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871.
by varjag 2y ago
What is the share of desktop systems among users in 2024?
872.
by varjag 2y ago
Paul is right though. It's dead in the same sense IBM been dead for many decades.
873.
by varjag 2y ago
The whole framing for miltech in the article is infantilizing. The billions of defense R&D spending over decades are right now defending people in the most morally unambiguous war of the recent times. Every dusty Cold War piece of gear
874.
by varjag 2y ago
I disagree. Unmoderated HN would have become 4chan at this point.
875.
by varjag 2y ago
It's easy now. It was an unsolved problem two decades ago. And it's not like there's no technical means for the phones either. Just enforcing caller ID would go a long way to curtail spam. Like in our great Red Tape Europe, e
876.
by varjag 2y ago
BBSes certainly lacked the global reach.
877.
by varjag 2y ago
That's unfortunately not going to work. Electrolytics degrade fairly quick, NVRAMs, backup batteries and even UVEPROMs die with time. On longer periods anything organic (starting with wire insulation) deteriorates.
878.
by varjag 2y ago
It's too bad there's no "cover it with Cosmoline and stash in the barn" option when it comes to electronics.
879.
by varjag 2y ago
Really sad we don't have very good idea what people 4300 years ago were up to.
880.
by varjag 2y ago
Oh spam, the only industry AI had truly revolutionized so far.
881.
by varjag 2y ago
It was in Belarusian govt news at the time where they openly bragged about getting the cables. Really really doubt they wanted to frame Assange for anything as just as Russians they are entirely sympathetic bunch. Notice also how I never sa
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by varjag 2y ago
Here's a summary: https://www.indexoncensorship.org/2011/02/wikileaks-belarus-... It was reported in several major publications as well at the time.
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by varjag 2y ago
I'm not following. Do you think that a confidant or a source from within Al-Q, Taliban or Saudi govt in general should be thrown under the bus?
884.
by varjag 2y ago
I could somewhat follow you until (3). Throwing the confidants and allies under the bus for idle public curiosity is absolutely not an acceptable trade-off.
885.
by varjag 2y ago
Should not have skipped that bail, could have saved a lot of time.
886.
by varjag 2y ago
Right it's all little Bernie elves, nothing can be credited to the sitting president at all.
887.
by varjag 2y ago
There were hardly any wrong things uncovered in the cables though. The most shocking part of them is American civil servants are pretty good at prose.
888.
by varjag 2y ago
What makes you think he values human life? He sent his buddy with the cables to my home country to share with KGB prior to the public release. I hope the rest of his life is equally miserable now that he is a free person.
889.
by varjag 2y ago
Amazing work, not sure how I missed that!
890.
by varjag 2y ago
I think new hot upstarts will find that a combination intricate regulation, physical reality and institutional inertia would only allow them to make a tiny dent over years.
891.
by varjag 2y ago
Yeah that's the thing: neither of them is really standard, and both are fairly expensive. They are also available in very limited mechanical configurations (angle, mounting). Fortunately SPE does not really require either of them. In o
892.
by varjag 2y ago
There is normally no collision detection beyond 10Mbps. Also PoE would not trivially work daisy chained.
893.
by varjag 2y ago
It's not exactly forgotten. There's 2 wire Ethernet/PoE standard (used mostly in automotive) that can be daisy-chained. Designing for it however is non-trivial and few third party devices (again outside automotive market) sup
894.
by varjag 2y ago
It is impressive for sure, but still a lot of other things are. Mirror arrays on JWST, fusion ignition lasers. Diffraction limited optics aren't exactly last year development either: there's a host of other places across several c
895.
by varjag 2y ago
There's a lot of expertise with lasers and precision optics around the world.
896.
by varjag 2y ago
There is no evidence that WFH preference reflects on employee value or productivity in any way.
897.
by varjag 2y ago
No just a few weeks ago, but I update very infrequently on that workstation.
898.
by varjag 2y ago
I don't know, these things were cliche plot devices in 1970s-1980s films and it appears everyone was convinced America headed into Escape From New York future. Naturally, few people had cine/video cameras on them at any time.
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by varjag 2y ago
But this hasn't changed over decades. Policing never was 100% effective and crime was always underreported. Yet if you ask people it's crime getting worse YoY.
900.
by varjag 2y ago
Wouldn't that be pull backward?

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