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by synack 6y ago
One of the "Steelman" requirements that Ada was built to satisfy was that any program should be able to be represented with a subset of ASCII that would be compatible with the largest range of terminals, teletypes, and punched car
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by synack 6y ago
I wish Rust had Ada's type system. It makes a lot of sense to define types specific to your algorithms and have the storage type determined at compile time.
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by synack 6y ago
If you need an excuse, the Make With Ada competition is ongoing. https://www.eejournal.com/industry_news/adacores-fifth-annua...
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by synack 6y ago
There was a recent reddit AMA with some SpaceX engineers that confirmed that they run a buildroot system with RT patches for most things, and a handful of microcontrollers for the timing critical stuff.
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by synack 6y ago
This is why you need to invest in people and training. The likelihood of finding someone that knows your specific blend of technologies is slim, but there are plenty of people that are willing to learn.
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by synack 6y ago
Incident says it's affecting anything that uses Cloud Storage, which I'm guessing is most things. https://status.cloud.google.com/incident/zall/20007 Edit: New incident number https://status.c
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by synack 6y ago
Is there a case to be made for developing new software on VMS or is this purely for legacy applications?
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by synack 6y ago
https://netsplit.de/networks/ https://netsplit.de/channels/popular.php
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by synack 6y ago
Just recently I collected all of the archives of comp.lang.ada I could find and imported them into a public-inbox repository. There's a gap around 1992 that I couldn't find a copy of, but it's otherwise complete. It took a fe
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The war heats up over Seattle’s attempts to regulate Uber and Lyft drivers’ pay(sccinsight.com)
1 points by synack 6y ago|0 comments
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by synack 6y ago
I can't change my NS records to point to a different DNS provider because my registrar, Namecheap, also uses Cloudflare. Didn't expect that.
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by synack 6y ago
Usenet's still around, but the signal to noise ratio is low and the lack of moderation is a real problem.
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by synack 6y ago
(2019)
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by synack 6y ago
According to the "Economic Graph" data linked from their press release, there are only four employers hiring in Seattle and half of them are Amazon. I really hope policymakers aren't making decisions based on this data alone.
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by synack 6y ago
IBM's documentation specifies 10 years shelf life for the tapes in non-ideal storage conditions and 30 years if kept in stable temperature/humidity. Even the most reliable hard drives only come with a 5 year warranty, so yeah, you
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by synack 6y ago
I bought a Fibre Channel LTO-5 drive and HBA off eBay a few months ago for $211.81, including cables and a power supply. New LTO-5 tapes are $8/TB right now, whereas the cheapest spinning disks are around $15/TB. At those prices,
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by synack 6y ago
Banks tend to be pretty risk averse and will maintain working code for as long as they can before adopting new technology.
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Mars Helicopter Presentation (2019)(youtube.com)
1 points by synack 6y ago|1 comments
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F´ a Flight Software and Embedded Systems Framework(nasa.github.io)
2 points by synack 6y ago|0 comments
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by synack 6y ago
https://aviation.stackexchange.com/
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The Future of Software Engineering (Grady Booch, 2015)(youtu.be)
2 points by synack 6y ago|0 comments
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Comp.lang.ada archive dating back to 1983(archive.legitdata.co)
1 points by synack 6y ago|0 comments
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by synack 6y ago
Without all the ads: https://www.us-cert.gov/ncas/current-activity/2020/06/16/rip...
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Autonomous Train Control Systems: A First Approach [video] (2019)(youtube.com)
1 points by synack 6y ago|0 comments
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by synack 6y ago
What am I looking at?
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by synack 6y ago
Ah, the Plan 9 bits I was remembering are actually in Inferno... http://www.vitanuova.com/inferno/man/4/grid-cpu.html
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by synack 6y ago
This reminds me of OpenMOSIX, which implemented a good chunk of POSIX in a distributed fashion. MPI also comes to mind, but it's more focused on the IPC mechanisms. I always liked Plan 9's approach, where every CPU is just a file
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by synack 7y ago
Given enough time I'm sure we can figure it out. The problem is that they're not looking for archaeologists, they're looking for people who lived among the dinosaurs.
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by synack 7y ago
"The GNAT project started in 1992 when the United States Air Force awarded New York University (NYU) a contract to build a free compiler for Ada to help with the Ada 9X standardization process. The 3-million-dollar contract required th
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by synack 7y ago
https://twitter.com/mulligan/status/1239774408173969413

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