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by einr 7mo ago
It should also be mentioned that despite being the factory of the world, China's CO2 emissions per capita are nearly half of the United States and comparable to some European countries.
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by einr 7mo ago
No, it's not? https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/interactive-publications/e... crude oil and petroleum products (37.7%) natural gas (20.4%) renewable energy (19.5%) solid fuels (10.6%) nuclear
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by einr 7mo ago
This feature is borrowed from macOS, but on macOS it doesn't grow indefinitely.
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by einr 7mo ago
"Not bigger than databases. Different from databases. It's not a website you go to — it's a little spirit that lives on your machine. Not a chatbot. A tool that reads and writes files on your filesystem. That's not a tec
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by einr 7mo ago
- Ctlr + ABCVYXZ Yes, different computers have different keyboards. Macs have had Mac conventions since 1984, and if you're not used to it you're not used to it. Instead of sticking to "the thing I'm not used to is wro
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by einr 7mo ago
It's the same in all three cases: using HDD space, money and RAM for good purposes (disk cache) is useful, wasting it (Electron) is bad. (Weird side question: are you by any chance the Jason Farnon who wrote IBFT?)
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by einr 7mo ago
This rules. What a good, sensible, sober post.
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by einr 7mo ago
PS. Wonder why they didn't use A19 in this? Imagine they thought "yeah, that A18 will do for an entry-level laptop", but the entry-level iPhone 17e with A19 needed more kick? What for, our social media apps and mobile websit
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by einr 7mo ago
OK, fair enough!
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by einr 7mo ago
How about "confirmed by Mark Zbikowski himself in a video interview"? Does that sound better? https://youtu.be/c6yPoWrdjkU?si=hxvXTE6ZsdvJs5U9&t=1266 (roughly 21:06 into the video)
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by einr 7mo ago
MEMMAKER. It was okay, but it was so invasive in modifying your CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT that I never really trusted it. I preferred hand-optimizing.
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by einr 7mo ago
And how often do you work a full day with no access to a charger?
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by einr 8mo ago
I loved the Amiga but I loathed all the XT/AT segmented memory bitplaned VGA 16-bit stuff. That to me is the deep dark ages. I get the sentiment, but I have to nitpick the details ;) VGA isn't bitplaned. It's chunky -- to p
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by einr 8mo ago
copy prefix.txt+con+suffix.txt output.txt This does indeed work in proper MS-DOS. Congratulations for figuring out probably the single most masochistic way of accomplishing text editing ;)
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by einr 8mo ago
Honestly, if you need this, just extract NOTEPAD.EXE from a Windows 95 (or NT 4) installation.
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by einr 8mo ago
The old EDIT never shipped with any 64-bit Windows IIRC, since it was a 16-bit MS-DOS application. I believe 32-bit Windows 10 has it..? As someone who (mercifully) only occasionally has to touch Windows machines, I keep forgetting this, an
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by einr 8mo ago
So then act now, because the best time to act was yesterday, and the longer you wait the worse the mess and pain becomes. Not acting at all is not an option.
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by einr 8mo ago
Thank you for this, this is very interesting detailed context. Do you think there is a possible world where TI would have swallowed their pride and considered not-invented-here options like a regular 8080/Z80/6502 as the CPU?
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by einr 8mo ago
People give away their freedoms all the time. Most people are walking around with facebook and tiktok tracking their every move. they don't care. This is absolutely true. I'm saying someone should care, because it does matter.
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by einr 8mo ago
I'm with you and the only solace in this dystopia is the fact that I increasingly feel like I just don't care. I don't really like using computers anymore. I liked them when they represented freedom and creativity. So fine,
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by einr 8mo ago
Yeah, but people don't really want to use the BSD userspace. A lot of the Linux stuff people want to build on assumes a GNU userland and it's not trivial to build a BSD/Linux that actually does relevant computer stuff. But in
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by einr 8mo ago
Also, why would some userspace components in a slightly-less-free license cause this to happen? It won't, in itself, but it appears to be yet another little push forward on the slippery slope that probably will end where it appears t
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by einr 8mo ago
RAM was very expensive then and 16 bit CPUs weren't that much faster to justify the cost if you were aiming for the home market. Both true, which makes this an even more baffling choice -- why pick the more expensive, state of the ar
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by einr 8mo ago
i.e. we get "embrace" without the "extend and extinguish" This only ever happens when the party trying to EEE is fighting a losing battle. If they have the upper hand, they will always get to the extend and extinguish
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by einr 8mo ago
Sure, but util-linux and the BSDs won't suddenly cease to exist. If you don't like what Ubuntu is doing, just don't use it. And then websites and applications stop working if you're not using a verified, attested, lock
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by einr 8mo ago
The whole thing seems like it was designed in a parallel universe, or at least it reeks of some kind of a sunk-cost-fallacy design-by-committee thing. Supposedly what happened is that the system was originally designed to have either an 8-b
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by einr 8mo ago
The lack of dedicated registers meant a lot of memory access, which slowed things down considerably. It gets worse because the TI99 only has 256 bytes of RAM directly addressable on its 16-bit bus. All the other memory in the system is
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by einr 8mo ago
Right now you can get 20TB hard drives for cheap and setup your own NAS, but way more people spend money every month on Dropbox/iCloud/onedrive - people value convenience and accessibility over “owning” the product. Yes, this is
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by einr 8mo ago
This argument would sound nearly identical if you made it in the 70s or early 80s about mainframes and personal computers. It's not that mainframes (or supercomputers, or servers, or the cloud) stopped existing, it's that there wa
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by einr 8mo ago
The benchmarks are not invented by the LLM, they are from an issue where Scott Shambaugh himself suggests this change as low-hanging, but low importance, perf improvement fruit: https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib&

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