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by mburns 2y ago
DuskOS != CollapseOS (same author, the latter inspired the former). DuskOS doesn’t run on z80. It’s i386 or ARM. Whether that makes it a serious effort or not is still up for debate.
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by mburns 2y ago
To be pedantic, In-q-tel is the literal state-sponsored VC. DARPA is a step closer to traditional research labs but there is obviously some overlap. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-Q-Tel
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by mburns 2y ago
Lots of bills with broad public support don’t even come to a vote let alone become law. What you meant to say is broad support amongst politicians, assuming that group represents a supermajority of votes in both chambers.
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by mburns 2y ago
Not often. Sometime they append “uk” for reality or game shows, but it seems more common to give an entirely new name e.g. “Married… With Children” was remade as “Married for Life” “The Golden Girls” was remade as “The Brighton Belles” “Cat
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by mburns 2y ago
Backdoor defunding by not adjusting for inflation is definitely a thing but that seems like a separate issue from what I was responding to re: where the funds come from and if they are kept separate, not how much should be spent in total. &
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by mburns 2y ago
>The reality is that most of a state’s budget is set holistically and paid for out of the general fund. Isn't this just conflating states that do that with other states that don't? Oregon keeps the general fund and the lottery
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by mburns 2y ago
FWIW, California’s ban on PFAS (in textiles and cosmetics) starts January 1, 2025. https://www.morganlewis.com/pubs/2022/10/california-bans-pfa...
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by mburns 2y ago
> On a side note, if I recall correctly, Steve Jobs wanted to use Linux for MacOS. Steve offered Linus a job, using Linux was never on the table. https://www.theverge.com/2012/3/22/2893581/linus-torval
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by mburns 2y ago
https://www.browserparrot.com/
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by mburns 2y ago
More interesting still is an archaeologist debunking Graham Hancock’s nonsense. https://youtu.be/-iCIZQX9i1A?si=521Y4VpqaQqPeBpq
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by mburns 2y ago
It’s Greeks vs Romans. Western finance/accounting industries adopted ‘M’ from the Roman numeral for 1,000 to mean “thousand”. MM (or mm) meaning “thousand thousand”, or a million. Separately, when the French invented the metric system
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by mburns 2y ago
It does, actually.
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by mburns 3y ago
For another reference, Shakespeare’s complete works are ~885k words. The Encyclopedia Britannica is ~44M words.
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by mburns 3y ago
WINE fits that definition but is generally considered to be Not Emulation in a technical (if not colloquial) sense.
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by mburns 3y ago
Baker was not CEO during that graph (well, she became interim in December 2019). She was chairperson of the board. Mozilla’s CEO for its decline (setting aside Eich’s brief stint) was Gary Kovacs and Chris Beard.
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by mburns 3y ago
* The Parking Lot movie * Carts of Darkness * Alone In the Wilderness Three documentaries (broadly) about interesting-but-regular people who don’t fit into society’s mold. Honorable mention: Tickled
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by mburns 3y ago
The dates are correct. They expect it to be operational in Q1 of this coming year. https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Vogtle-4-start-u...
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by mburns 3y ago
Dan Geer (CISO at In-Q-Tel, the CIA’s private investment arm) gave a BlackHat talk that advocated for this, among other things. https://youtube.com/watch?si=8txvgqH6mqerinkZ&v=nT-TGvYOBpI&...
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by mburns 3y ago
>> No algorithms > Why? I like algorithms. >> No recommendations > Not sugesting them is a huge win. Feels contradictory. They’re both just algorithms.
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by mburns 3y ago
Bit of both, it seems. https://youtu.be/ygvBSYwxqyE?si=N3PC7F5Vo5J8YtCT
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by mburns 3y ago
Small correction: No one was forced, and the provision you’re thinking of hasn’t even existed for the last 5 years.
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by mburns 3y ago
What you describe isn’t research, even to a first degree. Whether that conversation happens to be accurate or not and to what degree, I don’t know, because the link fails to load.
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by mburns 3y ago
To be fair, being mad hasn’t stopped them, either.
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by mburns 3y ago
Plenty of blockchains—Filecoin included—use some amalgamation of IPFS, but the reverse isn’t true. Heck, even Bluesky uses some IPFS tech. Does that mean it has a blockchain? Of course not. > Let me put it in another context, would you s
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by mburns 3y ago
> What's wrong with e.g. "The IPFS DHT was using Kademlia and is now using Coral"? Because that’s not what is happening. The Kademlia-like DHT is not going away. It just has a name (“Amino”) so you can refer to its as an
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by mburns 3y ago
It is not. IPFS exists entirely independently from Filecoin. There is no blockchain. Full stop. That Filecoin uses some common tech with ipfs like libp2p and cids doesn’t change that. If/when filecoin disappeared, ipfs would keep worki
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by mburns 3y ago
> Why does it even need its own name? So that other DHT implementations can exist and potentially replace the existing one. Same for go-ipfs being renamed. We generally don’t have web browsers named after the protocol they use. And with
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by mburns 3y ago
https://doesipfshaveablockchain.com/
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by mburns 3y ago
It is more complicated than it needs to be, but very similar to the BitTorrent ecosystem. https://docs.ipfs.tech/install/ IPFS is a protocol, it needs a client. That client can be a web page or local software, just lik
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by mburns 3y ago
> Stack samples can be captured using Linux perf_events, FreeBSD pmcstat (hwpmc), DTrace, SystemTap, and many other profilers. See the stackcollapse-* converters https://github.com/brendangregg/FlameGraph

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