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by vaxman 1y ago
Please consider rebranding to something other than the name of the OG Linux distribution. I do get the Norse mythology tree connection vs STP etc but it’s sort of disrespectful to overload Yggdrasil Linux. After what’s left of RedHat finish
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by vaxman 1y ago
..directly while also visualizing his neck veins xD
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by vaxman 1y ago
Mind. Blown. On DEC systems, I programmed using FORTRAN, BLISS, MACRO and (on GiGi and RSTS/E) in BASIC for a long time.. then one day the Bell Labs spinoff I worked for bought a Whitesmith’s C license for the VAXcluster (for probably
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by vaxman 1y ago
TL;DR: The team that destroyed Apple by posing as innovators spun off into Be and took many Apple customers with them. There, the team spent days on end rearranging the icons on their corporate home page and operating system until they ran
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by vaxman 1y ago
Roger, who spoke only Chinglish and never paused between words, was working on a VAX FORTRAN program that exchanged tapes with IBM mainframes and a memory mapped section, inventing a new word in the process that still has me rolling decades
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by vaxman 1y ago
When they run out of training data, they have to rely upon better reasoning algos which take time to develop and that’s when the party ends. The purpose of IT investment is to increase competitiveness through better efficiency and thus capt
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by vaxman 1y ago
Your question made me throw up in my mouth. RAD, Agile, Dacom, etc. were attempts to codify natural processes so that there could be some semblance of accountability for the resource allocations. They were not a glimmer in the eye of their
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by vaxman 1y ago
Thank you for posting this. RIP Bill Atkinson
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by vaxman 1y ago
Interesting article. DOGE staffers are widely reported to be financially independent, genius technologists from Elon Musk's inner circle with a profound lack of ethics and very narrow world perspective that come from their extreme yout
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by vaxman 1y ago
He said a lot more than that. It's reported he lost $34B last week, so maybe it was a human reaction, but his security clearance is still going to be toast. The Pentagon has had to deal with once-trusted contractors going off the rails
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by vaxman 1y ago
This is a no-op. There is no $1T in savings, only infinite political liability (cutting USDVA by 80K people -laughable). DOGE is cooked, Trump will unwind it and DOJ will start chasing down the data they are reported to have copied. As for
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by vaxman 1y ago
DOGE is over, they will blame Musk for its wind down. Trump would have to go against his advisors to keep it operating but DOGE has only ever delivered small savings and tremendous liability, so our genius president is unlikely to do that.
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by vaxman 1y ago
DoD has now and has always had ultimate authority when it comes to putting things into the space above our heads. Don’t listen to the idealistic millennials and their powerful downvote buttons. ;)
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by vaxman 1y ago
They may try to fix Boeing with SpaceX because they must take every effort to fix what went wrong there. They do have several other options though.
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by vaxman 1y ago
What you need to know is that the Pentagon has ultimate authority in matters like this (regardless of the contractor’s equity structure) and it has wielded it time and time again throughout the Cold War. SpaceX cannot escape the command str
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by vaxman 1y ago
It seems likely that the Pentagon will soon force SpaceX to merge into another contractor, most likely Boeing or Boeing's largest rival, Lockheed-Martin.
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by vaxman 1y ago
It seems likely that the Pentagon will force SpaceX to merge with another company, which should be good for Tesla and Boring, but sad for his Mars dream. As for DOGE, Trump has a couple options. He can shut it down and blame Musk, or he can
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by vaxman 1y ago
The guy who invented NodeJS (a "fashionable" giant hack) got up and said he regretted it and now uses Go. Did that stop anyone from running up the tech debt with NodeJS? After all, "everyone is doing it!" So easy to star
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by vaxman 1y ago
Have you had any feedback from The Chuck? How about a ZeptoFORTH-MCP bridge (to implement services in ZeptoFORTH that can be called by local or remote agents) and an official way of programmatically configuring and interacting with an LLM,
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by vaxman 1y ago
They need sideline embedded until they release a proto board and a compute module with Apple Silicon SoCs running Linux or Darwin. If Apple drops support for the embedded variant of Swift then it would be up to enthusiasts to carry on and I
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by vaxman 1y ago
There is an ad at the bottom of your clickbait. I think you understand very well.
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by vaxman 1y ago
Ive designed bathroom fixtures before Apple and had been parked at Apple making the dumbest looking computers you can image for a very long time until my Dad's lifelong coworker brought Steve back --something I am on record telling peo
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by vaxman 1y ago
PS: Charles "Chuck" Moore (who developed FORTH) last made a release called etherForth at https://etherforth.org/ It runs on a chip he designed called the GA144 (which is also programmed in arrayForth3) available a
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by vaxman 1y ago
Not the actual implementations heh ...I heard even Linus has dropped support for the 486. Even the infra is finally giving way...did you see the NVLINK SPINE announcement a few days ago? It's going to be deployed in Stargate UAE that w
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by vaxman 1y ago
Yeah it is, it does (especially with OOP) and "ABBYY" kicked Tesseract's arse a long time ago anyway. Maybe try OpenAI GPT-4o or Google's Document AI https://cloud.google.com/document-ai
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by vaxman 1y ago
No son, Linux is not a version of Unix anymore than MINIX is. NeXTStep was real UNIX, but macOS is not. BTW, I was taught to program in C by one of the original core Unix team members and I worked for DEC long before I could have discussed
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by vaxman 1y ago
You aren't wrong..'nd I wrote one of the first Ethernet drivers (for any platform) almost half a century ago and spent a long time at the company that invented twisted pair Ethernet; but sharing MY insight gets me downvoted unless
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by vaxman 1y ago
It's still 40. Why not use Ollama-OCR?
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by vaxman 1y ago
errbody from that era hates Ada --it was an edict that died once the promises of OOP began to be realized. "dead things should stay dead" - Pet Cemetery, Steven King If you want to have some fun from 1979, I highly recommend FORTH
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by vaxman 1y ago
Let's not talk about kernel mode AST development at 3am on a 500 user VAX-11/780 that you can preload the typeahead buffer on your VT100 with like 45 minutes of typing.

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