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by chasil 1y ago
My mistake, my legacy rhel5 i686 on a 22nm Xeon. This does not mean that resource-constrained environments do not exist.
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by chasil 1y ago
Just out of curiosity, how much faster is gsh than busybox? I believe that busybox is produced by the Windows cross-compiler that I have loaded from EPEL. Can gsh be built the same way?
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by chasil 1y ago
"...doxycycline (and other generic antibiotics) wreak havoc on the microbiome, killing beneficial bacteria in the gut and causing troubling side effects..." Doxycycline is used as prophylaxis for a wide variety of pathogens; eithe
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by chasil 1y ago
It is unlikely to be PowerShell. On my old i386 server, this is my fastest shell: $ ll /bin/dash -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 85368 Jan 5 2023 /bin/dash The set of features in the POSIX.2 shell is designed to minimi
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by chasil 1y ago
Suprisingly, POSIX has recently adopted the find -print0 | xargs -0 idiom, so the gears do turn, but very slowly . The latest standards for POSIX.2 utilities are here: https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9799919799
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by chasil 1y ago
The easiest way to get POSIX and bash ish scripts working on Windows is the busybox port: https://frippery.org/busybox/index.html This is actually the Almquist shell with many bashisms brought in (no arrays though).
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by chasil 1y ago
I had confused botflies for screw worms, but they are different. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botfly https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cochliomyia
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by chasil 2y ago
> Kodak and digital photography: Kodak actually invented the first digital camera in 1975. But the company was so committed to its film business model that it couldn't adapt its thinking when digital technology began to take over. T
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by chasil 2y ago
The Intel line was fathered by the Datapoint 2200; they implemented the CPU in TTL logic boards. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datapoint_2200 The 6502 line came out Motorola's failure to "indulge" thei
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by chasil 2y ago
Native compression in sqlite is offered as a closed and licensed extension. https://sqlite.org/com/cerod.html
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by chasil 2y ago
Employers in the U.S. are expecting to see domestic IP addresses. A laptop farm hosts the corporate laptop (domestically) that is sent to the remote worker. Hardware is provided to work the power remotely, along with all other functions. h
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by chasil 2y ago
"Zhaoxin did not specify what process node they’re using. Techpowerup and Wccftech suggests it uses an unspecified 16nm node."
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by chasil 2y ago
What is clear to everyone is that ARM survived and SPARC did not. Sun ownership would not have guaranteed survival, as management did many foolish things, but it would have upped the odds.
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by chasil 2y ago
I know of one total rewrite. "I couldn't find anything that was copied." -Dennis Ritchie https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coherent_(operating_system)
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by chasil 2y ago
Then how do you explain StrongARM? Why would DEC indulge in an also-ran? Ken Olsen's folly? Or is 1996 far too late? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StrongARM
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by chasil 2y ago
I never used it, but the first UNIX port for ARM was called RISC iX and it was introduced in 1988. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RISC_iX In retrospect, if Sun had acquired Acorn, they might still be around.
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by chasil 2y ago
You will want to see these photos. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43638520
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by chasil 2y ago
This Kurzgesagt video is equally sci-fi, but of the "potentially possible if we wanted to bankrupt the planet" variety. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-WO-z-QuWI
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by chasil 2y ago
Our shop floor system is still written in VAX ACMS, using TDMS for menus, and Oracle Rdb for SQL. I still have an account. It runs on the Charon emulator. A little after your time, I wrote code on a DECstation 5000/240 running MIPS&#x2
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by chasil 2y ago
DEC spent an enormous amount of money on an emitter-coupled logic (ECL) bipolar implementation as the VAX 9000. They came to discover that the MicroVAX hit ~70% of the performance at a fraction of the cost. That was an expensive dead end. &
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by chasil 2y ago
What is interesting to consider is if Dave Cutler had not been available or otherwise did not choose Microsoft in 1988. Would Microsoft have adapted BSD NET/1 as Apple eventually did, instead of continuing OS/2?
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by chasil 2y ago
The vast majority of Linux kernels run on Android. I would be shocked if I am incorrect.
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by chasil 2y ago
Fans of SimH might give you many reasons for enthusiasm in retro-computing. https://simh.trailing-edge.com/
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by chasil 2y ago
Bear in mind that Microsoft was the largest commercial UNIX vendor in licensing XENIX for the TRS-80 Model 2 alone. From this experience, they had significant knowledge of 32-bit preemptive multitasking. That exposure allowed them to see ho
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by chasil 2y ago
I remember variants on this for several platforms by the authors: Don Inman, Ramon Zamora, Bob Albrecht. TRS-80: https://www.amazon.com/Advanced-TRS-80-Level-II-BASIC/dp/047... TI-99/4a: https://ww
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by chasil 2y ago
A type-1a supernova peer would produce this effect, leaving only the black hole (or the oversize star that would become it). I don't know any other types where the star is completely destroyed.
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by chasil 2y ago
There are at least some cases where fungi can cause illness in otherwise healthy humans. The one that comes to mind is ergot, by ingestion of a chemical byproduct: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ergot A number of pois
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by chasil 2y ago
"By weight, human beings are insignificant." https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2018/5/29/17386112/al... (Sorry you're getting down voted.)
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by chasil 2y ago
How difficult is the purification process? Is it as difficult as uranium hexafloride gas? Yes, gas centrifuge appears to be a leading method. 'The purification starts with “simple” isotopic purification of silicon. The major breakthrou
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by chasil 2y ago
Anything moving beyond the Cosmological Horizon can no longer be seen. As I understand it, a frozen image will remain for a time and fade, growing increasingly red shifted. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmological_h

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