johnklos

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by johnklos 2y ago
Intel has come a long way since butchering the Atom brand. When Atom was new, it had absolutely pitiful performance - much worse than what we got from its contemporaries, particularly considering how much power they took. It's interest
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by johnklos 2y ago
I never said that my own reasons were neither personal nor emotional. I was just pointing out that my reasons are easy to articulate. I do think it's more than just emotional, though, but most people, even technical people, haven'
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by johnklos 2y ago
> This is where you lose all credibility. People who write that, well... If you're greatly impacted by performance problems, how does that become a physics problem that has as a solution which is being closer to your users? I think
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by johnklos 2y ago
> The problem with your claims here is they can only be right if the entire industry is experiencing mass psychosis. What's the market share of Windows again? ;)
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by johnklos 2y ago
The whole push to the cloud has always fascinated me. I get it - most people aren't interested in babysitting their own hardware. On the other hand, a business of just about any size that has any reasonable amount of hosting is better
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by johnklos 2y ago
I don't think it was that bad. I think it was different, and it was confusing to compare the Tanzania systems to anything else Apple, but it wasn't a bad system by itself. I found a Motorola Starmax desktop (not tower) in the tras
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by johnklos 2y ago
I wonder if they really don't know that Apple already has a product named Time Capsule.
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by johnklos 2y ago
This is considered old? And someone thinks it doesn't have enough RAM? I still run a Bulldozer 8150 from 2012 as a full time server. RAM is dirt cheap so it has 64 gigs. This isn't even an old server by my standards, but it's
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by johnklos 2y ago
On a 25 MHz m68040 running modern NetBSD, dillo runs well, all things considered. I think many people would be surprised how usable it is.
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by johnklos 2y ago
Don't forget gopher://gopher.floodgap.com Also, there's the Floodgap Public Gopher Proxy: http://gopher.floodgap.com/gopher/
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by johnklos 2y ago
It's simply amazing what people did with the limited computing they had available to them at the time. Even when it was available, you only got an allotment of it and had to figure out how to do everything you wanted within that allotm
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by johnklos 2y ago
It's a cross compiler to compile Amiga binaries on Unix(like) OSes. A compiler for AmigaDOS binaries running on AmigaDOS would be cool, too :)
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by johnklos 2y ago
For a moment I thought someone was bringing modern gcc to AmigaDOS. ixutils and the whole Fred Fish collection of gcc and friends from the '90s was quite impressive and did an amazing job of allowing many open source programs to be com
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by johnklos 2y ago
If there isn't a law yet, there should be: if something can be done incorrectly, Microsoft will do it incorrectly multiple ways. Granted, we're a somewhat technical bunch here, so I have to ask: do regular people not know that Mic
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by johnklos 2y ago
Personally, it makes me feel young because it brings back memories of when I used older machines for the first time. Sometimes it can be a whole memory trip where I remember the first time I used a particular program, figured out a difficul
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by johnklos 2y ago
You know, there's nothing wrong with running a slow LLM. For some people, they lack the resources to run an LLM on a GPU. For others, they want to try certain models without buying thousands of dollars of equipment just to try things o
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by johnklos 2y ago
If someone says your prices will go up by a factor of five, there's very little if no chance you'll negotiate to anywhere close to the current price. Also, when someone is barely satisfied with the current offerings, something lik
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by johnklos 2y ago
Does any of us have any belief that anyone at Microsoft is cognizant enough to add a "feature" like this that won't eventually be used to brute force passwords and/or can be used as a denial of service vector? I can&#x27
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by johnklos 2y ago
Oooh! I wonder if I can find one of those. I'd love a way to see all of the Amiga screenmodes on a single display :)
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by johnklos 2y ago
I've wondered how my machines have worked without negative voltages, and this helps. Thanks! These days, a charge pump device costs just a few dollars from Ali-express, so even though things work fine this way for many things, it would
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by johnklos 2y ago
You're quite hostile! So if your hosting provider accuses you of an illegal activity, you want your hosting provider to have to take you to court. That makes perfect sense. Your idea isn't bad, but execution is. If we had to go to
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by johnklos 2y ago
Bull. Cloudflare protects these organizations. Cloudflare goes far above and beyond what most other companies do, and I personally can't wait to see Cloudflare held liable for content they host for which they ignore legitimate compla
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by johnklos 2y ago
It's a good thing that these machines don't even need -5 volts. With just the positive voltages provided, RS-422 still works, including LocalTalk. I think the -5 volts is only there in case an expansion card needs it.
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by johnklos 2y ago
No, it isn't 64 bit at all. It claims to have 64 bit vector extensions, but that's worlds different from being a 64 bit processor. It's mostly marketing fluff. The people who made Apollo claimed for ages that FPUs necessary,
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by johnklos 2y ago
His excitement is infectious. It's hard to not feel giddy at seeing it finally run after all that hard work! I can't wait to see the kinds of programs we can run on a machine like that, along with discussions about tricks when wri
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by johnklos 2y ago
This points out something we forget at times: being a fan of a thing shouldn't mean we have to suffer for it. NetBSD doesn't have GPU compute capabilities, plus browser DRM is a PITA, so I run macOS, too. If I have to choose betwe
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by johnklos 2y ago
I think the Voyager probes teach us lots about what's wrong with corporate America. Imagine devices that don't have built-in obsolescence, or licensing that expires, or that isn't built by committee where they just keep shipp
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by johnklos 2y ago
I can't imagine it's anything but a silly comment. Macs have the equivalent of wake-on-LAN, plus you can configure them trivially to restart after power loss. The idea that you'd have to press the button often is just silly.
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by johnklos 2y ago
Nobody is saying that people are expendable. I'm saying that if you're responsible for a machine that costs as much as 250 families' homes, you should know that that machinery and you should try damned hard to make it work. A
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by johnklos 2y ago
Think about it - a single plane costs anywhere from 1/8 to 1/10 of a billion dollars. Anyone flying one should try pretty darned hard to save it.

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