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by mikepavone 1y ago
This is a small point, but calling the 33-byte unit a sector in CDDA is a bit misleading and probably incorrect for the quantity being labeled. This is a channel data frame and contains 24-bytes of audio data, 1 byte of subcode data (except
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by mikepavone 2y ago
> The Xbox 360 doubled down on this while the PS3 tried to do clever things with an innovative architecture. I don't think this is really an accurate description of the 360 hardware. The CPU was much more conventional than the PS3,
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by mikepavone 2y ago
> I think the problem in a nutshell is that it's not trivial(?) to build an executable on a modern Linux distro that links against an old glibc version number (and if it is trivial then it needs to be better communicated). I wouldn&
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by mikepavone 2y ago
> It's the exception which is why it's talked about the most. It's definitely not the only exception. libgl is another obvious example since different GPUs need different userland code. I would be surprised if there there
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by mikepavone 2y ago
The PEP-600 [0] Rationale section touches on this a bit. The basic problem is that there are things beyond glibc that would be nice to use from the environment for a number of reasons (security updates, avoiding clashes between multiple whe
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by mikepavone 2y ago
So of the 3 glibc issues they link - one is about the format of symbol information in the actual ELF binaries which is only an issue if you are not using the standard libc functions for looking up symbols for some strange reason - one is an
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by mikepavone 2y ago
My general feeling is that folks tend to have somewhat unreliable memories about how early certain things got cheap. Catalogs are not perfect, but they don't change over time. That said, I managed to find a Computer Shopper from August
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by mikepavone 2y ago
> By the time you added a monitor and a hard drive to get the system you really wanted, it cost closer to $1,000. At that price, you could get an off-brand PC with a VGA monitor. So I decided to check some prices in 1992 computer catalog
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by mikepavone 2y ago
> is this actually useful without a cartridge slot? It has 2 of them actually. One standard one on the back and an internal one that I think doesn't use the standard connector that is intended for hardware expansion. Despite what th
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FCC Investigates Radio Station over Coverage of Immigration Raid(cato.org)
10 points by mikepavone 2y ago|0 comments
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by mikepavone 2y ago
If you like the PDP11 instruction set, then you'll probably enjoy 68000 as well. It drew a lot of inspiration from the former. You lose the "deferred" addressing modes (though the 68020 adds something similar), but gain acces
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by mikepavone 2y ago
Yeah. If you want to teach someone to implement a CPU, then the sort of simplicity the 6502 brings to the table is useful, but it's definitely not the most straightforward CPU to write code for. The 68000 instruction set is very C-like
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by mikepavone 2y ago
For those unaware, this was probably posted today because the origin of Lyme disease came up in RFK, Jr.'s Senate confirmation hearings today. He was asked if he had indeed claimed that "Lyme disease is a highly likely militarily
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by mikepavone 2y ago
In particular, it has reporting on the chain back to Exxon and that the FBI is investigating the PR firm involved. The original CitizenLab article is more thorough, but only identifies the hack-for-hire group and the Indian company it opera
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by mikepavone 2y ago
For what it's worth, the existing Genesis/Mega Drive titles here generally contain the actual ROM. It's generally the cheapest way to get a legitimate copy of these games for use in an emulator. I realize a lot of folks proba
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by mikepavone 2y ago
If you mean in the literal sense that we will still have elections, then sure. But Hungary is a great example of why getting rid of elections is not necessary. You just need to stack the deck so it's almost impossible for your opponent
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by mikepavone 2y ago
I am very unfamiliar with the protocol, but my impression from a little reading is that the sharing computer broadcasts and the receiver listens. This appears to be for some CUPS specific browsing/discovery protocol rather than mDNS&#x
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by mikepavone 2y ago
cupsd is configured to listen locally, but cups-browsed has to listen on the network to do its job (network printer auto-discovery)
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by mikepavone 2y ago
I believe it's implementing DNS-SD for network printer auto-discovery. I'm not terribly familiar with DNS-SD, but given that normal DNS is UDP based it would be unsurprising for DNS-SD to also use UDP.
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by mikepavone 2y ago
On my Ubuntu 22.04 machine, cupsd itself is only listening on localhost, but cups-browsed (which is what has the vulnerability here) is listening on 0.0.0.0
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by mikepavone 2y ago
> An important non-obvious detail for AMD is that they (at least in the past, I assume for this as well) have kept the instruction timings similar from generation to generation of consoles. What? The Jaguar-based CPU in the PS4 has both
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by mikepavone 2y ago
There's also this open source design: https://gitlab.com/doragasu/sms-sl2map It doesn't handle all the features of the standard mapper so not compatible with all games, but it's designed to be cheap to m
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by mikepavone 2y ago
While the Panthor kernel driver itself is open source, it seems to require this firmware [0] which doesn't look very open source to me. [0] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmwa
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by mikepavone 2y ago
> Your only option there is to destroy a Monopoly or After Burner. Not sure what you mean. krikzz sells a Master Everdrive if you want something suitable for multiple games. If you want a single game cartridge for a homebrew release, ra
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by mikepavone 2y ago
> Meet and Zoom–my understanding is video bitrates for those services are lower than for e.g. Netflix For a given quality, bitrate will generally be higher in RTC apps (though quality may be lower in general depending on the context and
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by mikepavone 2y ago
An audio CD is mostly arranged like a single continuous recording. Tracks are added on top of this via the Q subcode channel that gives information about the current location and the ToC stored in the lead-in area (also using the Q subcode
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by mikepavone 2y ago
That's about 160 ms of audio per packet. That's a lot of latency to add before you even hit the network
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by mikepavone 2y ago
Only the T34C is a turboprop. It appears Anders had a T34A which is equipped with a piston engine.
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by mikepavone 2y ago
They turned on native IPv6 end of last year, at least in some areas (including Berkeley where I live). You wouldn't know it from their help pages, but there are some post in the forum to that effect.
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by mikepavone 2y ago
I love my Bolt, but it's not a sedan. That said, it's not terribly surprising GM is not interested in making an electric sedan given that it's been declining in popularity over time. Ford isn't even making any sedans at

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