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by stinkbeetle 2mo ago
People think lots of things are good boat names. There's no reason there couldn't have more than one Unsinkable that hadn't sunk, and most boats aren't retired by sinking, so Unsinkable II would fit right in.
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by stinkbeetle 2mo ago
> FX!32 was good compared to what was available elsewhere (including for Itanium IIRC). I am not saying it had to compete with fully with x86 on consumer desktops from beginning, but it would have been more stable position, especially wi
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by stinkbeetle 2mo ago
Not true, they all did workstations. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPARCstation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_RS/6000 https://www.reddit.com/r/vintagecomputing/c
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by stinkbeetle 2mo ago
> I think you're right overall that Itanium is used too often as the reason why all the RISC platforms died/were cancelled, as if they would have had healthy futures had Itanium simply not existed, but I do wonder about Alpha.
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by stinkbeetle 2mo ago
FX!32 was not good. DEC's own paper only provided results for "Byte Benchmark" (nbench) which is a few trivial compute kernels. Even that most favorable test they could find showed 500MHz 21164A performed about the same as a
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by stinkbeetle 2mo ago
Yes NeXT/Apple survive, although they commodity m68k CPUs, not quite your traditional UNIX minicomputer. Those were IBM, Sun, HP, DEC, maybe SGI. Designed their own ISAs, CPUs, interconnect fabric, 3 of them did their own silicon manuf
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by stinkbeetle 2mo ago
Oh you must be right, I mix up my time lines. In any case the economics were more or less the same as Alpha as for the others. They couldn't support integrated silicon manufacturing. It wasn't even just the manufacturing (which co
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by stinkbeetle 2mo ago
AMD did launch amd64 server chips. The first ones were Opteron, first (and only until Nehalem) x86 with ODMC, glueless multiprocessor up to 8-way (though that was a bit flakey, 4-way was decent), and first dual core. It destroyed Intel&#x27
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by stinkbeetle 2mo ago
Paper-Itanium is unfairly blamed / credited with that, but it's not exactly true. The vertically integrated RISC/UNIX minicomputer companies were not on economically viable trajectories. x86 systems were undercutting their hi
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by stinkbeetle 2mo ago
If it uses the Linux kernel then it is Linux, that's where the name comes from. Android is no less Linux than RedHat or Debian is (when Debian is using Linux rather than FreeBSD kernel or Hurd, of course).
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by stinkbeetle 2mo ago
> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37385826 This man has sixteen hundred videos of riding up and down elevators and is still going strong. Amazing. I love how Grandma was willing to ride random elevators and feature
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by stinkbeetle 2mo ago
Since I can't edit that message - it seems SpaceX is now intending to recover Starship. I am standing by to be wrong / impressed.
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by stinkbeetle 2mo ago
> Any sources? https://www.reuters.com/technology/space/spacex-talks-land-r... > What was their response? Not sure. As far as I know the US is very supportive of SpaceX for space supremacy and Australia woul
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by stinkbeetle 2mo ago
You destroyed your auto industry by ceding it to countries with higher emission intensity of production. USA, China, Japan have higher intensity than even Germany which is on the upper end of Western European countries. That's not st
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by stinkbeetle 2mo ago
It fills the pockets of grifters.
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by stinkbeetle 2mo ago
You can have a hardline position on the tools you create or use but while we're on the subject of ethics I don't know how you can say you should be the decider of what other people make sell or use. In my opinion, it seems to be y
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by stinkbeetle 2mo ago
> Of course it's pretending. And I have repeatedly told these things to stop pretending being persons with selves ... then they do, for a while. In what way do you believe you are being deceived or it is "pretending" to yo
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by stinkbeetle 2mo ago
I see you've never had a run-in with a blowhard in a position of power. Lucky.
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by stinkbeetle 2mo ago
It might be possible. Allegedly they had previously asked the Australian government about towing the ship back to a port. Marine recovery can be much more difficult than it might seem though. Towing this nearly 200ft structure weighing a de
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by stinkbeetle 2mo ago
> I learnt earlier that claude forcefully closes a conversation if you call it a wanker too many times in a row. How exactly does it forcefully close a conversation? > Pretending that LLMs are capable of being offended feels like a mi
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by stinkbeetle 2mo ago
Weaving fabric and sewing clothes has been "solved", but there is no shortage of garbage quality shirts.
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by stinkbeetle 2mo ago
Yes, similarly the other side of people who survived authoritarian governments.
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by stinkbeetle 3mo ago
The alternatives are the L0 emulates a hypervisor-privileged mode to the L1 which would be a performance cost (and does not really avoid the problem since the L0 would have to emulate vmenter/vmrun and therefore be aware of the L2 anyw
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by stinkbeetle 3mo ago
I can almost guarantee it would not be an improvement.
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by stinkbeetle 3mo ago
Tell me exactly what part of what I wrote you're struggling with and I will try to make it simpler for you.
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by stinkbeetle 3mo ago
China produces far more absolute emissions than USA. I love how the intelligentsia claim without evidence that that per-capita is the important and moral metric when you talk about total emissions, then all of a sudden absolute emissions ar
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by stinkbeetle 3mo ago
> And the consumption habits of the USA are responsible for how many more tonnes of CO2 emissions that are not onshore within the USA ? Probably quite a few thanks to globalist politicians among all major political parties to offshore pr
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by stinkbeetle 3mo ago
USA is around 18th country in CO2 emissions per capita, and has reduced emissions per capita around as much as the combined EU since 2000, or a little more. Can't see how some random politician is "to blame", that's pret
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by stinkbeetle 3mo ago
Well the metric you replied to was rail network size, and was correct about the USA having the largest. "Rail performance" would more typically be measured by ton miles or tonne miles, not "tonnage". Australia still does
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by stinkbeetle 3mo ago
"Australia" doesn't really set records, multinational mining companies do. The records might as well be set on another planet. There is virtually no population, roads or utilities, no agricultural land beyond low density catt

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