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811.
by rwmj 1y ago
As an engineer writing OCaml (and Rust too), I don't find any of this stuff to be a pain point. The syntax is fine once you get used to it. Anecdotally one of my colleagues who is learning OCaml and contributing to the code is using
812.
by rwmj 1y ago
Firstly we don't factually know if it's a bubble. Maybe there's some beyond LLM breakthrough and everything turns out right? Even if it's a bubble, we've no idea how long it has to run. Could all burst tomorrow,
813.
by rwmj 1y ago
It's like the boss of Citicorp said back in 2008, " as long as the music is playing, you've got to get up and dance ". If you withdraw from the market entirely then you'll definitely lose. So they try to time the
814.
by rwmj 1y ago
The closest parallel is probably with the dot com bubble where some companies (notably Cisco & IBM) loaned money to purchase network equipment to their own customers. Since those customers weren't profitable (or arguably even fina
815.
by rwmj 1y ago
Citation definitely needed for this one.
816.
by rwmj 1y ago
Good that people are finding and fixing these, but basically allowing any untrusted client to talk to your X server is asking for trouble just by design. (Bonus points if you have any Tcl/Tk apps running, where you can simply transmit
817.
by rwmj 1y ago
I got a hilarious email from an MS Exchange sender the other day which was attempting to "Recall" an email that the sender had just sent. Yeah, nope, that's not how Mutt + fetchmail works.
818.
by rwmj 1y ago
They should just be part of the stdlib of the language.
819.
by rwmj 1y ago
With images: https://web.archive.org/web/20180125130214/http://www.popula...
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We Fly a B-2 Stealth Bomber(popularmechanics.com)
4 points by rwmj 1y ago|1 comments
821.
by rwmj 1y ago
I was hoping it'd be a very cool soundcard, perhaps with unlimited General Midi channels.
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by rwmj 1y ago
I have an AMD Seattle in a cupboard somewhere. https://rwmj.wordpress.com/2017/06/01/amd-seattle-lemaker-ce...
823.
by rwmj 1y ago
Not really. They'll almost all still be extremely rich, and the underlying problem - the enormous wealth divide and their use of that to influence politics - will remain.
824.
by rwmj 1y ago
https://archive.ph/pVb7K
825.
by rwmj 1y ago
https://archive.is/1dcII
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The AI divide roiling video-game giant Electronic Arts(businessinsider.com)
5 points by rwmj 1y ago|2 comments
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by rwmj 1y ago
That's actually the most NDA thing, since companies don't want to be held to a release date. However the fact they have fully functional engineering samples running in their offices now is very encouraging.
828.
by rwmj 1y ago
I've just seen a demo of a very high performance RISC-V chip (actual silicon) that'll blow the doors off other implementations. Under NDA of course. Actually available for pre-order, take a look at the UltraRISC DP-1000 (unrelate
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by rwmj 1y ago
Collins Aerospace, the same company responsible days of outages at airport check-in kiosks https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3drpgv33pxo
830.
by rwmj 1y ago
Rocket-chip is widely used ( https://github.com/chipsalliance/rocket-chip ). It can fit on smaller FPGAs. If you want something very tiny and completely understandable, and don't mind that it's 32 bit, then Pi
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by rwmj 1y ago
That's my experience too, but it seems impossible that a competent legal team would have agreed to this.
832.
by rwmj 1y ago
The method is buried about 60% through the article, but it's interesting. It seems incredibly risky for the cloud companies to do this. Was it agreed by some salespeople without the knowledge of legal / management? Leaked docum
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by rwmj 1y ago
In supernested, which is a script to see how far you can nest KVM, we do in fact mount the root disk in a VM, but using a snapshot so it's safe(-ish). http://git.annexia.org/?p=supernested.git;a=tree
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by rwmj 1y ago
I made wirewrap boards back in the early 90s and it was extremely tedious, both following the netlist instructions to do the initial work, and then the inevitable debugging when it didn't work. Of course you can have two kinds of bugs
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by rwmj 1y ago
"mechanically" with relays or something? Do you know the model number?
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by rwmj 1y ago
On a not totally unrelated topic, this gem in Aomori Japan, well off the beaten track, is amazing. It's the last train-carrying ship that used to sail between Honshu and Hokkaido (a particularly dangerous stretch of sea), before they
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by rwmj 1y ago
All parties supported the OSA (and it's surprisingly popular too) because "something must be done [about the internet], this is something, so this must be done". It's hardly the stupidest thing British people have voted
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by rwmj 1y ago
Our house has an asbestos flue in the bathroom. I'm very careful never to go near that thing, and never ever to cut/drill/attempt to remove it myself. But I wonder how many people would never know it was asbestos.
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by rwmj 1y ago
It's been a very long time since I heard about uucico (Unix-to-Unix Copy-In Copy-Out program, part of the UUCP suite). Glad to see it's still being shipped! I wonder if any network uses it.
840.
by rwmj 1y ago
He died in 2011.

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