mikewarot

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by mikewarot 6d ago
I remember 38400, 8, n, 1 38400 bits per second, 8 bits per character, no parity, 1 stop bit
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by mikewarot 8d ago
All bleeding stops. If Ed Zitron is to be believed, Anthropic, and all the other LLM based tools companies are bleeding cash at one of the highest burn rates in history, subsidizing your tools, and likely giving them to you at around 5-10%
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by mikewarot 8d ago
>Now imagine that we had spent all these resources on doing the basics: ensuring your organization has an up-to-date and comprehensive asset inventory with fine-grained package listings; building infrastructure that supports regular, fre
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by mikewarot 9d ago
To answer the question as I misread it: What's the most career altering *course of action* you've gone through? I was an IT guy, and I took a job making gears in a job shop. The pay and commute were horrible, but it was im
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by mikewarot 9d ago
Uptimes used to be measured in years. Clearly we no longer have OSs or server software that are fit for purpose.
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by mikewarot 9d ago
I think this could be the thing that finally pops the AI circular financing bubble, leading to World Depression II. I'm not sure either of the existing 2 faces of the duopoly infesting politics will survive, and there's a non-zero
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by mikewarot 10d ago
The Boy's Second book of Electronics by Alfred Morgan(1957) introduced me to electronics circa 1975, and lead to a technical mindset and lifestyle.
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by mikewarot 11d ago
The containerizing is almost a capability based security system. Instead of adding that layer to block everything except a certain resource, why not change the defaults in the OS so that it defaults to NO access instead? Saves resources,
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by mikewarot 12d ago
First you need an Operating System that can withstand direct Internet exposure for a decade without incident. Any administration required is going to kill it dead. There are no suitable OS options available at present. Then you need to ma
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by mikewarot 12d ago
The Memex as described in 1945, especially with the ability to recall and spit out a complete copy of a given path through Hypertext with all the references. It recorded everything, unlike our web browsers. A capabilities based Operating S
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by mikewarot 14d ago
The true horror show is in IT administration in these companies. Haven't they ever heard of air gapped networks? Almost everything that happened was due to incompetent IT staff. Air gap the supposed ASI, monitor/log it though a da
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by mikewarot 15d ago
It's important to know that there were multiple standard formats for floppy disks, with 40 and 80 tracks per inch, thus actually different track widths, and different data rates and encoding formats. Matching both is the key to getting
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by mikewarot 15d ago
My career in software development happened back in the days of MS-DOS, before Windows really took hold. I developed a system that recorded the inspection of Fire Safety equipment like Fire Extinguishers, Hoses, etc. My initial estimate for
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by mikewarot 16d ago
The key feature of a flip phone is that when it's closed, you don't get random user input. My cheap Motorola Power G 2024 seems to like to open random apps when transiting to/from my pocket. I also miss keyboards, typing on g
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by mikewarot 16d ago
That's certainly handy... here's a simple audio frequency shifter I threw together[1]. First it takes the audio from your microphone. It then feeds it through a Hilbert transform to convert incoming audio into an IQ (complex) form
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by mikewarot 16d ago
Nowhere in any of the scenarios they let you model, do they consider the cost of computation for inference, nor training of new models. It may be that after the subsidies can no longer be offered, most AI use becomes cost prohibitive. This
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by mikewarot 16d ago
I regret that we don't have sufficiently strong operating systems. I don't know what I could have done differently over the past 40 years to have changed that, I doubt there is anything. This is, in my estimation, the root cause
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by mikewarot 17d ago
> leverage AI to implement verifiable enforcement of the invariants The only verifiable invariants that are going to work in the long run are: air gaps data diodes Interposing relays used to be used with PLCs[1] to prevent motor
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by mikewarot 18d ago
Not radical enough, there are only 3 mentions of "air gap" and zero mentions of data diodes in the article. The focus seems to be more of the same failed strategy: a shift to "safe" programming languages a focus on
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by mikewarot 20d ago
This is the result of a bi-partisan effort[0], to divide the country, and keep our focus away from the concerns of the donor class. First, Ronald Reagan's adviser Lee Atwater[1], advocated for the use of wedge issues, such as the mythi
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by mikewarot 20d ago
>it's important to note that Here on HN, I've noticed that I pro-actively defend myself against things I think will be said in counter to my comments. I concluded it's being trained into me. Alternatively, I've been
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by mikewarot 20d ago
Relevant(ish) XKCD: https://xkcd.com/3290/
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by mikewarot 21d ago
Why the heck don't they air-gap these things when they're testing them? The can download the models and training data from read-only sources, and use a data-diode to a allow external monitoring without risking egress of control.
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by mikewarot 21d ago
I get that the Project 2025 is an evil plot, but that's missing the existing duopoly that allows the Donor class, and their alliances, both foreign and domestic, to override the will of the people. Even if every single Republican got v
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by mikewarot 21d ago
I'm not sure which he replaced, but having started trying to grok how it actually works, it's chock full of HFET and other amplifier chips, and over-stressed RF switches. I'll report back if we ever get it actually working
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by mikewarot 23d ago
The incentives have disappeared. I'm old (64), and when I started out, there were printed trade publications for pretty much any discipline, that showed up in the mail, paid for by advertisers. The articles were deep and useful, becaus
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by mikewarot 24d ago
My late friend Ward was a strong supporter of Build-a-Blinkie[1] and their mission to teach people to solder by doing. My friend Jim's been soldering since the 1950s. We solder a lot of things with leads, for this, his method is to get
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by mikewarot 24d ago
There are always insane people waiting with a plan , its the job of government, and politicians to keep them at bay. [1,2] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Plot [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/w
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by mikewarot 24d ago
A friend of mine bought an SMIQ-03b on a whim, we've replaced the mmic amplifier chip that seems to always fail, now we're trying to figure out why the ALC doesn't work. It generates signals just fine, but the fine attenuatio
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by mikewarot 24d ago
I was a student at Rose-Hulman back in 1981-83. Back then they had a tweaked out 11/70 running RSTS and supporting 144 terminals, and the new spiffy VAX 11/780 running VMS. I found an old 11/40 that had a memory issue to work

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