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by sparcpile 24d ago
The Vorta and the Jem'Hadar worship founders less than Paul Graham does.
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by sparcpile 1mo ago
They don't. Trying to monetize it was mistake #1. Mistake #2 was letting the tech bros anywhere near it.
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by sparcpile 8mo ago
OpenAI and Anthropic are bleeding money and both need hundreds of billions of dollars in the next couple of years to break even. Oracle is highly overleveraged and I am hoping that the bubble takes them out. You can find the gory details
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by sparcpile 8mo ago
The sooner the AI bubble pops and takes all of these companies out, the better the world will be.
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by sparcpile 8mo ago
So someone re-implemented the Beowulf cluster. I guess the other Slashdot memes are ready to come back.
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by sparcpile 10mo ago
You should take the L on this one. Even if you got a "Show HN" post about JAI, I don't think the tech bros are going to be keen on a NSFW AI chatbot website. You still don't have a subscription offering after 2+ years. T
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by sparcpile 2y ago
You just reinvented the compiler.
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by sparcpile 2y ago
The AI bubble will pop in the next year. We are currently in 1998 of the dotcom bubble with another AI winter approaching. LLM and generative AI are this year’s “on the Internet” or “Uber for X” business plans.
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by sparcpile 2y ago
The story originally came out in 2001. https://www.theregister.com/2001/04/12/missing_novell_server...
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by sparcpile 2y ago
I use it all the time for my QEMU VMs. It’s less hassle than OVS and allows you to configure some complex networks with just a few socket files and tunnels. I use one VDE switch per network with each network having a single tap interface to
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by sparcpile 2y ago
Charities can hide their percentages when they self-deal with people on their board. It's highly unethical. Wreaths Across America is notorious for this. All the money they raise goes to the wreath making company that the board members
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by sparcpile 2y ago
ERAM is multichannel, which is why we do the failover between A-channel and B-channel during APL and OS CUTO. If I remember the SSMs right, we do the update on the B-channel first and once it has been approved by TechOps, A-channel is then
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by sparcpile 2y ago
I've been purchasing older O'Reilly books off of Ebay for the past couple of years. My most recent purcahse was Applying RCS and SCCS by Don Bolinger, which is split between RCS, SCCS, and describing software configuration managem
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by sparcpile 2y ago
We've been using Guacamole everywhere after OpenText EOLed Exceed OnDemand and tried to charge way too much for their replacement, FastX. The little bastards even demanded to know what our internal architecture was before they would gi
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by sparcpile 2y ago
I use a PIV Badge as a FAA contractor. We're told to never use the PIV badge as a means of identification anywhere. The documentation doubles down by mentioning to never use it as an ID at an airport. I've been told it is because
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Microsoft OS/2 2.0(virtuallyfun.com)
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by sparcpile 3y ago
Chuck E Cheese runs a virtual brand for their pizza called Pasqually's Pizza https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OTpHqq6bFg # Comparing Chuck E Cheese pizza and a rebranded CEC frozen pizza https://www.lastsque
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by sparcpile 3y ago
https://www.govexec.com/workforce/2023/11/overtime-staffing-... It took 10 years after Reagan fired the controllers to get the workforce back to pre-1981 levels. This caused a ripple effect because the people
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by sparcpile 3y ago
The load on the National Airspace System (NAS) has been growing each year, with slight a dip due to COVID. The FAA has provides 20-year outlooks for a set of metrics, including the number of operations performed with the NAS. https:/
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by sparcpile 3y ago
Blaming DEI is a dog-whistle for 'people should know their place' The Free Beacon, Fox News, and the other last four you listed are in the business of telling old white people to be afraid of everything. It's the same as deny
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by sparcpile 3y ago
It looks like Critque is a branch of Gerrit. The user interface is similar. I assume that Critque is Grerrit with a bunch of Google-specific changes. Gerrit itself is an interesting review tool. It uses Git references to manage the review c
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by sparcpile 3y ago
covered quite a few times over the years https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37514601 (2023) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31290789 (2022) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=289887
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by sparcpile 3y ago
PACs have been doing these bulk buys for years to get people on the list. As the article mentioned, Mitt Romney did this. Mike Pompeo did it as well. https://www.forbes.com/sites/zacheverson/2023/02/21&#
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by sparcpile 3y ago
Before Stackoverflow, they were pretty good. Once they started the anti-pattern of requiring registration to view answers, the quality went down hill pretty quick. In the last few years, my workplace added them to their blocklist. I didn&#x
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by sparcpile 3y ago
There is a video by Soup Emporium on Youtube that compares the uplift of the Yellowstone caldera to Campi Flegrei's. The video is queued up to where Campi Flegrei is discussed. https://youtu.be/ypn3Fe_PLts?t=233
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by sparcpile 3y ago
That is the direction Red Hat has been going for many years now. They position Workstation as the higher-end desktop meant to run key applications, mostly as a developer workstation. You are entitled to one or two VMs in Workstation and mor
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by sparcpile 3y ago
It's a listicle and a bad one at that. The author considers vi/vim to be an IDE and that Word and Excel also count due to VBA.
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by sparcpile 3y ago
There was a Discovery Channel special about future evolution that took this idea and ran with it. They had an idea of octopi being more land dwelling and becoming the dominant species.
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by sparcpile 3y ago
This is nice. I previously wrote up a KornShell script that did that with the 3000 most common English words, added the dashes, and two digit numbers to make up a suitable password for my password manager and places where I could not use a
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by sparcpile 3y ago
I use systemd-nspawn to create test containers so I can muck with the internals without dealing with docker cp and exec commands. The containers themselves are just directories sitting in a filesystem. I ended up writing a shell script to h

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