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811.
by kjs3 2y ago
I've heard it discussed as a possibility tho I don't personally know how the ISO CC assignment process works. On the other hand, we don't exactly create new countries at a rate that exhausting 26^2 combinations should be an
812.
by kjs3 2y ago
Yes, you are of course right...10 years + (however many years the legal process of transferring sovereignty takes) + (some number of extra years because stuff happens) from now I would completely agree it probably won't be around. But
813.
by kjs3 2y ago
It was; it was covered by the AT&T Unix source license. I have a copy that is an actual n-th generation photocopy I got in the mid-80s from an osdev buddy.
814.
by kjs3 2y ago
By policy, 2-letter TLDs are reserved for ccTLDs, matching ISO country codes.
815.
by kjs3 2y ago
A hedge fund operates the .io domain, they don't AFAIK own it without restriction. As a ccTLD, what happens if Mauritius tells ICANN "nope, not theirs, ours now, it's an asset as part of the transfer of sovereignty"
816.
by kjs3 2y ago
Some types of explosives (e.g. detonators) become more unstable with age. See for example: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.231344
817.
by kjs3 2y ago
I hope you're right, but many comments here on HN suggest their experience with mainframes is very different. HN is not the place to seek authoritative experience with something like COBOL.
818.
by kjs3 2y ago
All that typing, including "users are stupid" (classy af there), apparently months or years of struggle, tons of examples of others failing in the same way, and not a single thought "maybe I shouldn't be doing it this wa
819.
by kjs3 2y ago
I have many times recommended Harry Beckwith's books for this.
820.
by kjs3 2y ago
If you actually read any of this thread you'd see many feasible suggestions for how to fix the problem (better communications methods, improved tooling, adapting to how younger developers engage, etc., etc.). And if you really paid
821.
by kjs3 2y ago
Once again, humor/sarcasm does not survive being compressed into text on the internet.
822.
by kjs3 2y ago
I know what you are 'advocating': science fiction solutions to real problems.
823.
by kjs3 2y ago
Ships are useful for more than combat. Even icebreakers.
824.
by kjs3 2y ago
Well...it's reasonable for the shipyard to still employ folks with hands on experience 20 years later. I occasionally get tapped to pitch in on things I did 20 years ago (even if it's just "why the hell did you do this?&quot
825.
by kjs3 2y ago
So instead of doing a tedious, thankless, unpaid job for 10, 20, 30 years, I can do it for 100, 200 or 300. Sounds awesome.
826.
by kjs3 2y ago
Completely agree. It is regrettable how few of the old papers are accessible now, either hidden behind paywalls or moldering in some library basement unscanned.
827.
by kjs3 2y ago
Yup. On a smaller production scale, we did prototype PCBs with photoresist directly on copper clad boards.
828.
by kjs3 2y ago
There's a not-OSS, not cheap autorouter called TopoR that will do this. There are plugins of varying quality for other tools. And you can usually do something manually if you have spare time.
829.
by kjs3 2y ago
Ah...that makes complete sense. The SLT chips are certainly bubblememory-ish.
830.
by kjs3 2y ago
I did not know that. That's a showstopper for...a lot of use cases. Thanks for the warning.
831.
by kjs3 2y ago
Which bubble "chips" would someone confuse with dram? All the Intel, TI, Hitachi and Russian ones I've ever seen are relatively large, square, thick and decidedly un-DRAM like. I have several working bubble memory boards. Y
832.
by kjs3 2y ago
Ya...the TI MSP430 had (have) it. Nifty 16-bit arch (esp if you like PDP-11s) and FRAM was just as you say a joy to use versus Flash. Very low power as well.
833.
by kjs3 2y ago
The SH4 is a really interesting chip, with some embryonic vector instruction. There are also SH variants with a DSP bolted on.
834.
by kjs3 2y ago
There are also V6 & V7 ports for the x86, but they're much less functional/interesting than 2.x.
835.
by kjs3 2y ago
Was there some CDC gear laying around in the back, cause if so we might have gone to the same place (where I ran some of the 4.3/VAX, recreationally).
836.
by kjs3 2y ago
I don't hate my coworkers that much.
837.
by kjs3 2y ago
things where solid state and wouldn't age over time Common misconception. Most solid state tech will fail over time, with wildly different timescales depending on the tech. For example, semiconductor technology is subject to electr
838.
by kjs3 2y ago
most developers who I work with are unable to tell you how to get their application through a dead simple stateful firewall What sort of disaster area do you work in where it's the developers job to tell security ops how firewalls wo
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by kjs3 2y ago
I think there's a lot of us that got spoiled by the TP IDE. It was night and day more productive than the contemporary environments (particularly on CP/M). Other Pascal (and other) compilers might have been 'better' in
840.
by kjs3 2y ago
I was just reading on the BBC that people were having to go overseas for critical surgeries because the NHS so woefully incompetent that people were on many years long waiting list. So maybe put "NHS excellence" on the shelf next

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