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by ndiddy 7mo ago
I always assumed the reason the PC had an 80x25 display was to allow for emulating the 3270 (80x24 for content and then an extra line at the bottom for the status information) so it's interesting to see that wasn't the case. >
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by ndiddy 7mo ago
For classical music it's a problem because the long track lengths mean that you'll have to flip the record over in the middle of a piece. This was enough of an annoyance that one French label in the 70s created special records jus
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by ndiddy 7mo ago
Obviously having OpenTTD available for free on Steam would jeopardize Atari's paid rerelease of Transport Tycoon Deluxe, so I think this is a good compromise. Hopefully they rigged it up so the assets from Transport Tycoon Deluxe get p
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by ndiddy 7mo ago
No inkjet printers work well when they are infrequently used. Every inkjet printer will spray ink into absorbent padding inside the printer when it goes a few days without printing in order to stop dried ink from clogging the print heads. O
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by ndiddy 7mo ago
I'd say it's neither, it's laws failing to keep pace with technological development. All the precedent around clean-room engineering implicitly assumes it'll be painstakingly done by a team of humans taking months or yea
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by ndiddy 7mo ago
Apple sold the the base model M1 Macbook Air through Walmart for $600 between when they stopped selling it directly up to early this year. It looks like this computer is about as performant as that one, so I guess they started to have troub
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by ndiddy 7mo ago
I agree with your analysis. A senator posted his notes from yesterday's private war briefing yesterday here: https://x.com/ChrisMurphyCT/status/2031531835453309125 The US leadership knows they can't dest
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by ndiddy 7mo ago
From the Github repo ( https://github.com/ExxistanceDC/Segagaga-English-Translation ), the translation went through a process called MTPE (Machine translation, post-editing). This works just like it sounds. The initial t
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by ndiddy 7mo ago
> and I don't understand why some users are boycotting the translation due to the AI used in the translation work, but that's beside the point Segagaga has a ton of obscure, referential, meta humor that isn't easily transl
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by ndiddy 7mo ago
OtherOS originally existed so Sony could claim the PS3 was a computer, which put it into a lower tariff category than a game console in Europe. They never offered it on the PS3 Slim (launched in September 2009) because by that point Sony
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by ndiddy 8mo ago
Yeah the Switch 2 (launched after Liberation Day) costs $449 in the US and 49,980 yen (~$316) in Japan. I doubt Nintendo will be lowering the price of the console outside Japan anytime soon.
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by ndiddy 8mo ago
I don't see the US doing anything about global warming regardless of who's in charge. China has won on manufacturing cheap wind/solar energy and is scaling up their cheap EV manufacturing right now. Trump is definitely accele
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by ndiddy 8mo ago
I think stacking windows make more sense in the context of the pre-OS X Macintosh UI. The Mac was built entirely around the concept of spatial manipulation. When you opened a folder, it would remember the exact position and size of its wind
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by ndiddy 8mo ago
Apple threatened to sue Microsoft when Windows 1.0 came out in 1985, but Gates responded by threatening to stop developing software for the Macintosh, pull the Macintosh software Microsoft had already developed from shelves, and refuse to r
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by ndiddy 8mo ago
> CISC only survived because CPUs now dedicate a ton of silicon to decoding the CISC stream into RISC-y microcode. For Intel CPUs, this was somewhat true starting from the Pentium Pro (1995). The Pentium M (2004) introduced a technique c
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by ndiddy 8mo ago
> Browsers, very light photo editing, and email/school/office work is general use and this will do that for the next 10 years. I'm currently running pretty much that exact use case on my M1 MBA (Firefox with 10 tabs open,
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by ndiddy 8mo ago
I think the lack of RAM kind of kills this product for general use. 8 GB of RAM with no option to get more is ridiculous in 2026. I bet they'll be very popular with whatever school districts have stuck with Apple rather than switching
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by ndiddy 8mo ago
It's definitely all circumstantial evidence, but from all the recent stuff about Cookie's Bustle we know that whoever it is: a) Is willing to at least tell the UK government that he's Keisuke Harigai (see this UK trademark re
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by ndiddy 8mo ago
Personally I believe that whoever is doing the copyright abuse either is the original developer of the game or has some sort of relationship with them. Even though the "international copyright registration" site has no real author
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by ndiddy 8mo ago
> One quirk: the software would always overshoot when reading. A STM32F205RB has 128KB of flash, but the tool would happily read past that boundary, padding everything beyond it with 0xFF. The actual flash contents within the valid 128KB
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by ndiddy 8mo ago
Yeah I'm not sure why people think that the Iranian government never considered any sort of continuity for what happens when their 86 year old ruler dies. It's not like they're ants that are all helpless without their sole su
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by ndiddy 8mo ago
Anthropic already decided to do business with the "killing people" department of the government. I think the battle was lost there, rather than whether or not they cross a line in the sand they drew to act as if they're the
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by ndiddy 8mo ago
Yeah the blog post isn't saying distillation is illegal, it's saying that it should be illegal: > These [distillation] campaigns are growing in intensity and sophistication. The window to act is narrow, and the threat exten
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by ndiddy 8mo ago
They did edit archived pages. They temporarily did a find/replace on their archive to replace "Nora Puchreiner" (an alias the site operator uses) with "Jani Patokallio" (the name of the blogger who wrote about archi
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by ndiddy 8mo ago
The archive.today operator claims on his blog that this was nothing major: https://lj.rossia.org/users/archive_today/ > Regarding the FBI’s request, my understanding is that they were seeking some form of offli
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by ndiddy 8mo ago
Has any progress been made on this? I remember seeing this proposal 3 or 4 years ago but it looks like it still hasn't been implemented. It's a shame because it seems like a useful feature. It looks like Microsoft has something si
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by ndiddy 8mo ago
You can stay on Sequoia and still get security patches. They released 15.7.4 a few days ago. https://support.apple.com/en-us/126349
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by ndiddy 8mo ago
It looks like Teamspeak covers the "group of friends who voice chat each other" use case (Discord DM groups) but not the "IRC replacement" use case (Discord servers). As far as I can tell, the licensing for Teamspeak 6 (
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by ndiddy 8mo ago
DR DOS was Digital Research's MS-DOS clone. For a while it had more features and ran better than MS-DOS. In the mid-90s, Caldera bought the rights to DR DOS so they could bundle it with their OpenLinux Linux distribution. They briefly
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by ndiddy 8mo ago
The whole thing about people getting put on the sex offender registry for public urination is a myth and there's no verifiable cases of it happening. There are two cases that are relatively close. The first is James Birch, who pled gui

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