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by mepian 2y ago
What’s interesting is that AMD used to have a fab… then it was spun off… then it gave up on keeping up with TSMC's latest nodes. Possibly for the same reasons Intel is struggling right now.
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by mepian 2y ago
Apple's shareholders would riot if the company started building its own semiconductor fabs.
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by mepian 2y ago
Can the US government nationalize Intel in the worst-case scenario?
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by mepian 2y ago
Honestly I'm more impressed by the early 80s software from the likes of Symbolics and Xerox than by modern mass-market stuff.
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by mepian 2y ago
Epic could open-source the original engine, like its former primary competitor id Software did with the old idTech engines.
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by mepian 2y ago
Maybe it didn’t fit HN's title character limit?
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by mepian 2y ago
Apparently Fortnite has two different anti-cheats, and one of them works on Linux.
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by mepian 2y ago
Strange, my PlayStation 5 controller just works on openSUSE Tumbleweed.
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Symbolics S-Dynamics manual (1985)(archive.org)
3 points by mepian 2y ago|0 comments
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by mepian 2y ago
In the early 2010s I stumbled upon a defunct Macintosh LC II or III in some office at my Russian technical university and was very surprised by that. I guess it was being used for CAD in the 90s, since the office belonged to someone from th
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by mepian 2y ago
They ignored my application.
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by mepian 2y ago
I thought we were in the context of the competition between x86 and Arm but sure, what is a non-last century ISA then? RISC-V, a very conservative rehash of an architecture from the 1980s? Realistically there are no other commercially viabl
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by mepian 2y ago
Arm was also designed last century.
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by mepian 2y ago
First, how does selling stock prevent them from doing that? Second, switching to Arm doesn't automatically give them a competitive microarchitecture for smartphones.
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by mepian 2y ago
Is it possible to reinstall it without Microsoft Store?
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by mepian 2y ago
I think behnamoh confused HN with Reddit, which was actually rewritten from Common Lisp to some other language (and the original Common Lisp version is still available in the source code form).
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by mepian 2y ago
If I remember correctly, the earliest popular thing that they permanently blocked was LinkedIn for some reason.
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by mepian 2y ago
KDE and Gnome are nowhere near the same thing, they have very different philosophies, guidelines, and underlying UI frameworks.
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by mepian 2y ago
The title is not very fitting.
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by mepian 2y ago
At least Nintendo's D-Pad patent expired. All other console manufacturers had to come up with workarounds for a long time, and sometimes they were bad (e.g. the Xbox 360 solid circle D-Pad).
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by mepian 2y ago
Persona 3 Reload maps the journal to the stick click, and I keep pressing it at worst moments while maneuvering to ambush an enemy, getting ambushed myself instead.
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by mepian 2y ago
I guess it follows the tradition where an ancient Lisp dialect was called NIL (which is how the false value was denoted back then): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NIL_(programming_language)
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Microsoft's internal memo: So Long, Intel (1992) [pdf](iowa.gotthefacts.org)
18 points by mepian 2y ago|5 comments
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by mepian 2y ago
It’s settled that it wasn’t a "carbon copy" by the spacecraft’s first actual flight. The US Space Shuttle had no such uncrewed flight capability.
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by mepian 2y ago
Where do you put windows on a space plane?
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Symbolics S-Render manual (1985)(archive.org)
5 points by mepian 2y ago|0 comments
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A modern BLISS compiler based on LLVM(gitlab.com)
2 points by mepian 2y ago|0 comments
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by mepian 2y ago
There is also a modern implementation of BLISS: https://gitlab.com/JonathanBelanger/bliss
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by mepian 2y ago
The tired cliche of comparing the subject to Bill Gates and Steve Jobs (celebrities from the later microcomputer era, one of which is not even a hardware guy) made me cringe, why not compare him instead to Ken Olsen and Wesley Clark, the me
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by mepian 2y ago
The Wikipedia page says it was actually segmented memory rather than paging as it is defined today.

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