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by whartung 3mo ago
How are (can) datacenters be taxed? Mind, I don't know, but normally you put in a business, or factory, etc. the state can tax the economic output of the factory. The factory builds things, sells things, they tax the sales of those thi
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by whartung 3mo ago
I never realized that when chatting with the bot, the entirety of the session was sent each time. I guess I just figured there was some state maintained Out There, rather than simply resubmitted each time.
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by whartung 3mo ago
What’s interesting to me is how today, something like Avatar 3 has seemingly no traction or notable impact. Perhaps it’s generational. It clearly did well in the box office, so somebody went out and saw it. But nobody I know directly, indir
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by whartung 3mo ago
The T2 nuclear destruction of LA was done by Electric Image. Small software house doing 3D rendering on the Mac.
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by whartung 3mo ago
I just want to quibble that the 100% Postgres regression tests do not test the threaded aspect of this project, and that is a pretty fundamental architecture change.
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by whartung 3mo ago
Maybe you can sew a patch into it?
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by whartung 4mo ago
I appreciate the potential power of AOP, but I'm grateful I never had to use it directly. Rather, I got to rely on the special handling within, notably at the time, the Java JEE ecosystem. It was not "generic" AOP by any mean
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by whartung 4mo ago
As I understand it, if you want to use domains internally for your home ("home") network, there's some DNS support for "home.arpa"[0]. 0 - https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8375.html
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by whartung 4mo ago
Favorite story I heard about voting was an anecdote relating to the flight computers on one of the Boing 7xx jets (probably the 757, but I don't know). The story was that they were planning to fly with 3 computers, and that they would
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by whartung 4mo ago
Boy, I can hardly wait for this to open. I got to visit the Shuttle just before they closed it down to make this change, and it's a wonder to behold. They had it on display, about 10 feet off the ground (I forget how it was supported).
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by whartung 4mo ago
I essentially did this in college for my freshman comp english class. It wasn't groff, or even Unix, or even a screen editor. It was some RUNOFF clone running on NOS, using the XEDIT line editor. But once you added the few commands you
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by whartung 4mo ago
This showed up on HN a couple weeks ago: https://tylercipriani.com/blog/2026/05/28/chuwi-minibook-x/
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by whartung 4mo ago
NY is controlling both 3D printers and CNC machines.
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by whartung 4mo ago
They’re not printing the metal parts. They’re printing the frame (as in “polymer framed handgun”). The frame is the part that gets the serial number and is considered the controlled part of the gun. Rather than the trigger, the springs, the
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by whartung 4mo ago
I can't think of any, but I can share some examples. When shredding things like log files, or raw data file, being able to do things like: :g/bad line/d To delete all of the "bad lines". When manually paring
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by whartung 4mo ago
I learned vi back in the day and have never really graduated to vim. My favorite features are the ranges on the commands (like substitute or delete), piping the buffer into the bottomless utility of the classic UNIX command line, and the .
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by whartung 4mo ago
Al (most?) of the other RTS games are very resource constrained. So, you have to focus on tight unit mixes, concentrate on individual battles, doing micro, and running about. TA is more a game of raw tonnage, not of finesse and subtlety. As
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by whartung 4mo ago
TA is the only game I consciously went out to buy a faster machine to play. Upgrading from my 133MHz to a 400MHz so I could run more units in TA. I rarely played TA vs other people. It was always either the PvE scenarios, or skirmishes. Aga
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by whartung 4mo ago
He was a singular talent as a storyteller to be sure. I used to be a regular listener to his show, but I haven't heard it in over 30 years. I can't even say that he'd make sense to me now today.
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by whartung 4mo ago
I really, really want to cite Joe Franks "The Dictator" here, notably the scene where he's eating the vegetables that have grown on himself (if I'm remembering correctly), but...I really doubt anyone will get the referen
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by whartung 4mo ago
I'm putting one of the modern "Smart Scopes" on my Christmas list this year. I had a friend with a 10" Meade with which not much happened. Just a bear to lug around and set up and mess with, not even including trying bum
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by whartung 4mo ago
Will the inevitable M5 releases from Apple change this equation in any meaningful way? I'm waiting to swap out my last gen Intel iMac with a new M5 mini of some kind, with the eye to hopefully be able to run some models locally. I envi
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by whartung 4mo ago
They're nice, but they're not the same thing. The threading macros are (as I understand it) pure sugar. Turning (-> (gather my-list) uppercase-list sort) into (sort (uppercase-list (gather my-list))). In contrast to, say, Java
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by whartung 4mo ago
Today, the thing that makes the HP48 series much less useful is simply that they lack a backlight. I find them simply difficult to read and use today because of that. So, I just use a HP48 app on my phone. It's not as good, lacking the
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by whartung 4mo ago
I'd much rather be on a freeway at 60+ MPH surrounded by 2.5 ton vehicles with poor visibility than riding an urban street. New riders are rightly intimidated by the freeways (they're fast, they're big), but they're far,
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by whartung 4mo ago
Having a high level I/O processor chip would be a nice thing to have for the vintage market. Something akin to what the CH376 does to make it easy to attach DOS based USB storage, but something that goes further. Like easy to be a gene
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by whartung 5mo ago
I thought this was about me. I learned SQL 30 years ago and, well, pretty much stopped. Through the years, as we added ORMs and were using the databases more for base dumb storage, and that I ventured away from report writing, focuses more
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by whartung 5mo ago
I use hp48 app on the iPhone. Obviously it does not have the tactile feedback of the original. But it’s a far cry from using on a desktop with a mouse. Using a REPL as a replacement does not mimic the experience, I don’t think. Not for me a
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by whartung 5mo ago
Dump the desktop. Switch your login shell to emacs and you have an overpowered WritersBook that’ll fit in a coat pocket.
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by whartung 5mo ago
I wrote a SunTools front end to a simulation hosted on a VAX. I don't recall how we moved the data back and forth (serial port of some kind, most likely). I also can't recall "what it was like using SunTools and SunView"

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