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by leoc 3y ago
One thing the article doesn't mention, but which the text visible in the image does, is that Kelvin's pitch glacier was created to demonstrate ideas about how the luminiferous ether worked! https://en.wikipedia.org&#x
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by leoc 3y ago
“We are always getting ready to SIEVE, but never SIEVEing.” -- Ralph Waldo Emerson. ( https://books.google.ie/books?id=MpNaAAAAMAAJ&q=%22We+are+al... )
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by leoc 3y ago
It’s all admittedly a somewhat handwaving discussion, but in ‘systems programming’ ‘systems’ is generally understood to be opposite to ‘applications’, not ‘scripts’.
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by leoc 3y ago
This is also why keyboard layouts which don’t have Alt keys on both sides are such a menace.
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by leoc 3y ago
It's an alan-kayism: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/douglas-engelbart-... “I don’t know what Silicon Valley will do when it runs out of Doug’s ideas.”
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by leoc 3y ago
The well-funded (and comparatively highly sane) Xerox PARC also specifically set out to scoop up people from SRI from its beginning. EST seems to have been influenced by other, slightly older post-war groups with their own kinds of struggle
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by leoc 3y ago
I'm starting to come round to the belief that the only robust remedy is to release the chaos monkey: have the kernel delete all the state of the filesystem driver at randomly-chosen intervals, a few hours apart on average, and force th
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by leoc 3y ago
What’s remarkable is that that phrase was already, at that time, notorious for having been a portent of doom at Sun Microsystems.
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by leoc 3y ago
It's possible that what we have here is one of those situations where people happily rely on oral reports and assurances for a long time, then realise later that they really, really should have been asking for and keeping receipts fr
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by leoc 3y ago
I do have to point out that this is also true of nearly everyone else who’s expressed a strong opinion on the topic, and it didn’t stop any of them …
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by leoc 3y ago
Not specifically related to this latest twist, sorry, but DeepMind’s Geoffrey Irving trusts the board over Altman: https://x.com/geoffreyirving/status/1726754270224023971
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by leoc 3y ago
> The Bosch example doesn't really match Yes, I think you're right there.
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by leoc 3y ago
Anyone trying to connect dots might also look at Altman's Hawking Fellowship appearance at (great-tasting original) Cambridge on 1 November, specifically his answer to one question: https://www.reddit.com/r/singula
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by leoc 3y ago
Thanks!
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by leoc 3y ago
https://chat.openai.com was definitely down for me (a free-tier user in the EU) for a while today. Now it seems to be back up, but now there's a waitlist for the paid "Plus" membership which gives access to ChatGP
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by leoc 3y ago
Reminder again, again that 'Google' here amounts to two individual human beings, Page and Brin, who largely have full liberty to do as they wish with the company. It would be unfair to particularly blame them for some of the undes
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by leoc 3y ago
> The biggest loss of all, though, is a necessary one: the myth that anything but a for-profit corporation is the right way to organize a company. Hmmmh? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Bosch_Stiftung https:&#
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by leoc 3y ago
It also seems that Saturn V's performance wasn't flawless, even on crewed missions (though some of the problems were down to external factors like lightning or debris from Skylab): https://www.wired.com/2012/0
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by leoc 3y ago
Quake (1) is probably a useful comparison, especially since Source's actual game engine is directly descended from it. There was an N64 Quake port, and apparently https://www.reddit.com/r/NoStupidQuestions/com
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by leoc 3y ago
To be fair, I think Google's software looked just as bloated, half-baked, directionless and so on its fat and happy low-layoffs era. The firing spasm certainly doesn't seem to have brought any improvements , though ...
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by leoc 3y ago
I'm not sure to what extent that was really true before, but it definitely became false in 2023: https://edition.cnn.com/2023/03/20/tech/google-layoffs-emplo... . And it seems as if the cause was th
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by leoc 3y ago
The Eames’ Polaroid SX-70 film https://youtu.be/Lo_1pyQ7xvc has a technical summary, as well as probably being the inspiration for Steve Jobs’ magical-revolutionarist mode of marketing.
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by leoc 3y ago
I found the "Unix signals" section of the 2010 LWN article "Ghosts of Unix past, part 3: Unfixable designs" by Neil Brown https://lwn.net/Articles/414618/ very interesting, though I don't
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by leoc 3y ago
> Back then, user mode code was thought of as being like what we know call unikernels with the kernel thought of a bit more like a hypervisor. The individual user sessions were, early on in Unix's history, only a couple more primiti
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by leoc 3y ago
It certainly doesn't present an uncontested view of the evidence. https://bera-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.10... https://www.vox.com/23815311/science-of-reading-movement-
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by leoc 3y ago
One notable thing in David Kushhner's Masters of Doom is that he seems to try to set up Carmack as a bit of a villain or at least an antagonist, though Carmack is and was already so beloved that most people don't seem to notice.
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by leoc 3y ago
My complaint is that this acquisition is going to add another 1-4 paragraphs of examinable marketing copy to the Cisco CCNP ENCOR textbook. I'll have to somehow remember not to confuse Splunk with Cisco Firepower NGIPS, which uses Sn
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by leoc 3y ago
It's a strong effort, but not as cerebral as the classics, "Twitter Acquires Magic Pony" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11937756 and "Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Slack" h
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by leoc 3y ago
If you listen to some podcasts https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNbsJ-QimQo you should hopefully be able to maintain your Latin.
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by leoc 3y ago
> and apparently they did it with practical effects rather than actually animating with a computer? The same was (perhaps not suprisingly) true of the computer displays in Kubrik's 2001 , apparently. https://www.quora.co

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