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The Apple Disk II Controller Card (2021)(bigmessowires.com)
92 points by stmw 3mo ago|27 comments
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Stanford's Hoover Inst: "The Wealth Tax: Recipe for Economic Disaster"Lionaire [video](youtube.com)
2 points by stmw 3mo ago|6 comments
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A data race that doesn't compile(corentin-core.github.io)
26 points by stmw 4mo ago|8 comments
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Rust Foundation Welcomes OpenAI as Platinum Member(rustfoundation.org)
2 points by stmw 4mo ago|0 comments
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by stmw 4mo ago
Not for this data, but in the past, yes - there is persistent pressure to do that for any maker of password managers, be it independent, in-browser or in-OS. (Source: I was a cofounder of a company that made a password manager as part of ou
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by stmw 4mo ago
“When building structures are designed and built to required codes and standards, they have margins against failure, meaning they should be able to support much more load than they are expected to bear,” said Mitrani-Reiser. “In the case of
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NIST Releases Technical Findings on What Caused 2021 Collapse of Miami Surfside(nist.gov)
5 points by stmw 4mo ago|1 comments
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The Data Systems Group (DSG) at MIT(dsg.csail.mit.edu)
2 points by stmw 4mo ago|0 comments
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by stmw 4mo ago
This is great! We need something similar for knowledgeconstructiond and several other overly insistent Apple software components.
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by stmw 5mo ago
Truly a better time - today we worry about using Rust 'unsafe' too often. They had a smoking room on a hydrogen airship! /j
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Steve Blank: Secret History of Silicon Valley (2008) [video](youtube.com)
3 points by stmw 5mo ago|0 comments
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Who are the Japanese? DNA discovery rewrites history(sciencedaily.com)
3 points by stmw 5mo ago|0 comments
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UFerris a Versatile Learner Board for Rust Embedded Beginners(theembeddedrustacean.com)
22 points by stmw 5mo ago|5 comments
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Cross-platform Rust: how WhatsApp, Signal etc. are shipping Rust to billions(kerkour.com)
1 points by stmw 5mo ago|0 comments
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Why Being Curious and Asking Questions Are Essential in Life [Book](forbes.com)
1 points by stmw 5mo ago|0 comments
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Explorer 1 Overview – first US satellite(nasa.gov)
1 points by stmw 6mo ago|0 comments
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by stmw 6mo ago
Thank you for sharing your story, and I'm so glad it worked out in the end. This story however is also why algorithmic interviews and the supposedly "irrelevant to the real job" programming interviews are not going anywhere
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by stmw 6mo ago
The article includes a link to https://github.com/virtualagc/virtualagc - virtual AGC which is interesting. Although the github repo itself is not new news (see github dates), it's still good news this history is
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Oasis EXtensible Access Control Markup Language TC FAQ(oasis-open.org)
1 points by stmw 6mo ago|0 comments
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by stmw 6mo ago
^ dang This seems to be a fake user with all prior comments being some variation of the above.
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by stmw 6mo ago
Only thing missing is a SCSI hard drive, it's a shame for the Adapter controller to only have the CDROM connected to it. Perhaps an external SCSI RAID array?
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by stmw 6mo ago
They are indeed excellent, as are other MIT engineering publications of that era.
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by stmw 6mo ago
"The name Radiation Laboratory, or "Rad Lab," was chosen to be intentionally deceptive, creating the perception to those on the outside that the laboratory was working on nuclear physics, a discipline that was seen as too imm
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MIT Radiation Laboratory(ll.mit.edu)
43 points by stmw 6mo ago|9 comments
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Berkeley, A Look Back: 75 years ago, Cal dorm housed Army troops(eastbaytimes.com)
1 points by stmw 6mo ago|0 comments
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by stmw 7mo ago
Sad end of an era - not bc there aren't good reasons for it, but bc there was a lot of good opportunities for shared code and skills between NGINX and k8s with this approach.
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by stmw 7mo ago
Fascinating to read a discussion of these matters 10 years ago.
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How/why did AMD/ATI fall behind Nvidia? (2015)(forums.anandtech.com)
2 points by stmw 7mo ago|1 comments
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by stmw 7mo ago
Agree re: different types of JITs producing wildly different results but don't agree about language semantics - even a Java JIT has to give up speed due to certain seemingly minor language and JVM issues. So both matter - no matter how
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by stmw 7mo ago
Some languages are much harder to compile well to machine code. Some big factors (for any languages) are things like: lack of static types and high "type uncertainty", other dynamic language features, established inefficient exten

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