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811.
by p_l 2y ago
Not collapsing "bad enough", and overshadowed with advertising losses caused purely by Elon being a dick
812.
by p_l 2y ago
And the military traffic controllers were not ready for civilian traffic
813.
by p_l 2y ago
Yes, I was kinda referring to that as the minimum extant timeframe of IBM APL being around because of that.
814.
by p_l 2y ago
Volvo has been migrating from IBM mainframe APL implementations within I think last decade or so?
815.
by p_l 2y ago
WASM supports tail calls and multiple return values now
816.
by p_l 2y ago
The feature turned out too useful for all sorts of things, including dealing with the fact that before NT loaded itself you still had to emulate being an IBM PC including the fiction of booting from cassette tape or jumping to ROM BASIC. Al
817.
by p_l 2y ago
The problem is reliably interrupting the CPU in a way that didn't require extra OS support. SMM provided such trigger, and in fact is generally used as part of the scheme with EC cooperating.
818.
by p_l 2y ago
Another, huge in fact, reason is that we ask them to do a lot more. Just the framebuffer for one of my displays uses more memory than a computer that was very usable for all sorts of tasks back in 1998. Rendering UI to it also takes a lot m
819.
by p_l 2y ago
X11 used to provide separate displays, but at some point due to hardware changes (and quite probably due to prominence of intel hardware, actually) it was changed to merged framebuffer with virtual cut out displays. In a way, Wayland in thi
820.
by p_l 2y ago
Windows can work without SMM, especially NT - the problem is that SMM was created for a world where majority used DOS and the idea of using OS services instead of every possibly quirk of IBM PC was anathema to developers. Thus, SMM, because
821.
by p_l 2y ago
Hardware cursor is still a thing to this day on pretty much all platforms.
822.
by p_l 2y ago
Surprisingly and disgustingly so it did not actually use a proper log structure on disk. So much pointer walking...
823.
by p_l 2y ago
If you add Content-Negotiation it will have ALL the OSI layers! /s Honestly, I'm a little surprised and more than a bit depressed how we effectively reinvent the OSI stack so often...
824.
by p_l 2y ago
Yes, it's good for internal use. Caveat is when you need to go elsewhere. I still remember the pain of Hadoop ecosystem having this kind of API
825.
by p_l 2y ago
Google also uses a completely different protocol stack to actually send Stubby/Protobuf/gRPC around, including protocols on the wire and bypassing the kernel (according to open access papers about PonyExpress etc)
826.
by p_l 2y ago
Thanks. Did some more testing on my own got the same result, but I have also seen apparently "jailbroken" results earlier (I didn't have chance to run it myself earlier), so I'll be looking deeper into this.
827.
by p_l 2y ago
Out of curiosity, which variant did you run?
828.
by p_l 2y ago
People running it locally got detailed answers, so it seems there might some process layered on top to filter things
829.
by p_l 2y ago
Apparently most censorship is layered on top you use their chat interface, and running it locally people got rather... Unfiltered results.
830.
by p_l 2y ago
Which is why their job was to figure out a model for the team. This specific team. Sometimes you can compromise, sometimes you can figure a proper allocation of resources, sometimes you can part amicably instead of murderously.
831.
by p_l 2y ago
I suspect it's more about the way many people experience "scrum". The basic building blocks can actually work great, it's often how they are executed and how many places go very much micromanagement wrapped in agile&#x27
832.
by p_l 2y ago
US health insurance industry explicitly delivered harm through "AI", though. The ethical route of making the AI having options of "accept" and "refer to human" an insurance claim probably provided less ROI :V
833.
by p_l 2y ago
Honestly, at least one military that is very interested in speeding "kill chain" with AI explicitly tells you that a critical requirement is that ultimate decision (and responsibility) has to fall on a human. Partially because a
834.
by p_l 2y ago
I ended up working for european part of rather big US database company that similarly started pushing RTO. The RTO mandates were fully delivered from US HQ and from the very top, while middle management tried very hard to preserve remote wo
835.
by p_l 2y ago
/bin/ed did in fact evolve on very slow teletypes that used roll paper. It made the option to print file content with line numbers very useful (personally only used very dumb terminals instead of physical teletype, but experience
836.
by p_l 2y ago
That's a very marxist view on wages, actually... Capitalism seeks rent from having capital, so the obvious optimization is to squash the ability to demand higher wages (original Marxist argument about "ownership of means of produc
837.
by p_l 2y ago
No account manager can help when the support is so bad it would have been better if they admitted they had no idea and superb if they admitted the feature we were sold didn't exist and had no plans of existing. Would save me months of
838.
by p_l 2y ago
AMD ended up entering the market to some extent - big powerful software-modifiable NIC chips that can also serve as switches from my understanding. But like Tofino, it's mostly stuff that is "behind the curtain"at hyperscaler
839.
by p_l 2y ago
NUCs are shifting completely to ASUS who is going to continue working on them and there are some long term commitments (there are industrial variants for example)
840.
by p_l 2y ago
It doesn't matter because the capital has grown and can be exfiltrated by then, periodically raising the stock price in the process as you "divest" the company of "unnecessary" parts. The big money is made by shuffl

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