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by rjsw 2y ago
They are welcome to copy the V4L2 code from NetBSD.
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by rjsw 2y ago
It depends on the context, I have been in meetings where everyone except for one PHB was left handed. The ratio was probably 50:50 across the company as a whole.
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by rjsw 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Streak_(missile)
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by rjsw 2y ago
My current mobile phone has an FM radio, works well. An AM radio doesn't even need a battery, I built a crystal set as a child.
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by rjsw 2y ago
> If you live in the US, I agree that you must use American English. Unless you are writing International Standards. ISO requires British English spellings in documents.
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by rjsw 2y ago
Lisp has had vectors as well as lists for a long time. If you want a vector then use a vector.
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by rjsw 2y ago
That is what is being done with the next class of US Navy frigates [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constellation-class_frigate
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by rjsw 2y ago
I would like to see slow charging points in the parking lots for French low-cost chain hotels. Pay for it at the same time as the room. The chain hotels are used during the week by tradespeople, we will want them to be using electric vans s
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by rjsw 2y ago
Alternatively, use a UNIX that has the syscalls as the ABI.
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by rjsw 2y ago
Tufton Street thinktanks [1] are not trying to reduce poverty. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/55_Tufton_Street
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by rjsw 2y ago
They refuse to say who funds them.
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by rjsw 2y ago
The Pinebook Pro has the SoC on the underside of the PCB with a thermal pad connecting it to the metal lower case to make that a heatsink.
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by rjsw 2y ago
Roadbumps with the Panologic are connecting up a JTAG chain to the pins on the PCB and getting the VM containing the tools to run. EDIT: Another roadbump is the need to have USB host IP in the FPGA to do I/O.
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by rjsw 2y ago
The GPU in the RK3588 doesn't use closed source firmware.
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by rjsw 2y ago
The MIT Lisp Machine microcode feels like writing in a modern 3-address RISC instruction set to me. I see a lot of reluctance to modifying the source in old mailing lists, maybe everyone was told that it was too hard so didn't try. EDI
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by rjsw 2y ago
The other teams can just copy cycling and use carbon monoxide training to prepare.
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by rjsw 2y ago
There was the Lilith [1] too in the same timeframe. The PERQ and Lilith used AMD bitslice chips instead of the TI ones in the Alto. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilith_(computer)
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by rjsw 2y ago
My feeling was that Andrew and SPICE were completely separate workstation projects at CMU, but only from using the software that came out of each of them.
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by rjsw 2y ago
NetBSD also tried it and reverted to kernel threads, some links here [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scheduler_activations
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by rjsw 2y ago
The German ships sunk in Scapa Flow [1] are a good source of steel as they are not war graves. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scuttling_of_the_German_fleet_...
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by rjsw 2y ago
A recent Reddit thread [1] has some pictures of the Pixar Image Computer mentioned in the article. [1] https://old.reddit.com/r/retrobattlestations/comments/1f3lzr...
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by rjsw 2y ago
If you are adding metadata to a schema then you may as well copy Dublin Core instead of creating your own incompatible equivalent from scratch.
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by rjsw 2y ago
The joke is copied from a real life example [1]. [1] http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/charles-proteus-steinm...
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by rjsw 2y ago
Your journey was all within the Schengen zone, there are no border checks. Are you sure about why you were woken up?
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by rjsw 2y ago
You had speculated in a previous thread that the new die could result in power savings, good to see some real measurements.
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by rjsw 2y ago
The PDA/Tablet market was a reasonable size, the XScale CPUs were the highest performance ones in this sector, Intel could have seen that this market would grow.
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by rjsw 2y ago
More that because IQ isn't genetically determined any data that makes it look like certain ethnic groups are smarter or stupider than other ethnic groups must be wrong. The argument on both sides misses out that the IQ data seen coul
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by rjsw 2y ago
It isn't the first RISC-V tablet, there is also the Pine64 PineTab-V.
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by rjsw 2y ago
At least one big chemical company [1] has tried to make the case that they should be allowed to keep exploring for oil as they don't intend to burn it. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ineos
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by rjsw 2y ago
Alternatively, if we stop burning them then they will last a lot longer as chemical feedstock.

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