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841.
by shrubble 3y ago
Is Corten used in shipping containers (I seem to recall that it is)?
842.
by shrubble 3y ago
Is California a special case, however?
843.
by shrubble 3y ago
There are the VCF swap meets, vcfed.org (corrected URL) ; might be one close to you.
844.
by shrubble 3y ago
Did he ever work on the System/3 or System/32 devices? (I am looking for a System/32 but there are very few around!) Also what was his favorite machine and why?
845.
by shrubble 3y ago
They gave it away because of the consent decree they were operating under. Until the consent decree, IBM preferred to rent/lease their computers to you, not sell them.
846.
by shrubble 3y ago
Things to add: Wirth's Oberon hardware and software a small but successful bit of software that was ported to many other architectures and the language remains influential. Also Apollo's DomainOS which had network transparency in
847.
by shrubble 3y ago
Pascal was used in the USA for a time on the high school AP tests (advanced placement) which are often used for college applications. So some know it from that. As well, Wirth was an influential computer scientist and he had many students
848.
by shrubble 3y ago
Just a note, 640 acres is 1 square mile of land; the landfill volume is 639 acres times whatever amount of depth it has.
849.
by shrubble 3y ago
I had heard of it, but had not read it before. I am finding some logical fallacies in their statements, haven't finished it yet. For instance, "Most people intuitively and correctly reject extrapolations like those shown in table
850.
by shrubble 3y ago
I believe this is the CPU used in the Agon series of retro / hobbyist single board computers.
851.
by shrubble 3y ago
Alternatively, the "runk" tool https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/umg9ps/run...
852.
by shrubble 3y ago
If my math is right on the "$6 billion over 5 years" then that is 2250 MW capacity * 720 *12 to get a bit more than 19000 Gwh per year. So what is the annual, billable power generation for this nuclear plant?
853.
by shrubble 3y ago
Could you use DesQView or similar to multi-task it?
854.
by shrubble 3y ago
Attractive woman in Army uniform used on social media, you say? ... https://mronline.org/2023/06/08/from-simp-to-soldier/ "If Lujan feels like a psyop (a psychological operation) it is because, tech
855.
by shrubble 3y ago
https://twitter.com/reddit_lies/status/1619567947349098496 "Daily reminder that Reddit accidentally outed Eglin AFB as the most “Reddit addicted” city. Eglin AFB has been a huge part of the Pentagon’s social
856.
by shrubble 3y ago
Would FreeBSD (doesn't have Wayland) be a possibility for you?
857.
by shrubble 3y ago
Any chance you thinking about the rollover of a number in "The Story of Mel, A Real Programmer"?
858.
by shrubble 3y ago
The phone switch GTD-5 had 2 separate sets of 2 CPUs for each function and instructions were run through both, then compared: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GTD-5_EAX "If the results were not identical, the process
859.
by shrubble 3y ago
How do you know this? Have you yourself reviewed the code?
860.
by shrubble 3y ago
Section 230 doesn't appear to be being enforced anyways...
861.
by shrubble 3y ago
Imagine being able to fix knee cartilage problems by 3D printing where the cartilage had worn away.
862.
by shrubble 3y ago
I found an Edgar class one for $20 on Craigslist, all aluminum case. Looking for something like that would be the way to go. Every Chromebook has a 'name' and with that one can look up the support under stock Linux.
863.
by shrubble 3y ago
I stated Bellingham, you may not have ever spent time there, but certainly it has grown as former Amazon people decide it is a nice place to be (it wasn't diverse when I was there).
864.
by shrubble 3y ago
>But many startups are now choosing to leave the capital city they once flocked to because of the rising cost of living, low funding, and lack of diversity, according to TechCrunch. No one leaves because of "lack of diversity":
865.
by shrubble 3y ago
Seems a bit "twee" or whatever the word is, is it embossed into the paper or just very faint lines? And why show only Japanese handwriting when you are putatively, willing to sell it to people who will write in English?
866.
by shrubble 3y ago
Thank you for that detailed info - had not thought about that...
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by shrubble 3y ago
So how much of the market does AMD need to be profitable and keep going? Supposedly the Nvidia H100 alone, has ~15 billion USD in order backlog. If AMD sells say $3 billion USD into that market, is that a big net positive for them?
868.
by shrubble 3y ago
3M always has the goal of 25% of revenue being from things they invented/started making in the last 5 years. They probably saw no future in making legacy items and sold it off...
869.
by shrubble 3y ago
The lowest-end VAX, 11/730 used 8 of them in parallel to get a cheap 32-bit CPU.
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by shrubble 3y ago
Sir John Glubb's "The Fate of Empires" covered this subject many years ago...

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