amiga386

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by amiga386 10mo ago
CrossDOS was a combination of mfm.device (asking the disk hardware to do funky things) as well as CrossDOSFileSystem (FAT12 filesystem handler). What's interesting is not so much the 68K emulator (though that is interesting for Python)
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by amiga386 10mo ago
I don't know for certain, but they'd have to have at least one set on both tracks in each ventilation section, to enforce ventilation rules (read the rest of the article about the tunnel's ventilation management). It also poi
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by amiga386 10mo ago
The Elixabeth Line runs 24 trains per hour automatically through a 10-station tunnel in central London. It mainly uses axle counters to measure where the train is. https://www.railengineer.co.uk/controlling-the-elizabeth-lin
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by amiga386 10mo ago
As per the conclusions of that great video, going back before Pong and defining a "first" video game depends heavily on your definition of both "video" and "game" See also Wikipedia's overview: https:&#x
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by amiga386 10mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween_documents -> https://www.gnu.org/software/fsfe/projects/ms-vs-eu/hallowee...
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by amiga386 10mo ago
He describes how he did it with a French Café analogy: https://download.samba.org/pub/tridge/misc/french_cafe.txt
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by amiga386 10mo ago
Saudi royalty torture, murder and dismember a Washington Post correspondent. But they let the US have oil so that's OK. Venezuelan politician stays in power after losing the election. You'd think a "Stop the Steal" Jan 6
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by amiga386 10mo ago
Chávez is dead and the US just bombed his grave so I guess they've found a new Venezuelan friend to give them oil. https://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/us-reportedly-blows-up...
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by amiga386 10mo ago
One is attempting a full invasion of a country, the other is the world's largest military abducting a person. The US is up to its old tricks. How soon will Maduro's replacement let the US have all the Venezuelan oil it wants? htt
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by amiga386 10mo ago
But the trouble is judges are human, and if the boss of your boss who could shut down your court and turf you out is loudly proclaiming "will nobody rid me of this troublesome Russian"... what lawful ruling will the judge find to
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by amiga386 10mo ago
Because they're an authoritarian shithole with a strongman leader who openly murders dissenters, personally controls all branches of government, controls the military and has people arrested just for holding up blank sheets of paper. H
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by amiga386 10mo ago
If you're at war then declare war. You get sweeping powers to deal with existential threats. Go ahead and declare your country is at war. Is it? If you declare war without there being a bona fide casus belli, you'll be whisked out
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by amiga386 10mo ago
Every single ship in/out of St Petersburg goes via the Gulf of Finland. All those ships will be "Russian" (have stopped in Russia). It doesn't mean they're "Russian". Owner, charterer, flag, crew can all h
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by amiga386 10mo ago
Seems to have de listed but not un listed games (e.g. https://store.steampowered.com/app/302850/Team_Indie/ "At the request of the publisher, Team Indie is unlisted on the Steam store and will not appe
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by amiga386 10mo ago
It's on the author to advertise how they'd like communicated with. A phone number != an email address != a WhatsApp/Signal/Telegram account != a Twitter/Facebook/Mastodon/etc. handle != a specific handle
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by amiga386 10mo ago
It's more like Usenet users complaining that NZB downloaders don't let their users read text posts. Nobody using an NZB downloader gives a fuck about text posts. They're not there to chat with their fellow humans, they&#x27
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by amiga386 10mo ago
It was there the last time I used Ryanair (which is one time too often IHMO) They didn't choose to remove those fees - they were legally compelled to: https://www.dw.com/en/german-court-forbids-ryanair-from-char...
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by amiga386 10mo ago
So you're using Ryanair's own-issued payment card, to avoid the mandatory fees it charges for every other payment option? You forgot to mention picking the "No I don't need travel insurance" option shoved in the mid
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by amiga386 10mo ago
On the other hand, almost every merchant and waiter in Spain told me, when handing me the card terminal, to select "local currency" (decline the first swindle attempt) then "don't convert" (decline the second swin
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by amiga386 10mo ago
Veritasium did a great video on Midgley: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IV3dnLzthDA And therein they give the reason why ethanol was passed over: a lot of it is required to be effective (~10% of the fuel mixture), seriou
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by amiga386 11mo ago
It makes a lot of sense to me. They key problem is that GO SUB and GO TO are not instantaneous like a CALL or JP instruction would be in Z80. The BASIC interpreter does a linear scan through the entire source code, until it reaches the sp
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by amiga386 11mo ago
Previously on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35238601 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35252948 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42978356 https://news.ycombinat
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by amiga386 11mo ago
That's also what gopsutils does, IIRC: it tries to look up process information with kernel APIs but can fall back to invoking /usr/bin/ps (which is setuid root on most systems) at the cost of being much less performant.
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by amiga386 11mo ago
Per the State Department in 2023: https://x.com/John_Hudson/status/1615486871571935232 > fonts like Times New Roman have serifs ("wings" and "feet") or decorative, angular features that can
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by amiga386 11mo ago
There is. You can easily find by googling "hector martin" "asahi lina" and you will soon find a pile of obsessively archived evidence. My view, now that Hector has resigned from the LKML both as himself and as Lina, is t
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by amiga386 11mo ago
https://lwn.net/Articles/1045363/ > Rust, which has been cited as a cause for concern around ensuring continuing support for old architectures, supports 14 of the kernel's 20-ish architectures, the excepti
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by amiga386 11mo ago
Chiefly because "supporting it" requires a full JavaScript interpreter, and subscribing to changes in "system settings" during the lifetime of your program. Easier just to support http_proxy/https_proxy/no_prox
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by amiga386 11mo ago
Does this mean that all architectures that Linux supports but Rust doesn't are straight in the bin?
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by amiga386 11mo ago
> Can you show me a real-world package that was held back because the code needed a feature or semantics from the interpreter That is not what I was getting at. What I was saying is that, if you write code for perl 5.20 and mark it &quot
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by amiga386 11mo ago
suse 11.1 includes perl 5.10: https://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/discontinued/distribution/... perl 5.8 was released in 2002. perl 5.000 (there is no perl 5.0) was released in 1994. I have difficulty acce

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