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by rjsw 5d ago
NetBSD still runs on Amiga.
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by rjsw 6d ago
Another Torment Nexus taken from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation Genuine People Personality is real.
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by rjsw 7d ago
This was fixed for all my UNIX systems in 2012.
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by rjsw 7d ago
I'm guessing you are writing about Notes. Lotus was the name of the company that initially made the 1-2-3 spreadsheet.
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by rjsw 10d ago
I think that the EU would be in worse shape today if the UK had followed most other members at the time and restricted freedom of movement to it for the countries that joined in 2004 and 2007. It would have been nice to have got some credit
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by rjsw 11d ago
Some arguments in the Apple vs OpenAI case look like they could lead to a decision on whether an LLM can wash away copyright or not.
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by rjsw 11d ago
Almaz had a 23mm cannon [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almaz_program#Defense_measures
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by rjsw 12d ago
The crossover point where winter tyres work better is < +7°C, it doesn't need to be below freezing.
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by rjsw 12d ago
Hoka was founded by former Salomon employees, why would they want to move from Annecy?
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by rjsw 13d ago
At least one traditional UK bank requires a selfie and a passport scan.
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by rjsw 14d ago
There was a blog post from a couple of days ago that had been initially flagged, it seemed to me to have a good overview of AI for CAD, will try to find the link.
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by rjsw 14d ago
We could speedrun this and just call every product "the thing".
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by rjsw 15d ago
Supermarket bread in France is also industrial.
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by rjsw 16d ago
People complained about having to use ClearCase back then, it wasn't just the price that was wrong with it.
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by rjsw 17d ago
There was an ice sheet starting just north of this area, it would have melted at 10°C.
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by rjsw 24d ago
I have been using the same mug for 50 years.
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by rjsw 25d ago
A related argument could be whether the output of an LLM that has been trained on GPL code should also be considered to be under a GPL licence.
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by rjsw 29d ago
TBF, there are current problems with imported chicken products elsewhere.
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by rjsw 29d ago
Interlisp-D was more image based. You could type something in to the repl then add it to a file later. There was a structure editor that worked on the s-expression of a function, including any comments as they were represented as a special
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by rjsw 1mo ago
Even the original MIT Lisp Machine was designed around editing source files, there were "compile the current function" keybindings and menu options in the version of Emacs for it. You could also type an individual function into th
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by rjsw 1mo ago
I think you will find that a technical audience is much more tolerant of imperfect English than you seem to expect.
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by rjsw 1mo ago
The level of border controls hasn't changed, only the technology used to implement it.
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by rjsw 1mo ago
The new EU regulation on Digital Product Passports may have similar effects on small businesses. I was expecting that they would build the "passport" on top of existing design standards but that doesn't seem to be the case, t
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by rjsw 1mo ago
People don't want complete integration. If I go into the Carrefour in Sallanches (FR) then I will buy a completely different set of products to those that I would buy in the Carrefour in Aosta (IT), the two are 80km apart, I have shopp
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by rjsw 1mo ago
There are ALDI stores in France, I don't know which ALDI without looking it up. Carrefour has stores in Italy and Spain.
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by rjsw 1mo ago
Before COVID, I had thought that bushmeat [1] could be the route that spread Ebola to Europe, people smuggle it in their luggage. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bushmeat
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by rjsw 1mo ago
In the equivalent AMD/Xilinx parts (Zynq), you connect up all the hard IP macros using the FPGA fabric.
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by rjsw 1mo ago
The article doesn't mention anything about what FPGA image is loaded into the thing. My guess would be that you can choose how to connect the CPU cores to the cache controller, you might want to run the CPUs independently.
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by rjsw 1mo ago
Douglas Adams captured this in "Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency", a VCR watches TV for you and an Electric Monk believes things for you to save you the effort of doing it yourself.
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by rjsw 1mo ago
The TMS 34010 was also available at that time and could support high resolution screens and accelerated graphics, the article states that it was an Intel graphics card though.

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