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I worked at Intel from 1988-1998 and when I started we had either AIX or SunOS terminals (a few folks had giant HPUX boxes). By 1996, everything, and I mean EVERYTHING, switched to Linux and VNC. It happened quickly. First we started hearing about Linux, then a quarter later all the remote machines were Linux, then the quarter after that they took away our workstations. There were a few HPUX boxes in the larger pools for extremely compute-heavy layout tasks, but everything else was RedHat.

Point is: I remember writing scripts for then main environment and every script had to work on all terminals. The three variations meant constantly armor-plating things with HPUX/AIX/SUNOS variable checks. I hated that. I was glad when RedHat came along and we stopped doing that.

(Also, back then it was a sign of being cool to have an 8514/A monitor, and not the B&W sun terminals.)

Seems very non-Elon, because he's about disrupting established things, right? Or no. Pick one.

But Elon is a disruptor, no?

The only people complaining about free speech are literally right-wingers spreading verifiable lies (and this includes non US right-wingers). The fact that this is an issue is a tragic flood of propaganda by these liars.

If he's so rich and smart, just make a better Twitter and people will flock to it, right?

I mean, I thought he's for the invisible hand of the market yadda yadda yadda.

I'm curious how they claimed that the cooling solution is over-designed because they were only able to achieve 80% of the spec'd power target (most likely TDP since people stopped using max power in the 00's). There are a number of factors that go into spec'ing this value, typically quite a few test vectors to determine typical workloads and high-power targeted workloads. A mistake in power budget of 20% is gigantic and would have significant impact on sorting die. Now maybe Apple doesn't care about this because they aren't a silicon vendor, but that budget comes out of battery life and cooling solution space. My point is, I find it highly unlikely Apple overstated their power target by 20% given how much money it would have saved them. But maybe they did?

I didn't say everything was finished. ;-)

In fact, I'm not sure how to decide if something actually IS finished. Sometimes I just want to understand something, and when I get to that point, I call it done. I just like to learn.

Like with my FM synths: I made a TX802 clone a long time ago (in software), and once I got to a certain point I was like, "Yep, got it." I just wanted to construct something that could implement the FM algorithms and a filter. That's all. I could have made a fully-fledged MIDI synth, but I just wanted to understand synthesis. Or with ray tracing: once I got spheres, cubes, transparency, and reflections and a simple scene text-file syntax, I was like: I should add NURBS, but that was way too complicated, so I called that "done" because I understood how it worked.

You can ALWAYS keep going. Nothing is ever really done. When you lose interest, that's just your brain saying, "I learned enough, let's do something else!" Think of your brain on hobbies like a Golden Retriever: short attention span but always happy!

> I've written scripts the automate the creation of parts like screws that can be imported into 3D CAD tools.

Cool!

I found a really cool plugin for Inkscape that computes gear parameters (I have access to both laser- and water-jet cutters). That kind of stuff is really useful for non-machinists like myself.

> Libraries for STM32 chips so that I could easily go from idea to something I could test.

I discovered CubeMX about, gosh, at least 10 years ago, and it changed my life. I went from Arduino to STM32 and suddenly i have all kinds of peripherals. Their stuff is awesome.

That's really smart.

Huh, I've never been asked that.

Yes, for over 30 years. I could never list them all. Nearly every thought I have becomes a program. I've written x86 asm game hacks (DOS era), 2D tile games (80's), Windows MIDI composers, game frame languages, ray-tracing renderers, OpenGL visualization, PID controllers, camera controllers, video controllers, circuit simulators, flight controllers, so so so many games, scripts for analyzing data, scripts for scraping websites, ODBC readers for my cars, FM synths, game solvers, and that's just stuff in C, not even getting started with the bazillion websites.

Over decades, programming becomes such a part of your life, that it is simply the way you move about the world, and think about it.

Zero-knowledge proofs are coming. Zcash and Monero do some on chain obfuscation with I believe an ECC based DH? But they point is, coinfolk are working on it.

ITT: armchair therapists whom I suspect have never cohabitated with a partner for multiple years.

Sincerely,

Armchair HN therapist

When I think of "hack", these are what I have in mind. Completely bending something to a purpose never intended. Utterly bonkers. But the fact that he offers multiple concepts, implements them, and documents them in an ELI5YE (explain like i'm a 5th year engineer) is a true sign of genius.

I serve several sites off an AWS EC2 instance, all are dynamic REST endpoints with DBs in their own `tmux` instance. I also have a five line nodeJS process running on another port for just my static page. All of this is redirected from AWS/r53/ELB. The only pain in the arse is setting up all the different ports, but everything runs in its own directory so there are no dependency issues. I've tried to ramp up with docker, but I always end up finding it faster to just hack out a solution like this (plus it saves disk space and memory on my local dev machine). In the end my sol'n is still a hack since every site is on one machine, but these are just sites for my own fun. Perhaps running containers directly would be easier, but I haven't figured out how to deal with disk space (since I upload lots of stuff).

Kinda sound like a wanker here, but if I can only by $10k of bonds... that works out to about $500 after taxes in a year. Not a whole heck of a lot, or do they retain the 8% for however long you hold the bond? (e.g., 10 years?) Meaning at 7.2% in 10 years I'd have 20k?

EDIT: Thanks for the replies. TIL.

I don't know how many times I promoted this myth, and I never even owned one. Ironically, I really want one now because conversion vans are way too expensive, and Elements had great clearance, space, and 4WD. I hope they make a comeback.

I thought the reboots were in order to retain property rights, and that with 2-3 years between reboots aimed at teens, there are a new batch of teens. So it seems like a win-win: renew property rights and lure in the new batch of teens.

I lived on a 10 acre plot in the US northeast for a while, in a cozy cabin. I had the best neighbor, and old guy who owned the 200 acres mostly around me and let me hike around on it. He eventually died and some dipshit CEO of a healthcare company bought the place, logged most of it, and then gave it to his kids, a teenager and 20-something, both boys. The kids would come up all the damn time and drive their lifted trucks, quads and unmuffled motorbikes with their friends all night long, and then shoot all afternoon and night. It was way outside city limits so anything goes. Of course I tried talking to them, and they just thought I was some loser old guy trying to stop their fun, and their dad simply didn't give a fuck. There was no way the tiny police department that we shared with a neighboring town would even care.

I eventually moved because they ruined my peace and quiet, and because I was getting sick of the 5' snow drifts starting in October.

I laugh at verbose options that are:

-v for basic verbose

-vv for more

-vvv for even more

-vvvv oh come on you've got to be kidding

-vvvvv nope, they're not kidding

I can almost smell the static burn of the teletype paper, and that weird feeling of chemicals under your nails if you scratched it.

Maybe because lots of cops like Harley's with straight pipes, or are sympathetic? But they'll certainly ticket bassy low-riders.

Want to go to the beach? Well here's Toby Keith on your left, Christian Radio on your right, Mariachi in front of you, and Ye behind you. I want all beaches to be public, but then I hate public beaches. meirl.

Anyone who has ever lived next to someone with a barking dog knows how the spikes of adrenaline at random times of the day and night can raise stress levels significantly.

This is a great study: the code isn't that large, and it is rather straightforward compared to looking at today's GCC. Thanks for putting this up!

Jokes aside, I wiki'd this and there are a few interesting aspects of this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Write-only_memory_(engineering...

That's pretty funny. I never thought of it that way.

The big question to me is, "What does Dall-E like the most?"

So does his new free speech wagon mean disinfo is back on the menu at twitter, and a return of the former president*?

When someone claims "free speech infringement" and then has no data to back it up they are either trolling or don't really care enough to make a substantial argument.

What thousands of accounts did you follow that were banned? Give us a sampling.