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People think lots of things are good boat names. There's no reason there couldn't have more than one Unsinkable that hadn't sunk, and most boats aren't retired by sinking, so Unsin…

> FX!32 was good compared to what was available elsewhere (including for Itanium IIRC). I am not saying it had to compete with fully with x86 on consumer desktops from beginning, b…

Not true, they all did workstations. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPARCstation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_RS/6000 https://www.reddit.com/r/vintagecomputing/comments/1fz29tx…

> I think you're right overall that Itanium is used too often as the reason why all the RISC platforms died/were cancelled, as if they would have had healthy futures had Itanium si…

FX!32 was not good. DEC's own paper only provided results for "Byte Benchmark" (nbench) which is a few trivial compute kernels. Even that most favorable test they could find showed…

Yes NeXT/Apple survive, although they commodity m68k CPUs, not quite your traditional UNIX minicomputer. Those were IBM, Sun, HP, DEC, maybe SGI. Designed their own ISAs, CPUs, int…

Oh you must be right, I mix up my time lines. In any case the economics were more or less the same as Alpha as for the others. They couldn't support integrated silicon manufacturin…

AMD did launch amd64 server chips. The first ones were Opteron, first (and only until Nehalem) x86 with ODMC, glueless multiprocessor up to 8-way (though that was a bit flakey, 4-w…

Paper-Itanium is unfairly blamed / credited with that, but it's not exactly true. The vertically integrated RISC/UNIX minicomputer companies were not on economically viable traject…

If it uses the Linux kernel then it is Linux, that's where the name comes from. Android is no less Linux than RedHat or Debian is (when Debian is using Linux rather than FreeBSD ke…

> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37385826 This man has sixteen hundred videos of riding up and down elevators and is still going strong. Amazing. I love how Grandma was willi…

Since I can't edit that message - it seems SpaceX is now intending to recover Starship. I am standing by to be wrong / impressed.

> Any sources? https://www.reuters.com/technology/space/spacex-talks-land-r... > What was their response? Not sure. As far as I know the US is very supportive of SpaceX for space s…

You destroyed your auto industry by ceding it to countries with higher emission intensity of production. USA, China, Japan have higher intensity than even Germany which is on the u…

It fills the pockets of grifters.

You can have a hardline position on the tools you create or use but while we're on the subject of ethics I don't know how you can say you should be the decider of what other people…

> Of course it's pretending. And I have repeatedly told these things to stop pretending being persons with selves ... then they do, for a while. In what way do you believe you are …

I see you've never had a run-in with a blowhard in a position of power. Lucky.

It might be possible. Allegedly they had previously asked the Australian government about towing the ship back to a port. Marine recovery can be much more difficult than it might s…

> I learnt earlier that claude forcefully closes a conversation if you call it a wanker too many times in a row. How exactly does it forcefully close a conversation? > Pretending t…

Weaving fabric and sewing clothes has been "solved", but there is no shortage of garbage quality shirts.

Yes, similarly the other side of people who survived authoritarian governments.

The alternatives are the L0 emulates a hypervisor-privileged mode to the L1 which would be a performance cost (and does not really avoid the problem since the L0 would have to emul…

I can almost guarantee it would not be an improvement.

Tell me exactly what part of what I wrote you're struggling with and I will try to make it simpler for you.