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by rjsw 2y ago
If you want a desktop, the Pine64 Star64 is only $90 for the same spec. This is a laptop though.
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by rjsw 2y ago
There is a paper on the ComputerVision design in an AMD handbook from 1986 [1] (big PDF). [1] http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/www.bitsavers.org/compone...
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by rjsw 2y ago
He didn't join a commune though, still working [1]. [1] http://www.polybus.com/hdlmaker/Resume.html
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by rjsw 2y ago
I like my Quadra 950.
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by rjsw 2y ago
I worked through this [1] book (PDF) as a child, everything worked fine but have no idea if component availability has changed. [1] https://www.worldradiohistory.com/BOOKSHELF-ARH/Technology/M...
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by rjsw 2y ago
We could switch to just referring to everything as "the thing" or "the idea".
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by rjsw 2y ago
I felt this from working in the Netherlands. One thing that may change it in larger countries is digital TV, the broadcast can have both original and dubbed soundtracks available.
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by rjsw 2y ago
I was using uBlock origin. Had also seen how he had editorialized some of my mailing list posts and I felt that I would be guilty of Gell-Mann amnesia if I carried on reading the site.
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by rjsw 2y ago
The last time I viewed this particular website it detected the adblocker and complained that I was depriving the owner of income.
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by rjsw 2y ago
I meant more why the "boom caught almost everyone by surprise", people working in the field thought that correct answers would be important.
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by rjsw 2y ago
My grandfather taught me how to do it 40 years ago.
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by rjsw 2y ago
Maybe we just collectively decided that it didn't matter whether the answer was correct or not.
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by rjsw 2y ago
If Douglas Adams owned the Apricot before the Macintosh then it would have been an 8086+8089 one, they were reliable. His writing suggested that he only used Macs after getting the first one.
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by rjsw 2y ago
The Apricot PC [1] was not an IBM PC compatible, it was a Victor 9000/Sirius 1 compatible. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apricot_PC
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by rjsw 2y ago
I'm using mwm right now, and a motif build of emacs.
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by rjsw 2y ago
Maybe Ford need to sell a cut-down version with a smaller battery alongside it. I thought the idea of powering work tools from the Lightning was good but I guess it may not match how people work. I like the look of the upcoming Ford e-Trans
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by rjsw 2y ago
I have a Pinebook and a Pinebook Pro, neither had dead pixels.
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by rjsw 2y ago
When the developer edition was released there wasn't a driver for the eink screen, there have been screenshots posted of what it looks like now that the screen works.
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by rjsw 2y ago
I added it to NetBSD and build it into my kernels, it isn't enabled by default though. Am part way through adding NAT support for it to the firewall.
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by rjsw 2y ago
He could maybe have added a few slides giving examples of the kind of discussions that OS people might have with HW designers. Then examples of workarounds when the HW designers don't listen. Thinking in terms of the OS running on the
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by rjsw 2y ago
Another area that could be open and cooperating in the operating system is network controllers, most have an offload engine of some kind but you can't extend what it does or fix bugs in it.
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by rjsw 2y ago
I ran Common LOOPS in AKCL on a 386 PC. It was just an object system for programming, it didn't have a Frame System or Rule Engine as well like LOOPS. My previous environment had been Franz Lisp on the Atari ST. My copy of the Franz so
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by rjsw 2y ago
I was at a presentation on LOOPS in London given by Dan Bobrow and Mark Stefik, they were pitching it as an equivalent framework to KEE or ART as you describe. They had a good showcase application called Truckin' [1] that made good use
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by rjsw 2y ago
The GEC Series 63 [1] was used in the Alvey programme. I was a founder of a startup that used a 63/40 to provide a (pre-internet) online service over X.25 links. It was a bit too different to a VAX to be able to easily port standard AI
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by rjsw 2y ago
There were Matchbox tracks too.
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by rjsw 2y ago
I think other ARM SoC vendors like Rockchip added NPUs before Apple, or at least around the same time.
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by rjsw 2y ago
Works fine to receive text messages and a few pictures.
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by rjsw 2y ago
I am using a KaiOS phone, a Nokia 6300 4G. It works well as a 4G WiFi hotspot for a laptop and as a small phone for making calls and sending texts. Have a few apps on it for mapping as well as using the browser occasionally. The KaiOS Whats
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by rjsw 2y ago
When I was working on trying to update the CADR software, I found it helped to check in to a VCS all the versions of a particular source file over the previous version, what was your reason for going back to checking them in separately?
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by rjsw 2y ago
There is, for the DRM GPU drivers.

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