twbarr

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by twbarr 3mo ago
Yes, this algorithm is called JBIG2.
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by twbarr 4mo ago
Fiduciary responsibility also requires long-term thinking. If AI is writing the code, I need the smartest, most well-rested supervisors I can get.
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by twbarr 4mo ago
As much as I would have loved to get out in sooner than six years, I tend to agree. In hindsight, if I'd treated it like a job and just done the coding and writing necessary to get the projects I published out the door, I could have do
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by twbarr 6mo ago
Intel's platform, at the very least, use cache-as-ram during the boot phase before the DDR interface can be trained and started up. https://github.com/coreboot/coreboot/blob/main/src/soc/in
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by twbarr 1y ago
It should be noted that the final design for UTF-8 was sketched out on a placemat by Rob Pike and Ken Thompson.
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by twbarr 1y ago
IPv6 is arguably a good example of what happens when you don't do the simplest thing possible. What we really needed was a bigger IP address space. What we got was a whole bunch of other crap. If we had literally expanded IPv4 by a cou
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by twbarr 2y ago
We could really take a page from this style for teaching advanced computing. We try to imagine that architectures just kind of come out of nowhere. Starting with mechanical computing and unit record equipment makes so much make more sense.
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by twbarr 2y ago
They're in the process of doing this for alums @hmc.edu too. Google baited us into moving the whole infrastructure into the cloud and now are switching us to something the alumni association can't afford. Meanwhile, the self-hoste
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by twbarr 3y ago
I'm always amazed by Crispix. It's not a heterogeneous material, it's not a poured mixture of two parts, it's not a coated material, it's an assembly. And you can eat it by the handful.
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by twbarr 3y ago
Ultimately, most good ideas were first implemented by Fabrice Bellard.
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by twbarr 3y ago
By comparison, if you steal as an infant, you get off easy. If you steal as an adult, you don't. Screwing up parallel parking is a mistake, plagiarism is not.
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by twbarr 3y ago
My first real "server hardware" was a Sparcstation 5 I bought under a bridge at the Dallas first Saturday swap meet. I was maybe... 15? Before that, it was Linux on whatever commodity PC my dad had passed down to me. Running Linux
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by twbarr 3y ago
Would be awfully fun to emulate this. With new maps from OSM... On Android Auto...
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by twbarr 3y ago
Lord Mayor of Cologne: "You've damaged your brain, Universe, but no more than a week of binge drinking or five minutes on a cell phone." - Futurama, Parasites Lost (2001)
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by twbarr 3y ago
No, but what is it? Not your lawyer, not legal advice, but it's not a trade secret, they've given it to researchers. It's not a trademark because it's not an origin identifier. The structure might be patentable, but the
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by twbarr 3y ago
One of the three 777 accidents is being shot down by a Russian SAM.
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by twbarr 3y ago
The NG has been produced since 1997 and there are essentially no pre-NG aircraft in Western service. The NEO is equivalent to the MAX.
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by twbarr 3y ago
The 737 has also been around a lot longer. The 737NG has a rate of 0.07 compared to the A32x's 0.09. The A330 is 0.19 while the 777 is 0.18. But even this is kind of misleading. All but three of the fatalities (total fatalities, not ac
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by twbarr 3y ago
There's a middle ground between "hardware store crap" and "custom." The aviation industry has plenty of standard interior lighting and environmental control system that's known not to light people on fire or sh
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by twbarr 3y ago
It's still Load/Store, but ARM Thumb2 uses gnarly variable-length instructions.
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by twbarr 3y ago
Hell, with non-maskable interrupts, any instruction can cause a trap!
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by twbarr 3y ago
Vicuna is a delta model that you have to apply on top of LLaMA.
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by twbarr 4y ago
I had an Athlon 800 machine that I used with BeOS as a daily-use machine. The biggest issue was that it played audio about 10% too fast. BeAmp would let you vary playback speed so I just tuned it to a tuning fork I had lying around. I wonde
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by twbarr 4y ago
I never had problems with [initials]@[short university name].edu, but my current email address, of the form n@nnn.nn, causes all sorts of problems with filters. My newest favorite bug was Adobe's password rules which demanded that the
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by twbarr 4y ago
It's gotta be embedded stuff. The Space Shuttle GPC was constantly reprogrammed, including on the pad. They've sent patches to the Voyager spacecraft as recently as a few years ago [1]. 45 years, not too bad! 1 - https:/&#x2
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by twbarr 4y ago
The damage goes way beyond delaying them one time, it also makes it way harder to use COTS hardware in the future. It's going to be a lot harder to get work done when you can't just buy a computer off Amazon.
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by twbarr 4y ago
That was DraftSight. https://www.draftsight.com/
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by twbarr 5y ago
The passenger checkpoint devices are projection imaging, but they do use CT (with rotating source/detector, just like a medical CT) for checked bags. https://www.envimet.com/en/product/examiner-xlb/
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by twbarr 5y ago
This may be the case nowadays with the pretty severe regulatory capture we have going on, but in the 60s, the FCC decreed that any lawful device may be electronically connected to the telephone network, despite what AT&T wanted. ( https