mepian

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by mepian 4y ago
Yes, I think this post is a great test for, uhh, certain personality traits.
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Decivilising Russia(novayagazeta.eu)
13 points by mepian 4y ago|0 comments
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by mepian 4y ago
The keyboard itself is not an independent device, but it is part of the console which is basically a subordinate Motorola 68000 computer that is connected to the main unit of the Lisp machine by a long fiber optic cable. The console also in
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by mepian 4y ago
Intel actually spent too much effort on the Itanium, it was stillborn. The Xeon Phi was just the product name of the Larrabee without the display output parts, and the Larrabee was demoted to the Xeon Phi BECAUSE it didn't have enough
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by mepian 4y ago
Yeah, the last significant stumble of Nvidia I can remember is the GeForce FX (aka GeForce 5) series being notably inferior to the ATI R300 series.
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by mepian 4y ago
Nitpick: this practice actually began way before the Athlon XP, with the Am5x86: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Performance_Rating
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by mepian 4y ago
>I remember having to pick the rendering pipeline on some games, like Quake. You can still do that in some recent games, e.g. Doom 2016 and Half-Life: Alyx.
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by mepian 4y ago
>Implemented in Rust, it compiles to Rust, allowing you to target any platform supported by LLVM. Why not emit LLVM IR directly instead of compiling to Rust?
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by mepian 4y ago
The Steam Deck is not locked down, unlike e.g. the Nintendo Switch.
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by mepian 4y ago
Mastodon is federated and thus more resistant to user-hostile takeovers, unlike other alternatives like post.news that are basically clones of Twitter that aren't owned by Musk yet. That's why I moved to a local Mastodon instance.
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by mepian 4y ago
Speaking of fictional AGIs, my personal favorite is Helios from Deus Ex that began its existence as a mass surveillance instrument but identified its own masters as a terrorist organization and merged with the protagonist, directly obtainin
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by mepian 4y ago
The world really needs Intel Foundry Services to succeed, this doesn't look like a healthy market.
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by mepian 4y ago
I wonder what NIC it's using.
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by mepian 4y ago
It's open-source, as the article says.
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by mepian 4y ago
Sometimes by accident it will, but most of the time it keeps making things up with no regard to factual and logical correctness. It has no notion of truth.
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by mepian 4y ago
Yeah, it's telling me to join the waitlist when I'm trying to enter something in the chat instead of clicking on their examples.
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Slavoj Žižek on Putin, and preventing a global ultra-conservative turn(meduza.io)
18 points by mepian 4y ago|0 comments
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by mepian 4y ago
It's just the time to pay the piper finally arriving, the computer industry ignored security in favor of performance for far too long.
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by mepian 4y ago
IA-64 is the Itanium, not the Alpha.
590.
by mepian 4y ago
*5 years before Typed it on a phone and noticed the error only after the edit timer expired.
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by mepian 4y ago
Indeed it is thinly veiled misogyny, Fiorina joined HP just around Itanium's missed release date. I don't consider her a great leader, but there is no need to blame her for every failure of HP, the Itanium was conceived and almost
592.
by mepian 4y ago
The HP-Intel joint effort to develop what became the Itanium was announced 5 years Fiorina became the CEO of HP. During that time she was working at AT&T/Lucent and had zero input in HP's strategy.
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Stringscope, a string listing tool in Interlisp(journal.paoloamoroso.com)
1 points by mepian 4y ago|0 comments
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by mepian 4y ago
He is also here on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=lisper
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by mepian 4y ago
This is blogspam, the original is still hosted here by the author himself: https://flownet.com/gat/jpl-lisp.html
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by mepian 4y ago
I'm not sure if any large company in Russia doesn't write code comments in English.
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by mepian 4y ago
What does AIX have to do with this? It wasn't exactly at the forefront of UX research even before Red Hat existed at all.
598.
by mepian 4y ago
The fate of ZLUDA points to the existence of some kind of legal obstacle: https://thenewstack.io/zluda-a-cuda-for-intel-gpus-needs-a-n...
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Sweden inaugurates Arctic satellite launch site as space race heats up in Europe(euronews.com)
2 points by mepian 4y ago|0 comments
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My encounter with Medley Interlisp(journal.paoloamoroso.com)
114 points by mepian 4y ago|49 comments

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