or, Java Virtual Threads and chill.
Another shout-out for Rhode Island Computer Museum. They're very "hands-on", and just about any time you drop in you may be recruited to help chase down a problem with a PDP-9 or be compelled to play a game of O.G.…
The E extension will probably only ever appear in softcores (FPGA) to reduce gate count.
Interesting. According to the definition in that Wikipedia link, "copyfraud" is claiming copyright on public domain content. Does this mean a company can take code from an open source project that used AI, put it into…
I miss the insane adrenaline rush when getting into small fights (1v1, 1v2, etc.). You go so long doing doing whatever it is you're doing- PvE, hacking data sites, transporting stuff- it's all a bit mundane. But nothing…
I dug into the DNSSEC rabbit hole a few weeks ago and got drawn into the fascinating root key signing ceremony. https://www.iana.org/dnssec/ceremonies/62
I'm trying to make sense of all of this; I'm really curious if the initial prompt was as innocuous as it sounds ("solve a spreadsheet completion task that referenced several Google Drive links"), and what the series of…
There's a memorial a few blocks away, at the site of his execution, that now lives in the middle of a suburban street. https://www.google.com/maps/place/Major+Andre+Monument/@41.0...
On the hardware side, DEC built very-well engineered hardware. The early Alpha machines were very well designed. Even the PC compatible lines of the era were built to a very high quality standard.
VAX compatibility was very important to DEC- the Alpha has hardware to handle the non-IEEE VAX floating point formats.
Definitely. Internally, Oracle is very strict about the use of code written outside of Oracle- there is a very strict set of rules and procedures to incorporate open source libraries into their products and services. As…
Right now, the front page of CNN's web site in the US has as the primary headline "Third US service member killed as US ramps up strikes on Iran"[1]. The secondary headline has the names of two of them.[2] [1]…
The C64 had a good game library. While the C64 does have a cartridge and tape deck port, most games were sold on floppy disks. The C64 does not auto-boot disks, so when you turn on the power switch, you are immediately…
At some point, we will no longer be mathematicians and engineers, but instead become matrix psychologists. "Do not make mistakes."
To expand on "time dilation": an EVE Online star system is served by a single compute node in their server farm at a time. Most systems are empty most of the the time, but some locations in the universe have much more…
For the non-EVE players, when you join a fleet in-game, the other members of the fleet have a purple icon next to their name. NPSI is a play-style where you join transient fleets with the express intention of getting…
Applets redux.
Nobody seems to have really embraced the truly distributed model of git, where you can expose a local repository via read-only HTTP, and collaborate by pulling from each others' repositories. No pushes. This would be…
Live within your means. Save aggressively. Invest wisely. (Source: I'm one of the 21,000, let go via a 6am email after 15 years with the company in engineering and management roles.)
I was looking for people who I had worked with at a company that was acquired 15 years ago, and some random person claims to be the CEO of that company.
Seems like that it's not that coding agents are to blame, its that the people who are ultimately responsible for committing and merging the offending code are to blame, regardless of its origin.
See also: https://www.iana.org/assignments/well-known-uris/well-known-...
Indeed. This paragraph shows something that most people really don't understand about AI. > 98. It is appropriate to preface this discussion with two considerations. First, any statement regarding AI risks becoming…
It's a money maker. Maybe not a number one spot, but they don't have to stand up any more datacenters.
"Wow, it looks amazing, honey!" -John's Mom hah!
or, Java Virtual Threads and chill.
Another shout-out for Rhode Island Computer Museum. They're very "hands-on", and just about any time you drop in you may be recruited to help chase down a problem with a PDP-9 or be compelled to play a game of O.G.…
The E extension will probably only ever appear in softcores (FPGA) to reduce gate count.
Interesting. According to the definition in that Wikipedia link, "copyfraud" is claiming copyright on public domain content. Does this mean a company can take code from an open source project that used AI, put it into…
I miss the insane adrenaline rush when getting into small fights (1v1, 1v2, etc.). You go so long doing doing whatever it is you're doing- PvE, hacking data sites, transporting stuff- it's all a bit mundane. But nothing…
I dug into the DNSSEC rabbit hole a few weeks ago and got drawn into the fascinating root key signing ceremony. https://www.iana.org/dnssec/ceremonies/62
I'm trying to make sense of all of this; I'm really curious if the initial prompt was as innocuous as it sounds ("solve a spreadsheet completion task that referenced several Google Drive links"), and what the series of…
There's a memorial a few blocks away, at the site of his execution, that now lives in the middle of a suburban street. https://www.google.com/maps/place/Major+Andre+Monument/@41.0...
On the hardware side, DEC built very-well engineered hardware. The early Alpha machines were very well designed. Even the PC compatible lines of the era were built to a very high quality standard.
VAX compatibility was very important to DEC- the Alpha has hardware to handle the non-IEEE VAX floating point formats.
Definitely. Internally, Oracle is very strict about the use of code written outside of Oracle- there is a very strict set of rules and procedures to incorporate open source libraries into their products and services. As…
Right now, the front page of CNN's web site in the US has as the primary headline "Third US service member killed as US ramps up strikes on Iran"[1]. The secondary headline has the names of two of them.[2] [1]…
The C64 had a good game library. While the C64 does have a cartridge and tape deck port, most games were sold on floppy disks. The C64 does not auto-boot disks, so when you turn on the power switch, you are immediately…
At some point, we will no longer be mathematicians and engineers, but instead become matrix psychologists. "Do not make mistakes."
To expand on "time dilation": an EVE Online star system is served by a single compute node in their server farm at a time. Most systems are empty most of the the time, but some locations in the universe have much more…
For the non-EVE players, when you join a fleet in-game, the other members of the fleet have a purple icon next to their name. NPSI is a play-style where you join transient fleets with the express intention of getting…
Applets redux.
Nobody seems to have really embraced the truly distributed model of git, where you can expose a local repository via read-only HTTP, and collaborate by pulling from each others' repositories. No pushes. This would be…
Live within your means. Save aggressively. Invest wisely. (Source: I'm one of the 21,000, let go via a 6am email after 15 years with the company in engineering and management roles.)
I was looking for people who I had worked with at a company that was acquired 15 years ago, and some random person claims to be the CEO of that company.
Seems like that it's not that coding agents are to blame, its that the people who are ultimately responsible for committing and merging the offending code are to blame, regardless of its origin.
See also: https://www.iana.org/assignments/well-known-uris/well-known-...
Indeed. This paragraph shows something that most people really don't understand about AI. > 98. It is appropriate to preface this discussion with two considerations. First, any statement regarding AI risks becoming…
It's a money maker. Maybe not a number one spot, but they don't have to stand up any more datacenters.
"Wow, it looks amazing, honey!" -John's Mom hah!