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by shrubble 11mo ago
Fitting given that FORTH was first used to control an 11 meter radio telescope!
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by shrubble 11mo ago
If you’re near Pittsburgh the Large Scale Systems Museum is definitely worth a visit. Working PDP11, VAXes, SGI, IBM midrange and mainframe systems can be booted up and used. The second floor has smaller micros and Macs; not sure if there’s
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by shrubble 11mo ago
Tree shaking in this context is not unlike a compiler: it looks at all the code and determines if it will ever run in the image, eliminating any unnecessary code and delivering the minimal image needed. The code is in a “tree” format like a
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by shrubble 11mo ago
The rule of thumb is that for every penny of gas price at the pump, averaged over the year, it takes $1 billion of consumer spending. So if the gas prices drop by say 20 cents per gallon vs last year, that’s $20 billion more dollars in cons
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by shrubble 11mo ago
Canadian health care sucks but in a different way; so that’s not the solution either. You can look up the wait times for different procedures on the provincial websites. Things you can get in 72 hours anywhere near a decently sized American
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by shrubble 11mo ago
I had them via a previous employer and had serious surgery; they asked me to go through the “get a second opinion” process which was getting all the records to their system and then a virtual/video call, but after that, they paid for e
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by shrubble 1y ago
Solaris had Trusted Extensions for X11 which shipped with Trusted Solaris 8. In 2000. Solaris 10 had it built into the base OS and integrated into both the CDE and GNOME desktops they shipped. With OpenSolaris it was released as open source
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by shrubble 1y ago
The app is not activation-locked to a remote server, from what I can tell. There is nothing stopping the author from buying a 2013 Mac Pro "Trash Can" with 64GB RAM, and running it in perpetuity. RTF import/export won't
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by shrubble 1y ago
Updated my post with a link, thanks.
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by shrubble 1y ago
Israel reportedly has unredacted data feeds from the USA(this was part of the Snowden leaks, Guardian link: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/11/nsa-americans-... ). This means that they can read
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by shrubble 1y ago
A large number of telecom companies have Alcatel routers like the 7750 . My personal thought was that the control plane OS was likely based on Plan9, though I never had access to any source code to verify that.
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by shrubble 1y ago
If you ever get to Colorado Springs, in the shadow of Cheyenne Mountain is a state park, Cheyenne Mountain State Park. While it’s due to the dry conditions, all the trees and shrubs there look twisted and contorted, like a scene from Roadsi
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by shrubble 1y ago
Curious if the architecture is similar to what is called “systolic” as in the Anton series of supercomputers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton_(computer)
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by shrubble 1y ago
The Bind resolver required each zone to have an increasing serial number for the zone. So if you made a change you had to increase the number, usually a timestamp like 20250906114509 which would be older / lower numbered than 202509061
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by shrubble 1y ago
The Etudes book is considered a classic, especially among FSU programmers-the book was licensed for a small amount, translated into Russian and used in many classrooms.
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by shrubble 1y ago
You should expect a lot of friction around having to install the extension; if you can figure out how to do it without the extension, it will lead to faster uptake.
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by shrubble 1y ago
Yes people were complaining in the late 1990s about large plants being bought by the Chinese and then the Clinton administration allowing 20k visas for the Chinese workers to take the plant apart and ship it to China.
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by shrubble 1y ago
The “codefrau” HN user may be Vanessa, based on the comments in the thread you linked.
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Vanessa Freudenberg has passed away (SqueakJS, Croquet, Multisynq)(twitter.com)
31 points by shrubble 1y ago|11 comments
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by shrubble 1y ago
Sun Microsystems famously had this problem with their servers using the UltraSPARC II chips, with cache SRAM that didn’t have ECC. Later versions of their processors had ECC added.
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by shrubble 1y ago
It’s scientifically valid to want to drink raw milk in some cases. However pasteurized milk allows for factory production and raw milk does not. That’s the real reason why it’s banned. The same government that banned raw milk allows Doritos
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by shrubble 1y ago
It's always a good idea to have a tiny amount of swap just in case. Like 1GB.
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by shrubble 1y ago
This is seen in many countries, that the bureaucracy is set up to serve its own needs. They will run normal office hours, yet the people working subsistence jobs are not able to take a day off to handle paperwork when each day they only ear
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by shrubble 1y ago
(not Bryan) Sun did waste a lot of money in buying MySQL, $800 million in cash and $200 million in stock. Certainly a distraction, as well. Sun never offered any way to inexpensively get onto the on-ramp of Sun hardware and software as the
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by shrubble 1y ago
When you take this info and combine it with the ability of Wifi7 routers to "see" where people are in their house, you realize that the recent demo of Anduril's helmet that gives an information display that the soldier/c
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by shrubble 1y ago
I have used wholesaleinternet.net and they are centrally located in the USA.
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by shrubble 1y ago
We’re in the stage where the 8080,8085, Z80, 6502 and 6809 CPUs are all in the market, and the relevant buses are S100, with other buses not yet standardized. You either live with what you’re using or you change around and fiddle with thing
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by shrubble 1y ago
When a router is used you still do see the MAC address but only of the directly connected next hop/device. If another router, then it would change the headers appropriately.
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by shrubble 1y ago
I was under the impression that there’s a seamless compatibility layer for running X11 under Wayland?
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by shrubble 1y ago
Windows 11 has many GUI failures. In my work I have to do screenshots: the Windows+Shift+S combo takes a noticeable time to come up, and when taking screenshots it doesn’t always bring the image to the foreground. I have had to wait as long

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