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by kev009 9mo ago
"I Powered My House Using 500 Disposable vapes" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dy-wFixuRVU
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by kev009 9mo ago
There a lot of discussion here https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/7412/why-... but nothing seems conclusive.. I would wager the last answer, "IBM was using 400Hz", to be most directly cau
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by kev009 9mo ago
There are very survivable fiber cables designed for stage and A/V setups for instance, and even "real" military grade ones. But the common thin LZSH stuff is surprisingly resilient in my experience, so long as it didn't
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by kev009 9mo ago
LSSM is really top notch. It's grass roots, done by volunteers that want to preserve and share experience with these machines. Most museums, I'll pick on CHM as an example but it applies to basically any metropolitan museum: by
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by kev009 10mo ago
Respectable to see this candor on how it's done, wishing much success in 2026.
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by kev009 10mo ago
> "the conclusion of an inference" Inference: article tracks accurately to other sources and reality Conclusion: no indication of simple AI slop. Fail and derail which has no bearing on the original topic of memory management n
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by kev009 10mo ago
Is this a performance art where you do the thing you accuse? "malapropism" is a five dollar word if "sequitur" is. The use tracks with the Latin or English definitions, what does any of this have to do with sequential?
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by kev009 10mo ago
The huge page article is sequitur with official documentation like https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/red_hat_enterprise_... . THP can only issue up to 2MB pages on amd64 so it's not necessarily a silve
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by kev009 10mo ago
Seemed like a pivotal time in IBM's history. IBM in 1993 was looking face to face with irrelevance during his tenure after mainframes being evergreen declared relics, and losing the bus wars in the PC industry. IBM in 2002 was still
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by kev009 10mo ago
They have some funny accounting like Google and Microsoft where everything is "cloud" but the revenue streams are certainly diversified from straight Oracle DB such that PostgreSQL equivalence or superiority does not affect the vi
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by kev009 10mo ago
Probably nobody here is an Oracle fan but the miss on sentiment like this is you could have written the same comment minus OpenAI 10 and maybe even 20 years ago.
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by kev009 11mo ago
The "philanthropy" worked on you.
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by kev009 11mo ago
Yup "could shape".. I mean this has been going on time immemorial. It was odd to see random nerds who hated Bill Gates the software despot morph into acksually he does a lot of good philanthropy in my lifetime but the floodgates a
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by kev009 11mo ago
The Megahertz wars in the 1990s made it really difficult to understand relative performance across even the same ISA like this, and I think computers with the 603 CPU were a bit of a wrench in people's perception of the Mac. The 180 or
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by kev009 11mo ago
I think GCC is the real shining example of a GPL success, it broke through a rut of high cost developer tooling in the 1990s and became the de facto compiler for UNIX and embedded BSPs (Board Support Packages) while training corporations on
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by kev009 11mo ago
You can definitely build an x86 system to route 40Gb/s with small packets for under $3k and it's been the case for many years. A Xeon-D can hit 100gbps forwarding and filtering. OpenBSD is going through a slow fine grained lockin
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by kev009 11mo ago
It's pretty clear opportunists displaced the software ideologues at Mozilla a long time ago, but I still find the products to be more palatable than alternatives. It would take a long time to burn off all relevance of Firefox and Thun
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by kev009 11mo ago
The building code is legislated and enforced by the local elected governments, so, yes. The classic Western stucco gig is to put down two layers of building paper over the cladding, styrofoam, chicken wire, a cementitious brown coat and one
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by kev009 11mo ago
I'm unable to discern what the OP means there, but any slab on grade (including driveways and pathways) is only as good as the base underneath so that absolutely should be well compressed aggregate and you may have to pull out a lot of
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by kev009 11mo ago
If you want to realize that the USA is a republic, building will teach you quickly. Normatives and standards are localized. Stucco is the default in the Southwest, especially in the temperate climates. Most lower density commercial nation
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by kev009 11mo ago
I realize this is a little mean, but if you fashion yourself "competent" in white-collar things it has no or negative relation to a building project, at least in the US (I realize trade culture is different around the world). You
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by kev009 11mo ago
I've been squeezed a bit hard since then so not yet. I did get a couple DC power supplies that will have enough to at least get the AM and a few other shelves up, so if things slow down over the holidays I may try to image the disks f
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by kev009 11mo ago
The more I study the 5E I see it as a multicomputer or distributed system. The minicomputers were responsible for OAM and orchestrating the symphony over time, but the communications are happening across the CM which implements the Time&#x
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by kev009 11mo ago
Author and surprised to see this here but happy to see interest in these historical machines. I will also plug Connections Museum who have an already neat installation in Seattle and are working on their own 5ESS recovery for display at a n
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by kev009 11mo ago
Yup, the most desirable RISC systems are in the four figure range these days. SGIs have a zealous collector community and a long tail of applications like simulators keeping up demand.
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by kev009 11mo ago
C11 has a mutex API (threads.h), so why would it rely on POSIX? Are you sure it's not an runtime detail on one platform? https://devblogs.microsoft.com/cppblog/c11-threads-in-visual...
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by kev009 11mo ago
I would say SunOS (i.e. pre Solaris SysV and not including it) was the quality bearer for UNIX in that era. Particularly once they did the Unified Buffer Cache; HP-UX was never able to accomplish this and it makes it not an ideal file serv
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by kev009 1y ago
It probably works as an economic argument. Readers of this site and many in first world countries have limited barriers to buy new equipment and there are low cost options. Elsewhere that may not be true, either the low cost equipment is
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by kev009 1y ago
Some interesting trivia, Netflix' cofounder Marc Randolf spent time at Borland. RAD Studio is kind of the closet experience to VB6 where you simply drop controls on a form and can easily wire it up.. with a much better language. The to
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by kev009 1y ago
Is there a way to get acceptable performance out of these without resizable BAR now? To retromod older business desktops.

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