- noosphrIt's amazing how fast your account hits usage limits.
- What's more amazing is how fast your account empties when they do that.
- This feels like a 6/10 on the scale of hysterical clickbait headlines I see on YouTube.
- The safest computer is a rock.
The point is that when you start using rust in the real world to get real work done a lot of the promises that were made about safety have to be dropped because you need to boot your computer before the heat death of the universe. The result will be that we end up with something about as safe as C is currently - because CPUs are fundamentally unsafe and we need them to work somehow.
Rust is from the universe in which micro kernels weren't a dead end and we could avoid all the drivers being written in C.
- At this point I'm willing to wave around the little red book for a 1TB of ram.
I don't have that many kidneys left to buy gpus, ram and ssd at the prices they are now, let alone the prices next year.
- Every release of redhat software makes me happy I switched to openbsd for my human scale computers.
- Hacker news is there to promote ycombinator companies. So long as you know and avoid this it's surprisingly high quality. But that's there to lend more ligitimacy to ycombinator.
Its also the currently last man standing in the continual growth and death of tech sites - Slashdot, digg, reddit - and the most surprising one to make it big.
You know a tech site is useful when you write about a bug and the maintainer comes out of the woodwork to fix it, something that I've seen happen in the last week on nh for the first time.
- Senior developers know that every line of code is debt. Junior developers think that every line of code is wealth.
- I'm a good aerospace engineer, my rockets weigh an extra 50kg after every day I work on them.
- There are very high temperature transistors.
We don't use them on earth because we expect humans to be near computers and keeping anything extremely hot is a waste of energy.
But an autonomous space data center has no reason to be kept even remotely human habitable.
- Space hardware needs to be fundamentally different from surface hardware. I don't mean it in the usual radiation hardenrining etc, but in using computing substrates that run over 1000c and never shut down. T^4 cooling means that you have a hell of a time keeping things cool, but keeping hot things from melting completely is much easier.