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by sllabres 11mo ago
If you are (obviously) interested in the matter you might find one of the Bell Labs articles discussed on HN: "Why Bell Labs Worked" [1] "The Influence of Bell Labs" [2] "Bringing back the golden days of Bell Labs&q
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by sllabres 11mo ago
And the (early) availability of well made library, LibTIFF by Sam Leffler. I used it extensively from 1995 on, but only found out that according to Wikipedia is dates back to 1988!
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by sllabres 1y ago
I don't want to be petty, but there is no 'winter time', only standard time and summer time or 'daylight saving time'. I first heard the term 'winter time' when it was discussed to decide weather to keep D
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by sllabres 1y ago
A nice collection of die shots is on Fritzchens Fritz [1] on flickr [1] https://www.flickr.com/photos/130561288@N04/albums/721576504...
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by sllabres 1y ago
Look around where the camera is: https://maps.app.goo.gl/1xod6tQmdjNPnsda8
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by sllabres 1y ago
If you have to mirror synchronously the _maximum_ distances for other systems (e.g. storage mirroring with NetApp SnapMirror Synchronous, IBM PPRC, EMC SRDF/S) are all in this range. But an important factor is, that performance will de
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by sllabres 1y ago
From the talk of Samuel Jacques: Timeline for RSA-2048 at about 2088 (conservative extrapolation) or ~2052 (Moore’s‑law‑style growth)
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by sllabres 1y ago
You are right. I'm not working myself on these systems but they are often still called with their older name here due to the frequent renaming... Regarding the processor: yes the processor spare is new to the Power11 but features like
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by sllabres 1y ago
For those who have asked who runs this system: Power systems today run either "AS/400" aka iSeries, IBMs traditional Unix (AIX) or Linux (RedHat or SuSE). In addition to the technical parameters mentioned in the article (an I
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by sllabres 1y ago
Yes. The code (of the last unsolved part) will be auctioned off, not the sculpture itself
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by sllabres 1y ago
What a effort. I did something similar for some pens and different inkjet colors a long time ago, but not nearly as broad or as methodical. The inkjet inks (especially red) were already blown after a short time (>4 months). But black
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by sllabres 1y ago
Show what queries are send to the search engine (by other users) right now
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by sllabres 1y ago
It's not a mile deep, but I think the depth isn't the problem here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asse_II_mine
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by sllabres 1y ago
A lot of work, but with success as reward! Makes you wonder how easy or difficult it will be in 30 years to 'recover' data from today.
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by sllabres 1y ago
I was quite moved by the blog post and the brief explanation. That someone found the time to talk to you is good. Even though we don't know each other, I think of you.
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by sllabres 1y ago
From personal experience I would always recommend an output of how many retries were necessary, if one expect zero. Otherwise the retry loop can hide a problems like an unreliable service or network until it's too late.
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by sllabres 2y ago
List of Workshops at Oberwolfach [1] and the comprehensive Oberwolfach Photo Collection [2] [1] https://www.mfo.de/www/schedule/2025/workshop [2] https://opc.mfo.de/list_years_grouped and ht
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by sllabres 2y ago
What a impressive project and great results! Thanks for sharing here on HN.
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by sllabres 2y ago
this usage of the decimal separator is not a German thing only [1] and globally not very consistent. One third of the world seems to use ".", the other third "," and the others decides with own rules or have own symbols.
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by sllabres 2y ago
Pressed the "end" key on the keyboard and won ;) thanks (Top speed: 127351 km/h)
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by sllabres 2y ago
If one prefers a web page instead of a classical FTP download directory: https://streaming.media.ccc.de/38c3
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by sllabres 2y ago
They operate several different networks for voice communications during the events. From what I found usually DECT, SIP, GSM. [1] They have a status dashboard with metrics during the events. [2] [1] https://events.ccc.de/202
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by sllabres 2y ago
I have once used a airtag to track a parcel. This is now 3 years ago and despite several low batt warnings since about a year ago its still running. So even wit the tiny cell battery the runtime can be quite long.
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by sllabres 2y ago
This was a site with good content and whenever there was a link pointing to AnandTech I knew there was something interesting to discover. Thanks for all the good work!
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by sllabres 2y ago
A long time I used two small consumer cameras mounted on a rail side by side and combined the two photographs on my TV (which was 3D capable with simple passive goggles), which produced quite nice 3D photos. Triggering the two cameras was c
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by sllabres 2y ago
I had a printout of [1] at my office. Of course at is base it is only a simple multiplication table, but nevertheless is reminded me several time that a issue is worth fixing. [1] https://xkcd.com/1205/
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by sllabres 2y ago
I once knew a (very old) old accounting system that had to work around a 64kB limit and therefor used a programmatically generated set of many hundreds batch files batch files calling each other (not containing the program logic of course).
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by sllabres 2y ago
Not even the articles from the webpage you've linked talks about "...big computers (servers) [...] with dumb terminals" nor that the concept of client/server is > The core concept is that you only have 1 computer, th
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by sllabres 2y ago
That is that what I have observed too. Python seems to be used more often to call performance optimized libraries (NumPy, opencv, TensorFlow) and so on. I have seen TCL and LUA more often used the opposite way around: A complied core (e.g.
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by sllabres 2y ago
There is another currently new hacker news thread [1] referencing this post [2] where the influence of the performance of the GIL is evaluated. It seems not so large, of course depending on the tasks performed by the interpreted part. At a

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