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by vaxman 10mo ago
Want me to show you on the doll where he hurt me?
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by vaxman 10mo ago
Where was this when when I was integrating an rPi0-2W into what was once an Avegant Glyph? [project inspired by https://youtu.be/RQeOm3CuUFY ]
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by vaxman 11mo ago
Then what was the comment I quoted?
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by vaxman 11mo ago
Computer/Network gear that is designed, manufactured, sold and distributed by Chinese companies should be assumed to come with MSS-infected microcode, SecureBoot ([U]EFI/BIOS), firmware and/or operating systems that are vulne
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by vaxman 11mo ago
*-"eventually" leaving those public companies no choice but to... Clarifying, because there's no way a company (public or private) is going to reduce the credit line of a major customer until it's obvious that the orders
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by vaxman 11mo ago
OpenAI will go to zero unless it agrees to be acquired because they're messing with public company stock valuations using funky purchase orders leaving those public companies no choice but to cancel their credit (at least unless they g
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by vaxman 11mo ago
TFA had me at "Per ChatGPT:" ROFL FORTH has been used to control deep space telescopes and planetariums --it's a great way to expose instrumentation for high-level access, but that access might not be human anymore, it could
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by vaxman 11mo ago
> i used a chip8 emu I used CHIP8 (on an RCA COSMAC VIP out "in the garage" bought with money from mowing lawns), would never have put it on my resume ROFL. Big Bad FORTRAN programmers would have looked at it and said "awe
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by vaxman 1y ago
If it isn't on the Internet, it didn't happen right? Maybe we can change that... Unix _is_ a play on "eunuchs" but that fact wouldn't have sold well during the mini computer [ https://www.britannica.com&#
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by vaxman 1y ago
This was obsoleted by UWB and Apple’s Nearby Interactions API. https://www.qorvo.com/innovation/ultra-wideband/products/uwb...
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by vaxman 1y ago
We once called that “image activation” before the Industry was taken over by human LLMs in the wake of the dot-com crash.
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by vaxman 1y ago
| | ----> The World of Incus -> https://youtu.be/TzH2L5Bzlh8
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by vaxman 1y ago
excellent post, thank you --a grade above the vast majority of posts on HN childhoodRoomCoveredInSpacePostersAndHangingSolarSystem == YES didVisitVoyagerOneAtJPLasAsoCalKid == YES midWesternUniversityFacultyNeverBelievedMe == YES
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by vaxman 1y ago
For Mac/Linux/Hybrid-Cloud shops -> "Incus" (can also host macOS and Windows instances) for most work and "Firecracker" for specialized appliances. For Windows shops (you sick bstrds :D) -> Hyper-V RE: Pr
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by vaxman 1y ago
Nooo. Wages only jumped in the Tech biz just before the dot-com crash and again before the AI crash that hasn't happened yet (unless you count laying off workers to pay for capX on NVIDIA hahaha). Bottom line: McDonalds is paying $20&#
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by vaxman 1y ago
That is essentially how I survived the nuclear winter after the dot-com bubble burst (taking out most of the senior level tech workers across the vast majority of US domestic business --in those days, senior level meant formal training, 20+
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by vaxman 1y ago
PS: I've been downvoted on HN for years and years for mentioning this topic. Once, someone even summoned dang. One would think that by now, with this being out in the open (why did "China H2Oh" fail again? lol) but no..threat
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by vaxman 1y ago
DoesHaveManyCasesOf80sMagazinesStackedFloorToCeilingForSeveralYards == YES They're part of the alternate universe before the series of unfortunate events (MFNforDaCCP, MS-DOS, FSF, PPP/MSRAS, The Sculley, The Gould, The Cutler, Th
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by vaxman 1y ago
ok Elon.
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by vaxman 1y ago
IMHO, the real "morons" (your word) are those deploying Chinese-fabricated SoCs (like the latest ESP32, LinkStar, etc) and mainboards with Chinese-written BIOS/EFI/UEFI (like Zima) on what an increasing number of "i
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by vaxman 1y ago
Do your kids have Social Security Numbers yet? Let's ask Elon to use his privileged mode on xAI to have it characterize their socio economic relations among all Americans that have existed since The Great Deal, shall we?
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by vaxman 1y ago
The Solution here is as it always has been --to build furniture that's used to support students with built-in monitors that connect wirelessly (AirPlay or something like Apple's SmartConnector) when an iPhone is placed top of them
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by vaxman 1y ago
In business, perception often is taken for reality (just look at how long people clung to DOS-Windows when there were far better Amigas and Macs for sale). Gartner.hasHistoryOfSettingPerceptionInFortune500Companies == YES
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by vaxman 1y ago
The Way is to build another high-speed rail line connecting Tucson to the new [Brightline West high-speed rail] station in Las Vegas (stopping in Bullhead and Henderson), then a new segment from Vegas up to SLC. The Brightline West line und
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Gartner Predicts over 40% of Agentic AI Projects Will Be Canceled by End of 2027(gartner.com)
30 points by vaxman 1y ago|12 comments
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by vaxman 1y ago
Not really. COM/OLE is a different paradigm, their answer to an infamous vaporware called Taligent/OpenDoc that bankrupted many developers. Microsoft was sort of stuck with that security nightmare though
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by vaxman 1y ago
I’m not reading thru all that, but believe me when I say the ground truth is that IBM developed REXX on its mainframes and a genius guy from that world (poor bstrd) recreated it on Amiga as a third-party product called ARexx that was, in tu
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by vaxman 1y ago
Erm, hey Mac, he’s quoting “TRON” -and getting downvoted by peeps who don’t remember or are from alien cultures that don’t incorporate it.
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by vaxman 1y ago
> The protocol doesn't judge your life choices. This brings me to something I discovered about MCP (Model Context Protocol) while trying to make my calendar app order takeout. Stay with me here. What was that character in “South Par
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by vaxman 1y ago
I’m getting there, but I was trapped in a movie that wouldn’t be made for another five years… https://clip.cafe/the-secret-of-my-success-1987/why-are-wear...

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