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by ch_123 5y ago
As someone who loved Opera up to 12.x, I want to like Vivaldi. However, I've already been burned once by a proprietary web browser deciding to change direction, and I'm not interested in getting burned a second time.
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by ch_123 5y ago
There’s an official statement here: https://www.paragon-software.com/home/ntfs3-driver-faq/ Reading between the lines, I suspect that the effort of maintaining an out-of-tree file system outweighed any money to be
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by ch_123 5y ago
> Besides, there don't seem to be good multicore architectures for RISC-V, that's probably the biggest show stopper in this age of multicore computing. That's just a matter of investment into the architecture rather than a
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by ch_123 5y ago
That is an implementation detail of the processor hardware, and not of the instruction set, unless you have some details on why RISC-V cannot be implemented this way.
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by ch_123 5y ago
Fun fact: IBM released a 68k microcomputer aimed at the laboratory market in 1982. It faded away into obscurity, largely because it was more expensive than the PC, and sold into a role which the PC was more than capable of handling. https:
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by ch_123 5y ago
Nitpick: "[The System/360] was the worlds first real programmable mainframe computer, opening up the notion that computers could be reprogrammed to suit new problems instead of being replaced by newer models." The S/360
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by ch_123 5y ago
SCO only sold the IP for Unixware and OpenServer to Xinuos, retaining whatever rights were needed to continue the lawsuits with IBM and others. I believe at that point, the leftovers of SCO were called TSG (short for “The SCO Group”). In th
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by ch_123 5y ago
That, or patent licensing issues. Since they seem to be positioning themselves as a privacy-oriented OS for governments and businesses, maybe they decided that their market lies elsewhere, and that licensing IP for the US is not worth it.
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by ch_123 5y ago
In Ireland (not the UK, but very close by) somewhere in excess of 90% of primary schools (i.e. 5-12 age group) are run or are controlled by the Catholic Church, and requiring a baptism certificate to go to most schools. This has led to peop
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Intel Introduces New High-Performance Graphics Brand: Intel Arc(intel.com)
3 points by ch_123 5y ago|0 comments
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by ch_123 5y ago
You can run HP-UX 9.0 on top of MAME, and get VUE in an emulated environment. I have tried this myself and can confirm that it works. https://parisc.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Running_HP-UX_9.0_o...
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by ch_123 5y ago
They wanted to, but RMS wasn't interested at that time: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2015-02/msg00... I have also been told by more than one person that does professional compiler
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by ch_123 5y ago
Many of the proprietary C++ compilers (Intel included) are just repackaging of the EDG front end. The monoculture has existed for a long time in the C++ world due to the complexity of implementing the language to spec. Honestly, I think it
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by ch_123 5y ago
Most x86 CPUs from the last 3-4 years include firmware-level TPM support and do not require the modules you are talking about, so there will be uptake amongst people with computers made in that timeframe. (I am not defending Microsoft'
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by ch_123 5y ago
Fair point. The AS/400 itself was also a successful consolidation of the S/36 and S/38 product lines. Consolidation has worked on a relatively small scale where two platforms were combined, attempts to produce one platform to
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by ch_123 5y ago
At various points IBM tried to consolidate their product lines around a single architecture and software platform. Some of the noteworthy examples of this are the Future Systems project in the 70s, the Fort Knox project in the 80s, and the
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OpenVMS v9.1 Field Test released(vmssoftware.com)
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by ch_123 5y ago
The i860 did not live up to expectations - it was a VLIW design and much like the Itanium design which followed, the platform was largely sank by the inability of compilers to generate code that made full use of the chip. https:/&#x2F
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by ch_123 5y ago
For four grand, I would at very least want the APL version of the machine :)
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by ch_123 5y ago
I hope they release an update of the "Unmatched" motherboard with one of these chips. I'm reluctant to spend ~$700 on a platform which uses in-order cores which are presumably designed for low-power devices. (Yes, I appreciat
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by ch_123 5y ago
Pcem is an emulator for PC hardware, from 8088 through Pentium II
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by ch_123 5y ago
I got flickering when looking at it on my iPad. I’m not sure if that was a deliberate attempt to emulate a CRT (and I don’t remember any of the CRTs I had when I was a kid flickering that bad, although I have certainly used some terrible CR
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by ch_123 5y ago
https://web.archive.org/web/19981203134056/http://ultraedit....
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by ch_123 5y ago
There isn't any reason why an application can't look good _and_ have good functionality, reliability etc. As much as developers may like to assume that looks are irrelevant, they are for quite a lot of non-technical consumers&#x2F
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by ch_123 5y ago
While I don't follow Illumos closely, I know that there was a project to remove the dependency on the Sun Studio compiler suite, so it's possible that the reliance on the old gcc version has something to do with that.
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by ch_123 5y ago
As someone who has invested time into vim, I can edit text files with it much quicker than I could with nano. I also suspect someone with sufficient nano experience may be as capable of coding in nano as I am in vim. "Use the right too
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by ch_123 5y ago
Completely agreed. As for why the code is the blue print - good code design requires the ability to switch between high level details (how do I structure these high-level components of the system) and super low level details (e.g. the appli
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by ch_123 5y ago
My personal experience is that system-level architecture diagrams are useful (i.e. which service/application talks to which service/database/message queue etc.) but code/class level ones are not. As to why - because the
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by ch_123 6y ago
While the Magic keyboard provides a viable keyboard and mouse setup for the iPad, I would much rather see macOS-style features made available on the iPad - particularly a Unix shell and the standard tools which go with that.
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by ch_123 6y ago
Reading between the lines, I feel like the author (who admits that they are new to the industry) is placing too much emphasis and value on certain technologies having "hype". This is reasonable - I also was a bit like this when I

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