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by rasz 7mo ago
Retail SDR SDRAM prices from that time period. "128MB DIMM: May 1997 $300. July 1998 $150. July 1999 $99. September 1999 Jiji earthquake happens. September-December 1999 $300. May 2000 $89. Then overproduction combined with dot-com boo
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by rasz 7mo ago
$99 never obsolete offer was very clever considering they probably had access to longer Intel roadmap. Starting with 1998 Intel was releasing Celerons with cheapest one always around $100. Even the earliest "never obsolete" system
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by rasz 7mo ago
>claims minister was in touch with Moscow Its about Hungarys Foreign Minister, of course he was in touch with moscow duh. He visited moscow 16 times since invasion of Ukraine. The whole thing is not about "being in touch", its
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by rasz 7mo ago
During P4 Intel kept their footing with bribes. Article touches on this "Some companies, notably Dell, remained Intel-only well into the 21st century," Dell was receiving $1Billion a year in bribes from Intel https://24
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by rasz 7mo ago
Quake DX2 framerate is 5-7 depending on rest of the setup.
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by rasz 7mo ago
Things started progressing so fast in mid nineties that brand new top of the line computer was being matched in performance by low end offerings 2 years later. Lasted up to late 2000. December 1998 $85 Celeron 300A handily beating June 97 $
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by rasz 7mo ago
Went with wrong board house. JLC seems to run 6 layer promo for 2 years now. This board is $36 for 5, $100 gets you 50 pcbs.
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by rasz 7mo ago
Sure, but then you need CPU that is twice as fast :). Playstation did it by pushing geometry calculations to GTE.
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by rasz 7mo ago
I find first version https://github.com/petrmikheev/endeavour much more impressive. Dude somehow managed to get 100MHz DDR1 ram working on 2 layer board with no ground reference :o Its one of those things you only atte
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by rasz 7mo ago
Lebanon is about UN Security Council Resolution 1701 and 20 years on it not being enforced. UNIFIL failed spectacularly, looks like Israel decided to enforce it themselves. https://newlinesmag.com/spotlight/in-lebanon-t
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by rasz 7mo ago
Voodoo 16bit was nicely dithered. TNT 16bit was ugly while 32bit looked good by sacrificing ~30-50% of performance. Nvidia was very smart to advertise 16 bit performance _and_ 32bit quality at the same time :) 3dfx were stupid not to includ
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by rasz 7mo ago
$299 release price, down to ~$$199 in 1997 when Glide games started dropping. Consider Virge was aslo $300 and offered pathetic performance.
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by rasz 7mo ago
Everyone knows by now he TACOs.
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by rasz 7mo ago
PIOs might be heavier on hardware resources >The BIO uses 14597 cells, while the PIO uses 39087 cells and BIO might reach higher clock speeds > when ported to an ASIC flow, the clock rate achieved by the BIO is over 4x that of a PIO i
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by rasz 7mo ago
previously https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47304934
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by rasz 7mo ago
On the up side i3 are great second hand bargain at current ~$5K price point.
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by rasz 7mo ago
Afaik in pcb editor default, as in just mouse click and drag, is Move all selected elements and nothing else. Drag with tracks is on D or right click menu. While dragging tracks does trigger Shove mode dragging components does not :(
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by rasz 7mo ago
>ability to blow up anything they want around their country Only places that falsely believed to be immune due to being of same blood, like Qatar. >Replace Khamenei with his son - a guy who had all of his family blown up to pieces by
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by rasz 7mo ago
Hey, I heard that exact argument many times before used when talking about pre 2024 Syria.
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by rasz 7mo ago
I read that in Excel on my Nokia 9210
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by rasz 7mo ago
You do realize Iran was supplying shahed drones for 4 years now? Ukraine was hit with almost 60000 of those drones, vast majority targeting civilian population in clear terrorist attacks. Iran was always a party to the russian war.
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by rasz 7mo ago
You are assuming those will be made from real gold.
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by rasz 7mo ago
PulseAudio dragged linux to replacing that stinkin pile of garbage with PipeWire.
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by rasz 7mo ago
Ras Laffan LNG complex in Qatar Ras Tanura oil refinery in Saudi drone attacks on Saudi oil fields Ruwais refinery in Abu Dhabi Shah gas field in Abu Dhabi port of Fujairah Bapco oil refinery in Bahrain
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by rasz 7mo ago
Before South Pars Iran bombed: Ras Laffan LNG complex in Qatar Ras Tanura oil refinery in Saudi drone attacks on Saudi oil fields Ruwais refinery in Abu Dhabi Shah gas field in Abu Dhabi port of Fujairah Bapco
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by rasz 7mo ago
To be fair they are only doing that in order to track if his honeypot brib^de isnt cheating on him. Might be cheaper than round the clock SWAT teams https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/us/politics/kas
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by rasz 7mo ago
Look into using $1 RP2350, you wont have any performance problems like with 200MHz pic. Downside is lack of usb 2.0, only SDcard storage.
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by rasz 7mo ago
Not to mention Toyota already screwed with to the point people deliberately avoid gen2. gr yaris adas cant be permanently disabled.
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by rasz 7mo ago
Afaik Amiga was 4 720KB disks for 32 color version.
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by rasz 7mo ago
We are going to "stay a little back, a little off the front lines."

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