dcminter

Upvote for the play link - that's interesting and I hadn't heard of it before. Worthy of a top-level post IMO.

Also... > they gave off some (not all) of the vibes of a cult ...after describing his visit with an atmosphere that sounds extremely cult-like.

At the risk of being a bit Polly-Anna-ish this might be a good thing in the medium term for the project. If this has the same root cause as the in-flight failures of v2, they at least have a chance to…

Oh, whoops, turns out this already got a discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44315529

DCT is explicitly "DRAM Controller" in the referenced "BIOS and Kernel Developer’s Guide" - see definitions table on p23 of https://www.amd.com/content/dam…

With respect to (1) I'd love to see more tooling like Rust's documentation tests where broken examples in the doocumentation can fail the build; it can't force the lazy to make good doc…

I did wonder if it was AI written or possibly AI "assisted" as it doesn't really say anything. It reads as if someone thought up the title and then asked Chat GPT to fill in the rest. E…

I'm on Signal ... somewhat. I like it in principle, but the usability is poor and my connections on it are people who are either already ideologically aligned with it or sympathetic to my relucta…

I remember a skit in a (terrible) British sketch show a zillion years ago where Biro tells the details of his secret invention to someone with an aside that there was nobody else in the house except &…

I vaguely recall building a resource allocation tool using IBM's "ILOG" mixed integer linear programming library and we realised that if we'd built the tool about 20 years earlier …

I must have the last good HP printer or something. Mine is the "HP Color LaserJet Pro MFP M281fdw" which is a WiFi enabled colour laser printer. It prints nicely, a set of cartridges lasts m…

Or you could come to Sweden :) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweden_Solar_System …

Define "historical" ... Anyway I nominate Cliff Stoll who wrote The Cuckoo's Egg and posts here from time to time. Definitely one of my heroes. https://en.m.wikipedia.org…

See also Motif: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motif_(software)

He could have said that he had omitted some passages for impropriety. If Bowdler could say then then so could he - by the standards of his day or of ours. Saying nothing would have been an option too.…

I still think you're doing some special pleading here. Yes, he might have meant people to infer that, but compare with Bowdler at the earlier end of the same century quite simply saying that he…

Possibly, but an honest man would have said as much.

> ... a willingness to promise whatever carriers and OEMs wanted to close a distribution deal... That always struck me as one of the more impressive things that Jobs achieved with the original iPho…

I went to a British private school (which we also call "public schools" to annoy Americans) and it was certainly still hanging on there into the 80s. My brother attended the same school wher…

A few years ago I downloaded some of the Gutenberg version [0] of Pepys' diary which is a transcription of the Wheatley edition which contains this rather odd paragraph in the introduction: &quo…

It stuns me that eBay is so determined to get you to use the app that they will divert someone who has landed on the site and started typing a search term presumably with the explicit intention of bu…

> they were intentionally crippling Facebook Messenger at one point [in a browser] They were/did. I was using Messenger Lite for a bit which was ok, but they killed that and the mobile browser…

He was fascinating. For those interested in reading further I thought this book on him was excellent: https://www.amazon.com/Man-Who-Knew-Too-Much/dp/0333782860 …

It's not a joke as such. It's a description of drama - particularly Elizabethan drama. The whole play is a riff on Hamlet.

> Routine reminder that Kagi pays share of profit to Yandex(so, directly to Kremlin), I care about this a lot; it's the one thing that prevents me from buying a subscription. > and employs …

"We can do you blood and love without the rhetoric, and we can do you blood and rhetoric without the love, and we can do you all three concurrent or consecutive. But we can't give you love a…

Plus he was a pompous old fool... his advice shouldn't be taken at face value!

Then I can only assume that you and I have very different definitions of "hard sci-fi"