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721.
by mepian 6y ago
All of the assets of the last owner of this IP were seized by the Canadian government: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp_Machines#GigaMos_Systems
722.
PlayStation Inventor Starts New Career Making Robots for No Pay(bloomberg.com)
1 points by mepian 6y ago|0 comments
723.
by mepian 6y ago
Does this teenager play computer games? Some games have modding tools that serve as a great entry point for this endeavor, like Minecraft or Skyrim. EDIT: If you actually meant hardware engineering, then I can recommend this fun introductio
724.
by mepian 6y ago
Neuralink is a very interesting effort, but with brain-computer interfaces there is an elephant in the room that seems to be brushed off or overlooked all the time: the security of computers that get connected to your brain. You don't
725.
Unity Joins the Blender Development Fund as a Patron Member(blender.org)
188 points by mepian 6y ago|19 comments
726.
Arm co-founder: Sale to Nvidia would be a disaster(bbc.com)
478 points by mepian 6y ago|301 comments
727.
MP for Cambridge urges the UK government to buy ARM(twitter.com)
10 points by mepian 6y ago|1 comments
728.
The Making of Half-Life: Alyx(store.steampowered.com)
2 points by mepian 6y ago|0 comments
729.
by mepian 7y ago
Doesn't Pixar mostly run Linux? [0][1] And if I remember correctly, before Linux they were an SGI shop. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9ikzGQW0ys [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnFSVx7NhmM
730.
by mepian 7y ago
The Alpha was running both Unix (Digital UNIX aka OSF/1 AXP aka Tru64 UNIX) and Windows up until 2000 RC1. Even Linux was officially supported in the last years.
731.
Russia's Church Blesses Nuclear Weapons, Some Clergy Want to Stop(vice.com)
3 points by mepian 7y ago|0 comments
732.
by mepian 7y ago
Interesting, the explanation that it stands for "NeXT Software, Inc" that came up in the parent thread seems plausible.
733.
by mepian 7y ago
As far as I know, "NS" actually stands for "NeXT and Sun", and the original prefix before OPENSTEP was "NX".
734.
by mepian 7y ago
McCLIM's native Windows backend is in a very early stage of development, if not abandoned. You can use McCLIM on Windows with an X server, e.g. VcXsrv or Xming.
735.
Huawei Aims for Desktop PC Market with Motherboard for Kunpeng 920 ARMv8 CPUs(tomshardware.com)
2 points by mepian 7y ago|0 comments
736.
The Final Hours of Half-Life: Alyx – Behind Closed Doors at Valve(youtube.com)
4 points by mepian 7y ago|0 comments
737.
by mepian 7y ago
The birth rates seem to be declining in the developed countries, to the point where we might have to worry about underpopulation rather than overpopulation as the markets stop growing and the older part of the population begins to strain we
738.
Blizzard VP wants blitzchung’s suspension ‘reduced more or eliminated’(washingtonpost.com)
6 points by mepian 7y ago|1 comments
739.
It’s Been Done Before(pointersgonewild.com)
1 points by mepian 7y ago|0 comments
740.
Russia's major semiconductor manufacturer declared bankrupt(rapsinews.com)
2 points by mepian 7y ago|0 comments
741.
by mepian 7y ago
I wonder whether the Media Lab is going to be shut down after the recent revelations, or the MIT administration is going to pretend that nothing happened.
742.
Libre RISC-V Open-Source Effort Now Looking at POWER Instead of RISC-V(phoronix.com)
14 points by mepian 7y ago|0 comments
743.
by mepian 7y ago
I managed to delete my account without submitting ID, and so did some other people on Twitter, so I'm not sure if they really mitigated this. It's possible that the reports about the technical difficulties were overblown.
744.
‘The Internal Silence Is Deafening,’ Blizzard Employee Re: China Controversy(vice.com)
5 points by mepian 7y ago|0 comments
745.
by mepian 7y ago
Can someone please share the actual paper? Sci-Hub fails to retrieve it either by DOI or by the Nature link.
746.
by mepian 7y ago
It's okay to flaunt your ignorance if you can claim that your peers are ignorant as well, I guess. Knoppix was one of the first, if not the first, popular live CD distributions.
747.
Knoppix 8.6 abandons systemd(techrepublic.com)
160 points by mepian 7y ago|185 comments
748.
by mepian 7y ago
Nothing at all.
749.
by mepian 7y ago
The macros support is a pretty big deal.
750.
by mepian 7y ago
I don't know how "Windows on NOT Intel" was antithetic to Gates way of thinking when Windows NT was running on most major RISC platforms while they were still relevant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windo

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