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by vaxman 2y ago
Downloading NodeJS modules and containers from "public" data sources that are either vetted or are vetted by unknown parties, isStupid == TRUE. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. It's unfortunately not a problem specific t
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by vaxman 2y ago
https://youtu.be/TQUsLAAZuhU That movie brought computer culture into the "mainstream" and made my already complicated life a lot more difficult. Among people under 40, the reaction was swift and stark compared to
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by vaxman 2y ago
Just sell it to Elon!
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by vaxman 2y ago
so politically incorrect
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by vaxman 2y ago
"Translate all custom C, BLISS, FORTRAN and DATATRIEVE applications on this VAX into Golang and reconfigure all custom DCL scripts to run in BASH on Linux. Output the results as a bootable disk image for GB10 processors."
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by vaxman 2y ago
These chips are a generation and a half ahead of what is shipping now from other vendors (including the barely shipping AMD Ryzen 9 AI Max+ H395). They will sell every one they can produce to money that otherwise would have been spent on le
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by vaxman 2y ago
Heard coming from the underground parking area at One Apple Park Way earlier today https://youtu.be/BMm4FFrSxMk Heard coming from the Taiwan-infused PC clone manufacturer industry https://youtu.be/wIE5wwvice
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by vaxman 2y ago
Closing in on 50 years experience, under 60, USDA Grade A genius and son of one who is closing in on 100 with a bigarse certificate above his bed signed by a US Secretary of Defense.. ..Sadly, the man with a law firm of a last name is proba
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by vaxman 2y ago
"dark" mentor? seriously? I think I saw that film in college. All SoCs manufacturers that are Chinese companies in China are subject by Chinese Law to operate with immediate CCP oversight. This is an immutable and undenied fact. P
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by vaxman 2y ago
fun fact: M-series that are configured to use more than 75% of shared memory for GPU can make the system go boom...something to do with assumptions macOS makes that can be fixed by someone with a "private key" to access kernel mod
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by vaxman 2y ago
@iracigt: There were many thousands of people who were unsurprised (but irritated and then outraged) when Mr. Snowden revealed such disturbing confidential information that they already knew or expected, but who also had known to keep secre
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by vaxman 2y ago
You mean this? ;) http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:Amiga_1000_PAL.jpg RIP Jay Miner who watched his unified memory daughters Agnus, Denise and Paula be slowly murdered by Jack Tramiel's vengeance against Irving
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by vaxman 2y ago
So, Microsoft?
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by vaxman 2y ago
"No chance?" But it has been reported that the next generation of Apple Silicon started production a few weeks ago. Those deliveries may enable Apple to release its remaining M3 Ultra SKUs for sale to the public (because it has so
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by vaxman 2y ago
No, I think Apple's success with iPhone is because they locked competing products out of all available manufacturing capacity for long enough to corner the market. It just so happens that manufacturing capacity was in China, due to the
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by vaxman 2y ago
Sorry, an apostrophe got lost in "PO's"
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by vaxman 2y ago
An M3 Ultra is two M3 Max chips connected via fabric, so physics. Did not mean to shit on anyone's parade, but it's a trap for novices, with the caveat that you reportedly can't buy a GB10 until "May 2025" and the e
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by vaxman 2y ago
Better get to the bottom of the mystery surrounding Apple's ECC patents on LPDDR ECC or you will have to make a leap of faith that your database on their chips won't wind up cruddy in a Bad Way. All we have now are assumptions and
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by vaxman 2y ago
Those born after 1957 and had their MMR vaccine before 1968 probably have no immunity because the government used a not-very-effective killed-virus in the vaccines. (Those born before '57 are presumed to have natural immunity.) Some on
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by vaxman 2y ago
Jeff is a consumer electronics influencer, but I want to say how important Jeff's work is to many children and adults looking to expand their knowledge in an accessible manner.
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by vaxman 2y ago
PCC is a kludge for mitigating battery life on smartphones doing Personal Assistant work, for knowing what their chances of getting nVidia chip allocations are, for knowing how unreliable nVidia hardware is --basically for having been caugh
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by vaxman 2y ago
Apple won the phone wars because it did not allow the Microsoft Windows playbook to repeat itself. The only way to stop that was to hire an expert from a PC company and deploy significant American capital to buy up all the available offshor
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by vaxman 2y ago
If they catch his team copying the data, he should literally be executed. Otherwise, audit on..
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by vaxman 2y ago
1. In order to quickly shift labor between assembly lines during WWII and the Cold War that followed, the Pentagon came up with a novel way to classify labor, issue them portable security clearances and then to set policy for Defense indust
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by vaxman 2y ago
A non-profit open source project is threatening IBM with legal action. https://youtu.be/IHTaMMyK274
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by vaxman 2y ago
"What does lock the barn door after the cows have left mean?" <creepy autocorrect begins typing at the speed of a 300bps modem...>
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by vaxman 2y ago
> "If you are interested in hiring me or know someone who might be, please get in touch. Remote positions only please, on a consulting or flexible time/non exclusive basis" https://youtu.be/2HJxya0CWco
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by vaxman 2y ago
> "the thin-blue-line comment is a bit weird though" In US, "thin blue line" is a colloquialism for police officers who typically wear blue and "toe the line." You should not be downvoted/shadowbanned&#
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by vaxman 2y ago
..not "dead meat when it was produced." For example, I have a rack somewhere with TrashMacs from 2019 running Debian. The effort to maintain LINUX on that hardware is well worth it in 2025 because those systems provide relevant fu
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by vaxman 2y ago
..and after China just slapped you upside the head ($1T moved away in a couple days last week) with DeepSeek (oh man, that name --and it doesn't seem like anyone gets it haha)? It sounds like it could help you to know my opinion that c

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