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by vajrabum 3y ago
I so have this problem. I was better before the days of edit, cut and paste in small textboxes, but still.
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by vajrabum 3y ago
Well maybe, but with Windows maybe they shouldn't think about power users but power buyers. And power buyers (i.e. medium to large enterprises) care about security, maintainability, backward compatibility, and supportability and yeah l
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by vajrabum 3y ago
It also maybe implies that the selective service is responsible for it's own funding and ignores that it's entire a creature of DoD and Congress. It's hardly a bureaucracy run amok for its own purposes. The funding in 2022 wa
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by vajrabum 3y ago
Looking at Oxide, aren't hyperconverged computing solutions a product category? Looks like Oxide's yearly revenue is on the order of $15M/year with about $45M of Series VC cash. So these folks might be smart but they've
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by vajrabum 3y ago
Interesting and disturbing I set up 2 factor with a token in Authy for Paypal a few years back and I never click the 'leave me logged in' link to prevent anything at all like this.
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by vajrabum 3y ago
Uh no. Xerox made billions from the laser printer. And yes they missed capturing all the profit but it was crazy profitable. https://www.forbes.com/sites/gregsatell/2015/03/21/how-parc-...
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by vajrabum 3y ago
Yes, somebody owns the water rights which are separable from and often senior to land ownership. The details of how that works varies quite a bit from state to state and jurisdiction to jurisdiction and may be spelled out in your property d
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by vajrabum 3y ago
Looks like a good counter-example. According to this article the decline in cost is due to materials and chemistry R&D, and less economy of scale. https://news.mit.edu/2021/lithium-ion-battery-cost-1122
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by vajrabum 3y ago
Here's what Wirth wrote about it in retrospective, and yes it was explicitly designed as a teaching language with a syntax suitable for a recursive descent one pass compiler http://youtu.be/5RyU50qbvzQ
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by vajrabum 3y ago
Freetards? Do you make money from an OS, compiler or similar infrastructure? If not, then your employer would in my opinion be making a mistake to send $$$ to a vendor of same unless they're in a very special niche. One of the only end
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by vajrabum 3y ago
Systems engineer here, I haven't worked at a company that pays for Linux support in 12 years and this was at scale (10K+ servers). You don't need IBM or Canonical to get patches or a heads up about major vulns. Several ways to go
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by vajrabum 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OODA_loop
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by vajrabum 3y ago
Google CFO
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by vajrabum 3y ago
Being publicly against same sex marriage is a business liability in San Francisco.
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by vajrabum 3y ago
In a well designed database system (hardware!) you aren't going to use the same CPU, disk or controller to write the log and the data structure. So the performance penalty if any is going to be low.
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by vajrabum 3y ago
Mainframes or minicomputers of course, mostly from IBM (mainframe) and DEC (minicomputers). There were other players and IBM sold minis and DEC sold mainframes but those two dominated those two niches.
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by vajrabum 3y ago
Housing in San Francisco, the Penninsula and Silicon Valley is constrained by the fact that it's rich, already built out and there isn't anywhere else to expand to at the edge of town because of water or hills. People commute from
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by vajrabum 3y ago
The article's example of a Fortran program is an anachronism. In 1975, what we had was Fortran IV which didn't have any of the structuring stuff shown in the example. This example of Fortran IV shows where most of BASIC came from
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by vajrabum 3y ago
In 1975 there was no QBasic which according to Wikipedia was delivered in 1991. And pretty much no microcomputers.
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by vajrabum 3y ago
Dijkstra was in fact talking about something very close to the original Darmouth BASIC. In 1975 all the other BASICs, like for example the CDC one I used, looked pretty similar to the original. And the differences back then were much smalle
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by vajrabum 3y ago
Here's the paper behind the story. There is some interesting detail there. From their result it seems that this sort of mechanism can be constructed with a wide range of materials both organic and inorganic. So there a lot of possibili
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by vajrabum 3y ago
That's exactly why DoD kept bringing Grace Hopper out of retirement first in 1967. They eventually gave her a star in the 80s, and along the way she was as responsible as anyone for the standardization efforts for COBOL and Fortran inc
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by vajrabum 3y ago
Here's the paper behind the PR announcement. Some interesting bits but I wasnt able to figure out anything about the possible cost to operate the device https://www.nature.com/articles/s44221-023-00139-9
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by vajrabum 3y ago
Well the context of the article is at the time recent, buggy implmentations of ssl and other security protocols which were at the time unproven security protocols, and government entities providing black-box crypto with either explicit or
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by vajrabum 3y ago
I can't find any evidence this happened. What I did find evidence for is that Redditors started a manhunt leading to a suicide. If you actually believe this happened, please inform us.
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by vajrabum 3y ago
well this is a saber rattling wannabe nuclear weapons state. If you look at the history of deals between the US and the DPRK and that of missile launches then you'll likely conclude they don't negotiate in good faith. They also fr
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by vajrabum 3y ago
Maybe, but the chronology is a little off--Franz Anton Mesmer (1734-1815) famous for mesmerism (hypnosis).
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by vajrabum 3y ago
/etc/shadow was born not because /etc/passwd had a plain text password but because the hashes became crackable and /etc/passwd is a public read file. Linux has never had them. Here's the man page indicati
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by vajrabum 3y ago
That's not exactly true. China has a firewall which restricts access to the internet at large so you can't use Tiktok or Instagram for that matter in China. Tiktok and Douyin (Tiktok in China) are essentially the same app. Douyin
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by vajrabum 3y ago
From the article it seems the CWA union has been trying to organize the workforce just prior to this announcement and has filed a complaint with the nrlb, so maybe this is union busting? The article not only mentions RTO but also a relocati

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