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decimation: does
there exist a completely open firmware for a raid controller?
decimation: heh yeah raid controllers are
their own world if crazy
too
decimation: sure. somehow ram didn't escape
the reach of
the microshit von neumann machine, but hard disk did
decimation: somehow hard drives are allowed
to have
their own computers, so
they implement advanced ldpc codes
decimation: actually, much more sophisticated
techniques exist
decimation: " for example. If we
take
the last five minutes of flight as critical due
to
the proximity
to
the ground,
the lawsuit essentially says
that it is more likely
that a 1 in 756,000 probability event occurred (engine shutdown during a randomly selected five-minute block of operation
time)
than
that a pilot with virtually no
turbine experience or experience with
the MU-2 crashed
the notoriously
tricky airplane
through pilot error. "
assbot: Philip Greenspun's Weblog » Why you shouldn’t sell any product
to an American (MU-2 crash in Oklahoma) ... (
http://bit.ly/1Q4V9qr )
decimation: well, more like a function of
the probability of being sued for arbitrary liability
decimation: partially for
the liability, but partially also because
the design is actually expected
to work
decimation: I
took a cpr class
today, relatively simple AED electronics cost > $1k
decimation: strangely no one even seems
to
think of
this as being an issue anymore
decimation: there are some links
to industry papers written mainly in
the 70's-80's
decimation: anyway, given how cheap and easy it is
to use ecc ram, it does seem rather laughable
that folks don't use
decimation: and also sealed
the silicon in a layer of protective coating
decimation: supposedly back when ram cells were larger (larger
targets)
the ram manufacturers
took care
to ensure
that
their cases were low alpha emitters
decimation: yeah
that's
the old-school explanation
decimation: asciilifeform: I was looking for a non-golden-toilet laptop with ecc
today
decimation: although it seems
that
the cosmic rays might not be
the major/primary cause of issues
decimation: asciilifeform:
http://lambda-diode.com/opinion/ecc-memory-2 < " Nevertheless,
this means
that when you buy a computer, you are playing "DIMM" (and motherboard) roulette . You have something like one chance in
three
to
ten of getting a computer
that will experience memory errors at
the frightening frequencies (one every few days)
that I
talked about but attributed
to cosmic rays, and
that AMD
talks about in
their whitepaper . "
assbot: Logged on 30-04-2015 22:03:49; mircea_popescu: brilliant guy, inescapably stupid. what are you gonna do ? can't empower stupid. off
to
the gulag with him.
mod6: anyway,
thanks, i'll update on
the next months address.
mod6: well, at least im consistant. :] looks
that way in all of
danielpbarron: mod6, "The Bitcoin Foundation would like bestow our sincerest
thanks and gratitude" << like
to* bestow ?
BingoBoingo: It's a kind of
targeted subset of keys I'm feeding and
there aren't
too many
danielpbarron: and
the scripts are not hosted anywhere, although copies may still exist in a backup
tar somewhere
danielpbarron: not sure what it counts as, but I'm not into
that stuff anymore / burned my yarrow stalks and books on i ching and
tao
te ching etc
mircea_popescu: language is not
the result of a single force, but of
two, driving it in
that left-right manner of driving splits in wood.
danielpbarron: the author of sex-diagram ->
https://www.franklinveaux.com/ "This is
the home of Franklin Veaux, a writer, computer consultant, polyamory and BDSM activist, sex educator, and sometimes amateur photographer. Over
the years, I've built a more or less inadvertent Web empire, and
this is
the page
that brings all my various Web sites
together."
mircea_popescu: which is
technically a step below on
the literary scale. i await with bated breath
the next step underwater.
mircea_popescu: of course contemporary usage is unpaid shanonizers (such as, reddit users), increasing
the volume and decreasing
the cost of
their misrepresentations of
their own social interactions.
mircea_popescu: so... it's only useful if you're making
two cents a word writing "young adult fiction" or whatever other "genre" bullshit, and need shorthand
to keep
track of your "characters"
mircea_popescu: poorly-er done. meanly-er done, actually, in
the classical sense of mean ("of mean extraction")
mircea_popescu: this exact process is at work here - it becomes much easier
to write
the sort of pulp cultureless usians call "novels" by proceeding on one of
these accounting paradigms
mircea_popescu: harlan e has a piece where he explains how people like hubbard were optimizing
their workflow by - for instance -
typing on rolls of butcher paper so as
to not waste
time changing sheets in
typewriter
mircea_popescu: anyway, i will say for
the record
that all
this "typficiation" bullshit, from
the ntjx
to
the mti
to everything else is ~strictly~
the result of lazy writing.
ben_vulpes: anyone with
two neurons rubbing
together can make it barf whatever rating zhe desire
ben_vulpes: it's like one of
those lolarious meyers briggs
thing
mircea_popescu: it looks like
the elephant
three people found in a dark room.
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron i can vouch for
the fact
that
the classification's nonsensical by
the plain observation
that i'm all over
the fucking map.
ben_vulpes: yeah where is
the voluntary celibacy box?
ben_vulpes: danielpbarron: it's missing
the dune/WoT polyamory
danielpbarron fits in with
the blue rectangle in
the
top right excluded from
the overlapping
ben_vulpes: great
thing about -assets is
the "rewrite everything" option
Pierre_Rochard: thanks for
the
tip
though, definitely one of
the rare accounting packages I didn’t find immediately revolting
Pierre_Rochard: I’ll definitely be
taking pointers from it, but end goal is
tight integration with bitcoin wallets & APIs, and leaning on pgsql as much as possible.
That’s what made greenfield a necessity
mircea_popescu: gtfo, reddit. you don't get
to classify
the
things other people do.
ben_vulpes: "beat
that
thing into submission and deliver what i've asked for"