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by erikj 9y ago
How is Markdown innovative exactly?
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Finite Field Arithmetic, Chapter 8: Randomism(loper-os.org)
1 points by erikj 9y ago|0 comments
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by erikj 9y ago
It loads a blank page for me when I start a new canvas.
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by erikj 9y ago
Nvidia will keep focusing on GPUs to the detriment of anything else. That's how larger established corporations always work, they have a lot of institutional inertia.
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Finite Field Arithmetic: Turbo Egyptians(loper-os.org)
3 points by erikj 9y ago|0 comments
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by erikj 9y ago
The title made me think that Bezos leaves Amazon.
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by erikj 9y ago
A lot of those new transistors are caches and memory/IO controllers that were previously off-chip.
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by erikj 9y ago
It's funny to see a Mac user complain about toys for rich kids.
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by erikj 9y ago
Semiconductor fabrication is ridiculously expensive, OpenBSD people can't afford it unless some generous billionaire helps.
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by erikj 9y ago
So Intel is still liable then.
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by erikj 9y ago
Why do you think I mentioned the autocompletion facility? Shell users won't have to type any more characters than they do now. Please give Genera a try in the emulator to see how it would work with your own eyes, it's nothing like
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by erikj 9y ago
My ideal modern terminal would be pretty much a reimplementation of Symbolics' Listener: https://youtu.be/o4-YnLpLgtk?t=1m46s - A presentation-based UI, where every on-screen element is always linked to the data it rep
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by erikj 9y ago
Something as simple as tagged memory becoming a standard feature of the dominant CPU architectures would be a huge step forward for computer security.
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Finite Field Arithmetic: FFACalc(loper-os.org)
25 points by erikj 9y ago|0 comments
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by erikj 9y ago
There was no Airline Industry Winter or Software Winter either.
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by erikj 9y ago
What's wrong with Tk, exactly?
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by erikj 9y ago
Can any of them be used without binary blobs?
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by erikj 9y ago
The same thing is happening in Firefox.
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by erikj 9y ago
Apple even considered licensing the NT kernel before the acquisition: http://lowendmac.com/2013/the-rise-and-fall-of-apples-gil-am...
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by erikj 9y ago
There were 1150x900 monitors in 1983: http://www.textfiles.com/bitsavers/pdf/symbolics/3600technic...
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by erikj 9y ago
You can access Canvas in WebAssembly, no problem here.
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Game Process Hacking with cl-ptrace(youtube.com)
1 points by erikj 9y ago|0 comments
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by erikj 9y ago
Common Lisp is big because it's a bridge between MacLisp and InterLisp communities of the 80s. There are much smaller (and just as powerful) Lisps like Scheme or ISLISP.
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by erikj 9y ago
Intel's Larrabee actually ran FreeBSD with a proper filesystem and everything. You could telnet into your GPU, install your own API implementation, pretty cool stuff: http://tomforsyth1000.github.io/blog.wiki.html#%5B%5
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Finite Field Arithmetic, Chapter 3: Shifts(loper-os.org)
2 points by erikj 9y ago|0 comments
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by erikj 9y ago
No, it's still using Valve's fork of that old library (Ipion Virtual Physics) that's referred in the documentation to as VPhysics.
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by erikj 9y ago
"50 million cigarette smokers can't be wrong!"
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by erikj 9y ago
Source 2 is another matter altogether. Valve doesn't share it with third-party developers at all, whether you pay or not. There were plans back in 2015 to make it free with the condition that any game made with it has to be published t
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by erikj 9y ago
$25,000. Valve doesn't distribute Source without it, as far as I know. Replacing Havok would take a lot of effort which is better spent elsewhere.
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by erikj 9y ago
Source is pretty expensive due to the mandatory Havok fee.

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