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by lambda 8y ago
It is quite unlikely that Intel was actually inspired by Linus of LinusTechTips. He's exaggerating for dramatic effect, just like the fake drama of not being able to find his RAM. Persistent memory is something that Intel has been work
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by lambda 8y ago
> Lol, looks like Linus actually inspired them How so? Point to the quote?
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by lambda 8y ago
Oh, yeah, looks like you also have to add the CPU, that's not included in the base price. Although, for RAM and storage you can purchase that separately at cheaper prices. I just tried to sign up for IBM's cloud, to see if I could
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by lambda 8y ago
Yeah, it might be kind of interesting to play around with IBM i/OS/400. Oh, and I guess I shouldn't have called it a mainframe operating system; that's z/OS. IBM i is their minicomputer operating system.
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by lambda 8y ago
Raptor does have a sub-$2000 machine on pre-order: https://www.raptorcs.com/content/TL1BC1/intro.html That is starting to approach the price point where it's worth it if you want to tinker, but with something
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by lambda 8y ago
Oh, yes, I'm well aware of the difference. It's all POWER though, and I seem to be seeing more of it around recently. I had thought that it was going to just keep on shrinking into a more niche market once Macs, Xboxes, and Playst
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by lambda 8y ago
Really? Wow. I just assumed it was paid because I wouldn't have expected a hobbyist endeavor to port software to a proprietary Unix and mainframe OS running on expensive hardware. Do you develop for AIX and IBM i for work and have acce
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by lambda 8y ago
https://www.bountysource.com/issues/46345753-altivec-vsx-sup... I looked into doing this briefly, and a couple blockers were that I couldn't find any easy cloud services offering POWER that I could use for testing
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by lambda 8y ago
> I find it almost impossible to avoid urinating when defecating Can't you just urinate first, flush, and then defecate?
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by lambda 8y ago
Seems like IBM is really increasing its investment in open source software and hardware for PowerPC recently. I've noticed them offering bounties for PowerPC related work on Rust, there's this recent work on Mono, and OpenPOWER ha
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by lambda 8y ago
> Flymake has been completely redesigned Hmm, I just switched to flycheck. Is it worth checking out this new flymake?
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by lambda 8y ago
I kind of subconsciously do the same thing; use single quotes for symbol-like strings, and double for human readable. But I can buy the argument that just having a single auto-enforced rule improves consistency and that has greater benefits
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by lambda 8y ago
I've got to say, I'm quite happy with the default line length in Black. The reason I always fight with people who want to increase line length is that they generally want to increase it to 100. Which is just a bit too big to fit t
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by lambda 8y ago
Hmm. My reading of PEP 8 on slices is that the spaces surrounding : in slices are optional, and used to implement the later rule "If operators with different priorities are used, consider adding whitespace around the operators with the
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by lambda 8y ago
I think people may have been downvoting me because I misinterpreted the question I was replying to; but I stand by my description of one of the things I find wrong with psychiatry, the lack of much in the way of rigorous objective testing.
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by lambda 8y ago
> I'm not disagreeing, but is this something that everyone reasonable would agree on without any sort of support? Somehow, the field of psychiatry doesn't seem to actually act on it. Or they do, since they prescribe drugs which
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by lambda 8y ago
> Why creating Tethers from thin air is now a cause of concern? If you are claiming they are backed by USD, and you are creating them out of thin air, then that's a scam. Other coins are only valued based on how the market values th
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by lambda 8y ago
> At least in most of the US (can't speak for all 50 states) vehicles are taxed based on weight- a 1 ton pickup will cost more each year to register than a compact car or motorcycle Registration fees and taxes are frequently based o
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by lambda 8y ago
Every car is legally equipped with a tracking device known as a license plate. There are no more toll booths in the state of Massachusetts. If you travel on a toll road in Massachusetts, your car will be tracked either by E-ZPass transponde
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by lambda 8y ago
> We tax gasoline because it has negative externalities (same as us taxing cigarettes and alcohol). This is contradicted by the difference in taxation for diesel fuel and heating oil (which is also the case in the US as well). Or used fo
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by lambda 8y ago
It seems to me that taxing something based on its use is a pretty much just a way to set up exactly these kinds of loopholes that continually need plugging. Instead of taxing gasoline to help fill in the road budget, why not tax vehicles ba
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by lambda 8y ago
Every person who is riding one of these scooters is someone who could have been using some other form of transportation. Now, some of them may have switched from walking; in which case the small amount of sidewalk space taken up by a scoote
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by lambda 8y ago
> Maybe try to figure out how to make the work fun? I don't think this is the right approach, because you need the ability to focus on work even when it is not fun. You do need something that makes the work rewarding in some way, bu
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by lambda 8y ago
I need to deal with end user data a lot; which frequently has spaces in it.
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by lambda 8y ago
I'm one of those people who finds perverse pleasure in writing portable Bourne shell, and doing so correctly. I know I spend far more brain cycles on it than I should; once it gets past a certain complexity limit, I should just switch
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by lambda 8y ago
> almost the majority Trump was not elected by a "majority of Americans". He was not even elected by a majority of Americans who voted. In fact, he did not even win by a plurality of Americans who voted. Because of weirdness of
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by lambda 8y ago
> From user-space? hold my beer. You can follow that link to see how it does it. It has two modes of operation; one in which it uses ptrace with PTRACE_SYSEMU, which was implemented so that User Mode Linux could intercept all syscalls. T
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by lambda 8y ago
Rust is increasingly frequently taught in schools; and when Haskell or OCaml are taught in schools, it's usually as part of a "programming languages" survey course where you learn a little bit of a few languages of different
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by lambda 8y ago
Except it wasn't Amazon's domain they were using; it was souq.com, an online shopping site in the Middle East that is owned by Amazon.
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by lambda 8y ago
Ah, looks like the registrars were still coming online when I tried. When I first tried Gandi, it didn't seem to like .app, but now it does and lets me choose "landrush," which I assume is the way to buy a domain during the E

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