amatwl

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by amatwl 10mo ago
The United States government is an insurance company with an army.
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by amatwl 2y ago
For the record, NT comes from the codename for the Intel i860 (N10) which was the original target platform for NT.
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by amatwl 3y ago
NetDocs was an effort in 2000/2001 that is sometimes characterized as a web productivity suite. There was an internal battle between the Netdocs and Office groups, and Office won. https://www.zdnet.com/article/netd
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by amatwl 3y ago
There was reporting that they were scrambling to move some infrastructure off Google since they were going to be cut off after refusing to pay their bills. The deadline was June 30, though there was additional reporting saying Linda Yaccari
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by amatwl 3y ago
Yep, for the record, the project was while I was still at a defense contractor :).
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by amatwl 3y ago
I literally worked on a project two years ago that was still using CORBA. Oof.
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by amatwl 3y ago
All voice assistants seem bad, but Siri seems particularly bad. God forbid I ask it to do something simple such as playing a specific artist or album on Apple Music or ask it to turn off lights I've configured in the Home app. "Si
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by amatwl 4y ago
Footage on Shuttle SRBs was recorded onboard and downloaded when recovered. SLS' SRBs are not recovered, so no footage.
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by amatwl 4y ago
Eh, there's a difference between criticizing your boss publicly vs privately.
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by amatwl 4y ago
IIRC, Twitter was operating at a loss, prior to the closing of Elon's purchase. See Q2 2022 Results here, net loss was $270 million - https://s22.q4cdn.com/826641620/files/doc_financials/2022/q2... I
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by amatwl 4y ago
The coalition supporting SLS in Congress is much broader than just Senator Shelby, though he's definitely one of the biggest proponents - an old school Senator purely motivated bringing home the money to his state. There are plenty of
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by amatwl 4y ago
IIRC - Shuttle autoland capability was vetoed by the Astronaut Office. There was some capability within the guidance software for it, but it was never demonstrated (some early Shuttle flights got close to demonstrating it though).
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by amatwl 4y ago
In my experience, the hesitancy to contribute/ pay open source projects comes more from the contractors versus the government.
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by amatwl 4y ago
Except there are already some House Republicans publicly discussing a nationwide ban on abortion - guaranteed it's going to be on the agenda if Republicans take back Congress (which is highly likely). Also, it's not exactly easy t
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by amatwl 5y ago
The Astronaut Office pushed strongly against an autoland capability for Shuttle.
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by amatwl 5y ago
I work in defense. I constantly tell folks that we're doomed once/if tech companies start competing in traditional defense/ aerospace contracts. The only barrier for that I see is the supposed "opposition" by tech w
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by amatwl 5y ago
Good. To be honest, if the tech companies (i.e. MSFT, Google, Amazon, etc.) ever decided to fully compete with defense contractors, like Boeing, LM, Northrup Grumman, etc., they could clean up easily. There are plenty of defense contracts t
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by amatwl 7y ago
If it's anything like the Linux files inside File Explorer supported they added previously ( https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/whats-new-for-wsl... ), it'll be using some derivative of Plan 9.
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by amatwl 8y ago
Dragon 2/ Crew Dragon originally was going to support propulsive landing, but nixed due to future architectural plans (making some of Dragon a bit of engineering dead-end versus Starship/ BFR) and complexities in certifying for NA
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by amatwl 8y ago
I have to say the author's attitude does not come off particularly well in this post, at least in my opinion. Just seems rude.
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by amatwl 8y ago
UWP includes Win32 apps, as well (if they play well with appx/ MSIX).
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by amatwl 8y ago
UWP is WinRT (Windows Runtime). And, you're right, it's COM, but The Good Parts™.
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by amatwl 8y ago
This is where .NET Core gets confusing. They're just able to run on the .NET Core runtime (versus the "full" .NET Framework). WPF uses DirectX heavily, so it's not like Microsoft just ported DirectX to non-Windows platfo
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by amatwl 8y ago
This is true. A quick example would ZIP Folders in Windows - it uses third-party code Microsoft licensed (who knows if the company is still around today since it dates back to the early 2000s). source: https://blogs.msdn.microsof
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by amatwl 8y ago
Might have some issues with ITAR with the first two, since OP is not an American citizen.
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by amatwl 9y ago
A bit of a plug, but for my senior project, my team is working bringing Patchworks (slide 80) to Atom. It's currently not open source (but will be after completion of the project). We are working with an author of the original paper.
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by amatwl 9y ago
Yup. The whole P2P and Supernode architecture didn't just fail when it came to mobile devices. The Christmas 2010 outage was also caused by the reliance on supernodes.
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by amatwl 9y ago
Google has complained re: Title II for phone service with Google Fiber. There is so much red tape that's added simply by being classified under Title II.
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by amatwl 9y ago
Apparently, the Tab control is is lifted directly from Edge. https://twitter.com/h0x0d/status/931595009177960449 )
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by amatwl 9y ago
Part 2: https://hal2020.com/2017/11/14/microsoft-phone-part-2/

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