniels article, not the blog post, but I guess I can see two readings.
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by kjs3 1y ago
Zhaoxin is China's answer to "what if we need a drop-in x86 replacement immediately?" Exactly this. China isn't going to be doing HPC on these, or building domestic clouds, or wooing gamers. This is a strategic proje
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by kjs3 1y ago
Commercial ethernet switches weren't a thing until 1990 (Kalpana), and 100Mb ethernet is from 1995. So, yeah, a lot of ethernet in the late 90s was 10Mb. It's still a thing today in some embedded applications, and switches still
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by kjs3 1y ago
No, there weren't. There were the few you mentioned, and a dozen or two others. I worked with most of them. The point was that in the early 80s, there were a far larger number. The only real similarity was that like the '80s
563.
by kjs3 1y ago
We're talking about 1982, not 'mid to late nineties'. None of those chips even existed. Silicon Graphics Unix was running on 680x0 based series 1000 machines (and wasn't called IRIX yet). HP/UX was running on 680x
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by kjs3 1y ago
That's a little unfair. StrongARM did well in the WinCE market (which I assume you are referring to as 'consumer junk') and did very well in the embedded market especially as Xscale over several generations (PXA, IOP, etc).
565.
by kjs3 1y ago
What should we 'explain' about a false equivalence? Different processors for different markets? It was never much other than a mobile and embedded processor. Yeah, I suppose some folks thought is could be workstation PC, but ho
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by kjs3 1y ago
Yeah...he even points it out in the article. There were 100 companies in that timeframe that were some more or less minor variation on 680x0 processor, 10Mb ethernet and Unix (usually from Unisoft).
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by kjs3 1y ago
So not only does cold calling work, bad-mouthing on social media seems to be a viable strategy. I'd have blacklisted them. Well that's the thing, isn't it? He (and others) may be thinking "Hey! This worked!". Bu
568.
by kjs3 1y ago
I can't even count the number of times I've heard this pitch, complete with NDA demand. The only answer is "Thanks, but no thanks". I have never had to regret it.
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by kjs3 1y ago
That's like the "is that your pitch?" scene from Boiler Room.
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by kjs3 1y ago
Quod erat demonstrandum?

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