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by stmw 10d ago
The customers are quite isolated, but it doesn't mean that some services or errors do not propagate. In public cloud terms, think back on some AWS or Azure or even Gmail outages - you probably wouldn't even hear about them if it d
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by stmw 10d ago
Despite all of the snark here, in my experience Salesforce SRE team is quite competent. The engineering challenges of running a large PaaS - not just with own apps, but with millions of customer-written apps running on it - are quite intere
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by stmw 12d ago
One of the important questions to always ask about solar is the energy inputs required to make a solar panel, and the time required to "earn it back" with solar electricity. This is different than "cheap price" because t
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by stmw 13d ago
Indeed, he and Turing and a handful of approximate contemporaries had a very clear view that was wrong only in its timing.
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CIA Releases President's Daily Briefs in Commemoration of 9/11(cia.gov)
155 points by stmw 15d ago|81 comments
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The Thinking Machine (1961) – AI debates 65 years ago [video](youtube.com)
3 points by stmw 15d ago|3 comments
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by stmw 15d ago
"This rare episode of CBS’s Tomorrow series, produced to commemorate MIT’s 100th anniversary (1861–1961), explores the early days of artificial intelligence, robotics, and the potential of “thinking machines.” Hosted by actor David Way
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by stmw 15d ago
Also a good opportunity to read about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radia_Perlman in general (she is mentioned in the blog of course).
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by stmw 15d ago
It's interesting because we learned this lesson with JVM applets, Flash and X controls in the browser, yet somehow insist on revisiting it...
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by stmw 16d ago
JIC! That's funny. It may sound like inefficiency, but really it is an option on future flexibility. Just like the big box of cables.
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Bill Biggart, 9/11 photographer(billbiggart.com)
8 points by stmw 16d ago|1 comments
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by stmw 16d ago
also - https://www.freedomforum.org/remembering-bill-biggart-911-an...
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by stmw 16d ago
It's what JIT (just-in-time) inventory and offshore manufacturing took away from us. Hold onto your spare parts.
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Cherenkov light as a mechanism for light flashes seen by astronauts in space(arxiv.org)
2 points by stmw 19d ago|0 comments
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MIT Science Reporter–"Computer for Apollo" (1965) [video](youtube.com)
2 points by stmw 20d ago|0 comments
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by stmw 24d ago
Thanks for answering, not surprising. I think the transition from all-hardware to Windows-driven digital hard on Tektronix and many other storied engineering teams.
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British Parliament, 1 Sept 1939 – start of WW2(api.parliament.uk)
1 points by stmw 25d ago|0 comments
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by stmw 25d ago
For a brief second, I thought this was about an original 7104. Are there specific TDS models that you have found to be better, btw, reliability-wise?
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CMS Proposes Changes to Incentivize FHIR-Enabled Electronic Prior Authorization(wsgr.com)
1 points by stmw 25d ago|0 comments
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by stmw 1mo ago
Ineed, it's a very good book. Someone should make an animated website version, though.
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by stmw 1mo ago
Which MacOS version are you on, out of curiosity? Do others see the same software issues?
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What Zig felt like, coming from Rust(besok.github.io)
2 points by stmw 1mo ago|0 comments
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by stmw 1mo ago
"Arm was officially founded as a company in November 1990 as Advanced RISC Machines Ltd, which was a joint venture between Acorn Computers, Apple Computer (now Apple Inc.), and VLSI Technology (now NXP Semiconductors N.V). "
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The Official History of Arm(newsroom.arm.com)
4 points by stmw 1mo ago|2 comments
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by stmw 1mo ago
When I say "unavoidable" I mean exactly things like your "a high allocation rate of long-lived objects (as one example), where the work that has to be done requires a significant number of CPU and memory cycles spent on memor
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by stmw 1mo ago
Someone runnning Kubernetes on an old unpatched on-prem Windows box, conducting a "failover test" by pulling one of its power supplies, spilling coffee on the other one, catching their house on fire, and waiting to call the fire d
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by stmw 1mo ago
This is the equivalent of a Kubernetes pod restarting.
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by stmw 1mo ago
To rephrase it: nothing happened, and reactor is back online generating clean electricity. This is the equivalent of a Kubernetes pod restarting.
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by stmw 1mo ago
It is fair that there are many ways to be slow in any number of programming languages. I'm surprised to hear "Rust programs spending 30% of their CPU on memory management even when they're as small as a couple hundreds of tho
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by stmw 1mo ago
Maybe I should've mentioned at the start that I've implemented several GCs and worked on several Java VM implementations, so I am generally familiar with the tradeoffs between GC algorithms and other runtime details. Even in the v

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