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by einr 3y ago
The first Windows NT was actually 3.1. Windows 95, 98 and Me are all 4.x internally. Windows NT 4.0 is also version 4 internally...
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by einr 3y ago
Because world war might kill millions of humans, but AGI has a non-zero and perhaps more like inevitable chance of actually ending humanity, full stop.
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by einr 3y ago
Yes, this is a brutally poor choice of name. The AT command set is not only well known to virtually every computer person on the planet and has been for 40+ years, it is also not even obsolete but in constant use everywhere on the planet. J
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by einr 3y ago
That is right, but it's per breaker, so your air conditioner will likely be on its own breaker. (Assuming 15A fuse, 15A * 110V = 1650W) Here in Sweden we have 240V from the wall but our fuses are usually 10A, so 2400W per breaker (so w
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by einr 4y ago
-schaft is cognate with English -ship so I think "witship" would probably be the least clumsy way of writing it. (It's "vetenskap" in Swedish, by the way -- same word)
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by einr 4y ago
And also, Titan is the well-known name of a line of powerful NVIDIA GPUs that are suitable for AI/machine learning work... So...
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by einr 4y ago
Tinkering and fun means different things to different people. That's okay. Your idea of fun wasn't to fix the OS -- mine was. I went to the library in '97 and borrowed the Linux Bible, with a CD-ROM copy of Yggdrasil Plug&#x2
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by einr 4y ago
You are talking as an adult with a job, not a 10-year old who likes computers.
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by einr 4y ago
"Uh," maybe we can both be right. Allow me to quote directly: "I want him to be able to dig deeper. To explore. To try things out, misconfigure, crash, fix, and re-install. To get a feeling for how things work below the surf
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by einr 4y ago
You're right in a way, and I long for those days when it was easier to understand the system, but 90s Linux had its own headaches and really was the embodiment of the "ugh, sometimes you have to edit files to make computer go&
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by einr 4y ago
Sure. But the article here is specifically about someone who wants their child to learn about computers by tinkering and trial and error.
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by einr 4y ago
Or keep trying to fix the environment + hardware compatibility issues and not work on the actual study. Or keep editing some random xorg.conf file because his monitor's display suddenly became weird. Or try to fix some other random fi
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by einr 4y ago
AMD removed support as well. https://flaterco.com/kb/ISA_chipsets.html
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by einr 4y ago
Very likely you could get away with at least 4 bits (16 distinct colors) per pixel, which is 4x more efficient than pure black and white.
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by einr 4y ago
I don't see Ultibo calling itself a "bare metal" environment anywhere on the site, really. It's pretty clear that it kind of provides an operating system. The title of the link seems to have been editorialized by the sub
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by einr 4y ago
I don't want any ads, ever, but if I have to pick, then absolutely I want ads that are completely useless to me. My issue with ads is that they are trying to manipulate me and I think that is morally wrong. This is less likely to succe
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by einr 4y ago
First set mode 13h (320x200, 256 colors): asm mov ax,0013h int 10h end; ...then plot pixel with palette index c at coordinate (x,y) -- mem[] is a built in array of bytes representing memory, 0xA000 is where the VGA framebuf
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by einr 4y ago
It would have been fairly obvious from holding it in your hand at the store ;) It does call itself MD2-HD which is the abbreviation for Mini Disk, 2 sided, High Density. Mini disk here means 5.25". 3.5" disks were MF "Micro F
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by einr 4y ago
The odd thing about high capacity SD cards in general is that they are generally used as fixed storage. I have a 256 GB card that I put into a 11" laptop when I bought it and I haven't seen it since. I haven't used a CF or S
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by einr 4y ago
I would suggest (perhaps as a "fun" way of dealing with it) looking into The Legend of Spyro style copy-protection. This is where, rather than just depending on the small activation component, there are small checks throughout yo
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by einr 4y ago
53k, and still up and serving pages nice and fast.
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by einr 4y ago
I see the term used as late as in the Byte issue about the IBM PC in 1982, and possibly later. It wasn't before the 3.5" floppy arrived that the term completely fell out of use about the 5 1/4" floppy. It lived on even
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by einr 4y ago
2mhz 1 MHz ;)
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by einr 4y ago
Similarly 3.5" disks were formally called "micro floppy disks" and often used to often be called that on packaging though, so it all makes sense: minicomputer/microcomputer <-> mini floppy/micro floppy ;) htt
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by einr 4y ago
It used to be useful to me back when my ISP had 28800 bps and 33600 bps capable modems in their pool, and I had a 33600 -- I learned to hear from the handshake when I hit one of the slower modems and would then immediately hang up and try a
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by einr 4y ago
BeOS never (officially) supported 486 class processors, I can't recall if it actually uses Pentium instructions and won't run, or if it's just super slow on 486. I think it is actually compiled for Pentium.
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by einr 4y ago
Not a no-brainer for sure, but depending on what PC it is, the costs can still be really low. Assuming 50 W power draw (you can get this much lower with cheap or free e-waste PC's like old Atom NUCs or thin clients, or a low-power lapt
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by einr 4y ago
Well yes, I'm not arguing that it would have been a commercial success (nor did Commodore think so, apparently), just that it looked like it would have been a fantastic computer in and of itself and a worthy swansong for the Commodore
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by einr 4y ago
They could have used the effort that went into the 128 to beef up the VICII with a TED-like pallette and have a brilliant last C-64 computer to show. The Commodore 65 was going to be that, kind of. It really is a shame that it never saw
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by einr 4y ago
The mainline curl repository* maintains code for supporting OS/400, AmigaOS, RISC OS, MS-DOS, Mac OS 9, and more that aren't even remotely POSIX. What is a dead operating system anyway, and how is that relevant to the point that W

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