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rjsw··on Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel
Are you sure that the Chinook used Windows? I have not read this elsewhere.

There have been documented problems with Windows for Warships.

rjsw··on The top secret URSALA, RAQUEL, and FARRAH satellites (2025)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49368886
rjsw··on Toyota is taking the Corolla electric
Ford is still making and selling EVs elsewhere.
rjsw··on Toyota is taking the Corolla electric
The rest of the world doesn't drive F-series trucks.

I'm thinking of getting a Ford EV as my next car, prefer the features and looks to the equivalent Stellantis models.

rjsw··on Linux support is coming to Snapdragon X2 Series
I don't think that would help with GPU or NPU, which another comment states are the drivers that Qualcomm are upstreaming.
rjsw··on What It's Like to Work in One of America's Data Centers
There have been suggestions that the DC operators themselves have been astroturfing articles about water use to steer discussions away from the other issues.
rjsw··on What Sun got wrong
Sun made a Sparc ATX motherboard that you could put in any PC case.
rjsw··on Amiga Unix, Again
NetBSD still runs on Amiga.
rjsw··on I'm Tired of the AI Tone
Another Torment Nexus taken from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation Genuine People Personality is real.
rjsw··on Unix Year 2038 problem and the art of underestimating
This was fixed for all my UNIX systems in 2012.
rjsw··on Ray Ozzie and the Optimism of Being Early
I'm guessing you are writing about Notes.

Lotus was the name of the company that initially made the 1-2-3 spreadsheet.

rjsw··on EU chief opens door for Canada to become 'associate member'
I think that the EU would be in worse shape today if the UK had followed most other members at the time and restricted freedom of movement to it for the countries that joined in 2004 and 2007. It would have been nice to have got some credit for that.
rjsw··on Building a Linux GPU Driver for the M4 Mac Mini in One Month
Some arguments in the Apple vs OpenAI case look like they could lead to a decision on whether an LLM can wash away copyright or not.
rjsw··on US confirms for first time it has deployed space weapons
Almaz had a 23mm cannon [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almaz_program#Defense_measures

rjsw··on Bad benchmarks and evals: Senior SWE-Bench, napkin math, and winter tires
The crossover point where winter tyres work better is < +7°C, it doesn't need to be below freezing.
rjsw··on Nike exits the S&P 100 after 18 years and a $200B market-cap wipeout
Hoka was founded by former Salomon employees, why would they want to move from Annecy?
rjsw··on Revolut confirms customer data breach through fake government requests
At least one traditional UK bank requires a selfie and a passport scan.
rjsw··on Benchmark: CadQuery vs. OpenSCAD for agentic CAD work
There was a blog post from a couple of days ago that had been initially flagged, it seemed to me to have a good overview of AI for CAD, will try to find the link.
rjsw··on I refuse to let SPICE die
We could speedrun this and just call every product "the thing".
rjsw··on How the Chorleywood Bread Process transformed British bread
Supermarket bread in France is also industrial.
rjsw··on Version control second coming
People complained about having to use ClearCase back then, it wasn't just the price that was wrong with it.
rjsw··on Ancient cave art suggests first known humans in Ireland walked over from Wales
There was an ice sheet starting just north of this area, it would have melted at 10°C.
rjsw··on Just Bury Your Trash
I have been using the same mug for 50 years.
rjsw··on Apple reveals 'shocking evidence' from ex-employee's MacBook in OpenAI suit
A related argument could be whether the output of an LLM that has been trained on GPL code should also be considered to be under a GPL licence.
rjsw··on 25,000 Lbs. Of Chicken Products Recalled in 5 States: USDA
TBF, there are current problems with imported chicken products elsewhere.
rjsw··on A curmudgeon tries a language server
Interlisp-D was more image based.

You could type something in to the repl then add it to a file later.

There was a structure editor that worked on the s-expression of a function, including any comments as they were represented as a special form within that structure.

  (* This is a comment)
See section 7 of the introductory guide [1].

[1] https://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/www.bitsavers.org/pdf/xe...

rjsw··on A curmudgeon tries a language server
Even the original MIT Lisp Machine was designed around editing source files, there were "compile the current function" keybindings and menu options in the version of Emacs for it.

You could also type an individual function into the repl then pretty-print it to a file but that typically expands out any read macros that you may have used.

rjsw··on I keep getting flagged for AI, but I suck at writing. How can I solve this?
I think you will find that a technical audience is much more tolerant of imperfect English than you seem to expect.
rjsw··on How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs
The level of border controls hasn't changed, only the technology used to implement it.
rjsw··on How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs
The new EU regulation on Digital Product Passports may have similar effects on small businesses.

I was expecting that they would build the "passport" on top of existing design standards but that doesn't seem to be the case, the recent webinar on it doesn't go into much detail though.

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