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Understanding Abstraction Is Helpful in Electronics and Computing [video](youtube.com)
4 points by vaxman 3y ago|1 comments
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by vaxman 3y ago
15 minute video packed with wisdom for the Young and for the Mature in our industry, from a genius former DIGITAL employee, Andreas Spiess
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by vaxman 3y ago
He must have clicked on a video of Swift 5.9 ..those enums! https://youtu.be/pD2XZHnDKvo I probably wouldn't have learned algorithms and data structures as[S] well without Pascal but I never learned it right until C ev
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by vaxman 3y ago
The takeaway is "Don't dis your boss at work." I know Elon lost this round, but those dirty bstrds that took his cash and trashed him like that must be in it for some dubious reasons --they are NEVER going to wakeup one day i
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by vaxman 3y ago
my bad .. handicapped by the way I auditize .. point remains the same tho. Need to clean up PyPI or stop the mortals from using PyTHON. In the meantime, maybe put your venv's into a single non-emulated vm.
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by vaxman 3y ago
But 33% of PyPy packages contain the potential for extreme security flaws and you don't know which ones until it gets you. How bad do you have to want to use Python to tolerate that? "“When we actually examined the behavior and lo
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by vaxman 3y ago
Chapter 4 - http://bitsavers.org/pdf/dec/terminal/gigi/EK-VK100-TM-001_V... VK100 (aka GIGI) lets you do ReGIS graphics and optionally download BASIC programs to run on the client. It implements VT52 (A
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by vaxman 3y ago
Nah, it will be "OpenAI Together With Github Gives You More!" and included with your cell phone bill /s Let's see if 288GB multi-core M3 processors with 100GbE (on 10m copper!) happen.... but there's always https
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If you want to do something that's not "a dime a dozen" (ROFL), grab a Mac, download Xcode and implement a full VK100 (aka GIGI) emulator with ReGIS graphics ...and a client-side GiGi BASIC interpreter. Note: Going from memor
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by vaxman 3y ago
Put this in a paper bag and slam it against the wall behind a door that's usually propped open until it is dead. The Taligent/Copeland/OpenDoc debacle cost many small developers their livelihoods. Do you think $3T Apple would
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by vaxman 3y ago
My 68 Micro Magazine collection in one of the giant garage boxes...lol 6809 was the Maserati of 8-bit processors in my mind because of OS/9 (with multi-tasking!)...There hadn't been anything like that in the microcomputer space be
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by vaxman 3y ago
This just in for the 8GB (4GB?) crowd... https://github.com/lyogavin/Anima/tree/main/air_llm ..seems to be enabled by Apple's new MLX framework (which could become even faster https://g
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by vaxman 3y ago
Hmm..at least you reasoned that it is a "problem" (and I would say it's more analogous to VLOM switchover than turbo lag ROFL). For now, if you infrequently do full builds (and instead do incremental builds) and are mainly dr
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by vaxman 3y ago
A correct solution is to remote into instances on dedicated (bare metal) servers (use ECC memory and SSH with a good cipher for your transport, even across your local or VPN/WireGuard.. network!), perhaps using KVM/QEMU for macOS
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Opening Xcode and a small to medium project targeting a physical device with its own RAM will be fine..no SSD killing. If you are not doing INCREMENTAL builds or start flipping between apps, web tabs, streaming video and messaging while als
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by vaxman 3y ago
Sure, it operates on an over allocation pattern. If you try to use most of the RAM, the system will begin compressing blocks of memory and will eventually begin swapping them to super fast NVMe storage. This may be fine for desktop producti
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by vaxman 3y ago
A freelancer might be interviewed by a client in Entertainment, Hospitality, Construction, Real Estate or Academia and if they show up with a pimped MBA, all their prospect is going to see is that this person asking for a chunk of cash is u
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by vaxman 3y ago
1. If, and only if, you are doing ML or multimedia, get a 128GB system and because of the cost of that RAM, it would be foolish not to go M3 Max SoC (notwithstanding the 192GB M2 Ultra SoC). Full Stop. (Note: This is also a good option for
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"The United States also operates a reusable robotic space plane, the Boeing-built X-37B. Similar to China's Shenlong space plane, little is known about the exact operations or capabilities of the X-37B." No, it's more li
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No, back when this was going on, it is alleged that if you applied at Google, you would not get the position at Google AND YOU WOULD BE MARKED FOR TERMINATION AT THE EARLIEST CONVENIENCE OF APPLE. It's an example of why systems people
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Not sure what your point is, but if you are renting to parties who don't have sufficient income or liquid assets to pay their bills WHEN DUE, then even if they are paying you, you still have recourse to end your contract with them. The
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What is absurd is the new ability for a landlord to each morning see a list of notifications that open to the financial dossiers of those of tenants that were flagged by an overnight AI analysis as being factually insolvent, based solely up
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+10,000 for Popular Electronics reference "Used over and over till they were tired and torn. Like a broken clock that can't tell time. Like a thick ass book that's filled with wack rhymes." https://youtu.be&#x
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They should just sell themselves outright or IPO. If Anthropic can’t make it as a public offering then it’s because it can’t get a clean read or it’s up to no good.
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Landlords will soon strong-arm their tenants into granting "permission based access" to their personal financial accounts to fintech firms like FunnelLeasing (that, in turn, use services like Finicity.com) to monitor their tenant
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by vaxman 3y ago
When you know your hour of HN is over without looking at the clock. /facepalm
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Now I’mma Make a turquoise (er, florescent-esq) fourth litebar that animates like those on the alien craft in “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” when my ADAS is active. (Need to sniff the CAN out of a tail light socket to see if I can det
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OK, about that project name, a double entendre. Thank you for laugh, where do I send my laundry bill.
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No hackers needed, just look into the former CEO of Thrifty and the relationship between Thrifty and Ride-Aid using any old search engine or properly trained AI.
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I know you’re being sarcastic, but note China holds significant, almost colonial, investments in Africa and Latin America. Those investments include control of the telecommunications infrastructure carrying all the data they could ever want

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