rswail

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by rswail 4mo ago
That was the 1980s, PDP-11s were the 1970s.
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by rswail 4mo ago
My first ever computing experience was in 1977 in year 9 at high school where we were lucky enough to have a PDP-11/10 with 16K(!) and 3 ASR-33s and a VT-52. Learned how to program in octal on the front panel. I've still got an ol
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by rswail 4mo ago
It depends on the scale of the architecture. If you're after kernel architecture or OS architecture, then yes, Torvalds, K&R, etc. But for enterprise software architecture, that's a different level and has a very different app
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by rswail 4mo ago
The point is that they want all government employees/politicians/contractors etc to understand the risks of on-vehicle electronics.
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by rswail 4mo ago
The source code is available for inspection as is the biographies of the people involved. They rely on the libraries that are part of Postgres itself to ensure they are parsing the SQL etc "correctly" (where "correct" me
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by rswail 4mo ago
While we're on the topic, I've got an aging WASD that I created the keycaps for, made them fully Mac but an ISO layout. Why are en_US ISO 105-key layout keyboards so hard to find?
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by rswail 4mo ago
They have funding. That's what it will be for. I wish them well and appreciate that people are still doing FOSS. As long as they don't get undercut by the equivalent of AWS https://aws.amazon.com/rds/proxy&#x2
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by rswail 4mo ago
Each connection is a process on the server, that takes up both CPU and RAM, it will run out. This solves the thousands of clients case for read in a way that is transparent to the clients. Yes it's required at large scale, especially i
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by rswail 4mo ago
I think he was talking about small engines the size/weight of existing disk brake assemblies. So either no change or weight reduction.
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by rswail 4mo ago
Not an NPM user, but you can't specify a set of arch combinations and NPM will get the appropriate prebuilts? That sounds like an NPM problem that would be relatively easy to fix. Can the builds be sandboxed with strictly limited capab
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by rswail 4mo ago
This entire product is easier to build than the existing technology, has more simple tooling and will be simpler and cheaper. Designing the manufacturing machinery is exactly what happens in any manufacturing process. Those robots are gener
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by rswail 4mo ago
Why do you need an axle? Put the engine and its transmission to the wheel mounted next to each wheel. No need for differentials etc, if they can work out a steering mechanism for each, then you've got 4WD with 4W steering. In the video
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by rswail 4mo ago
This video explained to me what an axial flux motor is and how it's different to radial flux. Amazing what materials science achieving to get this sort of power as well as the engineering and manufacturing. https://www.youtu
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by rswail 4mo ago
I changed over to Orbstack just for local builds and it is one of those apps that makes owning a Mac that much better. This post reminded me to buy a license, just done it, worth it for the time saved.
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by rswail 4mo ago
For all the people commenting, the ITAR rules still apply for TLS, if you want to use TLS in an app for iOS/Android, one of the requirements is to get an ITAR exemption as part of the app review [1]. The US sanctions are imposed on ent
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by rswail 4mo ago
ABAC/Capability and very granular policies for both actions and actions on behalf of others with the right sort of resource-based policies as well. And the apps need to be capability constrained and sandboxed. Gonna be a hard nut to cr
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by rswail 4mo ago
This was an open letter to the public, I'm sure he had endless people including her that he wanted to thank, but this was his final letter to all of us. Given what he went through and how he responded over the time, he owed no one any
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by rswail 4mo ago
His open letter, released after his death: My fellow Australians, I pen this letter as a final goodbye to all those I have had the immense privilege of loving, sharing life’s adventures with, working alongside and meeting during what can on
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by rswail 4mo ago
This is not some media beatup. He was one of our leading researchers and known for his work (along with Dr Long) on melanomas, one of the deadliest and common cancers in Australia. He came out publicly with his diagnosis and because he was
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by rswail 4mo ago
Personally, I'm going to believe tridge, someone that has contributed more to software than 99.9(recurring) of the software development community over the last 3+ decades, than a bunch of brigaders jumping on the anti-AI backlash. Ther
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by rswail 4mo ago
I'm in Australia, I have my credit card set up as the default to tap. Means one payment from my savings account a month to cover all daily expenses.
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by rswail 4mo ago
Fourth option: You use tap-to-pay and pay the balance in full every month for the convenience at zero cost.
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by rswail 4mo ago
Without reading any of the doco, it appears to be a job definition called invoice-approval-pipeline that runs every 5 seconds. The steps are: 1. Get all the pending invoices 2. Set their state to "processing" 3. Call out to an ext
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by rswail 4mo ago
Snapshot PITR of your database means everything restores including the durable jobs at the PIT. Don't need to synchronize the backups with anything else that is part of the same data store, good for ETL pipelines and other state machin
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by rswail 4mo ago
Amazon Linux is based on Fedora as well.
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by rswail 4mo ago
They don't have to provide the source to give the OS away for free. The difference between BSD and GPL in one sentence.
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by rswail 4mo ago
It's general purpose in that it can run any Linux application in numerous different ways, containerized, as a VM, or on specific bare hardware. You and Microsoft are using the word "general purpose" to mean different things.
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by rswail 4mo ago
OK, so this is important not because it comes from Microsoft. 1. It's general purpose in that it is designed to be used to deliver any application software, whether containerized, on a VM or on (specific) bare hardware. 2. It has an SB
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by rswail 5mo ago
AWS Console has that, but it's infuriating that it has different prompts for different resources, it asks you to type "delete" or "confirm" or the name of the resource. But like most of the AWS Console, each service
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by rswail 5mo ago
I worked at Victorian TAB (Totalisator Agency Board) back in the late 80s. The system they had was an early 80s Burroughs (from memory) that could process up to 400 bets/second, it was connected via a complicated switch that then conne

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