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by bcrl 5y ago
The first x86 system I had was a hand me down 286. The parallel port on the motherboard was only unidirectional, so I modified it to be bidirectional by soldering a bodge wire between the output enable signal on one of the 74LS374 (I think
812.
by bcrl 5y ago
Setting rmem to just under 2GB is a very stupid thing to do. That means a single TCP socket can consume close to 2GB of memory. You're opening the system up to fairly trivial DoS attacks by doing that. Seeing things like this remind
813.
by bcrl 5y ago
Free speech doesn't mean free speech without consequences. If you slander someone, you open yourself up to being sued by that person. If you spread misinformation that provably harms society, I don't see why society can't s
814.
by bcrl 5y ago
Misinformation is a problem and causes harm to society. Punishing people who knowingly spread misinformation despite having more accurate knowledge seems like a possible way of improving public discourse. It doesn't even need to be a
815.
by bcrl 5y ago
Sure there is. A healthy business' best assets are its customers, and happy customers will tell their friends about your business when it comes up appropriately. Word of mouth is worth far more than web advertising ever will be.
816.
by bcrl 5y ago
The Bobiverse books by Dennis E. Taylor touch upon this, as Bob is a human that becomes the AI in a replicant that is the intelligence behind a von Neumann probe sent out from earth. One of the ways that he maintains his sanity is to build
817.
by bcrl 5y ago
The permissions in the QNX version running on the ICONs were somewhat interesting. Both users and groups were 8 bit numbers, and groups had an admin if the user id in the group was 255, while root was 255:255. I had just learned how to pr
818.
by bcrl 5y ago
I just replaced an Airport Express for a customer last Friday. They were getting a whopping 10Mbps downloads on their gigabit fibre connection. That's not exactly a decent performance for a wireless router these days. The replacemen
819.
by bcrl 5y ago
That's what employees are for!
820.
by bcrl 5y ago
Byte magazine was amazing. 200-300+ pages delivered every month, in depth technical articles on software, hardware, reviews, news, mail order... I miss those days!
821.
by bcrl 5y ago
Spintronics really are a thing! MRAM already makes use the spin of an electron for data storage and are some of the first devices along the path to wider use of spintronics.
822.
by bcrl 5y ago
I too won't bother to sign up for a $5 per year subscription to a website, as the pain of a potential credit card compromise is more than the $5/a subscription is worth. That's why I think it needs to go via a browser /
823.
by bcrl 5y ago
I find the pins on the connector on all my lightning cables gets scorched and stops working no matter what brand or quality of cable I buy. It is as if iPhones don't limit current inrush and the gold plating on the cable arcs and is w
824.
by bcrl 5y ago
So nitwit005 has a financial relationship with Google and should be able to access a support channel? Sounds like a perfectly reasonable assumption since Google appears to be profiting off nitwit005's content somehow.
825.
by bcrl 5y ago
Good on Airbus for doing the right thing! It is a healthy sign when a company engages in actual preventative action to fix an issue rather than waiting until the fleet is grounded (I'm looking at you Boeing and your buggy 737 Max).
826.
by bcrl 5y ago
The internet isn't free; we pay with our privacy! I would be far happier if I could pay for random internet services with credits from my browser (possibly refilled by my ISP every month) rather than selling my privacy off to some unk
827.
by bcrl 5y ago
Not all business models are legal, nor should they be. All businesses must plan for and absorb the costs associated with complying with applicable regulations. I fully support the idea of requiring businesses to provide support channels f
828.
by bcrl 5y ago
This is factually incorrect. Intel has in the past and is currently trying to sell and expand their foundry services. They just happen to have done a horrible job of it so far and have repeatedly lost foundry customers (like Achronix) as
829.
by bcrl 5y ago
It's a pity they don't fulfill orders for more than 2+ years. I have 5 different sites that have been in the queue since early 2020 with not a peep other than the price increase email earlier this week. Meanwhile I know of other
830.
by bcrl 5y ago
That's over-commented code written by a junior developer from my quick look. The first random thing I looked at in grbl/eeprom.c: ... char old_value; // Old EEPROM value. char diff_mask; // Difference mask,
831.
by bcrl 5y ago
Personally, I dislike sausage links as well. Horizontal scrolling is a pain in the ass on a desktop computer with a mouse. Vertical scrolling is much more natural. Please, try to make use of the ample screen real estate on my system as t
832.
by bcrl 5y ago
6 inch wafer, 99% yield using gold at 20nm -- this is not volume manufacturing in the real world on a leading edge process. It's interesting research for sure, but there's no way that's going to help the current shortages th
833.
by bcrl 5y ago
I wouldn't say faster. C11 still has way too much undefined behaviour.
834.
by bcrl 5y ago
We had no control over the other team. They were already responsible for QA of most of the system, but most of that just consisted of running existing QA test cases and reporting when they failed. As we were implementing new network proto
835.
by bcrl 5y ago
I think there is a significant possibility that the war in Ukraine can expand beyond Ukraine's borders. If that happens, all bets are off. Europe now knows that it has created an out of control monster, and you can be 100% certain th
836.
by bcrl 5y ago
Germany has previously had to deal with gas and oil shortages. During WW2, Germany produced significant amounts of synthetic gas and oil from coal because they were forced to. The only thing holding Europe back right now is the will to ac
837.
by bcrl 5y ago
It's not a need, it's a want. Oil and gas are fungible products and can be replaced by goods from other countries. Right now Europe just doesn't WANT to change, as it will cost a significant amount of money to revamp supply
838.
by bcrl 5y ago
I have worked on a couple of projects where we had to use an offshore team for QA. The biggest problem was written instruction comprehension: the offshore team simply could not follow instructions written in perfectly coherent english in a
839.
by bcrl 5y ago
Bitcoin ASICs are hardly on older process nodes. Intel's just announced chips are using their 7nm process, Bitmain is on TSMC 7nm and 5nm, while Microbit is on Samsung's 8nm.
840.
by bcrl 5y ago
A bigger concern to me is that Taiwan is probably more disposable to China than it is to the rest of the world. China would significantly benefit its internal semiconductor industry by destroying fabs in Taiwan while the rest of the world

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