johnklos

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by johnklos 1y ago
> and the difference in number of transistors is 1,250 times I should've written per core .
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by johnklos 1y ago
One of the biggest problems with CPUs is legacy. Tie yourself to any legacy, and now you're spending millions of transistors to make sure some way that made sense ages ago still works. Just as a thought experiment, consider the fact th
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by johnklos 1y ago
I'm truly surprised that later versions of AIX like 4.3 can't be run on the ANS. How different is the close-to-Power-Mac hardware from real IBM hardware? I wonder... This reminds me that I need to recap my close-to-ANS hardware Po
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by johnklos 1y ago
> They definitely could have made avx512 instructions trigger a switch to p-cores, That'd be an OS thing. This is a problem that has been solved in the mainframe / supercomputing world and which was discussed in the BSD world a
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by johnklos 1y ago
A square that's one thousand units by one thousand units doesn't give a rational number, much less an integer one, for the diagonal. A 9" CRT would never be precisely 9", because beam trace width and height are analog, p
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by johnklos 1y ago
The title is incorrect, because b&w Macs have 512×342 resolution, not 512x324. It wouldn't've been too crazy had Apple went with 64K x 4 chips, so they'd've just needed four of them to get 128 KB at a full 16 bits wi
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by johnklos 1y ago
I don't think software engineers were independently looking at emissions data and unilaterally decided to "fix" the emissions shortcomings in software. I think they were told by others to do that. It's good that Germany
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by johnklos 1y ago
Imagine being filthy rich and thinking, "You know what? I'm going to risk going to jail to do illegal things because I'm not rich enough." Why is this so common?
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by johnklos 1y ago
Mozilla continues to appear to not get the philosophies behind open source. If they really wanted to help people and not simply try to get market share and make money, they'd examine ways to make Pocket itself open source, including th
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by johnklos 1y ago
Does it surprise anyone that Verizon's Department of Evil would lie, cheat, bribe, steal, or otherwise do whatever it can to not be held to account for its agreements? I'm not surprised, just as I won't be surprised if Verizo
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by johnklos 1y ago
> How long Netatalk will be able to support AFP remains to be seen however, since it too is based on the protocol itself. Since Apple removed native core AFP support from macOS, even third-party AFP products may no longer work. > AFP
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by johnklos 1y ago
Considering that we've moved from wire wrapping to being able to design and order multi-layer circuit boards, and we've gone from 74 series and basic PALs to CPLDs and FPGAs that regular people can program, I don't think what
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by johnklos 1y ago
When I was young, I'd use an AM radio right next to my Sinclair ZX81 to hear what it was doing when it was running in FAST mode. By making loops of different speeds, one could even make basic tones and crude music. The video really bro
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by johnklos 1y ago
This is a very basic article telling people how to install and use rsync, but it's behind a paywall. In other words, it's pretty much useless here.
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by johnklos 1y ago
I really wish Troy would've put a little more thought in to this before deciding to host using a for-profit corporation based in the US that wants to be a monopoly. Will Cloudflare sell data to US TLA agencies? Probably.
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by johnklos 1y ago
I've seen situations like these before. This is why off-site backups are so very important. I've also been in the same position of providing data from a backup that someone was intentionally trying to destroy to escape responsibil
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by johnklos 1y ago
The solution is simple: go back in time and get legislation passed to mandate the release of source code for devices that the original manufacturer no longer intends to support. That might be imposssible right now, and not just because of t
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by johnklos 1y ago
Cloudflare hosts ivesoccer.sx.
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by johnklos 1y ago
Compiling rust on a 32 bit system is a several year old issue. Enough of us made a fuss about it that the rust build system was fixed enough that this became possible again. If rust doesn't compile on an i386 system with 4 gigs of memo
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by johnklos 1y ago
How does this work? Certain shitty email providers, like Gmail, will consider a forwarding email server the source of spam when their spam filter doesn't like what's forwarded.
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by johnklos 1y ago
Which is why i80386 was dropped even though memory instructions could be prefixed with "LOCK" to make them atomic, so cmpxchg equivalent could be done. So dropping the i80386 wasn't necessary, and saying it was because of the
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by johnklos 1y ago
You're making my point for me, in a roundabout way. These are handwavy excuses, not valid reasons.
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by johnklos 1y ago
I used to belong to Reddit's r/Diesel subreddit. I own a 40+ year old car with a small Diesel engine, and I hoped to trade advice, parts sources, tips, and so on. A good number of the posts are about people squalking about "f
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by johnklos 1y ago
The minimum requirements for a portable OS on 32 bit hardware really doesn't need to be anything more than: * 32 bit CPU * relatively recent toolchain support * MMU * memory, storage, I/O In the last couple of decades, we've
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by johnklos 1y ago
Temperature? Really? How does that work?
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by johnklos 1y ago
Your point is taken, but if things are crashing because your CPU is running at 100%, you either have an Intel CPU or you have other hardware problems. There should be no issue running a CPU at 100% 24/7/365 indefinitely.
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by johnklos 1y ago
"This move is part of a broader effort by Canonical to improve the resilience and maintainability of core system components." Somehow "maintainability" has never been something I'd ever associate with Ubuntu. Is it
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by johnklos 1y ago
People who know me know that even though I'm very public (my handle and my email address are my name, for instance), I care about privacy, and therefore it's unacceptable to post abount me on corporate social media without asking
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by johnklos 1y ago
Imagine explaining this to someome in 1995: "In thirty years our computers will have sixteen threads of execution at 4.5 GHz each, with 4 IPC or better, along with 16 gigabytes of memory that can move data at 50 gigabytes a second. Pra
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by johnklos 1y ago
It's a sales writeup: "Japan unveils world’s first solar super-panel: More powerful than 20 nuclear reactors" How can a "super-panel" be more powerful than twenty nuclear reactors? By letting salespeople write stuff

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