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Beermotor··on Why F# could be the next mainstream programming language (2024)
I became more proficient in one language than any other. Therefore this language is the best language ever and will take over the universe.
Beermotor··on uBlock Origin is no longer available on the Chrome Store
Coincidentally Google Chrome is no longer available on a single computing device I own.
Beermotor··on 3dfx: So powerful, it's kind of ridiculous (2023)
Adding: the server and client had to both be running vis patched maps to be able to see other players in the water due to the way entity visibility was calculated server-side.

The downside to running vis patched maps on a server is it used slightly more CPU than unpatched maps IIRC. Perhaps someone that ran more servers than I did (I ran two nodes on an Intergraph InterServe with dual P6-200s) could weigh in on what the impact was at scale.

Beermotor··on AI Will Write Complex Laws
I can see how it might be useful if the AI is only used for research and pointing out existing case law etc.

Otherwise it just sounds like another pointless and BS use-case from another rando AI company to keep the money taps flowing.

Beermotor··on In Defense of Y'All
Y'all is a feature of general Southern vernacular and has nothing to do with Texas other than most of the settlers of Tejas were from the South.
Beermotor··on The Evolution of the Unix Time-Sharing System (1984) [pdf]
IIRC it was initially employed for their payroll system to help print checks.
Beermotor··on The complex history of the Intel i960 RISC processor
I'm going from 30+ year old memories as an intern, but from what I remember:

Usually the RS232 was just on the terminal side. Somewhere along the path it got converted to twisted pair.

All the twisted pair serial lines congregated in the server room at a punch-down box. Eighteen year old me wasn't allowed to mess with anything past that point, but from what I can remember those lines were concentrated by a multiplexer (mux) and sent on to the minicomputer.

Beermotor··on Red Hat cutting back RHEL source availability
NASA's IT used to be split into the field centers and a central core IT organization. The field centers managed their own stuff, but anything agency-wide was handled by the core IT organization. Central IT also usually won out when there was a conflict.

When NASA combined their disparate field center mail systems into one (OneNASA and later NOMAD) massive mail system in 2006-2008 they deployed everything that wasn't the squishy Exchange underbelly on SuSE Enterprise 10.

The field centers were very invested in RHEL. Mostly for scientific software and Oracle.

JPL has traditionally been separate from the rest of NASA and works with CalTech for their infrastructure.

Beermotor··on Red Hat cutting back RHEL source availability
RedHat also backports fixes, security patches, and (occasionally) features to existing RPMs without incrementing the minor version.

For example fuzzywhatsit-3.0 in RHEL could be functionally equivalent to 3.5 in another distro.

Beermotor··on Floppy Disk Museum on a Bootable Floppy serving from a 286 PC
There's a much larger than zero possibility something (network gear) North of this thing is black-holing ICMP echo and/or your ISP is dropping the responses.
Beermotor··on GeForce RTX 40 Series
Yeah I'm going to call this a hard pass until I see third-party benchmarks, power draw numbers, and what AMD has with RDNA3.

This is starting to look like a repeat of Geforce FX vs Radeon 9700 Pro all over again.

Beermotor··on We're migrating many of our servers from Linux to FreeBSD
It has been multi-threaded since at least the early 2000s and most of the work for handling scaling beyond 32 cores was completed in 2012.

https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/1516/ConcDisSys/2015-Concu...

Beermotor··on 3D Pipes Screensaver
If I recall correctly 3D Pipes shipped with NT 3.51 as IIRC 3.5 only shipped with software OpenGL with no support for hardware acceleration.

I remember running it on a DEC Alpha box with an AccelGraphics AG500 and being awed by it.

Beermotor··on Ask HN: How did you fix your narcissism?
I've heard it phrased as "a rich man doesn't have to tell you he's rich".
Beermotor··on Colorado Town Offers 1 Gbps for $60 After Years of Battling Comcast
Google started offering service in Huntsville in 2018 and from what I understand it is a solid gigabit symmetrical. Huntsville just happened to have dark fiber (courtesy of the late KMC) to a good portion of the city and that helped speed the roll-out.
Beermotor··on Dozens of Companies Are Using Facebook to Exclude Older Workers From Job Ads
Ok so that answers the age question: a study found fluid intelligence starts to decline the 60s and 70s.

I think OP's article is talking about people between the ages of 35 and 60 not being able to see ads.

What is more likely is that more experienced workers have higher salary requirements and are less likely to work 90 hours a week.

Beermotor··on Dozens of Companies Are Using Facebook to Exclude Older Workers From Job Ads
Care to cite a source for that, and more specifically what age this begins?

Also what level of impairment are we talking about here? You make it sound like everyone over a certain age is a doddering old coot. :)