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by kjs3 3mo ago
The graybeards are aging out, nobody compiles their kernel anymore, and someday something deep will break and there will be no one left who can climb down and fix it. I dunno. I suspect it'll be slightly different in the OSS world[1
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by kjs3 3mo ago
I'll list what's wrong with Oracle Very interesting (and hopefully cathartic). I never got past "it involves doing business with Oracle".
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by kjs3 3mo ago
Most do not acknowledge the slippery slope exists until they are sliding down it about to hit bottom...
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by kjs3 3mo ago
"Not something that can be easily changed" is not a valid rebuttal to "the tool no longer supports how the task I am working on has evolved over many years". This isn't 'saying in a vacuum'; 'has thi
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by kjs3 3mo ago
The butwhatabout-ism is strong with this one...
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by kjs3 3mo ago
I was under the impression that the Trident II could do terminal phase maneuvering, so not a straight ballistic trajectory, but fair enough.
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by kjs3 3mo ago
There have been a number of rad-hard SPARC chips from different vendors tthat have flown along the way, and I know Frontgrade/Gaisler currently sells a SPARC v8 version, which isn't that far behind the 'state of the art&#x2
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by kjs3 3mo ago
Interesting combination of 'remarkable' and 'wtf' that we fling nuclear weapons around with the computational equivalent of a couple of TRS-80s[1]. I can only imagine the sighs of relief from the devs when things like t
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by kjs3 4mo ago
Where are the feedback loops for customer issues that haven't arisen before, or happen very infrequently. The existence of a tier 3 is for problems that aren't an everyday occurrence. Further, these are often all or partially &#
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by kjs3 4mo ago
If it wasn't clear, I'm talking about CSRs who deal with people, not computers.
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by kjs3 4mo ago
1) Failing can be (mis)attributed to many things particularly if the cause and effect are separated significantly by time, and 2) most businesses want to stay way ahead of the realization they're noncompetitive as by that point often t
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by kjs3 4mo ago
Even more, when the concept of "AI agent" appeared on their radars, they were the first people who they thought they're gonna replace. I worked on a project where they replaced virtually all tier-1 customer service reps wit
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by kjs3 4mo ago
I didn't know about that board; very cool. Northstar had an S-100 'math board' bases on an AMD 9511 FP chip that was popular in some very niche markets. Quite a bit more capable, but probably not as intrinsically interestin
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by kjs3 4mo ago
Wild guess, but maybe China has something to do with that? They've got a huge "recover->break down/strip->recondition->sell refurbs to manufacturers" industry pipeline that doesn't seem to much exist outsi
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by kjs3 4mo ago
I think you could run 2.0 + X11 in 4MB in a pinch. I know I ran 2.2 + X11 in 5MB on a cast-off i386SX; tight but useable. If I recall right, 2.0 & 2.2 would run in 2MB without X11 (but a GUI like MGR might fit). 8MB was pretty good a
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by kjs3 4mo ago
Isn't it safe to assume that no video file can escape the browser decoding sandbox? It's 'safe to assume' it's not. It's emphatically not safe to assume any mitigation is perfect.
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by kjs3 4mo ago
I keep wondering when "undocumented" stopped meaning "don't rely on this because it can and probably will change at the vendors will and they don't want you to shoot yourself in the foot and then you're on your
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by kjs3 4mo ago
The 'onus' is on Apple to support an OS they never said they'd support, to the potential detriment of the one they do support, because a tiny number of people bought Apple hardware to run...lemme look again...an OS Apple ne
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by kjs3 4mo ago
Ah...it's "they haven't matched Apple" (not even Graviton?), not "Apple impeded them in some way". Fair, but that was not clear.
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by kjs3 4mo ago
I must have missed something...what does Apple creating M-series have to do with Allwinner, Qualcom, Mediatek, AWS, and the rest of the ARM ecosystem having 'lackluster performance'?
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by kjs3 4mo ago
You get clicks for "Apple bad", not for "there was this boot flag and once we figured that out problem solved".
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by kjs3 4mo ago
I knew some shops that went CP/M-86 because they were big CP/M-80 shops and thought the price difference was worth a presumably lower conversion and training cost. Didn't last long since MS-DOS ate the software world, which
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by kjs3 4mo ago
Add Turbo Pascal.
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by kjs3 4mo ago
Sounds like the old days using Firewire as an IP transport to get 400/800Mbps PtP networks. Interesting hack.
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by kjs3 4mo ago
Sorry...I'm too busy laughing at the idea of "there is one canonical 'standard' for anything in web UX that everyone agrees with" to google up one (or a dozen) websites that disagree with the undoubtedly fine folk
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by kjs3 4mo ago
Thanks for saying this. I'm as 'get off my lawn' about AI as any oldster at this point, but if all project were this up front about what and how they're doing things I'd have a lot fewer reasons to grumble.
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by kjs3 4mo ago
Troll trots out the old "You should only be allowed the web site aesthetic I approve of and anyone who doesn't agree with me is stupid!" and is shocked that not everyone on HN appreciates their insightful genius.
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by kjs3 4mo ago
Give it time. Claude front end design will be the default soon as more bottom three quarters devs just vibecode it out.
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by kjs3 4mo ago
When I was called up for jury duty last year, the foreman instructed the all of us jury candidates that we should only evaluate the what was presented in court, and not to make decisions based on whatever is on the nightly news that night
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by kjs3 4mo ago
Sure, I agree with you (and, for 2/3 of it, I don't much disagree with the OG). I just don't think articles like this hits as hard as it could when a significant portion of it is "now lemme talk about this pet peeve of

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