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by shrubble 10mo ago
The book mentioned can be seen here: https://digital.library.pitt.edu/islandora/object/pitt%3A00a...
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by shrubble 10mo ago
Famously the golfer Payne Stewart and the total of 6 people on the LearJet 35, died after a sudden loss of cabin pressure incapacitated everyone including the pilots. A system like this, would have detected it and possibly saved them. I wo
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by shrubble 10mo ago
Reminder that there are two different organizations that award “Nobel” prizes; one is the actual organization and the other is the Riksbank, the central bank of Sweden. Not the same people, etc.
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by shrubble 10mo ago
Is it true that Brookline had very few murders in the past 5 years? Increases the chance of it being targeted instead of random.
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by shrubble 10mo ago
I’m reminded of this Silicon Valley “son of Anton” moment: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=m0b_D2JgZgY
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by shrubble 10mo ago
Sacks wrote from 1970 through to 2015; so more recent than just the fusty old 1900s…
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by shrubble 10mo ago
There’s little chance that the statement is true. Chickens kept in a backyard can live on bugs and kitchen scraps and there’s no delivery cost for eggs or eventual meat.
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by shrubble 10mo ago
You get 42MW inside the footprint of what looks like 2 truck trailers, that you can park in the parking lot next to the electrical transformers. Virtually no permitting or installation required.
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by shrubble 10mo ago
SNOBOL, SPITBOL and the Icon and Unicon languages are heavy with pattern matching. There’s a book on “Snobol for the Humanities” but it doesn’t have a strong focus on UI; everything at the time it was written used a simple terminal interfac
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by shrubble 10mo ago
The Gnome desktop that shipped with Solaris over two decades ago is just as useful, possibly more useful, as the tablet-oriented hamburger menu UI of today. Yes, two decades: https://adtmag.com/articles/2003/08&#x2
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by shrubble 10mo ago
IBM is buying market share, not a surprise; at least one telecom has all their Kafka stuff on the Confluent cloud, and there must be 1000s of such customers.
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by shrubble 10mo ago
Interesting post, thank you. "Back in the day" people were running HP technical workstations, with X11 with CDE, with 128MB RAM, on Pentium-II equivalent speed CPUs - and they liked it!
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by shrubble 10mo ago
I think the canonical answer is that humans are “bags of mostly water” .
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by shrubble 10mo ago
From the article: "Lisp/Clojure macros derive from the uniformity of the language to enable composing the language back on itself. Logic can be run at compile-time no differently than at runtime using all the same functions and te
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by shrubble 10mo ago
If the company has 3 founders with equal ownership, it would not have to be disclosed? Is there a requirement that one founder be in the USA and be either a citizen or green card holder?
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by shrubble 10mo ago
If my back of the envelope math is right, in the last 6 months he’s been attending more meetings at possibly odd hours; he lives in Australia and Intel is based in the USA. See https://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2025-05-
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by shrubble 10mo ago
So any misdirection has served its purpose.
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by shrubble 10mo ago
No one using Linux uses .NET is probably part of it; it’s not a criticism of the language itself.
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by shrubble 10mo ago
There's no reason to run agents on expensive AI platforms or on GPUs - when you can have the AI create an agent in JS and thus runs with very high performance and perfect repeatability on far less expensive CPUs. At the very least ther
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by shrubble 11mo ago
Reminder that Wayland is now older than X11R5 was, when Wayland started and claimed X11 was old and bad code.
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by shrubble 11mo ago
Monroe LA is the former headquarters of Lumen, they realized that their corporate headquarters was a white elephant and donated it to the local university I think. However that means there is available power capacity from the local power co
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by shrubble 11mo ago
Not much real data or news there.
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by shrubble 11mo ago
It’s laden with fraud everywhere, sadly. US regulators like SEC have no interest in auditing, from what I’ve seen. “Spice must flow” attitude.
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by shrubble 11mo ago
Since I live in the USA it seems reasonable to ask for others’ views.
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by shrubble 11mo ago
What is the impact of the “Boriswave” immigration policy on the economy, I wonder?
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by shrubble 11mo ago
Across the USA? Very likely a few thousand.
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by shrubble 11mo ago
The joke that AI stands for “Actually, Indians” and the co-founder annd presumably the other guy typing is Indian is crazy.
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by shrubble 11mo ago
Canadian Tire Company should be the ones designing the bills, however…
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Who Uses REXX and Where?(rexxinfo.org)
4 points by shrubble 11mo ago|1 comments
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by shrubble 11mo ago
The REXX scripting language originated on the IBM mainframe and is ported to Amiga, OS/2, Linux/Unix and Windows platforms. This is a 2025 survey of who seems to be using it.

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