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by skissane 5mo ago
Interesting... I know about HAL/S being used for the AP-101S Shuttle software, inter alia. I didn't realise it was used for the CII Mitra 125 as well. I would have assumed the Europeans would have used something else.
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by skissane 5mo ago
Do we know anything about the software that ran on it? What language it was developed on, what host platform was used for development, etc? Does any of the code survive?
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by skissane 5mo ago
Smith doesn't actually want to secede – she wants to use the threat of secession to extract concessions from Ottawa. Is that an "unforced error"? Well, it has worked for Quebec.
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by skissane 5mo ago
I think the issue is, what does "constitutional" mean? Does it mean "agrees with what I interpret the constitution to mean" or "agrees with what the constitutional court interprets it to mean"? This law is unco
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by skissane 5mo ago
> Some industrial devices I have worked on in the past turned out to actually be ARM based, running Linux, but the software went a long way to convincingly fake old Windows style UI or emulate a DOS prompt. I was once tasked to extend su
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by skissane 5mo ago
FSKit was released with Sequoia in March 2025. This blog post was written in December 2023—so at the time it was written, FSKit was not yet an option
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by skissane 5mo ago
Autoarchiving repos which nobody has used in X years doesn’t require any AI - you can just write a bot to do it. People don’t, because it isn’t a priority. AI can make writing such a bot a bit easier, but can’t help much with getting approv
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by skissane 5mo ago
In my personal experience, give it a decade or two, and any corporation will accumulate hundreds (or even thousands) of abandoned internal repos containing discontinued services, POCs/prototypes that never went anywhere, etc – people f
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by skissane 5mo ago
They don’t need to ban bitcoin use - they just declare paying “insurance” or “tolls” to the Iranian government to be a sanctions violation, irrespective of the means of payment. Then this becomes a complete non-starter for any US company, a
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by skissane 5mo ago
The problem with bitcoin for this-it is very traceable. The US government can declare paying Iran Hormuz “insurance” to be a sanctions violation (they probably already have). Any Western company - even non-US - paying this “insurance” will
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by skissane 5mo ago
> Where my_thread is a pointer to the current Fil-C thread, which Fil-C passes around as the first argument in all calls. Does this just mean you reserve a register for the current thread? In which case you could explain it as a reserved
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by skissane 5mo ago
You are misinterpreting what I was saying. Critics and judges are two different groups. My point was, if they changed their operations a bit, judges would find it much harder to rule against – but that change wouldn't satisfy most of t
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by skissane 5mo ago
> If you look at the lawsuits against them, they almost all fit that pattern: someone (often elderly) who heard the kids singing on the radio, had a junk car, and figured they'd go help some underprivileged kids. If they shifted the
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by skissane 5mo ago
And Python: https://www.ibm.com/products/open-enterprise-python-zos And node.js: https://www.ibm.com/products/sdk-nodejs-compiler-zos And Go: https://www.ibm.com/products/open
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by skissane 5mo ago
Basing it off UTC+01:00 instead of UTC was an extremely silly decision. The idea was never likely to take off to begin with, but for me that caused me to not even take it seriously. Yes the prime meridian is somewhat arbitrary and a histori
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by skissane 5mo ago
People started posting about it on X approximately 30 minutes ago: https://x.com/Woitot01/status/2054056571492278729 Given it is a distributed system, it probably was down for some people longer than it was for ot
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by skissane 5mo ago
The "test" query in the link actually works for me But I do get the error message for some other queries
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by skissane 5mo ago
Maybe they have a non-standard interpretation of thumbs-down – as "thumbs-down to this fact" not "thumbs-down to you for pointing it out"
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by skissane 5mo ago
The more control Iran exercises over the Hormuz, the greater the motivation for the Gulf States and Iraq to build alternative transport links (oil and gas pipelines, rail) which bypass it. In the short-term, it gives Iran a big advantage, b
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by skissane 5mo ago
> I am curious how electricity is priced. Why are more and more utility providers charge based on ‘infrastructure cost’ or ‘fixed platform fee’ instead of usage fee? This is also happening in Australia. I wonder if it is a similar story
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by skissane 5mo ago
> So they introduced text and binary modes for files on DOS It actually long predates DOS C stdio is descended from Mike Lesk’s “portable IO package” (original release circa 1973). Bell Labs ported their C compiler from Unix to Honeywell
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by skissane 5mo ago
It isn’t just about the letter of the law, it is also about judicial attitudes-two countries can have the same law on paper, but with radically different applications in practice, to the point that it isn’t really the same law. Yes, in many
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by skissane 5mo ago
I think in practice contracts to provide civilian personnel to the Pentagon contain clauses limiting the nature and location of the work - the Pentagon can’t contract for a clerical assistant in DC and then demand they go to Iraq to provide
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by skissane 5mo ago
Those acts are allowed by Anthropic’s terms-they aren’t domestic mass surveillance, and (to the best of my knowledge) any AI targeting decisions were approved by a human in the loop. Anthropic’s terms weren’t “don’t do anything illegal” the
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by skissane 5mo ago
You have to distinguish between political rhetoric (“woke”) and the substance of the dispute The substance: traditionally, defense contracts don’t have clauses in them limiting what the military can do with the acquired technology. If Boein
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by skissane 5mo ago
> No. Its because has chancery court which is a court based on equity not a court based on common law. This is somewhat confused. Most common law jurisdictions merged their courts of law and courts of equity into a single unified court s
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by skissane 6mo ago
I'm always sceptical of studies which look at a single diagnosis rather than pooling multiple related diagnoses, because the boundaries between them are so fuzzy Here's a similar study from some years back which doesn't have
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by skissane 6mo ago
> I think you're conflating opinions about when math is useful with opinions on the nature of math itself. Formalism does not assume that "all rules are equally valid" I think you're misinterpreting what I was saying.
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by skissane 6mo ago
Your response essentially assumes formalism - mathematics is a game with rules (axioms, inference rules, etc), and all rules are in themselves equally valid, it is just a question of whether the game they produce is playable (i.e. produces
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by skissane 6mo ago
A USB floppy drive behaves almost identically to a USB hard drive-yet another SCSI block device. The cost of keeping support for them is minimal This is very different from legacy PC floppy drive controllers which spoke a completely differe

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