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by fock 15d ago
that might indeed be a problem for all the pulp-producing labrats of STEM in southern europe and the third world. However I think this area has so much decoupled from industry and solid research institutions that they might not notice at al
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by fock 1mo ago
And this is, when it doesn't delete data randomly: https://github.com/trinodb/trino/issues/28885 (some enterprise open source was slop before AI even it seems)
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by fock 2mo ago
300 to 4000 lines of "production like" (whatever that is) cobol code which is easily ported to a non-mainframe env. Our's sometimes uses assembler in its innards, so good luck with real legacy code spanning a dozen files and
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by fock 3mo ago
I have not researched this, but I see some 4 to 10 year olds in the family being on the phone every time I see them. Usually they stream "brainrot" on youtube on the tablet while they play roblox on the phone. From time to time th
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by fock 3mo ago
well, Claude likely is not really trained on benchmarking across such systems...
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by fock 4mo ago
are they? It's all the same company with the brand today just used for appealing to localized government funding (because we can just shutter that factory you have there!). In the small marketshare electric future these multiple brands
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by fock 4mo ago
- Malta is selling passports and harboring criminals who kill journalists (we all remember Daphne Caruana Galizia don't we?). - buying votes/parties there would get you 10 times the MEPs you get in Germany or France. - their mayor
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by fock 4mo ago
I saw those in use 20 years ago, when physics-class visited the local nuclear-science research center. It felt like Sci-Fi then and I have not yet seen this replicated anywhere else sadly...
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by fock 6mo ago
They sell (managed) database appliances (on z and Power) and associated software (think the platform/HANA parts of SAP) - all state-of-the-art in the late 1990s but since then put on maintenance mode and it shows (a bit like oracle...)
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by fock 6mo ago
https://github.com/blues/jsonata-go hmmm
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by fock 6mo ago
very cool and the person has the skills to do that. sad to see how the fully AI generated "why this matters" section in the blog gives a lingering vibe of slop.
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by fock 6mo ago
if you rip out linux from your linux distribution you usually end up with GNU.
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by fock 7mo ago
well, maybe you should own your agent and fund a cooperative for that purpose?
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by fock 7mo ago
so: where do you go and what do you do? All your land and food is subject to property laws and the way things are going the owners will be allowed violence to enforce their rights. Essentially you'll be a serf again just like 99% of ot
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by fock 8mo ago
look at grist! I played around with it and it seemed quite awesome.
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by fock 8mo ago
TIL hn will tell me about archeology just a bikeride from my office. very fun!
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by fock 8mo ago
probably the likes of Enics and GPV - nowadays this is likely a field overrun by military demand and private equity squeezing the supply side... Also I doubt that they can/want to compete with jlcpcb et al.
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by fock 9mo ago
Good to see that hands are still not solved...
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by fock 10mo ago
> It also strikes me as a uniquely difficult challenge to track down the decision maker who is willing to take the risk on revamping these systems (AI or not). here that person is a manager which got demoted from ~500 reports to ~40 and
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by fock 10mo ago
I work at a shop (a specialized provider for finance in your eyes) which still has the "transaction" workload on IBM z/OS (IMS/DB2). The parts we manage (in Openshift) interface with that (as well as other systems) and I
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by fock 11mo ago
how large are the clusters then?
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by fock 11mo ago
we have on-prem with heavy spikes (our batch workload can utilize the 20TB of memory in the cluster easily) and we just don't care much and add 10% every year to the hardware requested. Compared to employing people or paying other vend
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by fock 11mo ago
And incidentally all documentation recommends not extending your LPARs beyond what is available on a single CPC-"node" (see [0]-2-23 for a nice (and honest...) block-diagram). If you extend your LPAR across all CPCs I doubt that m
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by fock 11mo ago
I guess for IMS/CICS/TPF/... the IBM mainframe is a just fine appliance compared to the alternatives. While not exactly transaction processors, SAP HANA, Oracle Exadata and co. all market themselves towards the same customer
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by fock 1y ago
Quite some time ago I implemented NFS for a small HPC-cluster on a 40GBe network. A colleague set up RDMA later, since at start it didn't work with the Ubuntu kernel available. Full nVME on the file server too. While the raw performanc
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by fock 1y ago
and of course this didn't take into account you posted that, because I got directed straight here by AI!
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by fock 1y ago
and there have been continous ports since then: https://github.com/Godzil/ftape/tree/master - note the caveats which apparently all disappeared here...
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by fock 1y ago
no. In the short time I work at a z/OS-shop, they had to IPL twice. And the IPL takes ages... Now, if you can live with the weird environment and your people know how to programm what is essentially a distributed system described in te
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by fock 1y ago
and sadly not too many words on how they made sure those shelves don't vibrate and squeak horribly - which they will if no placed on perfectly smooth surfaces... I somehow could picture something like this to work out nice using metal
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by fock 1y ago
Does this have a CVE or something? I have the weird feeling the cloud initiative here won't notice this ever otherwise...

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