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by kjs3 2mo ago
Noone uses an 8051 because it's elegant. Billions are still still sold every year because no matter if you learned it in the 70s or last week and no matter who made it, the basics are exactly alike. Software matters; ISAs don't.
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by kjs3 2mo ago
I don't think I've read a more "doesn't actually know anything about how software is produced, but with absolute confidence knows everything about it" post in a very long time.
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by kjs3 2mo ago
I think MIPS is a great example, and even there I don't think there's the bizarre bifurcation of ISA options RISC-V brings to the table. As a fellow olderster, I can't help but think that after almost 50 years of "ISA X
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by kjs3 2mo ago
Yeah...risc-v can learn from 50 years of x86 (among others). And yet.......
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by kjs3 2mo ago
I would like to assume that people aren't generally so ignorant of how insurance works that they think the risk of eating two big macs a week could be accurately priced in and that insurance companies would not just use the fact of eat
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by kjs3 2mo ago
Unless the other major parties show up for the next by election.
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by kjs3 2mo ago
Where it gets "you really should care about this" are things like your insurance carrier using this sort of data (which is for sale to all comers) to, say, increase your premiums under the guise of "your 2 Big Mac a week ha
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by kjs3 2mo ago
A VAR I worked with back in the day made great scratch for a good number of years flogging MS SQLServer on Alpha for the performance boost, which was apparently more than enough to justify the price premium for those that needed it.
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by kjs3 2mo ago
John Mashey?
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by kjs3 2mo ago
Pretty cheap and pretty slow, relative to other Alphas. The various ATX-sized PC164s motherboards were the ones that should have sealed the deal for Digital, but intel had PPro at about the same time, with similar performance, less cost an
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by kjs3 2mo ago
It's the internet. Don't feed the trolls. Or the loons.
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by kjs3 2mo ago
It's not satire. They just really wanted to tell us all how very, very special they are, not one of the little people...sorry...statistical masses. Someone never got over reading Atlas Shrugged.
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by kjs3 2mo ago
Various types of 'lumpiness' in the observable universe are huge topics of research.
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by kjs3 2mo ago
And you don't use an o-scope in anycase, since you'd need...what...a thousand of them to watch all the signals. You'd use a logic analyzer. I think I read somewhere that those older nvidia chips had something like 2000 BGA
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by kjs3 2mo ago
The only thing surprising about that is someone might be held accountable. Maybe good news?
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by kjs3 2mo ago
Wouldn't surprise me. It's an endless stream of ruthlessly annoying, seizure inducing 'games' seemingly trying to one-up each other as to how over the top silly their visuals and audio track can be while having virtuall
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by kjs3 2mo ago
I dug out the Wii I bought for my daughter for my 6yo grandson. He thinks it's great...it's about the only thing that he'll put down Roblox for.
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by kjs3 2mo ago
It's the 'other' major processor that shipped with register windows along with SPARC and i960. Very popular in the embedded world.
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by kjs3 2mo ago
Hurd is a 'Linux killer' in the same way TempleOS is.
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by kjs3 2mo ago
There are lots of platforms where RAM is tiered, and operating systems that support it. For example, CLX allows for a "NUMA node without CPU" abstraction; there was a HN article recently about Facebook cooking up their own silico
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by kjs3 2mo ago
Um...while not "OG Windows" I guess, PowerPC was an officially supported and shipping Windows NT 3.51 & 4 target[1]. It was released a couple of years before XP 64-bit for itanic. SPARC was a planned NT port, and while it ne
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by kjs3 2mo ago
Er...the 50MT device was a cold war dick measuring stunt, not the demonstration of a practical strategic weapon. But, yeah, we (the US) don't even build 1MT devices any more, because 1) we have to fit them into submarines and bombers
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by kjs3 2mo ago
AI driven/automated farming for kharma will only get worse...
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by kjs3 2mo ago
The GP specifically said they weren't looking for some overpriced 'enthusiast' nonsense. Did you really spent $1700 for that thing? Did you get the gold plated, oxygen free cables and noise canceling dot stickers at the sam
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by kjs3 3mo ago
People who built a business model around stealing other peoples stuff are vewy, vewy upset that someone has built a business model around stealing their stuff. Oh no! Anyway.....
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by kjs3 3mo ago
Cleopatra was a Ptolemaic Greek descendant in a family so obsessed with blood purity that they married brothers to sisters to avoid mixing with 'native' Egiptians. You make the call.
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by kjs3 3mo ago
Gamer marketing for you. Which I fell for. Fool me once and all that...
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by kjs3 3mo ago
The last one I remember is plugging a Razer mouse Oh, yeah. Bought this overpriced but heavily hyped Razer mouse and it wouldn't even work right until it had an internet connection. A MOUSE. I'd never encountered something so
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by kjs3 3mo ago
I haven't pulled the trigger on the Xteink because of the back/front light missing, but probably will when they're back in stock. I'll check out the pocketbook as well...thanks for the tip.
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by kjs3 3mo ago
Because IBM mainframes give the right answers.

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