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by rasz 6mo ago
Work-for-hire doctrine doesnt automagically absolve you from IP law. Microsoft and Intel already learned this in the nineties when they paid San Francisco Canyon Company to steal Apple code. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2
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by rasz 6mo ago
Tell me more about laptops and phones sporting 12 inch speakers, not that low frequencies are the problem here.
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by rasz 6mo ago
It has already been reported Apple ran out of parts for NEOs. M4 minis are sold out. High end Mac Studio configs have been cancelled. Yes Apple does feel the crunch.
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by rasz 6mo ago
By selling laptops to users who will never spend on highly profitable recurring revenue stream Apple would be depleting precious Ram stock for tiny one time profit.
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by rasz 6mo ago
Practical reasons vanished ~20 years ago, about the time Microsoft dropped hardware audio acceleration and switched to software audio mixing. Resampling is ear transparent and eats less than 1% of one slowest possible CPU core.
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by rasz 6mo ago
No, selling laptops to Linux users is loss of services revenue, which is currently at 25% of total Apple takes and ~40% of all profit.
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by rasz 6mo ago
Imagine LCD screen capable of emitting from IR to UV and people up in arms because laptop vendor software limits output to visible spectrum.
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by rasz 6mo ago
No its not. You wont be able to hear the difference between 44.1 vs 48.
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by rasz 6mo ago
> move all the windows from one screen to another in a go Sounds like a job for 10 line AutoHotkey script.
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by rasz 6mo ago
That Civil War proof nuclear bunker under the Ballroom cant come quick enough.
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by rasz 6mo ago
Id go other way too. Disk Operating System might seem simple or even downright pleasant. Easy to understand and well compartmentalized DOS/BIOS Interrupt API, small functions doing small things. Then you read some "under the hood&
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by rasz 6mo ago
https://blog.smallshire.no/blog/what-is-a-bus-mouse/ tldr: Ball mouse containing only optical encoders and no other electronics. Very popular in late eighties. Atari ST, Amiga 500, Acorn Archimedes (the ARM comput
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by rasz 6mo ago
Most if not all of the listed stuff could be converted to used mode code.
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by rasz 6mo ago
"rename the destination to an internal zero register" That would be quite late then, 1997 Pentium 2 for general population.
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by rasz 6mo ago
Looking at some random 1989 Zenith 386SX bios written in assembly so purely programmer preferences: 8 'sub al, al', 14 'sub ah, ah', 3 'sub ax, ax' 26 'xor al, al', 43 'xor ah, ah', 3 '
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by rasz 6mo ago
Like that tens of times unaffiliated cargo ships dragged anchor for tens of kilometers to dredge fiberoptic cables in the Baltic.
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by rasz 6mo ago
Do we really want to dwell on sharing stuff in private group chats? cough alcoholic idiot cough Yemen
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by rasz 6mo ago
In a serious drone war a neutral cargo ship off your coast will open hidden flaps and unleash 10K drones all at once erasing couple bases before they even know whats up.
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by rasz 6mo ago
>software developers couldn't release on NEC without excluding IBM customers Oh they could and they did in Japan when those computers were sold. PC-88 is not IBM PC compatible. https://necretro.org/PC-88_VA3
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by rasz 6mo ago
Are those all OCRed correctly? /checks "A McGraw-Hlll PIIIJIICGIIOI1/0360-5280" " and dBonk erformance nc ie and t load ng ter 1 even " doesnt appear so
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by rasz 6mo ago
And the bottleneck at the time was HBM interposers, not actual ram dies.
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by rasz 6mo ago
3.5 inch already peaked in 1985, thats when NEC first shipped 1.44MB inside PC-8801 mkII MR. IBM followed two years later switching PS/2 to HD floppies, Apple in 1988. 80 tracks ~50KB/s speed. In 1990 IBM bumped PS/2 to 2.88
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by rasz 6mo ago
Up to this bios I dont remember ever seeing move to PM without far jump into just loaded 32bit selector.
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by rasz 6mo ago
Its called free BDA, straight up aiding the enemy by correcting his fire.
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by rasz 6mo ago
I disassemble and read a lot of vintage bioses for fun. Recently I looked at something more ~recent, an Atom N270 945GSE Mini-ITX industrial board from 2010. Phoenix bios: seg000:FD56 Unreal_FFD56 proc near ; CODE XRE
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by rasz 6mo ago
only because Lutnick's sons will be main benefactors.
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by rasz 6mo ago
OP is not talking ping but page load time. Depending on when you were a lad pages could take up to 30-60 second to load on a modem.
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by rasz 6mo ago
>RK3588 ISP, as the vendor kernel driver is not upstreamable for various reasons Its always IP. Afair even Raspberry Pi didnt open ISP, and support for MIPI took yeaaaaars.
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by rasz 6mo ago
russia really doesnt like energy independence. Right wingers across Europe are supported with russian bribes, last big one caught is Nathan Gill.
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by rasz 6mo ago
>I've never heard of such a plan anywhere. In 2011 Poland 2600MHz LTE band was auctioned off with the condition winning bidderwould offer free 512Kbit mobile internet called 'Bezpłatny Dostęp do Internetu' aka BDI (transla

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