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by saltcured 5d ago
I also recall that Linux on a PC often beat the performance of Unix equipment I could access in contemporary times. There was a lore around those machines, but my actual experience doing basic FOSS-adjacent dev work (bash, make, gcc, autoco
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by saltcured 5d ago
You're off by a year or two at best. Linus announced his kernel project on the Minix usenet group in Aug 1991. It wasn't until mid 1992 that distros started to exist, and I'd say it took a bit of time for those to be complete
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by saltcured 6d ago
If they're talking about production capacity, that is some product of die area and process steps, right? It doesn't have to be 3x die area, just 3x lower factory throughput for the same number of functioning memory bits.
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by saltcured 8d ago
Yeah this is the closest I've found to explaining my own discomfort. Why I've been almost entirely an individual contributor my whole career and why I may opt-out and retire. I have limited tolerance to take demeaning workload tha
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by saltcured 8d ago
It's a crude analogy, but I would say the hindbrain is more like the system management co-processor or controller that tends to low-level hardware features. The forebrain is the main processor. It does all the stuff you think of from O
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by saltcured 8d ago
Heh, in the security world, this shows how your traditional metal key is "something you know" (like a password) because it can be copied and many people can know it at once! So if we are enforcing MFA requirements and allow this k
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by saltcured 10d ago
There's also a lot of absurd product placement in many of the supposedly ad-free streams.
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by saltcured 10d ago
Clearly, the southern Indian Ocean and a tiny slice of the Antarctic coast are the most anti-(US of) American. It only involves a swathe of South-East Asia and China once you are inclusive of South America... ;-)
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by saltcured 11d ago
I am far along the aphantasia line and have spatial thoughts. They lack visual qualia. I can't directly imagine visual features like color or brightness. It's more like being aware of the spatial positions and structures. Often, b
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by saltcured 13d ago
My partial solution is to have the Android Zoom client on an idle tablet. Even though it is my office VOIP phone too, I power it off when I don't have meetings scheduled. If someone tries to demand screen sharing, I ask one of my cowor
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by saltcured 14d ago
On the other hand, you likely need more liability insurance with more wealth, at least in the range where this topic of affordable transport comes up. In an accident, your risk becomes not the cost to restore your ride, but the cost to defe
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by saltcured 15d ago
You forget the addicted humans who will do nearly anything to keep the stuff running..?
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by saltcured 15d ago
Until you run into that most stubborn, "my problem is the absence of this solution" type of stakeholder...
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by saltcured 15d ago
Add a slight trailing decay and I think the basic arrow motif could be intuitive for trajectory for any observer who experienced aerodynamics? Whether it is the evolved shape of a flying creature or an abstract depiction of a meteorite (or
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by saltcured 16d ago
But, when the (sad) alternative is that person keeps driving without insurance and the unfortunate victims are left with the full bill, I think the absurd insurance may be better than not?
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by saltcured 16d ago
Ha, my mid 90s 21" Nanao CRT cost more than my used car was worth. I went on to get some high-end CRTs with Trinitron tubes after that at work. But, as soon as I could get an LCD with DVI-D input, I never wanted to go back to a CRT. I
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by saltcured 18d ago
On the bright side, now we can have another comparison scale, for how many banana-copters worth of radiation a given item contains.
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by saltcured 19d ago
I think these practices come from more rural but also tropical origins? One part is purely practical, making it easier to keep the living space clean when you are coming in from the farm etc. Places with messy winters have similar concepts
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by saltcured 21d ago
I don't think "compartmentalization" does this topic justice. Note, I'm not accusing you, since I don't know your work. My post is about the general milieu and the rhetoric around it. This "compartment" te
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by saltcured 22d ago
It stumbled there, but I think the author was just trying to capture the chilling feeling of recognizing something already beyond your control. I also thought it was silly. It would be a bit like talking about Poe and then that time I was a
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by saltcured 22d ago
I said nothing about like or dislike. I only implied that implied psychological traits of a fictional character are not evidence of the same psychological traits in the author. It's merely evidence that the author is capable of observi
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by saltcured 23d ago
Hmm, what is the psychological label for people who do not distinguish artist from art? It's one thing for a biographical analysis to look at the person's real life experiences and relationships. It's another thing entirely w
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by saltcured 28d ago
Yes, but a DMA controller sit out on the memory bus to do the same kind of work the CPU could be doing, controlling bus traffic between memory modules. I think the whole idea of PIM is to be able to scale up and do work locally within the m
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by saltcured 28d ago
I'm having a hard time imagining this SIMD replacement except for extremely narrow use cases. Are you suggesting the PIM would have a full blown IO controller and cache subsystem to fetch remote operands? I assume PIM is only going to
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by saltcured 29d ago
I think they mean a resource ripe for extraction. There is huge stored gravitational energy in that ice and water up so high, which is also exactly why it was such a disaster. Potential as in possibility, not as voltage. It's an awkwar
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by saltcured 29d ago
Hey, maybe the modern glamper needs a reasoning system to go with their conspicuous thermos cups and elaborate tent lighting?
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by saltcured 29d ago
Hmm, so "507 Insufficient Storage" when your station wagon can't hold all the tapes?
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by saltcured 29d ago
I'm aphantasic, but I can relate to almost going blind with inattention. Not like I now have a black visual field, but just losing awareness of what is actually in it, like it is some sort of matte painting put up during intermission.
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by saltcured 1mo ago
Because other replies aren't really stating it explicitly, let me add... The water and power utilities are themselves large distributed systems. They need communications between elements just to function properly. They don't exist
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by saltcured 1mo ago
I agree on the style and influences particularly in the trilogy. Yes, there are pulpy aspects and tropes. To me, there are strong dashes of beat poet and impressionism as well. This shallowness is a style, but I think the themes carry throu

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