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by vaxman 5y ago
REST IN PEACE, LAWRENCE BROOKS! Your life and your Greatest Generation saved New Orleans, the whole of the United States, and without question, the entire world from Axis tyranny!
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by vaxman 5y ago
Cook came from a PC maker. The game played against Apple for decades prior to that point was Microsoft racing all of the PC makers in China against Apple. So to prevent Google from doing that with iPad and iPhone, Cook bought up all the man
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by vaxman 5y ago
I believed her but don’t find it an affirmative defense. Hope she gives up her baby for adoption —you know, like happened to… Steve Jobs.
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by vaxman 5y ago
They must put the capital to work in building the replacement for Shenzhen/Guangdong or they’re going to fall as soon as investors realize the risk of them being subject to “sudden death.” (This is not the same thing as the 40 years of
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by vaxman 5y ago
Amiga was assured world domination (due to physics) until somethingBad happened. A fight in the boardroom led to the CEO who orchestrated this path quickly departing the company and hiring an Indian to create a knock-off which they then mar
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by vaxman 5y ago
Are you rubbing our face in it, or are we allowed to comment freely? (I doubt we are allowed to comment freely about this here.)
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by vaxman 5y ago
“And I still know Kung Fu”
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by vaxman 5y ago
UCSD P System comes full circle Back to the Future
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by vaxman 5y ago
> How would that even work? https://youtu.be/g1L3spfQZc4
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by vaxman 5y ago
Again, both NVMe modules are likely to fail simultaneously when used in a RAID-1 mirror on the same chassis, controller and PSU, under the same workload, especially if they are the same model and age.
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by vaxman 5y ago
What I actually wrote: “[Taiwan refugees] can help [USA] rebuild the infrastructure [of] Shanghai and Guangdong in Ohio Valley, Mojave/Sonora or Alaska regions” There is no suggestion that any Taiwanese citizens be forced to relocate,
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by vaxman 5y ago
Is your 64MB memory ECC? Why do you RAID-1 NVMe? They are likely to fail simultaneously so maybe make them independent and schedule regular backups from one volume to the other, or to a remote disk drive somewhere.
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by vaxman 5y ago
Suggest learning about Unified Memory Architecture (history, features and limitations) --not so much benchmarks of "$50K Server" from Armenia. TL;DR: If you're okay with the non-Windows world, there are few reasons (other tha
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by vaxman 5y ago
Good point. How to classify: 'Don't risk catching Omicron and passing on to others who may die by going to see the latest, widely panned, episode of The Matrix starring Doogie Howser as a psychotherapist, a middle aged woman as an
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by vaxman 5y ago
IIRC they were all written on PDP and cross-compiled to Z80/8080 and later the 8086. I heard Billy wrote his BASIC interpreter dialed into a PDP from a motel room in Arizona while living off $100K his famous dad gave him to “get lost”
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by vaxman 5y ago
Keep everything distributed thru Amazon bc it will make it easier to incrementally swap out the producers with new ones setting up in Mojave/Sonora, Ohio Valley, etc. Next 3T biz is recreating the Chinese supply chain in America bc the
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by vaxman 5y ago
Headless MythTV Backend on a low power m1max-64GB with 8 USB3.1 ports would be perfect. I sure as hell would never run a mission critical data processing app on those chips, but like Amiga, they are built for A/V, ML and rendering work
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by vaxman 5y ago
What is the end game in allowing PROC nationals into American universities? Even without a kinetic confrontation, current trends indicate PROC will dominate the world economy, ocean navigation, the African and part of South American contin
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by vaxman 5y ago
To answer your question with a question, why aren't tech people paid like Lakers? Wouldn't changes to APIs and the language allow Big Tech to leverage what they've learned from decades of "herding cats", but that no
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by vaxman 5y ago
Lemme get this straight: They created a deep learning system that is provably flawed in a way that makes it easy for drivers to show economic damages and they have resources with which to pay those damages? What am I missing here? They hope
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by vaxman 5y ago
See also https://www.nordicsemi.com/News/2019/12/Rust-a-security-prog... PS: Holy crap! For the first time in my 40+ year career I have clicked-thru from a semi-relevant article about Rust on a micro p̵r̵o̵c̵
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by vaxman 5y ago
Remember that in the "old days", computers were very expensive and the selection of operating system and languages was almost always made by business executives based on money and trade press. Workers would typically have NO say i
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by vaxman 5y ago
PHP is still used by pubescent future billionaires and the now mid-career professionals that began their journey during the free market anomaly of 1995-2000 (an anomaly brought to you by The Architect of the Dystopia, a man worthy of an ant
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by vaxman 5y ago
> I actually founded /r/fortran as a joke WATFOR it..
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by vaxman 5y ago
You're my hero, but I hope this evolves into your own SOC design that features a 32-bit variant (no overlays!) with 45 I/O pins, WiFi, BLE and NFC. :)
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RSTS/E an entire PDP-11 operating system written in BASICPlus > Not sure why this is on HackerNews. Well, I think it's awesome but the modern world should look away, those wanting to break from current conventions would want to
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by vaxman 5y ago
Just to test out an SSH client? (Tip: rPi has plenty of SSH clients) And what’s with the downvotes? You’re talking about exploring Classic MacOS on an rPi not the subject of the OP.
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Once again Wired reminds us that controversy sells clicks. The barrier to entry to compete with Facebook is too high, they have too much power over humanity and they are alleged to have abused that power, so they will be scaled back, just l
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Nope. You want to run a Classic MacOS emulator on rPi to test SSH for MacOS, but that makes no sense.
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Blame Sean Fanning for causing software companies to incur liability for misuse of peer to peer technology at a rather pivotal point in the development of the Internet. If not for those court rulings, there would have been background info s

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