johnklos

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by johnklos 4y ago
These machines have several things that we don't see much these days: "Made in USA", which the author mentions, a CPU that takes so little power that it doesn't require a heat sink, and a low power design that means the
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by johnklos 4y ago
ECC is good, and I genuinely wish it were more common. Thankfully, Ryzen CPUs support ECC by default (except for pre-7000 series with integrated graphics that aren't "Pro" versions), so long as the motherboard does, too (like
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by johnklos 4y ago
Putting aside all the drama surrounding the contested ownership of the rights to AmigaOS, I think it's amazing that I could install new 3.2 ROMs in an Amiga 3000, in 2022, install AmigaOS 3.2.1, install a TCP/IP stack, then instal
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by johnklos 4y ago
Rarely do I feel sympathy for large companies, but Netflix is right here. Let's see... we pay our ISPs for access to the Internet. Netflix pays network providers for bandwidth for their servers all over the planet. Everyone is getting
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by johnklos 4y ago
I can imagine registering every person on the planet with the state.
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by johnklos 4y ago
There are definitely times where it'd be convenient to have a physically tiny serial terminal. Heck, if the parts are cheap enough, I'd even get several and dedicate them to certain bits of hardware. The keyboard, though, has to b
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by johnklos 4y ago
We know that Apple doesn't release half-assed products, so we know that when they're ready to release the Mac Pro replacement, it'll most likely be impressive. I wonder if we'll see expandable memory, which might be done
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by johnklos 4y ago
It's interesting that Bing Chat was able to recognize its own shortcomings. Perhaps a more useful query might be: Please find benchmark results which compare the i7-12700H's efficiency cores with its performance cores.
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by johnklos 4y ago
Both instances can communicate with the PostgreSQL database, even at the same time, and upgrades would just happen to one, so if / when there are issues, there'd still always be at least one working. End users generally wouldn&#x2
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by johnklos 4y ago
Keeping a Ruby environment happy is not trivial. Anything which is considered production really should have two separate environments - one that works, and one that is being used to test updates. Only when the test one is verified to work s
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by johnklos 4y ago
Dana long championed the perfection that is the Quadra 605, and even got a PowerPC emulator running on it, then booted Mac OS X! It was a fraction of the size of its contemporaries, could have an FPU with a simple m68040 swap, could run at
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by johnklos 4y ago
I have no idea why you think the opposite, but it makes perfect sense that web-centric things be disallowed in a website competition. The contest is about content, not about tools.
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by johnklos 4y ago
I've wondered about other providers. I never used SurfShark, but someone I know did, so I checked it out. I still haven't gotten any response from SurfShark about why they insist that users install a root SSL certificate and why t
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by johnklos 4y ago
I use it (Mullvad, specifically) to download videos I want to watch that online services make too onerous to purchase easily.
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by johnklos 4y ago
A contest isn't about teaching the people running the contest new tools. The contest is about different groups (or people) competing on a level playing field. Also, nobody ever said that design can't be, or shouldn't be compl
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by johnklos 4y ago
It's extremely frustrating when people CHOOSE to not understand something. On the other hand, it's bad to assume that because "everyone uses it", it's OK. Having dealt with people who send code as HTML email with qu
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by johnklos 4y ago
You can't forward email to Gmail - they'll blame your server for forwarded spam regardless of everything else being correctly set up. This is true to an extent for other providers, too. The simplest solution is to set up IMAP on y
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by johnklos 4y ago
I don't think swap over dialup would be usable ;)
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by johnklos 4y ago
Someone should design a modern replacement ethernet interface.
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by johnklos 4y ago
Very, very, very cool and informative! It's an excellent reminder of how much we take gobs of memory for granted. I never knew about issues with ethernet interfaces being too busy, so this finally explains things I saw way back when an
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by johnklos 4y ago
Of course, but giving up and just accepting the fact that you're on their blocklists does more harm to you in the long run, in my opinion, than just asking someone to forward an email. If that's what you want, then of course that&
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by johnklos 4y ago
I wrote what I wrote in an unclear way: "you're not correct about Spamhaus and being forced to use Google / Apple" What I meant is that you weren't necessarily correct about Spamhaus, nor correct about being forced
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by johnklos 4y ago
It's a shame that Twitter's staff has been cut so much that nobody there has the time or wherewithal to handle issues like these. It's like a dating site that famously wouldn't let people write that they're from Mid
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by johnklos 4y ago
Your efforts are commendable, but you're not correct about Spamhaus and being forced to use Google / Apple. For starters, nobody is ever forced to use a web browser with email. I'm OK with the fact that pine will parse some o
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by johnklos 4y ago
I was hoping for something more akin to what the word "building" usually implies - something a bit more physical. If nothing else, the author made a box for it ;) The RockPro64 is a good board with lots of expandability. I run Net
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by johnklos 4y ago
> cheaper No, you can't, unless you know of some source of retail priced Raspberry Pi 4s. In some basic tests (compiling, ffmpeg), the Pi 4 and the Rock Pro 64 are within a small percentage of difference in performance.
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by johnklos 4y ago
I think part of this could be fixed if Github, which seems to be the most used, lowest common denominator, had bug report mechanisms that were the equivalent of: "This bug report has been reviewed and can't continue without more i
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by johnklos 4y ago
Or you could set up a Raspberry Pi with NetBSD/aarch64eb and just let it take its time.
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by johnklos 4y ago
That's an interesting take. It seems like a modern slant on the old trope of "all the world's a VAX", then "who cares if it's not i386?", and now, "of course it's portable - we support both kinds
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by johnklos 4y ago
1) I wouldn't say they dominate the wifi chip market. They're not particularly power efficient, but they're often part of the package that one gets when one gets Intel chipsets. 2) "Dominating" in CPU chipsets is...

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