johnklos

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by johnklos 3y ago
The results, without needing to read through everything: optimizations have very few wins and, in spite of expectations, have instances where optimized binaries are slower. In other words, it's not time. Perhaps it'd be worth revi
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by johnklos 3y ago
The Commodore A2065 ethernet card uses the Am7990, and I'm still using several of them in various Amiga systems, running both AmigaDOS and NetBSD. While trying to figure out some occasional network stalls, I looked at NetBSD's man
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by johnklos 3y ago
"...the only remaining ethical web browser, Firefox" That's pretty rich. Firefox did irreparable harm when they decided to funnel all Americans' DNS lookups to an abusive, monopolistic, for-profit company, Cloudflare, WI
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by johnklos 3y ago
What's interesting is how there's so much emphasis on high end video cards which are prohibitively expensive for most people, yet many of the newer models, when quantized, run perfectly well on CPUs. Instead of chasing speed with
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by johnklos 3y ago
So we'll finally see Rust support for all the architectures that gcc supports that LLVM doesn't, like Alpha, SuperH and VAX, for starters. That'll be nice!
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by johnklos 3y ago
https://www.klos.com/~john/mandelbrot.jpg
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by johnklos 3y ago
It's so nice of you to offer to buy 4090 cards for people who can only otherwise afford Raspberry Pis ;)
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by johnklos 3y ago
I would've loved if this were more portable. It requires XNNPACK, which has no generic c implementation. I'd've loved to see Stable Diffusion running on an Alpha, SPARC, or m68k.
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by johnklos 3y ago
I'm a bit surprised that the number of architectures is so small. It really isn't too hard to add others, particularly if qemu is acceptable. Even without emulation, I have Alpha, ARM (big and little endian, 64 bit, v4, v6hf, v7hf
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by johnklos 3y ago
Or, the MacBook and MacBook Air can run newer macOS using OpenCore Legacy: https://dortania.github.io/OpenCore-Legacy-Patcher/MODELS.ht... The MacBook can run Catalina with full graphics support, and the MacBook Air ca
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by johnklos 3y ago
You're generalizing, and doing so with poor assumptions. Supporting old hardware isn't about cost. If one wanted to compare the cost of simply maintaining code with the cost of adding features, supporting new hardware, and so on,
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by johnklos 3y ago
Am I the only one getting "Application error: a client-side exception has occurred (see the browser console for more information)." messages?
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by johnklos 3y ago
You'll see a whole bandwagon of people saying things like, "supporting old hardware is BAD! It takes time and money that nobody has!", as though someone needs to be hired to sit around and do nothing but pore over code and co
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by johnklos 3y ago
It can, but many email services won't work with IPv6-only email. It'd be a fun experiment, though. I don't think it'll work on your ZX80, though ;)
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by johnklos 3y ago
"Containerize everything", they said. "What could go wrong?" Seriously, how could anyone, ever, think that putting any sensitive information like credentials in to your environment is fine? That's just so incredibly
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by johnklos 3y ago
"Data at Rest matters." You bet it does. If you care about the security of your data, run your own server and use the VPS simply for its public IP. It's a good, lengthy article with lots of meat.
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by johnklos 3y ago
It's not so bad. It takes less than a minute to connect to most sites on a 25 MHz m68030 Amiga 3000.
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by johnklos 3y ago
Excellent! It's so interesting to see the development of a tiny browser that'll run in 16 megs in a world where contemporary browsers can use gigabytes of memory. It's also interesting to see how well they keep with SSL/
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by johnklos 3y ago
"linode/digital ocean" So you know your own problem. Just find anyone else, or smarthost through a good provider.
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by johnklos 3y ago
Smarthosting is the best solution since it prevents the necessity of being at the whim of rather shitty companies that only take action when things get really bad, like Digital Ocean.
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by johnklos 3y ago
You're naively ignoring the simplest solution: smarthost through a provider with a good reputation. You still get to control your incoming email, your filtering, you get logs of everything, you control your email at rest, and you'
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by johnklos 3y ago
Any reasonable person might. It's more secure, generally, than Google, or Microsoft, or Yahoo, if you know what you're doing, for all of not having the possibility of getting locked out of your own email for no discernible reason
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by johnklos 3y ago
This isn't the kind of thing I'd run - I'm still running old school Sendmail, IMAP-UW and Cyrus SASL - but it's good to see resources that make hosting email more accessible to everyone. There are altogether too many peo
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by johnklos 3y ago
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38330172
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by johnklos 3y ago
No, I'm afraid we can't do basic math. Nobody will ever know how long it takes for $200 a month to end up costing more than a single outlay of $2000.
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by johnklos 3y ago
You just come across as someone who is scared because you don't understand. Seriously, a facility with multiple Internet connections, adequate power and cooling, passive cooling in case of outage, protection against power failures, ade
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by johnklos 3y ago
It's an excellent response to the rather dismissive attitude that a subset of developers have about legacy anything. Too many times they don't care about portability and/or correctness, and are happy to dismiss whatever they
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by johnklos 3y ago
It's tough. I had an excellent colo provider that gave a nice discount because of all the open source stuff my servers do, that didn't have me go through layers of trained monkeys to communicate with someone technical, that commun
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by johnklos 3y ago
The person in that photo has a very Moss-esque esthetic ;) The m68881 and m68882 are very good FPUs, and m68882s have continued to be made all the way through at least 2012, apparently. I recently bought one that was made in 2012 with Motor
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by johnklos 3y ago
It wasn't the first CPU that was superscalar by far, but it was the first x86 CPU that was superscalar.

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