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by p_l 2y ago
And then they give that stock price is mostly vibes based had little relation to performance, and it's unreliable monopoly money unless you happen to own a lot of it so it can be collateral in a loan. Additionally stock based compensat
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by p_l 2y ago
It's a classic way of pushing narrative without actually spelling it out - it's supposed to set up biases so you can later find out that Bretton Woods system reached it's inevitable collapse in 1971 and the bias will make you
843.
by p_l 2y ago
hah. Apparently HN eradicated the carefully pasted complex unicode emojis. The first was "man+woman kissing" with skin tone modifier, then there was few flags
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by p_l 2y ago
> Could someone show a legit reason to use 1000-character filenames? 1023 byte names can mean less than 250 characters due to use of unicode and utf-8. Add to it unicode normalization which might "expand" some characters into
845.
by p_l 2y ago
Main issue with encryption is occasional attempts by certain (specific) Linux kernel developer to lockout ZFS out of access to advanced instruction set extensions (far from the only weird idea of that specific developer). The way ZFS encryp
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by p_l 2y ago
I meant 32k bytes - PDP-11 was byte-addressed, not word-addressed. The 64kB address space was split in half between kernel and userland in so called "high and low moby" scheme (as it required minimal logic latching onto single a
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by p_l 2y ago
No, the point is that both "driver" and "navigator" (as some pair programming referred to the roles) are looking at the coffee simultaneously, just one has the keyboard at the time. This is extended to "mob" pr
848.
by p_l 2y ago
Important thing to remember is that even after the move to PDP-11, early Unix systems had to deal with 32kB as entire space available to userland program, both code and data (including stack)
849.
by p_l 2y ago
I remember when IE actually warned you when you went to HTTPS!
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by p_l 2y ago
Pretty much every class that focused on "on the job skills" when I went to university (2008-2014) either at my university or from looking at coursework available elsewhere (I might have considered jumping universities for non-educ
851.
by p_l 2y ago
It's not as bad as Common Lisp support which stinks to high heavens of someone not learning the lessons of the Common-Lisp-Controller fiasco
852.
by p_l 2y ago
Unfortunately sometimes you get to host things not written by you, or which exist for a long time and thus there's a lot of history involved that prevents nice and tidy. My first production use of kubernetes started out because we put
853.
by p_l 2y ago
Except python builders in nixpkgs are really brain damaged because of the writers ways they inject search path which for example breaks if you try to execute a separate python interpreter assuming same library environment...
854.
by p_l 2y ago
Maybe one day it will stop using classic paths then... fortunately I don't have to deal with it anymore ;3
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by p_l 2y ago
The mention of Finder being built with Carbon APIs using OS9 as dev environment makes me wonder if that's not why some Finder APIs in 2020 still used classic Mac pathnames (with colons as separators). Had to find some gnarly AppleScrip
856.
by p_l 2y ago
It's GB200 in desktop compatible enclosure, the RAM is fixed, the SSDs are not, the network ports are fixed too.
857.
by p_l 2y ago
well, yeah, the actual Very Important People can. Generally those who can probably tell a VP to "go fsck yourself" in more colourful language and expect no real consequences.
858.
by p_l 2y ago
In a certain big database company attempts at such moves for anyone whose position didn't involve huge political sway (let's say the kind of positions directly making decisions on direction of company at global scale) was met with
859.
by p_l 2y ago
AMD64 mandates 48bit virtual addressing minimum, with the rest sign-extended unless certain optional features are enabled.
860.
by p_l 2y ago
It was ANT+ for the profile and automatic selection of closest device.
861.
by p_l 2y ago
EAX and the like were actually that - software components running on DSP inside sound card, and it was supposed that they would be something you would handle in the future akin to how GPUs are programmed. However while audio accelerators ca
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by p_l 2y ago
It was a big deal when Vista was released, with coincided with a lot of generational change in home computers (Watching Blu-Ray on computer still seemed to be a thing to expect, HDMI with HDCP was introduced, etc). There was a lot of talk
863.
by p_l 2y ago
The parts involved in protected Audio/Video path do have their own encryption keys and hardware support outside of anything touched by the OS. In fact it's major part of what Intel Management Engine does if you do not have the &qu
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by p_l 2y ago
The Homa approach seems to lift explicit flow control from reliable networks into IP layer, the classic token buckets of IEEE 1355/SpaceWire and also used in InfiniBand, except Homa calls them "grants" and permits certain def
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by p_l 2y ago
SCTP is message oriented and allows explicit control over how reliable a message is. You can run a TCP-like stream over it but it is not required. Slow-start is unfortunately a thing. SCTP was designed with lossy networks in mind, just li
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by p_l 2y ago
Apple didn't support anything other than PostScript natively at the time, so their printers came with postscript support. HP made special models for use with Macs that shipped with PostScript included.
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by p_l 2y ago
> Unless you were using anything from that tiny obscure Hewlett Packard operation and didn’t want to shell out for a module. HP never promoted Postscript. It was far from universal as an embedded PDL. it's why HP had a series of pri
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by p_l 2y ago
IIRC a landmark trial in early post-WW2 years resulted in it being impossible for third party to own complete rights for someone's natural likeness or other natural features (like voice, which was specific case involved). So they can&#
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by p_l 2y ago
The PDP-11 was minicomputer, but PDP-10s were "minis" only formally, with VAX due to reasonable size and comparable performance coining the title "supermini" IIRC.
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by p_l 2y ago
meanwhile common lisp: "actually has concept of pointers, just called differently", "invites low-level assembly reading by integrating disassembler and compiler" :V

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