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by rwmj 5mo ago
South Korea has history, for years their banking applications required ActiveX: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_compatibility_issues_in_So...
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by rwmj 5mo ago
I wonder if anyone used CP/M-86 back in the day? I used CP/M 2.2 and 3.x on Z80 pretty extensively. But on 8088/8086 it was MS-DOS everywhere. Were there niche CP/M-86 apps or use cases?
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by rwmj 5mo ago
I know someone who was a DBA and became an electrician and now retired after about 10 years doing that. By all accounts he loved it, spent his days doing odd jobs for old people while chatting with them over many cups of tea. However (her
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by rwmj 5mo ago
It's been obvious for a long time that if you get a tech salary you should be saving for financial independence, meaning saving aggressively (above 50%) and investing that in a low fee tracker fund. Like planting a fruit tree, the bes
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by rwmj 5mo ago
It's true my abiding thought after reading the book was what about nuclear weapons . The great powers would absolutely use their nukes if in danger of being overrun, and I think long before that, in a total war.
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by rwmj 5mo ago
Wars between great powers are won and lost on manufacturing base. The classic book on this topic is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rise_and_Fall_of_the_Great...
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by rwmj 5mo ago
Similar but using OpenCL APIs, so it works on AMD (for some definition of "works" since their drivers are quite buggy): https://libguestfs.org/nbdkit-vram-plugin.1.html
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by rwmj 5mo ago
People actually want a convenient and cheap service for getting around. All other considerations can be derived from this. If it was cheaper to replace the car than get it serviced, they would replace it. Currently this is almost never th
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by rwmj 5mo ago
There's a reason everyone calls them mobile phones with wheels. Edit: I agree with you and upvoted your comment which I feel was unfairly downvoted. But economics are going to win here, only a tiny fraction of the user base of cars (o
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by rwmj 5mo ago
From the article: > One of these [recommendations is] a change in the legal attitude to drugs [...] with the significant weakness that it is very unlikely to happen in a reasonable time frame
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by rwmj 5mo ago
> Which creates national security and sovereignty issues Are you talking about people who don't pay tax? They create very large national security and sovereignty issues. Countries that don't collect much tax have real probl
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by rwmj 5mo ago
Yes this would be nice. Or maybe the OOM system would have two other files, /sys/oom/kill_first and /sys/oom/kill_never which would solve the problem more directly for the majority of cases. I should really se
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by rwmj 5mo ago
I'm aware of it, but it's awkward to use in practice. You have to track down all the FF processes, each time you run it, and adjust all their scores.
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by rwmj 5mo ago
It's 2026 and I still can't configure the OOM killer to kill firefox before anything else.
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by rwmj 5mo ago
LWN has a good article: https://lwn.net/Articles/1033955/
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Squillions: How money laundering won(lrb.co.uk)
205 points by rwmj 5mo ago|228 comments
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by rwmj 5mo ago
We had a whole course at university (early 1990s) about stability in numerical calculations and simulations. Which was basically about rounding errors, plus some higher level mathematical transformations you could apply to stop errors from
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by rwmj 5mo ago
I was definitely wondering this. As I understand it they make money on order flow and don't charge for transactions (is that right?). But allowing LLMs to trade dilutes the true information in the order flow. On the other hand maybe
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by rwmj 5mo ago
So much UK govt bureaucracy could be removed. Like tax returns - they have the data already, just send me a bill, and let me query it if I disagree (like it works in other European countries). Or Making Tax Digital, which incredibly is wo
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by rwmj 5mo ago
This is the researcher's page, but I couldn't find an authoritative source: https://www.law.upenn.edu/faculty/pheaton Of course it's also possible ChatGPT really did commit the crime!
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ChatGPT Confesses to a Crime It Didn't Commit(loweringthebar.net)
2 points by rwmj 5mo ago|2 comments
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by rwmj 5mo ago
Question! Is there a counterparty risk with ETFs versus owning the equivalent fund that owns the same underlying stocks? (Assuming there is an ETF and fund that are approximately equivalent.) I trade about once a year, so there's no
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by rwmj 5mo ago
But the same argument applies to landlords too. Why are they willingly losing money?
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by rwmj 5mo ago
Everyone has a landlord inside them apparently!
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by rwmj 5mo ago
This depends on what country you live in, but in the UK renting is (even after recent changes) quite precarious. The landlord can kick you out with a few months notice. They can require regular inspections. They can send workers around t
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by rwmj 5mo ago
This plus in a well-designed system an increase in load might cause new jobs to stop running but shouldn't take down the whole system.
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by rwmj 5mo ago
MSVC support for C is fairly terrible. For the projects we write that are portable to Windows we insist you use GCC or Clang on Windows. No one has time to deal with the lack of even standard C1x/C2x features (never mind useful exten
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Or drivers could look where they're going.
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In Defense of Operation Market Garden(secretaryrofdefenserock.substack.com)
1 points by rwmj 5mo ago|0 comments
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by rwmj 5mo ago
The aim is not to fix the problem. These populists would be out of power the moment the problem is fixed. They want to prolong it - even make it worse - because that's what keeps people angry.

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