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by rswail 1y ago
I think this is something that may happen in the next decade. The interesting impact will be on the grid itself. Why connect to the grid if you are self-sufficient? Then the grid starts to degrade due to lack of maintenance, and the people
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by rswail 1y ago
We recently had an election in AU where "nuclear" was on the agenda as the (losing) party/coalition were promoting nuclear as a "solution" to our aging coal-generator fleet. The trouble is that: a) "baseload&qu
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by rswail 1y ago
I fully agree, but we're talking history here, before Unix existed. The confusion about "LF" (Unix) vs "CR" (Apple) vs "CR/LF" (MS/DOS & Windows) is because we didn't have an explicit
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by rswail 1y ago
The file editing is an I/O issue, not a character issue. The I/O drivers could translate as necessary, that's the point of using an explicit character to mean "new line" as opposed to either "carriage return&qu
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by rswail 1y ago
Yes, but they were character based, not message based as being discussed. The ones I used were ASR-33s on 20mA current loop interfaces.
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by rswail 1y ago
I don't think cloud computing is a hated "tool", it's effectively taken over running on-prem. It's the same as saying buying electricity from a network is worse than having your own generators.
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by rswail 1y ago
Why? The use of TTYs for computing interfaces is very different to using them as teletypes on comms links. I thought the control characters for that sort of use were the DC1-4 characters? RS-485 uses polling but my understanding is that the
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by rswail 1y ago
Comma Separated files would likely exist because they're human readable, whereas FS/GS/RS/CR/LF are not visible. There is "pipe delimited" which used "|" (ASCII 124 decimal) to separate fields, w
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by rswail 1y ago
RS separates logical "lines" or there is "Group Separator", but for internal line separators in a multi-line text field, the CR and LF characters could be used, because they have "standard" meanings for text: C
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by rswail 1y ago
AWS is very much not the same as Amazon the product selling website. The two are effectively separate businesses with a completely separate customer base.
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by rswail 1y ago
AWS has always ridden other products (Postgres, MS-SQL, Redis, etc) that are open source or has negotiated licenses (Windows, MS-SQL, Oracle RDBMS) that are bundled in the end-user price per hour/GB/whatever. AWS has Bedrock to us
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by rswail 1y ago
Line printers (also "chain printers" from IBM) used "form feed" to move the paper to the next "form", which for the most part was moving the tractor fed paper to the line after the page perforations. The printe
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by rswail 1y ago
There was a metal tooth that the shift lock engaged on the shift key below it, effectively "locking" the key carriage in place in the "shifted" position (caps lock for alphabetic characters, the "special" chara
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by rswail 1y ago
Carriage return moved the paper (on typewriters before the IBM Ball) and moved the print head (the "ball" on an IBM typewriter, or the actual print head on TTYs and DECWriter equivalents) back to column 0. Line Feed moved the pape
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by rswail 1y ago
It's a damn shame that the control characters for "Field Separator" (FS ASCII 28 decimal) and "Record Separator" (RS ASCII 30 decimal) weren't used instead of TAB and CR/LF. Then the whole CRLF vs CR vs LF
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by rswail 1y ago
Heh, I meant to say Air Force, can I get away with saying that they used to be part of the Army? Didn't think so :)
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by rswail 1y ago
Army, Marines, Navy?
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by rswail 1y ago
What's Australia doing? Around $1.5B (AUD) so far, Bushmasters, 50 M1A1s, M113s, training, etc. We didn't sign the Budapest Memorandum, neither are we part of NATO, but we do our part, as we did in Afghanistan, Iraq (after the lie
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by rswail 1y ago
Not only leverage, but also destabilizing those optimized businesses to harvest the capital assets from their balance sheets to pay for the leverage, while destroying the underlying business. PE is arguably much worse than VC. VC's b
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by rswail 1y ago
Agreed that apps forget where they were, or end up on the main screen instead of the attached one. Rectangle deals with a lot of that with key shortcuts. I don't love MacOS, but I don't hate it. I have a bunch of extra utilities
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by rswail 1y ago
Which is why democratic socialism exists, which has capitalism constrained by regulation as well as government participation in the economy. Most industries require regulations, to maintain competition, to avoid market manipulation, to main
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by rswail 1y ago
The question is the efficiency of the diffs after the initial commit. Yes, the initial commit is a permanent pain in the ass for initial clones, but after that, the deltas should be efficient. Better to fix that than try to exclude the larg
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by rswail 1y ago
Potentially with a new blob type but maintaining a reverse diff would be difficult as it would change the hash of the previous version if you had to store the diff. Another alternative would be storing the chunks as blobs so that you recons
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by rswail 1y ago
Is the problem that we don't have good "diff" equivalents for binaries that git could use to only store those diffs like the old RCS/CVS for large files?
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by rswail 1y ago
Uber have reinvented the bus stop.
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by rswail 1y ago
The article quoted that they take $10m salaries each and the business invests in more production (eg movies, Book of Mormon musical etc). So whether they donate or not personally, their billionaire status is based on owning their company (i
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by rswail 1y ago
There is no such thing as "Simply Us[ing] SAP".
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by rswail 1y ago
It is in the interest of Allianz and other insurers to employ and support R&D of secure software though.
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by rswail 1y ago
That's not a fine, that's a tax deductible (and probably insurable) expense for the company. It's literally part of their COGS.
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by rswail 1y ago
> The last piece is the cost of raw materials, which has also ballooned. Which is about to explode as the tariffs hit the US market.

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