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by __d 5d ago
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by __d 8d ago
So, let’s quantify things: what’s the chance they’re right? And what’s the cost of that chance happens?
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by __d 11d ago
So it’s not implausible that the “justice” system is automated, using AI, to enable it to cope with the deluge of claims. This mirrors the current increases in open source pull requests and CVEs driven by low-effort AI-aided submissions.
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by __d 12d ago
For some use cases, reliance on a phone is sub-optimal. Multi-day wilderness bikepacking, ultra distance racing, etc -- phones just use too much power when you can't get a few hours of charging every day or two.
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by __d 12d ago
I find colour useful for a navigation map, mostly. I think the 4-colour eInk displays would be plenty for that, although they have refresh constraints iirc. A good UI design would mostly avoid the need for colour.
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by __d 12d ago
For me, it matters only when I'm futzing with the map: dragging around or zooming. For the rest of the info on the display, anything more than 500ms interval seems like a waste of power.
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by __d 13d ago
ANT+ is basically dead because of an EU legal requirement to ensure that personal information is encrypted. So no new devices will be supporting it, and everything has to move to BLE. It was quite a rich ecosystem of sensor devices, especi
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by __d 15d ago
It looks like eg. their USB drivers use the IOKit API.
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by __d 16d ago
(1) Agreed. (2) There’s very few sustainable global competitive advantages. Sometimes you might have a better natural resource by virtue of geography and getting in first to “own“ it. But for most businesses, reducing trade barriers reall
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by __d 16d ago
The Tn chip. Prior to that, modern Macs were just PCs. Then Apple started to introduce, and then depend upon, their unique hardware. Then the ARM migration using proprietary CPUs and GPUs really kicked it up a level. The OS relies on the h
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by __d 16d ago
XNU has some interesting features. It’s Mach based, so it has Mach ports, which are an IPC system that is fairly heavily used by macOS. It has DriverKit, which is a C++ framework for drivers that’s got morecsuppirt than the usual Unix drive
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by __d 17d ago
If it’s only decades, we’ve been very, very lucky.
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by __d 17d ago
> If it was easy to stop emitting greenhouse gases we would've managed to do it 25+ years ago. Also, if it weren’t so profitable.
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by __d 17d ago
And cars. The real costs are externalized.
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by __d 18d ago
Is it possible to determine which sectors are physically sequential given remapping for wear-leveling? Otherwise the claimed defragmentation here is not actually resulting in sequential data.
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by __d 20d ago
Until very recently, that was a pretty common view. Countries generally want unconstrained exports, while limiting competitive imports.
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by __d 1mo ago
Do you see that changing as parts are designed for additive manufacturing? Things that basically cannot be made another way, but have strength, weight, and even functional benefits over a traditionally made part? I’m thinking of say coolin
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by __d 1mo ago
Sure. But … so was Linux, or Firefox, or GNOME or KDE, etc. Even RISC-V itself was adopted by volunteers and supported by toolchains, and then kernels, and applications. The amount of work is less a problem than the motivation. And motivat
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by __d 1mo ago
And yet, new ISAs arise fairly regularly, for various reasons. RISC-V itself succeeded largely because it is gratis, I think.
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by __d 1mo ago
Err … RISC-V is an ISA without a fab?
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by __d 1mo ago
So … use RISC-V as the strawman, and create a community-based RISC-6 that doesn’t have these weaknesses? Better to get in now before it becomes too solidly entrenched.
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by __d 1mo ago
I used Perihelion’s Helios on Transputers for several years. It was a cool system, and gets far less credit than it deserves. Plan9 and Helios were independently developed but have a lot in common.
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by __d 1mo ago
Historically, there was a large population of FOSS prior to Linux, and its distributions (starting with HJ Lu, SLS, Slackware, etc) were mostly just uniform packaging and easy installation. This wasn’t entirely new: commercial Unix had pac
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by __d 1mo ago
You’re forgetting blame: if an on-prem system has an issue, that’s 100% on you. If AWS/GCP/Azure has an outage, that’s just bad luck, and everyone else suffers too.
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by __d 1mo ago
But the "actual thing" is presumably software too? Why is it any different to a dev tool? All software is now more-or-less available for the token cost, given a specification of what is required. It's not just FOSS: the er
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by __d 1mo ago
I don't know about the long term, but the medium term looks like "Claude, make a replacement for <software>, with the same functionality and user experience."
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by __d 1mo ago
Code generation (by compiler) has one major difference: it's deterministic.
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by __d 2mo ago
The Plan9 network API is an interesting successor to all of STREAMS, streams, and sockets.
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by __d 2mo ago
There’s an interesting middle ground: not fully malleable software, where the end user has full customisation ability but requires full programming skill, but eg the Unix tool model where prebuilt utilities can be composed with a simple syn
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by __d 2mo ago
That's not what Glynne said. The whole justification for Starlink was to create demand for Falcon.

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