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by Pet_Ant 1y ago
You might want to look at the Sol-20, Micral N, and Kenbak-1 as well. From 1971, the Kenbak was a _personal_ computer, but not a personal _micro_ computer. The Wang 2200 looks most like we'd expect a personal computer to look like, bu
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by Pet_Ant 1y ago
I think if you really get down to it, there are only three motivations for people to do things: 1) they benefit from it somehow, even if it just flatters their sense of justice 2) they did it unquestioningly because someone told them to, it
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by Pet_Ant 1y ago
> Seriously, that price is insane for what you get. Sorry, but how are you evaluating that? You'd get this because you want a non-emissive display, so what other non-emissive displays are you comparing it against? Yes, if you want b
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by Pet_Ant 1y ago
> Oftentimes the data gets organized in parallel arrays ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_array ) instead of in collections of structs. This can save a lot of memory (because the data gets packed more densely)
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by Pet_Ant 1y ago
I hate the rhetoric that BuSL is not open-source. It’s not currently open source, but in’s irrevocably escrowed to be open source in a few to a dozens to months and you can read it now.
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by Pet_Ant 2y ago
Well you could just buy a T2 chip, but I don't know that Sun would sell them outside of an entire system.
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by Pet_Ant 2y ago
The Sun Niagara 2 even has the Verilog RTL available. That is several orders of magnitude more open than the IBM. > Verilog RTL for OpenSPARC T2 design > Verification environment for OpenSPARC T2 > Diagnostics tests for OpenSPARC T
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by Pet_Ant 2y ago
I believe Intel and AMD motherboards all have proprietary firmware and the Talos systems are puritanically open. (But the processor itself is closed so there's that. Could have gone with SPARC Niagara which was open sourced https:&#x2
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by Pet_Ant 2y ago
Completely? Isn't Z just microcoded on top of POWER under the hood?
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by Pet_Ant 2y ago
> IBM is up to power 9 now, but I doubt if there are any personal motherboards for it. The Talos II: https://wiki.raptorcs.com/wiki/Talos_II > EATX form factor > Two POWER9-compatible CPU sockets accepting 4-&
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by Pet_Ant 2y ago
I think something like the Pineapple One [1] is just as trust worthy while being less obscurantist. I mean a 36-bit word is truly being different for retro's sake. There hasn't been a 36-bit word machine released since the PDP-10
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by Pet_Ant 2y ago
Maybe knowing where a language is going will help them implement older features? Also, some things are technically easy once all the conceptual wrinkles are ironed out. There is no reason some of these can't be added before C++20 is 10
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by Pet_Ant 2y ago
I feel like we need to use escrow more. Stuff that verifies that the buyer has the money before the seller produces the product. It's like the buyer confirming that the seller has a factor before buying. It makes it symmetrical. Then,
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by Pet_Ant 2y ago
In my experience programming is more about formalising the domain of the problem than it is about shuffling bits around. Take a minute more than need and you'll lose hundreds. Get the answer wrong? Lose millions. Domains where you depr
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by Pet_Ant 2y ago
Honestly the tone of the article was so smug and condescending that I couldn’t finish it.
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by Pet_Ant 2y ago
Estimated at 30cm long versus an estimate max length of 7m.
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by Pet_Ant 2y ago
Well this repo seems not to have had any commits for a year, so I'm not sure how much better this is: https://github.com/bobschrag/clolog/commits/main/ Maybe this post will spark some interest and r
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by Pet_Ant 2y ago
> If the web framework So it's applicable to those writing the framework, not those using it.
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by Pet_Ant 2y ago
Submit a PR? If you have an idea how it would look better, submit it. It's nice that they got it to this point as is. Lets make it better.
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by Pet_Ant 2y ago
I have used Chromatic Vision Simulator on my iPhone with a camera to check for colour-blind accessibility of board games. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/chromatic-vision-simulator/id3... It's free. I&#x27
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by Pet_Ant 2y ago
So it sort of looks like a DSL for a variant of ThreadLocal that gives you an idea of the lifeline of variable instead of just being global. Apparently with virtual threads they are expecting an increase in the number of running (virtual) t
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by Pet_Ant 2y ago
I hope that as RISC-V gains in support, there is a chance to experiment with a many-core version of it. Something like a hundred QERV cores on a chip. The lack of patents is a key enabler, and support for the ISA on more vanilla chips is th
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by Pet_Ant 2y ago
How many years old was the s/260 at this point? If it was really long in tooth then I wouldn't be surprised.
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by Pet_Ant 2y ago
I mean won’t the leave the door open for people to bring value to the market by helping curate? Sifting there the turds to find diamonds? This could be the golden age of the reviewer. Yahtzee could make millions!
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by Pet_Ant 2y ago
> Grit and nihilism. No one is coming to save us. What I'll say won't help you now, but: this will help you later. Don't assume you'll always be able to find a job. Work towards financial independence early. Avoid deb
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by Pet_Ant 2y ago
I'm guessing it's a mixture of practical concerns and something that captures the imagination of investors.
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by Pet_Ant 2y ago
> This is only true where it is distinguishable that the end result is made with care and love rather than indiscriminate copying. Which is why attribution is essential. No one realistically could tell a ring was hand crafted or mass pro
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by Pet_Ant 2y ago
> Google super imperialism Not sure which one the parent means but this is what I found: https://www.amazon.com/Super-Imperialism-Origin-Fundamentals... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super-imperialis
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by Pet_Ant 2y ago
I didn't mean visual fidelity, I meant the way that plot and theme and art interleave. I first watched My Neighbour Totoro on VHS with no visual fidelity and it was still magic. You can easily steal the style of a political cartoon or
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by Pet_Ant 2y ago
> Obviously a horrible hideous theft machine. I hate how it is common to advance a position to just state a conclusion as if it were a fact. You keep repeating the same thing over and over until it seems like a concensus has been reached

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