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by shrubble 6mo ago
I'm literally ready to pay cash for a Tesla, once they make one that doesn't have a steering wheel at all. If I can't go to sleep lying down on the seat as a sole occupant, it's not yet self driving.
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by shrubble 6mo ago
The first validated compiler for Ada that ran on the IBM PC was released in 1983. The third validated compiler ran on the Western Digital “Pascal MicroEngine” running the UCSD p-system with 64K memory. The MicroEngine executed the byte code
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by shrubble 6mo ago
The GNU ADA compiler was first released in 1995: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNAT
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by shrubble 6mo ago
Thanks for that recommendation! Checking the book out now.
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by shrubble 6mo ago
I am aware of at least 2 telecoms, one publicly traded, that have very little to no IPv6 in their core networks and only use IPv6 when they have to. Personally I think the design of IPv6 offers very little benefit; supposedly the Dept of De
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by shrubble 6mo ago
The author Peter Grogono is also the author of a well regarded book on Pascal https://archive.org/details/programminginpas00grog
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by shrubble 6mo ago
There are people who for various ideological reasons hate beef. If the market demands more chicken over beef, producers are perfectly capable of making a switch. Cows are able to make delicious beef from grass and thistles; that they are of
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by shrubble 6mo ago
I don't think there is a reasonable correlation, since stopping ransomware doesn't require that much of an increase in spending; it's a culture thing more than a money thing.
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by shrubble 6mo ago
A picture of the running system is the first thing you see at the link. On the screen is (readable to me at least) the first page of the paper "Oberon Language Report" showing N. Wirth as the author. In the Introduction to the on-
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by shrubble 6mo ago
I always felt like they weren't properly paranoid in their decisions. For instance, when the AI boom was heating up and they were shipping the ARC GPUs, they could have taken some business simply by making a 48GB or 64GB VRAM version.
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by shrubble 6mo ago
PepsiCo had been raising the prices on their snacks, including Doritos, far faster than their costs or the rate of inflation. They "suddenly" realized that many less people were willing to pay $7 for a bag of Doritos and that they
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NewTek Video Toaster Demo Reel(youtube.com)
14 points by shrubble 6mo ago|3 comments
103.
by shrubble 6mo ago
The Video Toaster had a simple setup in the days before digital - whatever you fed into Input 1 became the reference timing source and everything else got genlock'ed to it. This worked well enough for even TV broadcast needs, allowing
104.
by shrubble 6mo ago
Between the RAM and the motherboard? Interesting, will try it.
105.
by shrubble 6mo ago
Every Raspberry Pi ships with a closed source OS, ThreadX, that boots Linux, BTW.
106.
by shrubble 6mo ago
This happened exactly to me also, I suspect some flexing in the motherboard or other component; right now it is complaining about the RAM and reseating hasn’t fixed it. Great laptop otherwise however!
107.
by shrubble 6mo ago
The usual claim, which is difficult to prove without physical access to the bars, is that some bars were made by melting and casting the confiscated gold coins that FDR gathered in the 1930s. Such bars would not be to the 99.9 percent gold
108.
by shrubble 6mo ago
If it’s broadcasting then you can pick it up, is my understanding of US law. Hopefully they’re using a secured access point and SSL :-)
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by shrubble 6mo ago
OpenAI helps fund Axios, also, BTW.
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by shrubble 6mo ago
Douglas Southall Freeman wrote the definitive biography of Robert E Lee over twenty years, publishing it when he was 49; he then went on to publish his seven volume biography on George Washington when he was 62 (he finished the sixth volume
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by shrubble 6mo ago
*Freedom Roulette
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by shrubble 6mo ago
The creator of SNOBOL and Icon programming languages, Ralph Griswold, also developed an interest in weaving and wrote about it; see for instance https://www.thelacebee.com/the-lace-notes/tess-the-professor...
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by shrubble 7mo ago
I understand that the impact to Americans is that for every penny increase in the price of a gallon of gas, averaged over a year, is about $1 billion in consumer spending . So if the average price goes from $2.99 to $3.49 , that’s 50 billio
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by shrubble 7mo ago
I’m convinced this platform is used for money laundering, by someone; not accusing Radvinsky, but if you wanted to create an opaque money transmission system, you’d design it close to what OF is.
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by shrubble 7mo ago
The repairs to the walls under the Ottoman cannon fire made use of the rubble, they made a wooden "basket" to hold the rubble; this ended up being very effective, as just like sand, the slight "give" to the rubble swallo
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by shrubble 7mo ago
It’s a lot more like banning the importation of books and newspapers that the government doesn’t agree with…
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by shrubble 7mo ago
This fits perfectly with traditional Microsoft strategies of getting a foot in the door and then having the users’ internal pressure on the organization to help get the Microsoft product established. Decades ago, Lotus 1-2-3 on top of MSDOS
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by shrubble 7mo ago
You can buy them from various manufacturers that make them; you often get unsolicited mail from them as your name and address is on the patent filings.
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by shrubble 7mo ago
I’m curious about how much money was taken out by insiders who must have known what their costs were internally and how little advancement was made on making the same product at a lower cost.
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by shrubble 7mo ago
The btrfs code quality seems less than ZFS, based on the reports I have read.

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