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jacobushon Boeing's upgraded 737 Max completes first flight with media onboard

>I'm not sure what can be done to fix it.

Regulations which require engineers or their union representatives to sit on the corporate board of directors.

(Such as in the deplorable communist countries Germany, Austria, Sweden, Norway, Ireland, France and Denmark.)

jacobushon Why did renewables become so cheap so fast?

They got a less fucked world. That’s good for Germans too, and we are blessed they are big enough to make a difference.

jacobushon A Japanese shop is 1,020 years old

Sounds like Harvard

jacobushon Archive and historians sue White House, seek to preserve presidential records

Yes? Official records should be conserved.

jacobushon Linux kernel heap quarantine versus use-after-free exploits

True. Still, it should be easier to find and fix the problem if triggering the makes the program reliably terminate.

jacobushon Linux kernel heap quarantine versus use-after-free exploits

I’d argue that’s exactly what happens, especially during object initialisation in C++.

jacobushon Linux kernel heap quarantine versus use-after-free exploits

Still, it would eliminate a whole class of bugs, even with insecure languages such as C.

jacobushon Linux kernel heap quarantine versus use-after-free exploits

Maybe it should.

jacobushon Arecibo Observatory Collapsed

Trump is pro working class? That's a new one.

jacobushon Computer Graphics from Scratch (2017)

I did a raytracer in BASIC on an 8-bit machine. Took two weeks and a nondescript lump of pixels was the result. But I knew it was a torus.

jacobushon The futuristic cargo ship made of wood

On the other hand the crew might get a larger share of the profits compared to the crew on container ships.

Also, this is a prototype and effectively a research platform. And if you are going to build with wood, there are not many contemporary designs floating around. Starting with a proven design may be a good idea.

jacobushon Little Things That Made Amiga Great

But for the time it looked OK, especially on the typical bedroom 14" CRT.

jacobushon MODNet: Is a Green Screen Necessary for Real-Time Human Matting?

This tech will surely be used in a lot of video meetings

jacobushon How io_uring and eBPF Will Revolutionize Programming in Linux

AGA was the only significant hardware revision.

They should have ditched m68k too. I loved it, but with 68040 and 486, the writing was on the wall for everyone to see.

By the time of Pentium, the writing was on the wall, the floors, the windows, the ceiling, the windows.

Yes, 68060 held a candle against early Pentium but it was not intended as a Personal Computer CPU, more "fast embedded".

The Amiga OS was great. No memory protection, but Win 3.1 had none, DOS had none, Win 95 had some but it somehow crashed relentlessly anyway. It took years for them to discover that it had a max uptime of 48 days because of a timer running out of bits.

AGA could and should have been incrementally upgraded with more modes, ever keeping backwards compatibility. (Like AGA did with the original chipset.) They could have sold Amigas on PCI boards, with a cheap 68000 to boot legacy Amiga OS until the transition was complete with emulation or whatever, and using the PC x86 for games code. So many possibilities, but R&D was on a shoestring budget.

The "game console like" conformity was the strength and ultimately the downfall of the platform, but not because that's bad inherently, but because the revisions stopped coming. The original PS2 was compatible with the PS1, and the original PS3 was compatible with the PS2.

The iPhone also shows the strength of vertical integration, Commodore had a great chess board opening but traded all its pieces for nothing, except in the end, pork for the CEO and board.

jacobushon Amazon Workers to Stage Coordinated Black Friday Protests in 15 Countries

What about health care?

jacobushon Parse, don’t type-check

https://mcshowblog.files.wordpress.com/2019/08/dumpsterfire....

Yeah bad example if you wanted to convince me it’s any good :-D

jacobushon A New Study About Color Tries to Decode ‘The Brain’s Pantone’

Experience but also biology. Blood is red and some people faint at the sight of blood, that can't be all attributed to experience.

jacobushon A New Study About Color Tries to Decode ‘The Brain’s Pantone’

Sort of, but it depends on what you mean by "perceive". They are measuring responses in the visual cortex. What you feel about that is likely also similar to most people but I bet it's another layer in the brain doing that connection.

jacobushon Cracks in the Great Stagnation?

I don’t know. With QAnon people in Congress (M. Greene) I wonder if the tide can be stemmed. Or was it always this bad?

jacobushon I spent eleven years working on this Line Rider track

I think it would loose something else then. That wonder and awe you can get when you get just a glimpse of something.

jacobushon This is how Google will collapse (2017)

Or logged out

jacobushon Hacking the Perfect Auction

https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=25215392&goto=threads%...

jacobushon Welcome to the New Middle Ages

Maybe I’m a cynic, but I take as a given that the incredibly wealthy will always (in aggregate) wield their power in a way which has little regard for society as a whole. I’m open to suggestions about what can be done to improve things. Maybe focusing on your points about how perverted capitalism has become, is more fruitful.

jacobushon Welcome to the New Middle Ages

Whenever I point that inequality out to people of the third estate, more often than not I get the response that the rich just got their wealth from hard work and that I am a communist for suggesting that anything's wrong.

jacobushon How the U.S. Used Disinformation and the 'Jakarta Method' to Change the World

To a minority but highly influential group of Christians, it doesn't matter that Trump is all these things. He's still the Anointed who does Gods work, perhaps without knowing it himself. You just can't win with arguments. (They even draw parallels to David.)

jacobushon Superoptimizer – A Look at the Smallest Program [pdf] (1987)

I think that might be Tex (or LaTex). But maybe OP referenced all the Word papers out there?

jacobushon NSA Spied on Denmark as It Chose Its Future Fighter Aircraft: Report

Germany also had huge problems getting fuel for anything, really. They used a lot of horses for artillery. Building a huge number of tanks may not have worked out for them. When they couldn't reach Soviet oil fields, it was over.

jacobushon First Responders Unprepared for Electric Vehicle Fires: Report

Wait what?

jacobushon A bird feeder that accepts bottle caps for food

Not disagreeing with you regarding dogs, you could have been describing mine. But I also find that when they really want something, they are more cunning and improvising. More than once have I got the feeling he just waits for me to leave so he can start with whatever shenanigans he's up to.

jacobushon The CIA's Quest for Mind Control: Torture, LSD and a 'Poisoner in Chief'

So, people who disagree with you, can never calmly explain their position? You also expect this state of affairs to never change.

That must be frustrating.