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On the hardware side, DEC built very-well engineered hardware. The early Alpha machines were very well designed. Even the PC compatible lines of the era were built to a very high q…

VAX compatibility was very important to DEC- the Alpha has hardware to handle the non-IEEE VAX floating point formats.

Definitely. Internally, Oracle is very strict about the use of code written outside of Oracle- there is a very strict set of rules and procedures to incorporate open source librari…

Right now, the front page of CNN's web site in the US has as the primary headline "Third US service member killed as US ramps up strikes on Iran"[1]. The secondary headline has the…

The C64 had a good game library. While the C64 does have a cartridge and tape deck port, most games were sold on floppy disks. The C64 does not auto-boot disks, so when you turn on…

At some point, we will no longer be mathematicians and engineers, but instead become matrix psychologists. "Do not make mistakes."

To expand on "time dilation": an EVE Online star system is served by a single compute node in their server farm at a time. Most systems are empty most of the the time, but some loc…

For the non-EVE players, when you join a fleet in-game, the other members of the fleet have a purple icon next to their name. NPSI is a play-style where you join transient fleets w…

Applets redux.

Nobody seems to have really embraced the truly distributed model of git, where you can expose a local repository via read-only HTTP, and collaborate by pulling from each others' re…

Live within your means. Save aggressively. Invest wisely. (Source: I'm one of the 21,000, let go via a 6am email after 15 years with the company in engineering and management roles…

I was looking for people who I had worked with at a company that was acquired 15 years ago, and some random person claims to be the CEO of that company.

jshell> "πfs".toUpperCase() $1 ==> "ΠFS" Welcome to Node.js v26.3.0. Type ".help" for more information. > "πfs".toUpperCase() 'ΠFS' Python 3.14.5 (main, May 10 2026, 10:21:34) [Cla…

I have an unc/age ratio below 0.5! Surprising...

Seems like that it's not that coding agents are to blame, its that the people who are ultimately responsible for committing and merging the offending code are to blame, regardless …

See also: https://www.iana.org/assignments/well-known-uris/well-known-...

Indeed. This paragraph shows something that most people really don't understand about AI. > 98. It is appropriate to preface this discussion with two considerations. First, any sta…

How is their RISC-V adventure going? The RP2350 included a couple of open-source Hazard3 cores. Does the RPi Foundation collect any feedback about how these are being used, and if …

It's a money maker. Maybe not a number one spot, but they don't have to stand up any more datacenters.

"Wow, it looks amazing, honey!" -John's Mom hah!

I wonder if he had to answer a few Leetcode / Codility problems first.

It's enough of an influence that macOS APIs had (or still have) "NS" prefixes to many functions.

When my mother retired, she volunteered at the local church to transcribe and prepare 100 years of sacramental records to prepare them for digitization by the archdiocese. There we…