qubex

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by qubex 6d ago
“Surfaces and Essences” is one of my favourite books, but “I Am A Strange Loop” is probably his both most profound and accessible.
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by qubex 16d ago
You may be broadly correct, but “macOS has always been free” is definitely not true: all the Big Cat releases of Mac OS X were paid-for, right up until MacOS X 10.8 “Mountain Lion” released in 2012. Only later, from Mavericks in 2013 onward
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by qubex 16d ago
Er, uhm… I have to disagree really. You have monolithic kernels versus micro kernels, I’ve used weird stuff such as DragonFlyBSD, Plan9, and BeOS. Even the Windows NT kernel (now mainline Windows) is a very unusual piece of software enginee
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by qubex 27d ago
Oh damn so I’m finally going to have to subscribe to Steam. I’ve resisted so diligently for so long I genuinely thought I’d cleared the hurdle.
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by qubex 27d ago
Them there is fightin’ words. Also, as pointed out by an illustrious colleague: Euler’s formula doesn’t work, and pretty much all of complex analysis breaks along with it.
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by qubex 1mo ago
I’ve had the HP lineage from the HP 49G all the way to the current HP Prime G2, and I have to say: these are excellent devices.
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by qubex 2mo ago
One immediate advantage that rescheduling-capable cores have that rigid compiler-based ones don’t nor ever would is that reschedules can notice patterns in execution in the current context and keep the ALU fed from well-provisioned caches e
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by qubex 2mo ago
EPIC was Explicit Parallel Instruction Computing, the underlying engineering architecture of AI-64. Epyc is an AMD brand name. And pivoting to concurrency on a rescheduler-intensive core as opposed to concurrency on a scheduler-based core i
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by qubex 2mo ago
Yeah EPIC pushed too much effort onto compilers and removed the context awareness of out of order reordering etc and the result was just a lame duck.
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by qubex 2mo ago
Open Source and LLMs seem to be complementary technologies that have resulted in an absolute surge of productivity multipliers.
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by qubex 2mo ago
“It runs quite slowly, (486-levels of performance on a Ryzen 5000 series according to this discord channel)” I’m sure there’s a joke about that being a huge leap in performance for Windows on IA-64 over the past 23 years waiting to be made
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by qubex 2mo ago
This is personally mildly disturbing because I remember beta-testing Windows 2000 on DEC Alpha back in late 1999, and eventually running Windows 2000 and BeOS on a dual PIII-450 machine (with 256 MB of RAM, SCSI HDs, and eventually an ATI R
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by qubex 2mo ago
Your comment reminds me (no insult intended) of the old adage that every doctor has a favourite disease.
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by qubex 2mo ago
Windows 9x and Me weren’t really the predecessors of Windows 2000; it’s real predecessor was Windows ant 4.0. They are very different lineages, with the former descending from 16 bit MS-DOS and Windows until version 3.11 and arguably being
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by qubex 3mo ago
Yeah I keep thinking that Reticulum & QUIC are the TCP/IP of the future.
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by qubex 3mo ago
Oh, a polemic. However justified, how unexpected. As long as systems can inter-operate, who really cares?
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by qubex 3mo ago
I’m a naturist and though we’re butt of many jokes we exist and there are perfectly functional and happy FKK families with perfectly normal kids that will be shattered by this if it goes through.
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by qubex 3mo ago
I have one of these linked to a LimeSDR running GNUradio and it’s absolutely up to the task.
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by qubex 3mo ago
I’m still running an AppleTV HD because my TV is only 1080p (Toshiba Regza) because 4K “smart TVs” spook me.
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by qubex 3mo ago
Personally I hate chatbots and natural language interfaces. Give me a well-structured window with widgets or better still a command line. Case in point: that now when you double click on a time in Apple’s iCal it brings up a free-entry text
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by qubex 3mo ago
The nostalgia welled up within me from depths I didn’t know I possessed.
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by qubex 3mo ago
I’m a nudist and I know FKK families with kids. This is going herd them into discrimination for their own good. To Most people we’re the punchline of a joke but we exist and we have our social lives and our norms and there’s evidence that c
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by qubex 3mo ago
That’s all fine and well until somebody says “okay that’s great for the letterhead, but give me a half tone for the business card divider”.
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by qubex 3mo ago
Implications of this made me so utterly furiously angry I actually hate-calculated the fundamental physics flaw in the premise of Ascension and wrote a Medium post about it: https://medium.com/@jamesjunghanns/more-aston
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by qubex 3mo ago
Personally, I consider Ethel Cain’s American Teenager (2022) to be the most definitively “2020s sound” yet, but that’s probably just an elder millennial who doesn’t get modern culture’s ignorant hot take.
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by qubex 3mo ago
There’s certainly a Baudrillard reference to be made here, but I’m not awake enough to exactly phrase it (yet).
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by qubex 3mo ago
I present you the Interior Designer’s weapon of mass disruption: NCS. Worse still: European urban development projects have adopted it. I never knew there could be so many varieties of ‘ochre’.
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by qubex 3mo ago
None.
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by qubex 3mo ago
This is truly a huge leap forward but I’m addicted to Mathematica like a starlet to heroin.
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by qubex 3mo ago
Ah so let’s avoid analysis paralysis by having only black, as Ford famously ruled for the Model T. Of course that’s a reductio ad absurdum, but it’s also completely arbitrary to maintain that fewer options is better. The opposite is also eq

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