mastodon 4.7.3Retired hacker. Macroeconomics geek.
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"To underscore the consequences of not having that kind of data, Smiley pointed to a recent attempt to rewrite SQLite in Rust using AI."
"It passed all the unit tests, the shape of the code looks right," he said. It's 3.7x more lines of code that performs 2,000 times worse than the actual SQLite. Two thousand times worse for a database is a non-viable product. It's a dumpster fire. Throw it away. All that money you spent on it is worthless."
https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/17/ai_businesses_faking_it_reckoning_coming_codestrap/
Another great picture i found on IRC:
#IRC #1990s #90s #Retrocomputing #ComputerHistory #BookCover
@DOSBox_Staging@corteximplant.com follower count just hit a symbolic value:
All my PCs had TIME /T in their AUTOEXEC.BAT so I could see how much the time had drifted from the actual time at startup because PCs have always been utter junk at timekeeping.
I used teletext back then to check the actual time from a TV broadcast.
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"However, whereas PCs typically have a rechargeable battery or removable coin cell that is used to retain configuration settings and maintain the time-of-day while powered down, Sun hardware instead uses a TIMEKEEPER device which integrates SRAM, RTC and a battery. Hence when the battery fails, the entire device must be replaced."
The way Gulf states were sacrificed for the glory of Israel reminds me of this old Kissinger quote.
“It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal.”
― Henry Kissinger
Mac OS 9 that is. Might be the best OS Apple ever made.
No. That was Mac OS 8.6.
Strait of Hormuz update, 10 March 2026.
Iran has begun laying mines in the Strait of Hormuz, the world’s most important energy chokepoint that carries about one-fifth of all crude oil, according to two people familiar with US intelligence reporting on the issue.
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/03/10/politics/iran-begins-laying-mines-in-strait-of-hormuz
The Net: Hacking and Pizza [1995] (1 min)
RE: https://social.lansky.name/@hn50/116258813213863492
It's not going great when stuff that worked beautifully in System 7.5, released in 1994, like drag and drop between applications or desktop, isn't working in Wayland properly.
