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by jasomill 2y ago
While implemented virtually rather than physically, two well-known (and very different) examples of systems that unify memory and secondary storage under a single addressing scheme are Multics (1969) and the IBM System/38 (1978). Note
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by jasomill 2y ago
The Mac version of Final Cut Pro hasn’t had a paid upgrade since FCP X was released in 2011.
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by jasomill 2y ago
"cache:" search syntax still works: https://google.com/search?q=cache%3Ahttps%3A%2F%2Fnews.ycomb...
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by jasomill 2y ago
Simpler: fill the drive with random data, hashing as you go, flush the kernel's buffer cache, hash the entire contents of the drive, and compare. Conceptually, # tee /dev/DEVICE </dev/random | sha256sum # e
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by jasomill 2y ago
I still use my two vintage 15Cs for simple calculations on a regular basis, and change the batteries every decade or so. To be fair, lack of self-discharge in the battery chemistry has a lot to do with the long battery life; you can actuall
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by jasomill 2y ago
Yes, as a one-time charge. Though AFAIK there's no law or contract term preventing Google from starting to charge a monthly fee in the future. And after some time — for me it was 5+ years, porting from a baby Bell land line to a postpa
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by jasomill 2y ago
https://xkcd.com/1987/
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by jasomill 2y ago
In contexts where "engineer" is a licensed title like "doctor of medicine" and "attorney at law", sure. But the point of credentials like these is not only that they're shorthand for a range of requirement
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by jasomill 2y ago
Agreed — installing modern Windows from physical DVD-R media is painful enough. I've found iLO 4 virtual media support most useful for booting DOS-hosted firmware updates supplied as El Torito ISO images that aren't natively boota
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by jasomill 2y ago
Why constrain production to "painstakingly gluing back together" a broken bowl? And if reuse and recycling are desirable, why make bowls out of materials that are easily breakable and difficult to repair or recycle in the first pl
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by jasomill 2y ago
The original (ca. 1988) name of the OS/400 SQL facility was SQL/400. DB2 was originally an unrelated RDBMS that ran on IBM's MVS mainframe OS, announced in 1983. Several years later, IBM expanded the use of the DB2 name to re
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by jasomill 2y ago
Most EPYCs have 128 PCIe lanes, so I'd expect a full x16 link for all six GPUs. Pedantically, the combined bidirectional bandwidth of PCIe x16 is ~64 GB/s, as it's a full-duplex ~32 GB/s link, but that's an awfully
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by jasomill 2y ago
Not just ICs, microprocessors: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubylith
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by jasomill 2y ago
Using a rake would arguably be illegal, because The leaf blower must be powered by electricity or another energy source that does not produce harmful air pollution. excludes most humans as an energy source. But that doesn't matter, b
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by jasomill 2y ago
PL/M was developed by Gary Kildall for Intel, and the only compilers I've used ran under Intel's ISIS family of operating systems, originally on Intel Intellec MDS hardware, and only much later under first-party ISIS emulatio
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by jasomill 2y ago
Sounds like, at best, a great way to find obsolete copies of nvidia-smi.exe shipped with installed but inactive driver versions. On all my Windows/Nvidia systems, the current version of nvidia-smi.exe is present in %SystemRoot%\Syste
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by jasomill 2y ago
To align with numbers cited in the article: Kirkland Signature 30 pack[1]: 380 sheets/roll 4.5"×4" sheets $23.49 cost per pack $0.016/square foot Kirkland Signature Ultra Soft 36 pack[2]: 231 sheets/roll 4.5"×4
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by jasomill 2y ago
There's an Alto in another auction, starting in 24 days: https://www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-6495042
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by jasomill 2y ago
Note that the rolling shutter effect is not limited to digital photography: it also affects physical focal plane shutters at high shutter speeds due to the time it takes for shutter curtains to move across the frame. This effect is the orig
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by jasomill 2y ago
For a last-century example of actual pass-by-reference, assign-by-copy, the PL/I program foo: proc options(main); dcl sysprint print; dcl a(3) fixed bin(31) init(1,2,3); put skip data (a); call bar(a); put skip
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by jasomill 2y ago
SETUN itself was an electronically binary machine that used bit pairs to encode ternary digits[1]. In support of your point, of the Soviet computers surveyed in the cited article, six were pure binary, two used binary-coded decimal numerics
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by jasomill 2y ago
The cited regulation[1] defines a "high clearance four-wheel-drive vehicle" as A Jeep, sport utility vehicle (SUV), or truck type with at least 15-inch tire rims and at least eight inches of clearance from the lowest point of the
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by jasomill 2y ago
Not UB, illegal. Per ECMA 335, II.10.7: It is possible to overlap fields in this way, though offsets occupied by an object reference shall not overlap with offsets occupied by a built-in value type or a part of another object reference. P
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by jasomill 2y ago
C# tuple field names are an interesting case, spiritually similar to this proposal's ad hoc unions: persisted in compiled output via attributes, respected by the compiler even across assembly boundaries, but not actually part of the re
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by jasomill 2y ago
Given its historical importance and rarity, $5,000–$8,000 for a working Alto seems like a bargain. Somebody who cares as much as I do, please buy this!
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by jasomill 2y ago
Recommended for desktop: OWC Mercury Pro enclosure[1] with your choice of MakeMKV-compatible[2] internal 5.25" SATA drive. USB 3.0 B plug and separate PSU; no dongles or bus power required. [1] https://eshop.macsales.com&#x2
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by jasomill 2y ago
But not a lot cheaper than a USB BD-R drive without captive cable that doesn't require either dongle.
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by jasomill 2y ago
Did the app include a system or kernel extension? Because I'm pretty sure these always require Security & Privacy authorization even when unquarantined, signed, and notarized.
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by jasomill 2y ago
Yes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunarcrete
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by jasomill 2y ago
AFAIK, installing/updating unsupported OS versions via OCLP doesn't update firmware. It certainly hasn't on my MacPro6,1 running Sonoma (have 478, current is 481); the workaround is a PITA (Monterey only updates firmware if i

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