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by uticus 2y ago
This strikes a chord with me, perhaps because I'm one of the people who "feel that government isn't working for them." - government spending has been rampant and completely disconnected from available funds - "shutd
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by uticus 2y ago
> The move...could also upend the balance of power...putting Arm into competition with some of its biggest customers. This is what I don't understand. Why is this even being considered by Arm exec team?
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by uticus 2y ago
duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43045010
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Ask HN: Best language for heritage legal algorithm?
1 points by uticus 2y ago|0 comments
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by uticus 2y ago
seems such laws would benefit the prices in neighboring areas, as 'non-cage-free' producers seek available markets. but i have not seen this to be the case, strangely.
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by uticus 2y ago
> they are now often cheaper...increase the resilience of the system as a whole cheaper and resilience are not proportional here. in fact, cheaper is proportional to efficient, which large producers are better at (apart from questions of
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by uticus 2y ago
question: why hasn't this had a side effect of raising food prices in general? a significant percentage of foodstuffs involve eggs.
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by uticus 2y ago
even just building logic gates out of transistors is half the battle. for that, the referenced site also has https://www.megaprocessor.com/stepping-stones.html
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by uticus 2y ago
nice - reminds me of the excellent "Computer Organization & Design" by Patterson and Hennesy https://a.co/d/9U9Adl9
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by uticus 2y ago
I know of IPC, but it has never occurred to me to view as an alternative to shared libraries. It's an intriguing viewpoint I'm having trouble wrapping my mind around. Are there battle-tested real-life examples of IPC being used wh
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by uticus 2y ago
some info came across discord for https://cyboard.digital/ about this last year, very similar concept.
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by uticus 2y ago
very nice. > As the number of components in circuits grew, the number of manufacturing steps also grew, and manufacturing error rates multiplied—a device with one thousand components, each of which a skilled worker could connect with 99.
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by uticus 2y ago
Probably more jobs available for language VHDL (influenced by Ada) than Ada itself. Of course as a hardware description language you're on the hardware side of things. Also, worth noting it's more popular in Europe (Verilog seem
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by uticus 2y ago
Philosophically this is a fair point but practically it is not. Eventually any programmer will start relying more and more on tools to help with skim/read/comprehend code bases, no matter the language. There's a reason that e
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by uticus 2y ago
> I think most applications of Ada are in embedded systems... Ada is heavily used and carries a historical influence not only with embedded software space, but also with hardware space: VHDL is one of the two major hardware description
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Scale Model of Boeing 777-300ER, Made from Manila Folders(lucaiaconistewart.com)
561 points by uticus 2y ago|100 comments
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by uticus 2y ago
> Aside from the sheer size of the new aircraft, which we will address in a moment, the most striking thing about it is its planform and tailless configuration. > Maybe the aircraft’s most unusual feature is its air intake arrangement
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China's new long range stealth aircraft makes appearance(ukdefencejournal.org.uk)
18 points by uticus 2y ago|1 comments
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by uticus 2y ago
Thank you for the quiet work, appreciated
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by uticus 2y ago
Seems like a great way to get Ruby + UI/graphics
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by uticus 2y ago
Does this approach still support modulo?
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Russian General Accused of Using Chemical Weapons Assassinated by Ukraine(twz.com)
4 points by uticus 2y ago|0 comments
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American forces shoot down ballistic missile in test(ukdefencejournal.org.uk)
2 points by uticus 2y ago|0 comments
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by uticus 2y ago
You are correct technically, but the implication that you must sacrifice speed or static typing is practically incorrect: faster on startup than .NET [0]. You can get benefits similar to static typing in for a while now [1]. [0] tested loca
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by uticus 2y ago
So first, nicely done. But second, why have an OS at all if running only one program and supports only one ISA? "The operating system is another concept that is curious. Operating systems are dauntingly complex and totally unnecessary.
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by uticus 2y ago
> Salt Typhoon also compromised wiretapping systems used by law enforcement – although that wasn't the focus of the spying intrusions... Not too hard to pick up on the Vulture's underlining here: when the need for sovereign sur
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by uticus 2y ago
> Orbits are exactly regular, by definition. Orbital parameter changes do happen but are rare. How does that match up with [0]? "... a satellite that stalks other satellites, started another relocation move on July 22, leaving its p
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by uticus 2y ago
Assembly is so much cleaner on an STM8 8-bit. If you’re into that sort of masochism
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by uticus 2y ago
> the Apollo missions maintained a 48kbps data connection via a UNIVAC on the ground Intrigued by this. Found this [0] with more details, anyone know of others? [0] https://www.zdnet.com/article/to-the-moon-ibm-and-u
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by uticus 2y ago
> which suggest to me less that a single ancestor existed at that time than that that ancestor's descendents out-competed I’m not smart enough to get this. Why would it decrease the emphasis on a single ancestor? The suggestion

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