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by herio 6y ago
Running a production line at full blast for a long time will put extra wear on both machines and people. You might also be tempted to skimp on maintenance to produce more. Tired people are more likely to make mistakes. Less maintained machi
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by herio 6y ago
Just read up on it and it's actually a bit more detailed, it requires active consent. https://edpb.europa.eu/sites/edpb/files/files/file1/edpb_gui... Statement 82 reads: "The GDPR does
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by herio 6y ago
I agree. Ultimately I think it's just another leaky abstraction like so many other things we do. Wonderful when it works as intended and less so when it goes wrong. I also think that the more layers of software and management you add i
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by herio 6y ago
The C128 PLA chip is in essence an ASIC. It's using a PLA design but it's only programmable during the mask creation. Using a PLA logic array is just a very efficient way of achieving the design that they wanted. I don't thin
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by herio 6y ago
Yes, I'm currently working on implementing this using a Lattice iCE40 FPGA. Not the largest or most powerful of devices but I don't need much for this and it does have a fully open source pipeline available. The other part of reve
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by herio 6y ago
Author here. The PLA in both the C64 and the C128 are primarily used to generate chip select signals for the chips that are connected on the system buses. On the C128 it is also involved in the DRAM refresh handling. The C64 PLA was origina
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by herio 6y ago
> You can run your own private island, but if you want to be "part of the fediverse" then you need to peer with servers in the main network, right? Which means tyranny-of-structurelessness organisational politics, because each
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by herio 6y ago
As someone living outside of the US I find it interesting (and perhaps a bit predictable) how the normal response is something in the lines of "If you do not want capitalism, you want communism". This form of polarized view is fal
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by herio 6y ago
For me, learning how to listen. This is something I'm struggling with myself but getting better at.
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by herio 6y ago
ColdFire is still around but is also not fully binary compatible with 68k. There have been attempts at making Amiga accelerator cards using Coldfires, but I don't think I've ever seen one that was fully finished.
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by herio 6y ago
The Apollo core is not open source. There are some other pretty nice and featured 68k cores that are open source (TG68, WF68K30L etc.) but none that is really close to the features and performance of the Apollo 68080.
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by herio 6y ago
The Amiga IP was always under some form of active management following CBMs fall. First Escom AG in Germany, then Gateway, Amino developments and then finally Cloanto. AmigaOS was/is also under active development by Hyperion entertainm
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by herio 6y ago
This was proposed already in 2012 with RFC6698. DNS based Authentication of Domain Entries, DANE. Hasn't really gone anywhere of importance. I personally think there's been a few factors as to why: * Distrust of DNSSEC and central
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by herio 7y ago
https://c128.se The only reason to read this is if you are interested in technical details of a 35 year old 8-bit computer.
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by herio 7y ago
Ian Murdocks (debians founder) then girlfriend, later wife, is named Debra. You can probably extrapolate the rest.
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by herio 7y ago
USAF is already testing starlink and has been for quite some time. They have a $28m three year contract running since 2018. https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2019/11/spacex-starlink-28-mil...
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by herio 7y ago
Sorry to be picking a nit here but the SwinSID is not FPGA based, it's a software emulator running on an AVR mcu. There is an FPGA based version of the SID called (surprise) FGPASID ( http://www.fpgasid.de/ ) which is pr
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by herio 7y ago
I always found the notion that we have to climb upwards and always make more money to be a bit weird. As long as I have enough to live comfortably, stash some away and not worry I'm good, I don't need more. As such, I don't r
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by herio 7y ago
For me I've noticed that over time I've stopped worrying about the code and now mostly care about the data. How it's stored, how it's transformed etc. The code comes from how the data is managed. As a new programmer, you
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by herio 7y ago
I usually say that encryption is the easy part. Just use XOR and you are good. All the complicated bits are related to key management.
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by herio 7y ago
As a non-american, how this does not run afoul of discrimination laws boggles my mind. Refusing employment on skin colour, religion, sexual orientation or indeed pretty much anything would land you in trouble, doing the same on this is seen
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by herio 7y ago
Zorro-2 was superior to ISA in pretty much all ways that count. It had auto configuration and just worked in general. PCI is vastly superior to Zorro-3 though, in both features and performance. Z3 never achieved the performance given in the