mikewarot

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by mikewarot 24d ago
Which is part of why Tanenbaum was right, and Linus Torvalds is dead wrong.[1] Eventually, we'll all be running Operating Systems designed on microkernels, which have been written by actual software engineers, and proven correct with f
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by mikewarot 24d ago
I think AlexNet is the one that kicked off the rush to deep networks, and eventually LLMs. Without it, we wouldn't be in the AI bubble, heading towards Global Depression II.
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by mikewarot 26d ago
There's nothing like having a locally installed program that has no internet dependencies for reliability. There's a reason machine shops still have that one PC running MS-DOS 5.0 in an emulator. The tool built in Tk!Solver versio
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by mikewarot 26d ago
I came to say something like this. Doesn't anyone in the valley know what the f*ck a data diode is, and why you need them? Preventing ingress or egress of control with a fairly simple piece of kit, and having the laws of physics en
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by mikewarot 26d ago
All of the current OS choices are insecure by design. The all operate programs with the ambient authority of the user. While this was fine for the corporate world of AT&T in the 1970s, and the classroom in the 1980s, it's insane to
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by mikewarot 27d ago
Since politicians just randomly changing maps and borders is now a thing... I heard that the US is now the 14th Canadian Province, South and True. We need to practice our politeness, learn to have gravy on our fries, and get ready to give u
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by mikewarot 29d ago
You haven't seen NIMBY until you've seen what happens when there's even a hint of a new AI data center coming to town. Take the normal complaints about change, and bump them up approximately 3 orders of magnitude, and you&#
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by mikewarot 29d ago
Well, they're already bidding up generating capacity contracts for upcoming years. The net effect is raising everyone's electric bills today for a data center that might not even get built in the future. The real kick in the p
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by mikewarot 1mo ago
I use Chrome and adblock plus to access Twitter. I use ut for Facebook, and pretty much everything. I avoid "apps" like the spy infested plague they are.
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by mikewarot 1mo ago
This boomer would be quite happy if the price of his home went back to it's purchase price, the cheapest house in town by far. I just hope Social security holds out. We were promised socialized medicine, we got socialized insurance oli
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by mikewarot 1mo ago
Read 1632 by Eric Flint, deeply embedded in it is a lesson about the infrastructure that keeps modern society going. It's important to understand mappers and packers, and figure out where you are on that continuum. https:/&#x2
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by mikewarot 1mo ago
>the main threat here is disinformation by nation state actors When did that happen? I thought we were just talking about people being able to prove they took a photo, and it wasn't photoshopped after the fact.
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by mikewarot 1mo ago
The easiest thing for me to fall into would be repair of old radios, computers, etc. I've been helping a friend deal with health issues, as an apprentice, for a long time now. I can fix pretty much anything, but I don't want to de
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by mikewarot 1mo ago
You could actually make this secure, by having firmware in the camera module itself do the signature before handing it off to the rest of the system. The key is to prevent ingress of control, as long as the module only emits signed photogra
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by mikewarot 1mo ago
>The Irish Aviation Authority, for instance, recently decided to keep ground-based radio navigation beacons in use because supposedly the more modern satellite-based global positioning system (GPS) has proven so susceptible to jamming in
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by mikewarot 1mo ago
For the first second or so, a dragster is only on 2 wheels ;-)
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by mikewarot 1mo ago
Keep your expenses less than your income, generating savings. Keep cash on hand, money in the bank, and invest the rest in a diversified manner. Today, this year, these are the good old days, if you write down a bit of what you're expe
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by mikewarot 1mo ago
My ask is 15 years old[1], a live SQL extension. Allow a query to be a subscription to a database, so any updates get streamed as deltas to a listening client. There were a ton of times in my time using SQL where the same query is run over
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by mikewarot 1mo ago
Architecture is a set of trade offs you use to try to minimize the costs of building, or maintaining software. The moment you decide on one, you've precluded certain approaches, it's hoped those were the poor choices. We're 5
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by mikewarot 1mo ago
The same one I do almost every day "is mitch mcconnell dead yet?", which google always answers the same: No, Mitch McConnell is not dead. The 84-year-old U.S. Senator from Kentucky was discharged from a rehabilitation center i
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by mikewarot 1mo ago
If you're going to compare mechanical things to humans, Google tells me a Top Fuel Dragster could do it in about 1.9 seconds, finishing at about 320 kph or so. Machines using fossil fuels have been able to do more than men or beast for
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by mikewarot 1mo ago
I think the causation is backwards here. If you find yourself in a memorable or interesting scene, you're going to want to document it. I've wore out a DSLR doing this before social media really was a thing. I've taken way mo
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by mikewarot 1mo ago
How enmeshed are they with the upcoming Nvidia/AI/Hyperscaler implosion? The more hands off they are, the more likely they are to survive the trigger for World Depression II
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by mikewarot 1mo ago
When I was making gears, there was an un-networked PC that I was given access to, to develop a program to track gear hobs. I used git to sync it with a usb thumb drive so I could keep a copy in sync at home. Edit: sadly it seems I've
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by mikewarot 1mo ago
Yes, I'm familiar The point I was trying to make is that a calculator never guesses at the answer, it's got an algorithm instead of a mass of predictions.
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by mikewarot 1mo ago
Having programmed back in the days when source control involved 1.44mb floppy disks with paper labels stating the version of the pkZipped source code and the date.... git is still freaking magic. We used to comment out the old version of
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by mikewarot 1mo ago
Computer security is a solved problem , and has been since the 1980s. Unfortunately adopting it requires us to abandon the ambient authority model of application development and our operating systems that support it. Currently when you tel
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by mikewarot 1mo ago
Gold has dropped every time the US does something stupid with Iran, the opposite of conventional wisdom. I think that countries are having to sell their most liquid asset, their gold, in order to buy oil from sources outside the gulf. I&#x2
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by mikewarot 1mo ago
Fiat money sure came in handy when 10% or more of the trees in my entire county were blow over toward the east. Long term, you're getting eaten by inflation, but when the power grid, and most cell sites are down, cash is still king. Th
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by mikewarot 1mo ago
No, it's not like that at all. A calculator uses known deterministic algorithms to compute an answer. As long as you stay within the precision bounds, you'll get reliable and correct answers 100% of the time. An AI is the result o

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