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by chasil 1y ago
Unfortunately, I am still using a 32-bit kernel using high memory. It was caled "PAE" - physical address extensions. $ cat /proc/version Linux version 2.6.18-419.0.0.0.2.el5PAE ... (gcc version 4.1.2 20080704 (Red
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by chasil 1y ago
Solaris uses 32-bit binaries in /bin and /usr/bin for most of POSIX.2, even though it requires the x86-64 architecture. I saw this last in SmartOS.
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by chasil 1y ago
Red Hat has removed i386 multilib in rhel10. "Linking against 32-bit multilib packages has been removed. The *.i686 packages remain supported for the life cycle of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9." https://docs.redhat.com&#x
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by chasil 1y ago
"...with the CPU running in big endian mode." Hey, you! You're supposed to be dead! https://wiki.netbsd.org/ports/evbarm/
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by chasil 1y ago
This is a foreseeable cataclysm for me, as I retire next year, and the core of our queing system is 64-bit clean (k&r) as it compiled on Alpha, but our client software is very much not. This is a young mans' game, and I am very muc
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by chasil 1y ago
'The main active ingredient in “thunder-clappers” was a mercury salt.' This doesn't seem particularly safe or good for the environment. I doubt if the product is sold now. Edit: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki
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by chasil 1y ago
> Also, in no way does SQL hide anything - it’s a declarative language, and will produce exactly what you tell it to. Ha ha, no, SQL implementations can conform to the standard in unexpected ways. NULL = NULL Is that true or false? We di
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by chasil 1y ago
80-bit x87 has no bearing on SSE implementation. Right. Not.
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by chasil 1y ago
There was a time that Oracle databases used raw disk partitions to minimize the influence of the OS in what happens between memory and storage. It was more for multiple instances looking at the same SCSI device (Oracle Parallel Server). I d
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by chasil 1y ago
While you may be a detractor, Apple appears to be an ardent admirer. https://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/register/
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by chasil 1y ago
I really don't want to learn much more of vi than is documented in the POSIX standard: https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9799919799/utilities/ I'm in busybox and on OpenBSD quite a bit, and all
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by chasil 1y ago
Except they were from Lockheed Martin.
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by chasil 1y ago
I imagine that ejecting at certain phases of these two attempts would not be survivable. "The pilot then tried two “touch and go” landings, where the plane briefly lands, to try to straighten out the jammed nose gear, the report said.&
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by chasil 1y ago
We aren't the target of most viruses. It could be chaotic, I think. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SbvAaDN1bpE Are we also eliminating transposons? We would not survive that. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w
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by chasil 1y ago
"(The U.S. ambassador to Switzerland virtually never gets summoned.)" After the new 50% tariffs, I doubt this remains true.
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by chasil 1y ago
I had not realized that Apple did not implement any of the 32-bit ARM environment, but that cuts the legs out of this argument in the article: "In Anandtech’s interview, Jim Keller noted that both x86 and ARM both added features over t
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by chasil 1y ago
Is it not true that the instruction decoder is always active on x86, and is quite complex? Such a decoder is vastly less sophisticated with AArch64. That is one obvious architectural drawback for power efficiency: a legacy instruction set w
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by chasil 1y ago
No root is the dealbreaker. The browser doesn't handle dark mode well. The launcher is primitive. Why didn't they just take Trebuchet? I was also very used to pattern unlock.
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by chasil 1y ago
LineageOS currently says that it won't install over the latest update on the 6a. You can try it, but don't cry if it bricks. The newish one I bought got GrapheneOS instead. That worked without a hitch, but it's got more than
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by chasil 1y ago
Unless they give F-Droid access, the antitrust prosecution will double.
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by chasil 1y ago
https://archive.ph/fm9Ax
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by chasil 1y ago
There is enough going on with WAL mode that it really shouldn't be enabled unless all the limitations are understood. In addition to the need for all clients to see shared memory, it disables acid transactions on attached databases (2n
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by chasil 1y ago
"There are two great tragedies in life: not getting what you want, and getting it." - Oscar Wilde
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by chasil 1y ago
The Bliss launcher in /e/OS does not support widgets conventionally, and the best thing to do is immediately replace it. I used Lawnchair, and it did improve things. It did encourage me to provide my Google account credentials, wh
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by chasil 1y ago
After looking at it, there are many things that I do not like about Graphene, and many ways that it tries hard not to be likable. Beyond the monochrome icon pack that cannot be changed in the included launcher (which is so aesthetically cha
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by chasil 1y ago
The actual ARM1 processor was built for the "tube" connection on a 6502-based 8-bit BBC Microcomputer in the early 1980s. These two articles are popular for the details of that history. ARM dominates the second. https:/&#x2F
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by chasil 1y ago
The use of standard cells for a process somewhat opens it for outside users. The 80386 was the first use of standard cells for x86, which also introduced "automatic place and route" via a graduate student project named "Timbe
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by chasil 1y ago
Intel's first exposure was the purchase of DEC StrongARM in the 90s, although that particular product line was sold to Marvel.
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by chasil 1y ago
A more recent motivation might be Apple's switch to in-house ARM for MacOS for similar reasons.
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by chasil 1y ago
https://archive.ph/vFAa8

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