tw1984

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by tw1984 3y ago
I was trying to figure out whether I can run golang on that unix environment.
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by tw1984 3y ago
where is the go port for pdp-11/v6 kernel?
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by tw1984 3y ago
Not sure who is that Patrick guy, but that is a horrible long piece of junk with literally no info in it. Other than the mention of AI, there is nothing concrete. I don't know what is the motive, but clearly that Patrick guy is creatin
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by tw1984 3y ago
amazing article! best read in 2023.
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by tw1984 3y ago
> x86 and ARM are well maintained because they're 30-40 years old, but Power (it's not an acronym anymore) is not because it's 35 years old? I don't know how/why you came up with such strange idea. x86 and ARM ar
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by tw1984 3y ago
> Seeing as they kept making SPARC CPUs for a decade longer because there were poor customers stuck in the SPARC trap. it would them huge to move to a different ISA and there is usually no $ return for doing that. trying not to further d
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by tw1984 3y ago
The point here is that it is pure stupidity on display to cut the number of FPUs to just one, the short lived history of such design is a proof for that.
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by tw1984 3y ago
The same year when SUN decided to use processors from both AMD and Intel to replace its own.
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by tw1984 3y ago
They are just emotional. Certain vintage tech/gears are being linked to those good old days when certain techs (e.g. SMP and Unix) were only available to selected few. The reality is clear here, we are talking about a totally failed IS
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by tw1984 3y ago
AMD64, ARM64, RISC-V. This is not rocket science. No one needs POWER. Museum is a better place for those kind of vintage stuff.
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by tw1984 3y ago
> Using the number of years of a measure of technological relevance, it can be argued that ARM and RISC-V designs are even older than 35 years. I don't know what you are talking about. X86/ARM are highly successful, being 30-40
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by tw1984 3y ago
> It's not even particularly necessary for 95% of DB Ops. Let's say I have databases full of some sensor data that need to be processed by some fancy SQL scripts to crunch those numbers. Tell me how I am suppose to get that don
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by tw1984 3y ago
> Have you ever implemented a database? Yes, multiple times, in both American companies and in Chinese startups. > Most operations (filtering, joining, indexing) are purely integer workloads with large working sets that are likely to
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by tw1984 3y ago
the so called POWER architecture covers like 35 years of development, the latest iteration probably implements some of the latest stuff in the area as it is an experimental platform for researchers. it is still a design of yesterday because
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by tw1984 3y ago
> It was designed for the heavily parallel web workloads of the 2000s No. According to its official datasheet, "this processor targets commercial applications such as application servers and database servers". I thought floatin
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by tw1984 3y ago
> I assume that they have extremely solid toolchains available, and the feature sets were obviously mature enough for high end computing, and they've been 64-Bit for a long time. because it is a design that belong to yesterday, init
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by tw1984 3y ago
> Incidently is why the Windows development experience has gotten worse, with most of the work done by interns and people without background in Windows developer culture. the reason why they have to rely on interns to do such "devel
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by tw1984 3y ago
depends on what do you mean by modern computing however, you and I can definitely agree on something here, that is the company known as microsoft is still making money by selling dinosaur "techs", look at its windows, office, visu
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by tw1984 3y ago
it is microsoft, what you can expect from them.
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by tw1984 3y ago
> Apple also refused to use USB-C over lightning until the EU forced them, then came around and told everyone how much better the "new" USB C connector is despite refusing to use it in their phones for nearly a decade. you seem
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by tw1984 3y ago
so microsoft is now teaching people to get the cancer known as linux? for those who don't know, Microsoft openly claimed that "Linux is a cancer" back in 2001. https://www.theregister.com/2001/06/02&
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by tw1984 3y ago
There is a dedicated government department tasked for cracking down all those street vendors/stands, it called the urban management department. It is the department that has the lowest public approval rating in China with its staff reg
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by tw1984 3y ago
When compared to China, the US is getting more and more like a communist country while China is getting more and more into state capitalism. There are facts you just can't deny at all - * far less income inequality in the US. A US soft
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by tw1984 3y ago
> Around here setting up a sausage stand is tightly regulated. Around here, setting up a sausage stand requires special approval from the Prime Minister of the People's Republic of China. That is the exact special & emergency ar
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by tw1984 3y ago
> If you want to make the point that the US is communist, unions are not a great example - they are few and very weak wait a second. unions in the US are weak? what a huge joke! UAW stopped the production of US made cars, asking 40% wage
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by tw1984 3y ago
Using VPNs is very different from selling VPN services for profits. No one got arrested for building & releasing open source VPN software on github.
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by tw1984 3y ago
> VPN usage is rarely prosecuted unless they want to get you on something (a basic thing in rule by law). If they really want to get you on something, using vpn won't be the good excuse anyway as the max penalty is way too low. it i
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by tw1984 3y ago
> Our billionaire Chinese friend can escape to the free world probably because they enjoy the prison food in the free world. check what happened to Guo Wengui. > or buy political influence at home. Jack Ma and Hui Ka Yan won't ag
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by tw1984 3y ago
China is a typical state capitalist country. You don't have the state looking after the wellfares of individuals, you are on your own all the time. $0 handouts during covid pandemic is the best example. You don't have unions stopp
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by tw1984 3y ago
That is not true. You are only allowed to setup businesses that are considered as in non-key sectors. Try setting a private gas station, or an ISP. Good lucky for that. The most recent example is the private tutor business, setting a privat

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