TheAmazingRace

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   by TheAmazingRace 8mo ago

   This is incredibly helpful! Thanks!
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   by TheAmazingRace 8mo ago

   Thank you! I didn't see this when I was first looking into it.
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   by TheAmazingRace 8mo ago

   Hi tabbott. Thanks kindly for offering to answer questions. :) I signed up on your site just a bit ago, but I'm a bit concerned with the paid upgrade. Unlike Discord, I need to pay per user, which I find onerous and would get out of co
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   by TheAmazingRace 8mo ago

   This is honestly news to me. I had no idea.
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   by TheAmazingRace 8mo ago

   Honestly, OnlyOffice works extremely well for my purposes, and I install it on all my friends' PCs. It looks a lot like MS Office and is quite compatible with a variety of documents I've tried, in my experience.
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   by TheAmazingRace 9mo ago

   It's funny to me how a hacked Nintendo 3DS ended up being the best way to play Virtual Boy titles, many decades later, thanks to the Red Viper emulator.
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   by TheAmazingRace 9mo ago

   It's crazy that we are over 15 years removed from when illumos officially started as a project, shortly after Oracle took over Sun and killed off OpenSolaris. I was on the group call that made the announcement in 2010 and I'm impr
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   by TheAmazingRace 9mo ago

   Or the Atari ST! I have one at home with 1 MB of RAM in it and it still flies. Boots up in less than a few seconds, which is faster than any of my modern PCs.
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   by TheAmazingRace 9mo ago

   Although I didn't care for his recent politics, his comics were a staple in my household for many years. Hope his family is at peace.
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    by TheAmazingRace 9mo ago

    Honestly, for me, the loss of resource forks in the transition from Classic Mac OS to Mac OS X was a real sore spot for me. Sure, a UNIX-based OS like OS X was going to facilitate a different paradigm for file handling by default, but Apple
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    by TheAmazingRace 9mo ago

    Stewart Cheifet and Gary Kildall were a dynamic duo. Really appreciated the awareness they gave to the general public about computing and the wave of the future.
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    by TheAmazingRace 9mo ago

    Too many people have a vested interest in keeping Bitcoin going for as long as possible, sadly. It's going to take a massive black swan of some kind to shake their faith. Heck, they can embed CSAM into the Bitcoin blockchain and that w
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    by TheAmazingRace 9mo ago

    ISA slots were definitely rather rare on motherboards by the time you got to the Pentium 4 era, so that's cool that you managed to find one that also offered DMA, since I believe Sound Blaster cards needed that to properly function. I
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    by TheAmazingRace 10mo ago

    I definitely get the appeal of running FPS and such on PC. I'm much more accurate with a mouse and keyboard combo over a controller, but I'm appealing to the strengths a console does have as well. I own both so I can change up my
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    by TheAmazingRace 10mo ago

    This is the part where I just stick with console for specific titles, like the GTA franchise. I feel like Rockstar treats the PC as a second class citizen anyway. I bought my PS5 Pro in anticipation of GTA 6 and the (hopefully) upcoming Dra
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    by TheAmazingRace 10mo ago

    Thanks again for the entertaining back and forth. Hope to see you again around these parts soon.
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    by TheAmazingRace 10mo ago

    Thanks. Of course, a quarter of a century or so after these went out of production, this isn’t exactly useful information, but fun nonetheless. That’s the biggest issue with MIDI. No matter the equipment you had, you were never sure what th
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    by TheAmazingRace 10mo ago

    So with regards to the YMF724... what you describe about how spartan the offering was to you doesn't surprise me in the least. That specific chip was pretty much offered to OEMs very cheaply by Yamaha, and a ton of Chinese card makers
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    by TheAmazingRace 10mo ago

    Holy cow. Again, kudos for the details. This has been a fantastic digression so far lol. So I do strongly remember Sound Blaster cards, specifically of the SB16 variety, being jokingly referred to as “Noise Blasters” for quite some time, du
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    by TheAmazingRace 10mo ago

    Dude seriously this is such a nice story. I especially love how you used the EMU10k1 DSP in conjunction with your K6 system to its fullest potential. :D Speaking of sound cards, I distinctly remember the Sound Blaster Audigy being the very
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    by TheAmazingRace 10mo ago

    Now you have me getting misty eyed a bit! I remember when my dad had a Cyrix PC and later an AMD K6 II+ whitebox build. :) At any rate, you do have a point. I can't argue that Nvidia has an inferior product; yet I just wish Nvidia wasn
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    by TheAmazingRace 10mo ago

    This is an even-handed take. I still think consumers in general should vote with their wallets, even if all of them put together won't hold a candle to their datacenter customers. If nothing else, it can grant the competition more mark
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    by TheAmazingRace 10mo ago

    If OpenAI has their IPO, this is likely going to result in retail getting fleeced, given how their return on their investments to date has been absolutely pitiful. They are seeing revenues of around $13 billion for 2025, with an alleged ove
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    by TheAmazingRace 10mo ago

    Hardly taking this personally. Just calling out how I see it going most likely. Also... Nvidia has done quite a bit unethically. Namely violating anti-monopoly laws (though with our current US administration - they may as well be not worth
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    by TheAmazingRace 10mo ago

    I certainly have no delusions of Nvidia going bankrupt. In fact, they will certainly make it to the other side without much issue. That said, I do foresee Nvidia taking a reputational hit, with AMD and (possibly) Intel gaining more mindshar
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    by TheAmazingRace 10mo ago

    I do feel there might be a day of reckoning where Nvidia bet the farm too hard on this AI bubble and it ends up blowing up in their face. I hope gamers, systems integrators, and regular PC enthusiasts don't have memories of goldfish an
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    by TheAmazingRace 10mo ago

    Last I checked, Robotaxi has a safety driver, whereas Waymo is completely self driving, yet has a very good safety record. That speaks volumes to me. https://waymo.com/safety/impact/
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    by TheAmazingRace 10mo ago

    When you have a CEO like Elon who swears up and down that you only need cameras for autonomous driving vehicles, and skimping out on crucial extras like Li-DAR, can anyone be surprised by this result? Tesla also likes to take the motto of &
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    by TheAmazingRace 10mo ago

    I do see 2.5 GbE NICs really making huge headway just within the past few years alone. Even lower end AMD and Intel motherboards are including 2.5 GbE ethernet ports by default these days, and that standard has the advantage of using the sa
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    by TheAmazingRace 10mo ago

    I really wish I picked up a Nokia N900 or N950 when they were relevant. Such amazing devices they had in their portfolio.