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Next Gen Leonidas High Power Microwave Counter Drone Tech(twz.com)
1 points by uticus 1y ago|1 comments
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by uticus 1y ago
better coverage at https://chipsandcheese.com/p/ibm-power-whats-next?utm_source...
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The Fundamental Failure-Mode Theorem: Systems lie about their proper functioning(devblogs.microsoft.com)
3 points by uticus 1y ago|0 comments
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Matterport walkthrough of the original Microsoft Building 3(my.matterport.com)
71 points by uticus 1y ago|40 comments
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by uticus 1y ago
Microcontroller and LEDs. And maybe buttons. Keep it to 8-bit and chances are you'll be able to navigate the ISA comfortably pretty quickly.
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by uticus 1y ago
It is simple until you need something complex - working on a team, call stack management, memory management (allocate, track, free), working on a team, event handling / non-synchronous interrupts, and working on a team. For a little 8-
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by uticus 1y ago
why do they need telemetry? thought they were only using Go for their rebuild of the TypeScript compiler - normal devs outside MS wouldn't be using, and devs within MS can probably provide the needed telemetry plus more through other c
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Raku: A Language for Gremlins(buttondown.com)
8 points by uticus 1y ago|0 comments
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by uticus 1y ago
i'm amazed he accurately placed the dots. if i were to use the png on the site without dots, i'd have trouble placing them in a lot of areas.
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GBU-57 Mop Test(youtube.com)
5 points by uticus 1y ago|0 comments
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by uticus 1y ago
> make a copy and slightly modify it In addition to not breaking existing code, also has added benefit of boosting personal contribution metrics in eyes of management. Oh and it's really easy to revert things - all I have to do is f
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by uticus 1y ago
Agreed. From the About page: "...we demonstrate the technical feasibility and economical viability of circular business models..." I guess that means circular as in "recycled" parts?
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by uticus 1y ago
> It's such a stupid quote I disagree. Even though we've added layers of abstraction even since then, the quote still reminds me to think "what are we really doing here?" Apart from arguing if it is crazy or genius, I
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by uticus 1y ago
> The operating system is another concept that is curious. Operating systems are dauntingly complex and totally unnecessary. It’s a brilliant thing that Bill Gates has done in selling the world on the notion of operating systems. It’s pr
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by uticus 1y ago
Exactly
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by uticus 1y ago
really enjoyed this article from a few years ago. looks like the domain is no longer active but the content is a good intro and most of the external links still work https://web.archive.org/web/20211215122133/https
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Israeli Commandos Attacked Iranian Air Defenses(twz.com)
6 points by uticus 1y ago|0 comments
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by uticus 1y ago
> registry.npmjs.org is cloudflare... source? looked briefly for info on this but came up with nothing
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by uticus 1y ago
would be interesting to know how downdetector designed to stay up when so many hosting platforms are down
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by uticus 1y ago
not everything, just google. azure, cloudflare... oh wait
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by uticus 1y ago
possibly related to GCP being down? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44260810
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NPM Is Down(status.npmjs.org)
6 points by uticus 1y ago|3 comments
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by uticus 1y ago
> You think the prospect of injuries in among military personell are going to prevent policies and practicalities that increase operational fitness? My point is that someone has to shoulder the costs. I'm not sure I would classify t
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by uticus 1y ago
> Of course, the devil is in the details: the military needs service documentation, detailed schematics, 3D models of parts so they can be manufactured in the field, and so on. This phrase, embedded in a quote touting the benefits, seems
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by uticus 1y ago
Chamber's thesis was '92 if i'm looking correctly ( https://www.cs.tufts.edu/~nr/cs257/archive/craig-chambers/th... ), Ungar's thesis from '86 greatly predates it: https:/&#x
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by uticus 1y ago
not sure about context or timing, but there was work put towards improving performance around the same time: https://archive.org/details/ungar-smalltalk (pub Feb 1986)
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by uticus 1y ago
This is fascinating. I really bought into the original explanation [0], but seems like it was not the (full) truth. [0] https://devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/typescript-native-...
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by uticus 1y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44183845
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by uticus 1y ago
sorry, doesn't apply to US, but does apply to other Western governments (note i'm not endorsing this, just pointing out it exists): https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/dreading-taxes-countries-s...
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by uticus 1y ago
personally i'd prefer a tax system that was easy enough to understand in an hour. like, really simple, instead of a complex bag of sticks and carrots. less waste, less time, more clarity on how much productivity is partitioned off fo

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