allenrb

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by allenrb 5d ago
It’s a bubble. “AI” could be quite successful at this point, and the economics still don’t work out.
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by allenrb 17d ago
Huh? Was I wrong about something here? If so, please educate me.
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by allenrb 17d ago
Nobody would (or should, at least) be using a lead-acid battery for this in 2026, either. Full-cycle efficiency should be higher now. And the inverter. And the generator.
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by allenrb 21d ago
And machines could hit a baseball or drive a race car better than any human, but we still want to see people doing things.
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by allenrb 1mo ago
Care to take a guess who wins when an issue comes down to citizens vs police?
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by allenrb 1mo ago
Curious: are these cores (ao486, z386) technically illegal because of Intel/AMD licensing/copyright/etc? Or has everything relevant expired? Surely the patents have but not sure what else comes into play.
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by allenrb 1mo ago
It’s a time-honored tradition to compare your upcoming product to the competition’s old news. That said, looks like an impressive core and complete CPU built with it. Would love to see a smaller, affordable version.
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by allenrb 2mo ago
I was thinking someone must have fixed a bug in the simulation (in which we live) between when the old results were generated and now. Only 1/2 :-)
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by allenrb 2mo ago
This! I took “rec games” as one of my PE classes in high school. This involved bowling, among other things. A highlight of this was the time I bowled a 24… However, as the class nerd, I knew how to score a game. My parents used to take us a
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by allenrb 2mo ago
100% this. In the end, I just don’t care about the answer that much.
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by allenrb 2mo ago
Do you drive often, then? :-)
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by allenrb 2mo ago
Emulating Alpha on x86_64 is definitely not a thing the Alpha designers foresaw. :-)
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by allenrb 3mo ago
You are my comedy hero, tremon. This is the joke I was looking for and failed to find.
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by allenrb 3mo ago
While absolutely and sadly true, something tells me that rogue banana drivers are not the ones most likely to be killed in a traffic stop. Besides, his family would surely win the resulting case… on a peel.
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by allenrb 3mo ago
I’m not quite old enough to have grown up with the PDP-11. They were gone from university (or at least the parts I had access to) by the time I arrived. But I did see exactly one in the wild. In 1997-1998, I was working for a small company
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by allenrb 3mo ago
Came here hoping for an AMA.
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by allenrb 4mo ago
I’ve walked off with a few of my employer’s pens over the years. Is this really so different?
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by allenrb 4mo ago
Big takeaway for me is that the reentry and “landing” of Ship looked great . For the first time, it felt like they’re really on the path to achieving upper stage reuse. That was always the biggest “reach” of the entire program in my view,
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by allenrb 4mo ago
I’ve been told by someone who was in the service that when smoking was no longer allowed on submarines, it made a huge difference in the cleanliness of machinery and thus how much work was required to maintain it. Yeah, I’d love some of tha
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by allenrb 4mo ago
When I encounter new terms, I look them up. Just like any other new word. Been doing it since I was a kid with a dictionary. Now, it’s too easy not to. There is literally no excuse.
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by allenrb 4mo ago
Or every time it comes back up!
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by allenrb 5mo ago
Was briefly surprised to see IBM open-sourcing OS/2 after all these years. Alas, this appears to be some AI widget.
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by allenrb 5mo ago
With enough sauce, the end result won’t even taste like chewing on a rock. :-)
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by allenrb 5mo ago
Not sure why this is being downvoted, but it’s absolutely correct. For most of the history of computing, people were happy that it worked at all. Being concerned about energy efficiency is a recent byproduct of mobile devices and, even more
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by allenrb 5mo ago
I guess “purge 17% of the code” is not the correct answer?
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by allenrb 5mo ago
My friends and I have been deriving much amusement from the comms issues. We can fly people around the moon, talk with them, send back high res video, but talk to the boat that’s close enough to swim to? Forget about it! Note: next time, pa
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by allenrb 5mo ago
As a person who refuses to use “free” cloud products, and won’t even consider Office on Windows, I’m a big fan of LibreOffice. I’ve donated a few times over the years but probably not enough. I’ll be sad if there’s not a free & local “o
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by allenrb 6mo ago
Absolutely! Think of the many new ways to display advertising that are being neglected while we foolishly launch people and things into space.
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by allenrb 6mo ago
Strapped to one of the boosters?
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by allenrb 6mo ago
For what it’s worth (ie, absolutely nothing), I agree with her 100%. I didn’t get into this field in order to prompt an AI to take care of the details. I got into it because I love the details. I’m a strong performer on a good team at a c

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