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kv85son Imposing memory security in C [video]

Are there any real-world, production systems based on JavaScript and Python?

Toy systems, yes. Hey, I too, think CircuitPython is really neat. But I'm skeptical someone would base a PLC (or similar) on it.

kv85son The most, and least, walkable cities

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016041202...

The triangular visualizations are kinda nifty.

kv85son Russia's tanks in Ukraine have a 'jack-in-the-box' design flaw

CNN: breathlessly reporting in 2022, stuff we all knew in 1991

kv85son CP/NC – a CP/M-compatible operating system

MS-DOS user experience was extremely similar CP/M. In fact, one could safely say MS-DOS/PC-DOS only existed in the first place as a "quick and dirty" approximation of CP/M. (because IBM and Digital Research could not agree to licensing terms to bring CP/M to the IBM PC)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Research#CP/M-86_and_D...

kv85son The Thermodynamics Behind the Mac Pro

"For the Pro computer, that new case design helps the new Pro get “about 20 percent more airflow” compared to the Power Mac G5 that precedes it."

I lost any respect for the writer with that sentence.

kv85son We should replace Facebook with personal websites

You could call it "GeoCities"

kv85son Leaving NYC for Nashville

Why expect any city to become another?

kv85son Research Shows Average Age of Successful Founders Is Older Than You Think

Key being the word "successful":

- learned things at their previous founding attempt/s

- serial entrepreneurs probably have their act together

kv85son The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate Amazon and Apple

Simple greed? As in: "play ball, and you get access to the gigantic Chinese market"

kv85son Networking Named Content (2009) [pdf]

Suggest adding a [2009] tag to let people know from whence this wonderful paper dates.

kv85son What Are We Doing with Google’s Flutter?

-1 for voluntarily moving onto the Google plantation.

kv85son Show HN: From Excel-hell to cloud database heaven in 5 steps

In no part of heaven is there a monthly subscription fee.

In no part of heaven does your data go poof and disappear if some 3rd party company goes under.

In no part of heaven is privacy of your data at the mercy of a 3rd party, that doesn't share your interests.

kv85son 2D Syntax

RacketFunge?

kv85son Why is the Internet so Slow?

Answer: Advertising

kv85son Why Aging Isn’t Inevitable

A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Max_Planck

often summarized as "Science advances one funeral at a time."

kv85son Pi-Top: Raspberry Pi Laptop Shell

They also have gray.

kv85son UCLA, Cisco and more join forces to replace TCP/IP

Yes! In fact, this talk first appeared on Google Video, before it all got shunted into youtube (which was an acquisition)

kv85son UCLA, Cisco and more join forces to replace TCP/IP

I believe what they're proposing is largely the same, if not identical, to Content-Centric Networking from Xerox PARC.

The central idea is:

  Instead of asking one particular server for some content, just ask for the content by name.

Since the content may come from any handy server, it is up to the receiver to validate it is really the content he requested. Nothing about this implies the evil "centralized security model" people are going on about. Sure, some bad actor could weasel it in later, but it's not there now.

kv85son The diversity of various tech companies by the numbers

SV diversity: 1) workforce is 50% Indian, 50% Chinese. 2) Hiring from both mainland China and Taiwan. 3) hiring from all over India, not just Bangalore.

kv85son What caused today's Internet hiccup

No, the router still forwards the traffic, but in software rather than hardware. Read the section entitled "Background Information" inside the Cisco document linked at the bottom of the article.

In particular, the telling error message is:

%MLSCEF-DFC4-7-FIB_EXCEPTION: FIB TCAM exception, Some entries will be software switched

kv85son Electric life forms that live on energy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=ij...

I can't be the only one who thought of this when reading the article's title :)

kv85son Introducing “Wedge” and “FBOSS,” the next steps toward a disaggregated network

"We’re big believers in the value of disaggregation" -- says the world's biggest data aggregator.

The irony is amazing.

kv85son How Silicon Valley CEOs conspired to drive down tech engineer wages

I blame the spineless executives, who peed themselves and folded at the words "this means war". WTF did that hippy salesman Jobs know about war? Oh, you'll go and hurt someone's feelings at a meeting? Give me a F-ing break. That shitbag Jobs wasn't fit to scrape the muck off a real veteran's boot.

kv85son Unfurlough.us – Freelance gigs for furloughed employees

i guess it's a better name than GS-11 clock-watchers?

kv85son Less is More Illustrated with Animated GIF

This is very nice work. It should be required reading for Pointy-Haired-Bosses everywhere!

kv85son Elm: declarative language that compiles to HTML, CSS and JS

visiting the link yields:

Parse error at (line 1, column 1): unexpected end of input expecting reserved word 'module', reserved word 'import' or at least one datatype or variable definition