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by leoc 1y ago
I have to say, a single announcement that Cloudflare is sponsoring specifically these two projects does start to look a bit like an attempt to curry favour with the grassroots part of the tech right: give “their guys” some money and praise
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If you want to run something like GNS3 network simulation on a hosting service's hardware you'll either have to deal with hiring a bare-metal server or deal with nested virtualisation on other people's VM setups. Network simu
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by leoc 1y ago
That was quite a long time ago! Intel going down the chutes now isn’t an effective punishment for how it behaved under Andy Grove and won’t deter others from Grove-like behaviour. Instead it’ll just mean even less restraint on any of the bi
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Do we know that the remote operators (all? mostly?) show up in that data as employees, though? Waymo's development has presumably reached the point where it would want to start filling remote-assistance seats with contractors. (There&#
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by leoc 1y ago
Sure: I didn't say that the remote workers were driving the autonomous vehicles. The NYT article I linked gives a pretty clear account of what they're doing. (The big exception here would of course be Tesla, assuming it ever gets
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Though that will also result in faster depreciation of the (mostly-)autonomous cars.
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Tail calls. Tail calls!
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They're also spending an unclear amount of money on human driving-assistance workers https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/09/03/technology/zo... and the supporting infrastructure. Presumabl
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by leoc 1y ago
Not exclusively: playing volleyball is surely a ‘thinking fast’ situation, for instance.
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IBM wasn’t that hopeless, at least not so early. It produced some fairly successful and well-regarded products in the ‘80s and ‘90s like the POWER architecture, the AS/400, and updates to its mainframe line.
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The old Uncle Milton attack: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/03/the_security_... .
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Sure, I'm not suggesting that Apple might actually do both at the same time. They could however implement the less burdensome one now while intending to replace it with the the all-singing-all-dancing alternative down the line.
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by leoc 1y ago
Something I'm not clear about: is CHERI free and clear in patent terms, or do people have their hands out grasping for an MPEG-like licensing bonanza? If it's the latter then that might matter as much as purely technical obstacles
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by leoc 1y ago
In terms of Apple Kremlinology, should this be seen a step towards full capability-based memory safety like CHERI ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capability_Hardware_Enhanced_R... ) or more as Apple signaling that it t
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by leoc 1y ago
For a company that is otherwise quite serious about security nowadays, MS seems to be the champion of this. Say hello to live.com and its friends …
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How the AP uncovered US big tech's role in China's digital police state(apnews.com)
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> Even then, that wouldn't really stand out to me because I've seen companies use new generic top level domains to separate out things like the blog at .blog or the docs at .guide, not to mention the .new stack. This is very mu
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by leoc 1y ago
I'm a bit surprised that people are complaining so much about this. I have read many a blog post which stretched one or two fairly obvious thoughts out at great length. By comparison this post is just a few sentences and it manages to
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by leoc 1y ago
Well, it's more like sensor fusion plus extensive human remote intervention, it seems: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/09/03/technology/zo... . Mind you, if it takes both LiDAR and cal
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> If multiple sensor modalities disagree, even without sensor fusion, you can at least assume something might be awry and drop into a maximum safety operation mode. Also, this is probably when Waymo calls up a human assistant in a develo
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by leoc 1y ago
What about Cap’n Proto https://capnproto.org/ ? (Don't know much about these things myself, but it's a name that usually comes up in these discussions.)
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It sounds as if what you want there is an em-dash.
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To bikeshed a little, "Why I Ditched Docker for Podman, And Why You Should Too" would be better than the current headline of "Why I Ditched Docker for Podman (And You Should Too)": the "you should too" part is
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by leoc 1y ago
"In this economy?", as the saying goes.
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I think Chuck Prince's "As long as the music is playing, you've got to get up and dance. We're still dancing." from the GFC https://www.reuters.com/article/markets/funds/ex-citi-ceo-d
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by leoc 1y ago
I assume that it would be clearly useful if your terminal was a slow paper teleprinter. Once you got used to reading listings with the lines in reverse order, which shouldn't really be very difficult, LISTREVERSE would let you start re
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by leoc 1y ago
But that doesn't mean that there aren't two or three questions, just that there there are answers to which I, and most people here, aren't privy. And, sure, that wouldn't come as a suprise.
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Right, though there's two or three different questions here: whether DEC BASIC influenced MS BASIC, whether MS should have acknowledged that today, and whether DEC BASIC's influence on MS BASIC amounted to a copyright violation. O
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Inside the heart of every customer support department there are two wolves. One is "do whatever we can to prevent them from phoning us: use every resource, every trick and every stalling measure to try to make sure they don't call
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by leoc 1y ago
> There is no competition, there are no web standards anymore except what the monopolistic browser vendors decide, and indeed the WHATWG successfully executed a coup d'état against the W3C standards body. The remarkable thing is how

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