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by ck45 4y ago
I wouldn't call it an answer. In-kernel Lua states[1] have been released with NetBSD 7.0 in 2015 and the work started at least as early as 2013, probably 2011. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6562611 for a pre
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by ck45 4y ago
There's also https://www.khloch.de/en/locad-fuer-mac/ We used the MSDOS version in highschool. What a fun semester!
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by ck45 4y ago
Yes, that's the video. Thanks! I updated my comment
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by ck45 4y ago
Coincidentally I saw this video on youtube yesterday about how the attempt to keep up with the west regarding semiconductors ruined the economy of East Germany. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxrkC-pMH_s Edit: Added link
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by ck45 4y ago
Nice story, but it doesn't fully add up: "When Intel started Itanium development work in the mid 1990s" That's more than a decade after AMD releasing their first x86 compatible CPU. Intel was very aware of the threat bef
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Neural Amp Modeler Plugin (VST/AU)(github.com)
2 points by ck45 4y ago|0 comments
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by ck45 4y ago
Similar (has been around for maybe 20 years): https://www.bookcrossing.com/ which influenced public book cases in Germany according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_bookcase The wikipedia articl
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by ck45 4y ago
Related article on CNN: Elon Musk’s Twitter obsession isn’t the core reason for Tesla stock’s plunge https://edition.cnn.com/2022/12/23/investing/elon-musk-tesla...
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by ck45 4y ago
That sounds a bit like what WUFFS is doing WUFFS: https://github.com/google/wuffs
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by ck45 4y ago
And also in 2016: "Lepton image compression: saving 22% losslessly from images" https://dropbox.tech/infrastructure/lepton-image-compression... It's now deprecated though and quite comically tragically t
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by ck45 4y ago
It contains 8 links to the Chromium bugtracker in this paragraph: However, if the enthusiastic support in the Chromium bugtracker from Facebook, Adobe, Intel and VESA, Krita, The Guardian, libvips, Cloudinary, and Shopify is any indication,
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by ck45 4y ago
I linked https://cloudinary.com/blog/the-case-for-jpeg-xl in another comment which links to several big players requesting full JPEG XL support. It seems the reason why it wasn't adopted more broadly is that there
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by ck45 4y ago
I quite liked this article from about a month ago on "The Case for JPEG XL": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33442281
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by ck45 4y ago
I have an older Brother HL-2035. It can be convinced to keep on printing by covering two holes on the cartridge with some duct tape.
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by ck45 4y ago
It’s supposed to reduce cow farts. See e.g. https://www.euronews.com/green/2021/09/24/seaweed-to-cow-fee...
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Waterworld videogame from The Simpsons S08E07(macaw45.itch.io)
2 points by ck45 4y ago|0 comments
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by ck45 4y ago
This is a quite entertaining YouTube channel dealing with that subject: https://youtube.com/c/ThePostApocalypticInventor
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by ck45 4y ago
They do retire, but in exile From https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/688225 > Exile has been the second most common fate for dictators who lost office since World War II See https:/&#x
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by ck45 4y ago
This is just an assumption, but it might be possible to translate to Go assembly and then use the Go toolchain. Edit: https://github.com/minio/c2goasm seems to slightly go in that direction.
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by ck45 4y ago
Still remembering the slight thrill of replacing (non-rechargeable) batteries in my Palm III. There was plenty of time, but what if I'm going to drop a battery and it rolls under the desk? I did do a recent backup, didn't I? There
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A ‘doomsday glacier’ the size of Florida is disintegrating faster than thought(washingtonpost.com)
6 points by ck45 4y ago|2 comments
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by ck45 4y ago
I'm using my old iPad mini as an ebook reader for tech books. For fictional books, I'm still a happy Kindle user, but I never liked reading technical books esp. with tables or images. Before finding that usecase, it almost ended u
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by ck45 4y ago
Really awesome tool, especially "back in the days". Another great tool that I used for similar tasks, with a similarly appealing user interface and also a website that most likely works best in Netscape Navigator, is tgif: http:&
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by ck45 4y ago
There are lots of free software synths out there. One of the best is https://vital.audio/ Another really good one is https://surge-synthesizer.github.io/
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by ck45 4y ago
No, you are not the only ones. When we are on a multiple destination trip (our standard way of travelling), I take the opened soap to the next accomodation(s) and use it before opening any new ones.
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by ck45 5y ago
libthread is great, although I somehow wish that the programming language Alef won in some alternate universe. libthread was written as a replacement when Alef was abandoned in Plan 9 3rd edition
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by ck45 5y ago
Yes, it reminds me of this project, using Checked C for the FreeBSD kernel: http://secdev.ieee.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/s1-02-Duan...
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by ck45 5y ago
I remember having copied an interpreter for a c like language called “C - -“ (without the spaces), from a shareware cd-rom. It didn’t have pointers (minus pointers), and also was missing something else (the other minus). Was it that languag
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by ck45 5y ago
I have similar feelings about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transrapid . At some point the whole project became too political and nobody wanted to be responsible to either push the project or pull the plug. Instead a to
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Free and open source virtual synth Surge XT 1.0 released(surge-synthesizer.github.io)
17 points by ck45 5y ago|0 comments

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