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rbanffy
194,606karma·63,760submissions·March 12, 2008
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Seasoned software developer, proficient in Python, Java. Less proficient in Ruby and Lisp. A bit rusty in C and C++. Learning Erlang very slowly. Also a computer collector and restorer, lover of 8-bit computers, mainframes and interesting Unix workstations.
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They are not great for general purpose workloads - when you write to an SMR zone you need to rewrite the whole zone, a bit like flash, but much slower. Reads, however, behave just like a normal drive.…
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His LinkedIn says he’s retired for six years now. I hope he’s enjoying retirement.
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HDDs are for colder storage that’s not yet cold enough for tape, but infrequently read and written. It takes more than a day to fill one.
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It’s so good to re-read Tom Halfhill’s articles. I wonder where he’s been in the past… checks notes… 30 years I haven’t seen his writings.
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I fancy myself as a decent writer, but I suck at writing documentation. People describe reading my notes frustrating and incomprehensible. I find it much better to use AI to untangle my, admittedly, c…
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Presidents come and go and, hopefully, this one will be held accountable.
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We have shorter attention spans now.
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It’s lovely to think some x86 CPUs have a nice ISA buried under the layers of cruft that form a recent x86 ISA. I still remember the time when mnemonics were 2 or 3 characters. Good days.
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Let’s not be racist, please. It doesn’t matter if the intelligence is based on carbon or silicon.
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Or the Reptilians. Or nazis from the centre of the Earth.
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There’s residual and radioactive heating from the Earth itself that can provide energy for an ecosystem. We expect Jupiter’s moons to provide similar environments because of tidal deformations (which …
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> that uses 1/1/1950 as the epoch I guess we can say this is when humankind reached adulthood, became able to drink and got a driver’s license. And a gun.
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Also, if the finding is never recorded, it can be used to frame just about anyone who can be accused of finding it and smuggling it out of the US.
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Oh... That's not great - it'd be nice if it had a way to push updates without building a new chip. OTOH, maybe because of this our future cyberdecks will have cartridge ports.