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by ch_123 9mo ago
I remember switching my Windows computers from XP to the alpha releases of Windows 7 (back around late 2008/early 2009), and noticing improved stability. I remember needing to reinstall Windows at least once a year with XP, which was s
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by ch_123 9mo ago
The GoF book predates Java, and many of the examples in the book are in Smalltalk - so I think it's quite likely that composition over inheritance came from the Smalltalk community. Problems with inheritance, such as the fragile base c
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by ch_123 9mo ago
> TIMI is just a bytecode virtual machine and was designed as such from the beginning. It's a bit more complicated than that. For one, it's an ahead-of-time translation model. The object references are implemented as tagged poi
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by ch_123 9mo ago
Yeah, my assumption is that all the PA-RISC operating systems did, but I only know about HP-UX for certain.
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by ch_123 9mo ago
HP-UX on PA-RISC had an upward-growing stack. In practice, various exploits were developed which adapted to the changed direction of the stack. One source from a few mins of searching: https://phrack.org/issues/58/
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by ch_123 9mo ago
The Rational R1000 is an interesting (and obscure) example to use - IBM's S/38 and AS/400 (now IBM i) also took a similar approach, and saw far more widespread usage.
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by ch_123 9mo ago
The decision to kill off Alpha was made by Compaq, not HP. Source: http://www.decus.de/events/alphamigration/vortraege/porting_...
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by ch_123 10mo ago
HP is also ending support for its Itanium-based hardware, which seems like the main motivation here.
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by ch_123 10mo ago
Might be worth more than Qualcomm is willing to spend and/or introduce antitrust concerns. This feels like a hedging of bets, no need for Qualcomm to buy the biggest name in the RISC-V space.
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by ch_123 10mo ago
I lived in Edinburgh for a while, and there were a number of establishments (typically fish and chip shops) which made them.
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by ch_123 10mo ago
Are there some onerous requirements for REAL IDs which require it to be more expensive, or is this a short-sighted money making scheme for the states?
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by ch_123 10mo ago
Question from a European: I assume that most people flying within the US would use their driver's license as ID. Given how long this "REAL ID" standard has been in effect, why have the non compliant IDs not expired yet? Do so
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by ch_123 11mo ago
In this case, I'm talking specifically about the switches. There are various options from Gateron, Kailh and Outemu (including switches made by these companies but sold under different brands) which are widely regarded as superior to C
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by ch_123 11mo ago
A little over a decade ago, the patents expired on the MX switch design. The first clones (mostly from China) were cheap and terrible. Then came the ones which were cheap and almost as good. Then came the ones which were better than the ori
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by ch_123 11mo ago
> Discord doesn't work properly with Wayland Is this specifically to do with screen sharing or streaming? I use it purely as a chat client under Wayland and it has generally worked fine. (Now that I think of it, I've had a few
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by ch_123 11mo ago
Perforce also did exclusive file locking (and I believe Microsoft ended up using a customized Perforce internally at some point).
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by ch_123 11mo ago
> The average American now holds onto their smartphone for 29 months, according to a recent survey by Reviews.org, and that cycle is getting longer. The average was around 22 months in 2016. As someone who makes enough money to buy a new
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by ch_123 11mo ago
I'm also curious given the rhetoric that the North Korean media has about the "puppet" state in the south. I can understand that the North Koreans want to claim sovereignty over the whole peninsula, but the article makes it s
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by ch_123 11mo ago
I believe they made improvements to their keyboards in recent years. My DM42n has a decent keyboard. Main criticism compared to my HP48G is that the keys are on the small side.
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by ch_123 11mo ago
An extra row of keys to match the HP48 would be useful too.
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by ch_123 11mo ago
The DB48X project created a HP48G/HP50G style firmware for SwissMicros calculators. https://github.com/c3d/db48x
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by ch_123 11mo ago
There is a community of folks who are really into this firmware, and a lot of those people buy SwissMicros other models of calculators, (e.g. DM42 or DM32) and put keyboard stickers on it. This allows them to buy the model with the correct
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by ch_123 11mo ago
CDE was based heavily on VUE. If you read the CDE source code, you'll find many references to VUE.
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by ch_123 11mo ago
> Printing menus isn’t hard, or even costly. I'm not a fan of QR code menus either, but printed menus are not necessarily cheap. The owner of one of my favourite restaurants told me that he couldn't raise prices on his menu to
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by ch_123 11mo ago
> Have you ever wondered why we celebrate Richard Stallman as a visionary prophet of digital freedom while simultaneously abandoning every principle he fought for? Since when has Stallman changed his principles?
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by ch_123 1y ago
The plan was for all operating systems on top of IBM's POWER/PPC hardware to be rehosted as "personalities" on top of the Workplace OS microkernel, but in the end, OS/2 was the only personality that saw any real wor
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by ch_123 1y ago
Any one of: the risk of a migration going wrong is too high, application or infrastructure compatibility issues, or the cost of retraining staff who work with the database to work with something else. It is possible that there are simple so
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by ch_123 1y ago
Many of these claims about COBOL originate from reports which are decades old. I sometimes hear a stat that 5 billion new lines of COBOL are written per year. When I looked into this claim, it turned out that it originated from a Gartner re
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by ch_123 1y ago
Reminds me of OpenVMS Galaxy on DEC Alpha systems, which allowed multiple instances of the OS to run side by side on the same hardware without virtualization. https://www.digiater.nl/openvms/doc/alpha-v8.3/83f
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by ch_123 1y ago
> its a variable length opcode encoding with a complex decoder path In practice, the performance impact of variable length encoding is largely kept in check using predictors. The extra complexity in terms of transistors is comparatively

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