Comment Re:I thought it was the DG Eclipse (Score 2) 39
Aaak. I think it was. That'll teach me to work off of decade old memories...
Well, it probably won't teach me.
Submission + - Tracy Kidder, Author of "The Soul of a New Machine", has died.
wiredog writes: Tracy Kidder, author of "The Soul of a New Machine" has died at the age of 80.
"The Soul of a New Machine" is about the people who designed and built the Data General Nova, one of the 32 bit superminis that were released in the 1980's, just before the PC destroyed that industry. It was excerpted in The Atlantic.
"I'm going to a commune in Vermont and will deal with no unit of time shorter than a season."
"The Soul of a New Machine" is about the people who designed and built the Data General Nova, one of the 32 bit superminis that were released in the 1980's, just before the PC destroyed that industry. It was excerpted in The Atlantic.
"I'm going to a commune in Vermont and will deal with no unit of time shorter than a season."
Submission + - AI found 12 New OpenSSL zero-days (lesswrong.com)
wiredog writes: "Our goal was to turn what used to be an elite, artisanal hacker craft into a repeatable industrial process. We do this to secure the software infrastructure of human civilization before strong AI systems become ubiquitous. Prosaically, we want to make sure we don't get hacked into oblivion the moment they come online."
Comment You're one of today's (Score 1) 20
Time to go down the Panspermia rabbit hole!
Comment No one online seems interested in acknowledging (Score 1) 37
That the primary motivator towards forcing the sale wasn't the algorithm as such, it was the probability that the PRC would use TikTok as a propaganda tool.
Comment Re:Precedents only matter when SCOTUS says they do (Score 2) 180
The Republicans aren't conservative in any sensible meaning of the word. They are radicals. The Democrats are far more conservative than the Republicans these days.
Comment It's not just IT workers. (Score 2) 125
Lots of medical workers, especially in rural hospitals, are on H1-Bs.
Comment I work in a SCIF (Score 2) 51
I never stopped coming in to the office. Before that I worked in industrial automation, and that work couldn't be done remotely either.
Comment Re:Not news in Canada (Score 1) 173
"diesel engines are known for being especially difficult to start in cold."
When I was in the Army in Korea in 1985/86 one of the duties on the duty roster was to start every vehicle in the motor pool every 4 hours and run it for half an hour to keep it warm. Nothing like getting up at 0200 on a Sunday morning to spend an hour in the motor pool.
Submission + - Another One Bites The Dust
wiredog writes: One of the few remaining blogs from Ye Olden Days of blogging, Dave "I am not making this up" Barry's Blog, is shutting down with the end of Typepad.
Comment I remember buying my first Linux (Score 5, Interesting) 66
Yes, buying. I lived in Cedar City Utah and first encountered Linux in a RedHat 2.0 beige box at a gaming store in Red Cliffs Mall in St George. Probably in 1994 or 5. Came with a couple of manuals, a boot floppy, and a CD. Had the 0.95 kernel. Getting dial-up configured was interesting since the ISP only knew about Trumpet Winsock... Then leaving it running for a few hours in the evening to update everything.
Within a week I was at the local BN buying O'Reilly books.
Comment Re: Why is anyone surprised? (Score 1) 557
The center right is economic, really a difference of macroeconomic philosophy while still holding classically liberal ideas like democracy and the holding elected officials accountable. Taxing and spending with agreeable returns, such as having roads or an educated workforce.
The far right is obsessed with control and heirarchy to the point of overlapping with theocracy. And don't have any long term plans that could be described as rational. Most of them want to wait around for Judgement Day, many start it a little early.
The far left wants to tear down the current mainstream economic system and rebuild a different kind of society.
The center left, like the center right, has a variant of macroeconomic philosophy. And support democracy, classical liberalism, and capitalism. Generally a flavor capitalism that can be described as Western welfare capitalism. Frequently agrees to compromises with the center right in order to keep day to day business going. Like hammering out a budget to keep the government funded.
So, by 'far right' you mean Republicans and by 'far left' you mean Democrats?
Comment Re:Why is anyone surprised? (Score 0) 557
Embryos-are-children has been the position of the far right for at least two decades now.
I never understood what it had to do with economic policy.
Comment Re:And the point is...? (Score 1) 38
So now instead of having a phone number that identifies your phone, you have a username that identifies your phone. And this accomplishes what, exactly?
When you are baiting scammers, and they ask to chat with you on signal, they don't get your mobile number?
Comment Re: Weird how... (Score 1) 78
Yes, we don't want nuclear war. We also don't like wars to occur in the continental United States, which explains some of the aggressive "regime change" invasion policies. Both of these aspects explains our reaction during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
The US is obviously not anti-war. But they do choose the wars they participate in, usually by being the one that initiates them.
Seemingly, especially when it involves bombing brown people.
Despite not wanting a war on their own continent there seems to be a view that Mexico is the USA's back yard and that there should be a military intervention there...
Theres also China which, despite being many of the USA's allies main trading partner, the USA is desperately trying to provoke a war with.
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