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Data sovereignty is the critical factor. If bringing the data back in-house increases security, robustness then there might be a business case for replicating only that portion of …

Perhaps we should remember that Linux is a re-implementation of Unix of the times. Back then licensing and other issues stalled access to A&T Unix and Berkeley BSD. Linux provided …

Some ARM licensees might switch to RISC-V if ARM decides to compete by making their own chips. With the possibility of a recession looming, the build-out of data centres is likely …

I have a single pillar, admittedly for in-house PWAs: Upgrade to the current version of Chrome then if your problem persists, we'll look into it.

To use an analogy, back in the days of film cameras and before 1 hour labs, the "craftsman" photographer would carefully frame the shot, carefully setting the exposure, aperture an…

The way some people wield LLM, etc is like using a chainsaw to cut a dovetail because it is faster.

The void isn't about AI. It is the ever present machinations by managements to extract maximum profit and reduce expenses. AI is simply the latest fad by which to lay off personnel…

How about you put your contact details into your profile, so that an interested developer can make contact, etc? I've worked on construction software systems. Wouldn't mind an off-…

I thought I read somewhere that Z CPUs run at 5GHz ??

ISAs fail to gain traction when the sufficiently smart compilers don't eventuate. The x86-64 is a dog's breakfast of features. But due to its widespread use, compiler writers make …

+1 -- misinformation is best corrected quickly. If not, AI will propagate it and many will believe the erroneous information. I guess that would be viral hallucinations.

The military is owned by the MIC. Trump is merely following the orders from the Epstein era buddies. Such beautiful guys, those bankers.

For a guy who craves a Nobel Peace Prize, why is he starting wars? The campaign promise was to stop needless wars. Like the story "The Emperors New Clothes" the media needs to call…

YES! The session becomes the source code. Back in the dark ages, you'd "cc -s hello.c" to check the assembler source. With time we stopped doing that and hello.c became the origina…

I never chose MS, ever. Most systems have been based on Debian servers. Some special needs I've used Alpine Linux and NetBSD (yes it does run on older, limited hardware). Of course…

PowerShell is available for Linux and MacOS. Which means you can have the tool you like and run on a non-MS platform.

Timely warning. But might end up inconsequential once the AI bubble bursts. Psst -- wanna a data centre ... cheap?

Enshitification follows becoming a monopoly or a cartel. For example, how is any scrappy, quality focused startup going to unseat Google, Amazon, Facebook, etc? Even Apple seems to…

Absolutely amazing! Good on your for being able to repair it.

Hard to make suggestions when so much context is missing. For example, did you 2 start and then bring on the 2 C-Suite guys? From my way too extensive experiences in interacting wi…

Being a specialist field, networking is probably the most effective approach. The other alternative might be to go to the specific company's HR careers pages. It's not like there's…

In the 1980s Panasonic started making bicycles to order customized to the customer's requirements and preferences. That division continues to operate to this day.

I use a physically separate system. i.e. DEV and PROD are completely airgapped.

I use Bun or Deno for my projects. Always disliked Node.js and especially npm. Ryan Dahl created Deno to address his regrets regarding Node.js shortcomings, limitations.

Everybody is different. I'm a very long-term C programmer. Learnt Smalltalk because I wanted to better understand OOP and I could never get comfortable with C++. Learnt Python beca…