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frezik,

I’m a little surprised the police didn’t already know about that method. Seems like they’d encounter enough CCTV footage that’d it’d be standard training.

I once again overestimate the training levels of the police.

frezik,

Who is “you” in this sentence? I mean, I could probably write security camera software, but I don’t, and have no plans to. I imagine most of the people here are the same.

frezik,

Nah, nobody cares about their monopoly anymore. They got outmaneuvered on mobile, and they’re stuck being a desktop OS while the rest of the market moves around them.

Happens a lot with monopolies. IBM was the biggest name in mainframes, but their PC division made a standard that other companies would take and run.

Microsoft wouldn’t have put as much effort into WSL if it was just performative.

frezik,

BIOS.

They recognized that PCs were the next big thing and needed one of their own. Large companies don’t move fast, and IBM is certainly no exception, but they had to move fast now. So they took a bunch of off the shelf components that anyone else could have bought and called it their PC.

Everything except the BIOS. It regulated how the OS interacts with the hardware. Almost to the point where you could argue DOS isn’t an OS at all, but just a thin command line layer over the BIOS, plus a simple minded file system.

Anyway, some people at Compaq make a cleanroom implementation of the BIOS and release an “IBM PC compatible”. This quickly becomes the basis of everything we call a PC today. But IBM doesn’t get to profit off it in the long run. They sold off their PC division decades ago.

The show “Halt and Catch Fire” has an excellent fictional example of the reverse engineering process.

frezik, (edited )

Hmm? I wasn’t talking about OSI.

If you’re thinking BIOS, that was originally IBM proprietary stuff.

OSI started from a lot of telecom companies, who inflicted their silly ideas of Presentation and Session layers on us all.

frezik,

TCP/IP does not have a concept of Presentation or Session. Everything above it is just “Application”, which is more sensible. There isn’t much criticism to be had of layer 4 down, but when they got to layer 5 and 6, they were telecom people sticking their nose in software architecture. You can write networked applications with those layers if you like. I’ve seen it done, and it’s fine. There are also plenty of other ways to architect it that also work just fine.

frezik,

Putting a ton of water on the roof isn’t a good idea, unless it was already rated for a swimming pool.

They don’t need to be inside cities at all.

frezik,

You don’t need to put algae in cities. They can be basically anywhere to absorb CO2.

Trees in cities tend to be carefully chosen for the environment. Are we in a climate where we need to put salt on the road in the winter? Choose trees that can tolerate some salt in the ground.

frezik,

CO2 absorbtion rate over time. It’s not even close.

That said, trees have other benefits in an urban setting.

frezik,

If you believe this, a year working at a Fortune 500 should cure you of it.

frezik,

I’ve peaked inside large private companies. They’re no better than public companies. Turns out, being large means you can’t move very fast.

frezik,

Right, you can make that kind of money when you have 40 years of Cobol behind you. But even for new entrants, $90k seems low. There had better be a premium for dealing with old bullshit, especially when you’re probably damaging your resume in the long run.

frezik, (edited )

In the Foldgers Cinematic Universe, these two are siblings. They also give each other looks at the end that said “after we’re done with this coffee, we’re going to fuck”.

frezik,

Automation is red, logistics is green. Factorio decided this years ago.

frezik, (edited )

The one where he complained about the cost of running a pump and tubing out to a fucking swimming pool? Like, yes, this is going to cost more than a very good gaming PC.

frezik,

When was the last time you had to replace a distributor cap on a modern car?

frezik,

Cars built today will outlast most of the old Beetles. There is a big survivorship bias at work. A percentage of them were built to slightly tighter tolerances and quality than all the others off the same line. A percentage of those will end up in the hands of owners that are meticulous about maintenance, never get in a major accident, and keep it going for decades. The handful you see left are the ones that went through several rounds of small percentage chances. There were a bajillion of those old Beetles made, so a few were bound to get through.

What cars have problems with today are things that rarely have to do with making the wheels go. They get into accidents. Their auto-dimming back windows no longer work. The GPS doesn’t get updates and thinks you’re three counties away. The engine and transmission, however, will probably go to the junkyard in perfect working order, even with shitty maintenance on the part of the owner.

frezik, (edited )

The fact remains that most cars today will go to the junkyard with perfectly good engines and transmissions. Those sensors tend to kill themselves before killing other parts of the car, and then you just replace them.

frezik,

Surface area of the fin stack matters. An air cooler will always be limited by the space available around the CPU. A water cooling radiator has more flexibility to be placed in around the case.

That said, having less than a 360mm AIO is probably a waste. Also, higher end Intel chips these days are so power hungry that they can’t be physically cooled properly with the surface area available on the package.

frezik,

Adoption for what? There’s no indication that it’s becoming interconnected to the economy at large. Just the opposite, in fact. FTX, one of the biggest crypto banks, completely collapsed and the rest of the economy didn’t care. If it was Goldman Sachs or BoA, everyone would be sounding alarm bells, because they are actually integrated into the rest of the economy. Crypto just isn’t.

frezik,

Economics is simply a study in how to allocate scarce goods. It does not need to result in hoarding scarce goods in the hope of getting more for them later.

frezik,

Is this sign language universally known in Hyrule? Why don’t we see anyone else using it?

That seems a bigger leap than just assuming he talks.

frezik,

There was this other time they discovered a whole fucking Dyson Sphere, and then promptly forgot about it.

frezik,

A big door shut, but they also knew how to open it again.

frezik,

Just to correct a few details that don’t contradict your main point:

Now its the lifetime of the original author + 80 years after IIRC

Life of author + 70 years.

Copyright has stalled so severely that the latest works to come into public domain are from the 19th century.

Things from 1927 entered the public domain in 2023: americanwritersmuseum.org/new-works-to-enter-the-….

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