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by cbm-vic-20 8mo ago
My alternate reality "one of these days" projects is to have a RISC-V RV32E core on a small FPGA (or even emulated by a different SOC) that sits on a 40- or 64-pin DIP carrier board, ready to be plugged into a breadboard. You cou
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by cbm-vic-20 9mo ago
And the shop itself closed in 2021 after being open for nearly 70 years. I purchased my Brompton there.
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by cbm-vic-20 9mo ago
Spock still uses one in the 23rd century. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1nKBrkPUeA&t=90s
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by cbm-vic-20 9mo ago
If you're into this, you may be into a series on the Usagi Electric YouTube channel where he's building a homebrew computer based on the TMS9900 processor from the TI-99/4A. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADi
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by cbm-vic-20 9mo ago
I'm surprised we haven't seen more investment from Indian firms. India is really trying to raise their game in the tech economy beyond the services industry. You don't need the most cutting-edge chip fabrication equipment to
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by cbm-vic-20 9mo ago
In a previous big-tech job, we called this the "Release Prevention Team".
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by cbm-vic-20 9mo ago
Fragmentation in the non-x86 world really hurts adoption. RPi presents a very well documented configuration that can be used as a target for development. RISC-V is going through this exact same problem right now. All of the current implemen
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by cbm-vic-20 9mo ago
Data point: I'm in the US on an old pre-paid plan that gets me 5GB per month at fast speed, dropping down to unlimited "2G" speed after that cap is hit, which I've done only twice in the past 12 years. $30 per month, an
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by cbm-vic-20 9mo ago
In 2026? It will be the tool from the vendor who spends the most ad dollars with Anthropic/Google/etc.
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by cbm-vic-20 9mo ago
RSX-11M for the PDP-11 had filesystem versioning back in the early 1980s, if not earlier.
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by cbm-vic-20 9mo ago
Beware a possible name clash with a popular feature of Visual Studio Code. https://code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2017/02/12/code-lens-rou...
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by cbm-vic-20 9mo ago
> whatever can be expressed in HTML can also be expressed in Markdown. I suppose, since Commonmark specifically has HTML block and raw HTML inlines, any chunk of HTML is by definition valid Markdown.
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by cbm-vic-20 10mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-background_steel
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by cbm-vic-20 10mo ago
Doing the math, it looks like the amount of uranium in pre-disaster Chernobyl is 200 metric tons. Apparently, that can bring 333ML (133 Olympic sized swimming pools) of room temperature water to a boil.
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by cbm-vic-20 10mo ago
Regarding your last point, back when my political views were "evolving", I had thought about if, instead of handing foreigners diplomas and kicking them out of the country as fast as possible, we should do the opposite: have stude
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by cbm-vic-20 10mo ago
"Tetris is an inventory-management survival-horror game."
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by cbm-vic-20 10mo ago
When I was a kid, to start my dad's truck, you had to pull the ckoke, pump the gas a couple of times, start the engine, then slowly push the choke back in. That's a more obscure procedure than driving a car with a manual transmis
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by cbm-vic-20 10mo ago
There's a difference between "Let's use Calibri to make our documents more readable" and "Let's go back to TNR becuase using Calibri is woke nonsense by Biden's guy". They could have used pretty much
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by cbm-vic-20 11mo ago
I really like those service diagrams to show which stations are closed and how to get around them.
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by cbm-vic-20 11mo ago
Unix pre-dates floppy drives, at least on PDP-11.
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by cbm-vic-20 11mo ago
I'm an "old-hand" at a non-FAANG big tech, and have not had a meaningful refresher in a few years, or even a salary bump for that matter. This is a bad time to be looking for a new job, but I should have jumped ship years or
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by cbm-vic-20 11mo ago
I work on a project that we started in CVS, then moved to Perforce, and now on git. With full, intact history.
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by cbm-vic-20 11mo ago
"All You Need" Considered Harmful https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9744916
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by cbm-vic-20 11mo ago
I like Chapter 1 of Evan Chen's An Infinitely Large Napkin for some more theory. https://web.evanchen.cc/napkin.html
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by cbm-vic-20 11mo ago
I fixed a malfunctioning refrigerator by replacing the control board, which happened to be a PIC16-based device used by many brands. This design is as close to "universal" as you can get, and this generic board was around 20% the
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by cbm-vic-20 1y ago
How were the contributions by Richard Caley handled? "The legal reality was harsh: Richard’s contributions to Conquer couldn’t be relicensed. The university couldn’t help contact heirs due to privacy laws."
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by cbm-vic-20 1y ago
The R3000 had a moment in the sun, it was used in everything from SGI and DEC workstations down to the Sony PlayStation.
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by cbm-vic-20 1y ago
How does this sort of thing work from a technical perspective? Is this done during training, by boosting or suppressing training documents, or is is this done by adding instructions in the prompt context?
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by cbm-vic-20 1y ago
The creator of this game is a frequent contributor on this site. https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=WalterBright
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by cbm-vic-20 1y ago
LMGTFY: https://translate.google.com/?sl=en&tl=fr&text=That%20jumbo%...

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