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721.
by krylon 5y ago
Are National Security Letters still a thing? Are the requests the Microsoft executive mentions NSLs?
722.
by krylon 5y ago
There are situations where it is essential to understand things like memory models etc. Personally, I have not run into a problem that called for atomics. I got by using "conventional" stuff like Mutexes, thread-safe queues (or ch
723.
by krylon 5y ago
It's kind of strange, though, they're not doing better in that department. I remember they launched a cloud-like offering around 2005, hosting customers' applications in multiple globally distributed data centers, with full r
724.
by krylon 5y ago
They have their mainframes, too. Not a big market, but highly lucrative, AFAIK. I read something about the mainframe division contributing 10% of their revenue but 25% of their profits.
725.
by krylon 5y ago
They seem to be forever trailing far behind Microsoft's system, though. What version are they targetting now, 2003R2? Windows 7? It would be very interesting to see what happened, though, if a bunch of companies / government organ
726.
by krylon 5y ago
I thought Win2k on the Alpha was cancelled, too, although they made a Beta. There was an article posted here on HN recently from 1999 about Microsoft cancelling Win2k on Alpha. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27603531
727.
by krylon 5y ago
Can amd64 do nested virtualization? (I suppose you could use Bochs, but the resulting performance would be awful.) I remember reading that IBM mainframes running VM can do that, there was this story about some developers stacking nested VMs
728.
by krylon 5y ago
It's available in the OpenBSD ports collection. I have no clue, though, how recent their version is. I never really got the hang of it, but it's a fun game. I have a soft spot for these old games that are very primitive in the gra
729.
by krylon 5y ago
In the programming I do, this kind of low-level detail hardly ever matters. When I do multi-threading, I only use it in the most simple, stereotypical ways possible, and I use locking very diligently; so far I have run into threading-relate
730.
by krylon 5y ago
I own 7 laptops, and with the exception of a ~1995 ThinkPad, they all have webcams builtin. None of these will ever run Windows 11 (or any other version), but of all the things I have heard so far about Windows 11, this is relatively low on
731.
by krylon 5y ago
Hehe, me too. I only have one old network card lying around, but for some reason it's a Token Ring card. I have no idea where it came from, because I never used it, and I think by the time it found its way into my collection of obsole
732.
by krylon 5y ago
TIL Thank you!
733.
by krylon 5y ago
Yeah, I remember that, too. :) I think I read that even before I first tried Linux.
734.
by krylon 5y ago
I was wondering at first what this might be used for, but for testing it makes perfect sense.
735.
by krylon 5y ago
Wow, this works pretty well. Makes me think of that chapter in Infinite Jest where videoconferencing gets popular, until people start using "optimized" computer-rendered images instead of showing their actual faces, at which poi
736.
by krylon 5y ago
Occam, not Ocaml. They are two different languages. Although I have no idea if Occam can utilize multiple cores.
737.
by krylon 5y ago
I don't think they would do that for the Pro/Enterprise version, because many large companies running domains would not go for that.
738.
by krylon 5y ago
Has this had a measurable impact? (honest question, I like the idea very much.)
739.
by krylon 5y ago
I really hope it's not too late to prevent that, but if we wanted to colonize Antarctica, we'd pretty much have to get rid of the ice anyway so we can grow plants there and access the natural resources laying underground. Otherwis
740.
by krylon 5y ago
To be fair, just because a language allows you to do stupid things, doesn't mean that it's bad. C, C++, Perl (oh, Perl!) allow you to do weird things, too, so do lots and lots of other languages. A certain knowledge of this weirdn
741.
by krylon 5y ago
It worked fine for me (Firefox 89 on openSuse Tumbleweed). Maybe some add-on is interfering?
742.
by krylon 5y ago
The questions covering floating point are not really weird, or rather their weirdness is not specific to Javascript. It's a fun quiz nevertheless, at least for someone like me who is not very proficient in Javascript.
743.
by krylon 5y ago
I mostly agree with you, but it's not all bad. Wikipedia, for all its flaws, is a tremendous repository of knowledge, so are its sister projects. Project Gutenberg stores vast amounts of literature. archive.org preserves literature,
744.
by krylon 5y ago
I remember reading some blog posts from people switching to Linux because they disliked Windows 10 for various reasons (mostly privacy concerns and forced updates), but I think those were fairly tech savvy already. Most people will just use
745.
by krylon 5y ago
This is really, really cool! Wish I had had this back in chemistry class.
746.
by krylon 5y ago
I'm fairly certain that is a joke. Or a very badly done scam. Either way, I doubt anyone can claim a copyright on ASCII.
747.
by krylon 5y ago
During my training, ~2004, I managed to kill the TCP/IP stack on an IBM mainframe running z/OS by accidentally creating a fork bomb with a perl script meant to test the performance of the newly installed BIND9. Fortunately, it was
748.
by krylon 5y ago
/etc/passwd contains the user database on most Un*x systems. GP replaced it with the executable file, thus wiping out the system's users. Ouch.
749.
by krylon 5y ago
I remember that time, maybe 5-7 years ago, when he had a car chase with the police, followed by a little shootout. After the police apprehended him, he claimed he had mistaken them for his ex-wife, and also that he was on Xanax (and who kno
750.
by krylon 5y ago
Typo for "fix" would be my guess.

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