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by kjs3 2y ago
Just a quick reminder, 1/3 of 1% is not 'common'. Unless you (predictably) redefine math and English so you get to be right. https://www.walkfree.org/global-slavery-index/country-studie... https:/
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by kjs3 2y ago
Hardest of all is copying the earlier video games On the other hand, many of the old games are exhaustively documented and built for component-level repair. A trade-off, I suppose.
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by kjs3 2y ago
Gate A20 and 640k memory limits are because of the design of the IBM PC and M$ DOS, not the 8086. Better hardware and software didn't have these limits (they had others).
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by kjs3 2y ago
I know NEC made 16" VGA monitors; I had one. VGA monitors came in all sorts of sizes. I've seen VGA screens that were probably 7" deployed with PoS terminals.
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by kjs3 2y ago
he designed the Pentium Pro So he earned forgiveness. :-)
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by kjs3 2y ago
Those of us who were actually there at the time were running Xenix, System V, SunOS and Novell Netware requiring 386 features in the late 80s, much less the 90s.
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by kjs3 2y ago
"Mine" can also imply "exploit".
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by kjs3 2y ago
Next up: Atlanta Fed ordered to not publish forecasts.
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by kjs3 2y ago
More likely someone involved in the decision to close down free weather data has an economic interest in a company selling the same data, or some other interest that stands to make money knowing about the weather forecast before the plebes
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by kjs3 2y ago
Yeah...this. I'm not so concerned that AI is going to put me out of a job or become Skynet. I'm concerned that people are offloading decision making and critical thinking to the AI, accepting it's response at face value and
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by kjs3 2y ago
While I agree that reading the errata absolutely should be on the "mandatory TODO before you start" list for any project (esp with new/unfamiliar hardware), one should be equally aware that manufacturers aren't always tr
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by kjs3 2y ago
I got the sense the design was intended for smaller on-demand needs versus strategically building out massive datacenters This is absolutely the case. This was not intended to replace small, permanent DCs, much less massive ones. Think
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by kjs3 2y ago
I don't think Sun's base model came with any compute either. It was racks/power/cooling and then you put servers and networking in. Sun would happily sell those to you...just more SKUs on the invoice.
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by kjs3 2y ago
I don't think there was much choice when it came to the size of the unit. It was a shipping container...the size is standardized. So more "install the first one and start filling it. When you get to some percentage of maxing it
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by kjs3 2y ago
Sun had their 'modular data center' concept[1], which was a self contained DC in a standard shipping container. You could chain them together. It wasn't obscenely expensive relatively speaking as I recall. I'm not sur
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by kjs3 2y ago
Yeah...you're not really building an 'AWS' until you're building a hyperscaler and leveraging massive economies of scale. This is more "we're building a service that addressed local reality with local solutio
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by kjs3 2y ago
Yes, I too have used a couple of different silicon bags as alternates. The stashers are barely usable, and the cheaper but more sous vide friendly are ok but are hard to clean if you're trying to reuse them. But is it about the heat
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by kjs3 2y ago
Totally fair, but I'd argue the water-cooled crowd is another, distinct sub-culture with it's own goals (e.g. silent is nice, but getting the highest overclock is nicer). Just like the nitrogen cooled and SLIC guys are scratching
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by kjs3 2y ago
The underlying technology does not exist in a production form, to the extent that it's not clear which basic reactor design option is going to be the future. So we can't know what the maintenance burden from a fisson rector is, mu
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by kjs3 2y ago
Which you don't have to use either, but that makes more sense.
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by kjs3 2y ago
My brother is on the Windows side of the world (MS partner and all that, lots of CRM/DB work). He said if you stick to mainstream apps (MS apps, Adobe, etc) ARM is basically on parity with x86, tho not the performance choice. He said
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by kjs3 2y ago
So they're exactly like the gaming PC community. "Decibels aren't a benchmark", as an enthusiast acquaintance says. If you want to go fanless, you need to go to a silent PC community. Where their forums is actively hos
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by kjs3 2y ago
I'm with you: Meat aspics and horrifying fruit jello concoctions endemic to the South was exactly what I thought of the first time I went to a Modernist restaurant. Mayonnaise on the other hand...that didn't exactly fall out of fa
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by kjs3 2y ago
Yeah...what a weird derail. My sous vide has a small maybe 3"x0.5" plastic cap at the end and rest is stainless steel. I could have gotten a different one without the plastic I'm sure (maybe more expensive?), but I can read
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by kjs3 2y ago
We never should have stopped using troff.
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by kjs3 2y ago
Not to make this thread about the B-52, the thing has been operational long enough for 3 generations from one family to fly it: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2430802/David-Welsh...
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by kjs3 2y ago
Interesting, and I suppose not surprising given the source. AT&T kept on with Datakit long after circuit switched data networking became passe.
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by kjs3 2y ago
"The Terminator" and the first two "Toy Story" films are 'foreign, art-house shit'. Who knew?
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by kjs3 2y ago
UUCP was only a couple years before TCP, and isn't really an equivalent (it's fancy file transfer with a little remote command exec sprinkled on in the end) and natively its dialup oriented; it usually requires some other L3 proto
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by kjs3 2y ago
Reminds me a bit of UUCP or AT&T Datakit addressing.

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