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by rwmj 1y ago
https://archive.ph/sqNFP
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The Untold Story of Mike Lynch's Tragic Boat Sinking(wired.com)
4 points by rwmj 1y ago|1 comments
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by rwmj 1y ago
Reminds me of the environment. Large companies would rather blame individuals for "not doing enough to save the planet", when in fact we'd be better off with coordinated, collective action through legislation.
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by rwmj 1y ago
Good job on showing the hexadecimal version. I recently had a challenging C bug where I was using printf("%a") to show the underlying representation, which uses hexadecimal, and it was a little confusing at first. This site woul
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by rwmj 1y ago
Intel putting CPUs on an expansion card? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Inboard_386
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by rwmj 1y ago
You're right that it probably doesn't apply to Microsoft, but some companies were granted tax breaks by the local city, but on the condition they brought a certain number of jobs to the city.
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by rwmj 1y ago
Particularly the older people who have settled and can't relocate. It's like age discrimination without all the annoying legal drawbacks.
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by rwmj 1y ago
If the hardware isn't available at all, we'll never find out if the software moat could be overcome.
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by rwmj 1y ago
Why isn't that the default? I'm glad I use a Hetzner VPS. I pay about EUR 5 monthly, and never have to worry about unexpected bills.
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by rwmj 1y ago
Right, we don't mention it in the advert because doing so draws in a certain type of academic person that we don't want to hire. Also because the majority of the code is actually in other programming languages, and we can easily
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by rwmj 1y ago
Plus you could only interact with NS by filling in fields in a text file and emailing it to them, and hoping you did it right so their script made the changes you intended. Even at the time, this was annoying.
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by rwmj 1y ago
purple.com was a similar thing. Originally the site had just a FAQ page about how they didn't want to sell the domain: https://web.archive.org/web/20090226000820/http://www.purple... https:/&
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by rwmj 1y ago
I think only if anyone believed him. Since no one does it has no material effect on the stock price.
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by rwmj 1y ago
(Half joking but) I wonder if musicians need to worry if they learned to play by listening to cassette mixtapes.
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by rwmj 1y ago
For converting VMs that run on VMware to run on KVM. After Broadcom purchased VMware a couple of years ago & raised prices (in some cases up to 10x), lots and lots of businesses are desperate to leave VMware. The open positions can be
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by rwmj 1y ago
Fair point, thanks.
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by rwmj 1y ago
Won't the stock market go only up, if interest rates are cut? (For the avoidance of doubt, I'm not saying this is either a good or bad thing)
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by rwmj 1y ago
(I think this advice applies to most large open source projects) Make sure you have installed and are using the software. Ideally you'd have an ongoing interest in it because it's something you use regularly (whether personally o
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by rwmj 1y ago
Because their algorithms designed to push content that improves "engagement" are poisonous?
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by rwmj 1y ago
OCaml is doing just fine, thanks.
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by rwmj 1y ago
That's the promise (or requirement?) of CXL - have your memory managed centrally, servers access it over PCIe. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compute_Express_Link I wonder how many are actually using CXL. I have
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by rwmj 1y ago
In the fast case allocations can be vastly cheaper than malloc, usually just a pointer decrement and compare. You'll need to ensure that your fast path never has the need to collect the minor heap, which can be done if you're car
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by rwmj 1y ago
I'm at a conference at the moment so can't give a lengthy answer, but I'm the maintainer of virt-v2v, one large open source OCaml project (large if you include all the dependencies) which generates actual multi-millions in an
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by rwmj 1y ago
The quote applies equally to the software industry.
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by rwmj 1y ago
IOT is great, but there's a distinct lack of computer subjects which has always seemed like a big omission. There are multiple episodes on obscure medieval people, but not a single one on Open Source Software, for example.
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by rwmj 1y ago
You'll never be a billionaire because being a billionaire takes extraordinary good luck as well as hard work. But while you can't retire on $1 million and expect to live in expensive cities in the US, you could do if you lived a l
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by rwmj 1y ago
And so continues the noble hardware vendors' tradition of not documenting their stuff.
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by rwmj 1y ago
Isn't this like Cyc? There have been a couple of interesting articles about that on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43625474 "Obituary for Cyc" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4
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by rwmj 1y ago
Until we have affordable photolithography machines (which would be cool!), hardware is never really going to be open.
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by rwmj 1y ago
Or if another CEO could have done better. While Microsoft was a mature company at the time, it's still part of a very high growth industry. He was CEO for 14 years, so just tripling the revenue (and that's in nominal terms, not

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