graymatters

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by graymatters 1y ago
The business geniuses of intel bought Altera for nearly $17B in 2015. Now sold control at valuation barely half of that. After official inflation of over 30% during that time. Which means it lost over 2/3 of its value, (take into acc
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by graymatters 1y ago
Making Z-Wave closed source in the beginning sealed its fate. All competing protocols were open source. Z-Wave failed and won’t recover.
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by graymatters 1y ago
Yes. It is IRS is deliberately dragging its feet to make it a real option for millions and millions of Americans. So that the near monopoly Intuit can rake in billions in sales each year.
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by graymatters 1y ago
Why?..
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by graymatters 1y ago
2053 is too far away indeed. “It’s probably not hard…” - how many such wishful thinking statements were uttered by humanity.
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by graymatters 1y ago
Well, I hope that if they do so, the FSF and all copyright holders of the Open Source software used to make Android Great In-the-First-Place will sue their a$$e$ off.
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by graymatters 1y ago
Very simple. 1. Orders of magnitude. Digital transactions can be billions in single transaction. While making large cash transactions in cumbersome and unrealistic. 2. Because they can. Regulating digital transactions is simple. Regulating
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by graymatters 1y ago
You are confusing randomization, a legitimate security mechanism, with security by obscurity. ASLR is not security by obscurity. Please spend the time on understanding the terminology rather than regurgitating buzz words.
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by graymatters 2y ago
https://archive.ph/2025.03.11-045359/https://www.wsj.com/art...
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by graymatters 2y ago
The author should’ve stayed in the NP class and not drop out.
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by graymatters 2y ago
55-60Mbps is a reasonable expectation. Don’t get fooled by exuberant speeds advertised by the powerline equipment manufacturers. Lag can jump by ~25msec
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by graymatters 2y ago
The premise of the article (if it can be called that) is incorrect. He made the statement about the 5 computers in a TV interview (and it was not related to business trip referred in the article). I saw the recording of the interview some
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by graymatters 2y ago
Umm… the one good thing about the author - the author is soon to be 40+.
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by graymatters 2y ago
Outside the techies and gamers circles, for the general public - it was fairly unknown. Today it’s known primarily due to its high stock valuation. Thus, don’t project your own bubble on everyone out there.
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by graymatters 2y ago
QNX is squeezed from above by Linux, especially as real time patches have finally been fully accepted. And from below by FreeRTOS and Zephyr. Current attempt to open source is a desperate move by QNX as their market share is disappearing.
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by graymatters 2y ago
Actually - “how many golf balls fit into a VW Beatle” is a better proxy.
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by graymatters 2y ago
Spoken like a true Marxist. The purpose of Marxism is to literally kill hundreds of millions of people who oppose the Marxist way. Like they did during the 20th century in the countries where Marxism prevailed (even briefly).
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by graymatters 2y ago
Avoid nvidia if you can. Their attitude towards anything Open Source has been extremely unsupportive if not outright shitty. Part of company philosophy.
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by graymatters 2y ago
Doubt - based on what?
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by graymatters 2y ago
What to do about it - hit these oil companies, including the Saudi ones, with a huge class action law suit. Additionally US government must fine heavily instances of collusion and oligopoly so that others thinking of following path will be
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by graymatters 2y ago
82% of the so-called “Palestinians” approved of October 7th Massacre back in October. 75% approve of it in March 2024. For every armed terrorist there were 5-10 Gazans perpetrating the atrocities on October 7th. Every other house in Gaza i
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by graymatters 2y ago
Well, October 7th Massacre wasn’t enough to wake you up from a 140 years long dream of peace. But some social lack of acceptance in January did. That’s telling. It is a zero sum game. It always was for the Arabs. Time to wake up and fa
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by graymatters 2y ago
Dresden rules should be applied to Gaza. Israel is way too considerate with Lavender. Every other house in Gaza is full of weapons.
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by graymatters 3y ago
That’s simply a wrong set of assumptions that have no historical substantiation. Tolerance for casualties was at a different level during both WWs. It is only after the horrors of WW2 that the western world became fearful of casualties. And
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by graymatters 3y ago
Yes, China has become a major problem.
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by graymatters 3y ago
Synergy was great and extremely useful. Had some pretty crazy setups working with it. Synergy, Barrier and forks are Not interesting till they support Wayland.
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by graymatters 3y ago
I’ve seen this sort of reaction quite often from people who are/were used to native (desktop) applications and grew professionally in that paradigm. What happened is that there was a paradigm shift to web programming model, wher
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by graymatters 3y ago
Given what they’ve seen almost 60 years ago and today - can they extrapolate what will the computing field look like in another 60 years? What tools/techniques/methods from the past do they miss the most? Which of these do they th
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by graymatters 3y ago
Do they also connect the hostages kidnapped and held in Gaza to heir families?
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by graymatters 3y ago
Gazans shouldn’t have started the war, nor committed atrocities.

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