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571.
by scrlk 3y ago
Cynical take: they don't want an overeducated population as that poses a mortal threat to the system.
572.
by scrlk 3y ago
It was designed for portability from the beginning and was ported to x86: > Various versions of NT family operating systems have been released for a variety of processor architectures, initially IA-32, MIPS, and DEC Alpha, with PowerPC,
573.
by scrlk 3y ago
It'll last long enough for people to milk promotions from it. Then someone else will come along and advocate to kill it off for their next promotion. And the cycle continues...
574.
Amateurs cracked a 445-year-old code to reveal Mary Queen of Scots’ secrets(ft.com)
6 points by scrlk 3y ago|1 comments
575.
by scrlk 3y ago
https://archive.ph/W5xJS
576.
by scrlk 3y ago
"While working in Moscow, Ufimtsev became interested in describing the reflection of electromagnetic waves. He gained permission to publish his research results internationally because they were considered to be of no significant milit
577.
by scrlk 3y ago
The Windows Interface Guidelines from 1995 is an interesting read: https://www.ics.uci.edu/~kobsa/courses/ICS104/course-notes/M...
578.
by scrlk 3y ago
I assume it's: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GIUK_gap
579.
by scrlk 3y ago
Ex-EEE here. Sad to see that they've moved out of the beautiful Sackville Street Building for the rather architecturally uninspiring new Engineering building. Always found it funny that the Sackville Street Building had a "J"
580.
by scrlk 3y ago
Give it some time and a Google PM will find a way to shoehorn in chat functionality for their next promotion.
581.
by scrlk 3y ago
https://www.manchester.ac.uk/cyber-incident/ UoM believe that no financial or health care data has been accessed.
582.
Fed holds off on rate hike, but says two more are coming later this year(cnbc.com)
27 points by scrlk 3y ago|7 comments
583.
by scrlk 3y ago
Until recently, most mobile workstations had three button touchpads. The HP ZBook Fury 16 is the only model left from a major vendor that has a three button touchpad.
584.
by scrlk 3y ago
https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/sand-won-t-save-yo... All posts under the "Things I Won't Work With" series: https://www.science.org/topic/blog-category/things-i-
585.
Fun in the Supermax (2017)(themarshallproject.org)
2 points by scrlk 3y ago|0 comments
586.
by scrlk 3y ago
IMO, this is one of the drawbacks of Valve's famous flat structure + compensation being tied to stack ranking. Given the drawn out timescales for getting critical bugs fixed, working on security is seen as boring or low value by Valve
587.
by scrlk 3y ago
If you're looking for a HFT history book, I found "Trading at the Speed of Light" to be a good read: https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691211381/tr...
588.
by scrlk 3y ago
High-fructose corn syrup is used as the sweetener in US Coca-Cola, rather than sugar.
589.
by scrlk 3y ago
drexlspivey is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported.
590.
by scrlk 3y ago
SEC going after the remaining players post-FTX is priced in.
591.
by scrlk 3y ago
I'm not surprised at all. A few months back it was revealed that the Army's information warfare unit was involved in monitoring lockdown critics. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/01/29/army
592.
by scrlk 3y ago
"Designing microprocessors is like playing Russian roulette. You put a gun to your head, pull the trigger, and find out four years later if you blew your brains out." (attributed to former DEC CEO Robert Palmer)
593.
by scrlk 3y ago
> A la banning plastic straws... ...and replacing them with paper straws containing PFAS: https://cen.acs.org/environment/persistent-pollutants/Biodeg...
594.
by scrlk 3y ago
To add to the Eisenhower quote - I highly recommend watching his 1961 Farewell Address, where the term "military–industrial complex" was first used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyBNmecVtdU
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Finnish nuclear plant throttles production as electricity price plunges(yle.fi)
2 points by scrlk 3y ago|8 comments
596.
by scrlk 3y ago
https://www.theregister.com/2021/09/21/hms_severn_fleet_navi... > The FNO course takes naval officers who have passed the navy's first-stage navigation qualification, Preliminary Navigating Officer, a
597.
by scrlk 3y ago
Reminds me of the rewards that were offered in the 1700s to build a marine chronometer that would allow for the accurate computation of longitude at sea. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longitude_rewards https:&#x2
598.
by scrlk 3y ago
I'm hoping someone will consider starting an "OpenSC4" project, in the same tradition as OpenTTD or OpenRCT2.
599.
by scrlk 3y ago
ZIRP in the 2010s didn't lead to price inflation (CPI), but I think there's a very strong argument to be made that it lead to asset price inflation [0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asset_price_inflation
600.
by scrlk 3y ago
https://developers.google.com/silicon might be of interest to you.

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