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by vaxman 3y ago
"Why iy iy iy, don't you uuuuuuse it?" Seriously tho, when one sees the first word of a Python project with the description "Performant", or a project put Out There by someone with a handle not linked to a bio (even
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by vaxman 3y ago
Note: The Sun has come out of a decade long period of relative inactivity that coincided with the post-dot-com-crash era where Intel had removed ECC functionality from its consumer processors to protect the sales of its business processors
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by vaxman 3y ago
Where is the $80 6GB Apple Pi and Apple CM (that boots Asshat Linux with a Swift compiler and runs a special edition of Swift Playgrounds for Wayland, but is otherwise blacklisted by Apple's own operating systems --except as a BLE targ
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by vaxman 3y ago
How about 'A French guy who likes visiting Thailand writes about the new edition of ESP32 with CCP-compliant firmware'?
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by vaxman 3y ago
You got the first part right, but the second part is not correct. All IBM and Sun products, without exception, were inferior to DEC Alpha and OpenVMS at that time because all of the best wanted to work for DEC. DEC failed only due to the st
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by vaxman 3y ago
https://www.wired.com/1997/10/intel-dec-settle-alpha-chip-di... This. Microsoft Windows NT and Wall Street were already embracing the successor to X86 (called MIPS) in anticipation of X86 hitting the same (CISC) a
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Under Fuchsia, the system wears a headset to operate you!
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> Industry-controlled UNIX is the reason Linux exists Linux only exists because it is free and it runs free apps for every category of keyboard-driven task a typical user would want. The answer to my question of how a predator like IBM i
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by vaxman 3y ago
oh damn, I was about to go hard on an order bc I liked their location and the story. But I need more Chinese fabricated SoCs (which in 2023 are likely are pre-infected) like I need a hole in the head. I’ve seen quite a few crowds wind up in
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by vaxman 3y ago
The founder of DataTree (bought by NYSE:FAF) did something similar and got away with it bc coming forward would have wrecked all the mom n pops as the acquisition fell thru. Of course, the mom n pops turned into nasty bitches as soon as the
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by vaxman 3y ago
Not even close.
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“Best damned car on the lot.” :D
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by vaxman 3y ago
..never mind if it cost the equivalent of several m2ultras discovering what I wrote, -1 doh. OTOH, I don’t believe much of what I read on here because of such direct negative experiences like this (being downvoted on stuff I have first hand
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by vaxman 3y ago
Yep. It’s a good reason to stop using your beta device until the update tho.
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No, those are not affirmative defenses. If you accept the Developer Agreement and receive protected materials under it, you cannot redistribute, publish or stream it because of case law, sorry. I know it’s confusing because of all the littl
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by vaxman 3y ago
“expected” before the 100M users or after? Masticate is dead tech. Pound sand.
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by vaxman 3y ago
Passkeys combat phishing and sell mobile devices that have secure enclaves, tho the mobile operating software is apparently syncing the master key between devices enrolled in the same subscriber account. However, during MOST urban assaults,
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by vaxman 3y ago
In a word, no. Apple has kicked errbody out of kernel space over security concerns, so even companies with 25 years of experience writing network virtualization kernel extensions must now instead use Apple's vastly inferior macOS facil
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by vaxman 3y ago
m1 Mac:mini is about $400 used (sold by vain people). If you are worried it will come with pet hair stuck in the fan blades, pay an extra $100 to buy from a reputable reseller. If you are constrained to software or work in a chair meant for
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by vaxman 3y ago
That's not how it works. The peeps working on the new stuff ARE WORKING ON THE NEW STUFF. This would fall under backports (er, forward ports?)
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by vaxman 3y ago
They have three trillion reasons to protect their IP from appearing on the lenses of a Meta Quest or an HTC Vive. All it takes is for the wrong person to post on Threads or Twitter and a pontificator to bloviate into the wrong podcast and i
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by vaxman 3y ago
It's 2023, there is probably a clause in the Developer Agreement that prevents streaming the materials provided under it to computers that aren't enrolled in the Developer Program. What you are supposing is that they might choose
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by vaxman 3y ago
> Unfortunately there's not enough information available to know if older releases are vulnerable. Assume YES.
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by vaxman 3y ago
Hell, what about newer OSes ...like iOS 17 Beta? visionOS 1 Beta?
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by vaxman 3y ago
Haha. Oh man, if you could see through my eyes (pun intended). Mass production of Vision Pro like products will be the fastest way to $199 A/R devices in the hands of global consumers, without subsidizing hardware costs through the sal
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by vaxman 3y ago
> niche enthusiast markets Once correct, that is no longer a valid assessment in 2023 because of: + Deep and growing concern, in government and at the C-suite level, about software supply chain security which necessarily must include fir
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by vaxman 3y ago
NPR? How would this all go if it is necessary to start rationing access to AWS, Azure and GCP, driving up the cost of hosting applications on them to the point that only well funded organizations can continue doing so? What percentage of &q
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by vaxman 4y ago
You had to be the best of the Best to work for DEC —not a nerd-hipster (like the talented, but not trained or experienced techies at Apple and Microsoft). Apple and Microsoft were all over us trying to get us to quit DEC by falling for the
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by vaxman 4y ago
Will be sold until the end of time, though swapping the hardware out from under the software is a no-brainer. I wonder what this puppy looks like running on a couple 7,529 pin 120 core Intel Xeons —going to need a bigger monitor to run SHOW
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by vaxman 4y ago
ROFL

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