Watch the Zoox test vehicles please. They do absolutely terrifying things, _in every encounter_.
Readit Newstransitorykris commented on Who Watches the Waymos? I do [video] youtube.com/watch?v=oYU2h... · Posted by u/notgloating
transitorykris commented on I spent a week without IPv4 (2023) apalrd.net/posts/2023/net... · Posted by u/mahirsaid
In my 25 year career in network engineering, I’ve encounter needing it as a user exactly once, and that was earlier this year. Supabase’s free tier allows direct connections the Postgres only over IPv6. It’s too bad the deploment has been a long drawn and expensive process for everyone.
transitorykris commented on The QNX Operating System abortretry.fail/p/the-qnx... · Posted by u/BirAdam
This Icon was a hunk of junk. The only value it provided were to the students with any sort of curiosity about how this frankensystem worked. It was only later that it was clear it took advantage of procurement processes in the most extreme sense. A pure embarrassment of technology, grifters, and government. We learned more from the PETs, Commodores, and after that the PS/2s.
This is not what things look like when you are drunk.
(Source: have been drunk many times, and used a computer.)
It was, you just covered one eye!
Does this mean they'll be able to take the freeways to get there? Surface streets from SF to SFO would be pretty slow.
From the article “ Pickups and dropoffs will initially start at SFO’s Kiss & Fly area – a short AirTrain ride from the terminals – with the intention to explore other locations at the airport in the future.”
This sounds stupid, but it worked for me. Change the ringtone.
The original iPhone ringtone still causes anxiety when I hear it because of a horrific couple years on call. Changing the ringtone works.
I was developping BGP feature in a telco vendor though it's decades ago.
Still think BGP is too complex and people keeping add new features and vendors keeping implement it based on RFC standard or draft.
And it seems BGP will never be deprecated so this sort of bugs will continue be found again and again...
There was certainly a period of time where folks like AT&T alongside Juniper and Cisco drove BGP into crazytown by way of MPLS and VPN related features. Terrifyingly complex (imo) but lucrative for some.
transitorykris commented on Catalog of Novel Operating Systems github.com/prathyvsh/os-c... · Posted by u/prathyvsh
MercuryOS reminds me of the Apple Lisa - The way it managed applications invisibly was a step in the direction of selecting tools based on intentions. It was a document-centric system, which MercuryOS isn't, but a step in the same direction.
For some time, Windows 95 (IIRC) had a Templates folder. You'd put documents in it and you could right-click a folder and select New->Invoice or something similar based on what you had in the Templates folder. It was similar to Lisa's Stationery metaphor.
MercuryOS jumped out at me too, digging around the site I really started to imagine using it. It does not appear to have gone beyond the design (which was where the creators intended to stop it seems). It's a re-imagining of HCI than an OS as a whole. It caught a fair bit of unfair flack previously imo: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35777804
transitorykris commented on Why Lotus Domino? (2024) moohar.com/blog/why_domin... · Posted by u/wonger_
This is a great article. I didn't know Domino was still around, let alone still being developed.
I spent a good portion of my time late nineties working with Lotus Notes/Domino. I even had all the certifications (Principal CLP Application Developer, Principal CLP System Administrator). (And I worked on migrations from OfficeVision and from cc:Mail.)
A few things I remember really liking, from both a development and administration perspective:
- trivial to set up a second or third server, and have data automatically replicate between them
- super-easy to create CRUD apps for custom business processes, without using any 'code' except formulae that were as simple as spreadsheet formulae
- ability to add extra functionality with a language very similar to Visual Basic
And a few things that were annoying:
- because email was just another Notes application, it wasn't as good as things made just for email (like Outlook or Eudora)
- many people thought 'views' were folders, and that if an email existed in two places that meant two copies, and that they could delete one of them
- 'replication or save conflict' (https://help.hcl-software.com/dom_designer/14.5.0/basic/H_AB...)
Several times I sat with a user at their desk, and developed the first version of a CRUD app for them in real time, whilst we were still discussing the requirements.
I worked with a boutique management consulting company part time during college in 98/99. Notes and Domino came packaged with a few IBM servers they bought. I was tasked with setting it up for email. It was fun exploring the system, absolutely not knowing what I was doing. I ended up having a similar experience of building out an app in realtime to help one of the consultants manually compiling a large amount of data for a customer. Extremely rewarding. But, it was also a painful lesson in NoSQL (before we even had that word...)
transitorykris commented on A Return to Polymathy (2015) [pdf] paulrcohen.github.io/pape... · Posted by u/mirawelner
> If one is looking for a single label to encompass many of the new foundations – perhaps to form a new school or department – I would suggest Systems.
What about good old philosophy?
Philosophy already has a long tradition of birthing new sciences, a long tradition of encouraging polymath thinking and a long tradition of estabilishing foundational ways of thinking.
Philosophy degrees can be designed in this way. Various “philosophy of X” courses to explore. Logic and theory of computation are typically found here.