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by rjsw 3y ago
I have spent all week exchanging emails with the "lame duck" in my ISP's accounts department. The task involved should be menial, just copy the bank account name from my email into a form, they are incapable of getting this r
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by rjsw 3y ago
There was a RUSI [1] paper near the start of the war in Ukraine that pointed out that there wasn't nearly enough ordnance production in NATO countries. The one area that was in good shape was 5.56mm production, helped by the civilian &
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by rjsw 3y ago
I'm typing this on a T495s, but running NetBSD. Thanks for the data point on the working amdgpu driver, I'm just using a dumb framebuffer driver right now.
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by rjsw 3y ago
The Apricot PC from 1983 had function keys with an LCD display above them that applications could use to label the functions. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apricot_PC
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by rjsw 3y ago
> If you want a really quiet desktop and don't game, a CPU with an iGPU is the way to go IMO. Or a modern CPU and a really old PCIe GPU.
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by rjsw 3y ago
Those activities were socially acceptable in the UK 50 years ago.
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by rjsw 3y ago
It would have been nice if it was dual licenced like their GPU drivers.
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by rjsw 3y ago
One of the SBCL developers wrote a McCLIM backend that generated HTML, had been meaning to ask what state it was in.
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by rjsw 3y ago
I have been told that another intended use of javascript was to size a visual element like a rectangle to be the bounding box of a text string.
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by rjsw 3y ago
My biology teachers in high school had all studied their subject to much higher levels than those of other subjects including doing research, they became teachers because there were no other jobs available.
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by rjsw 3y ago
Boeing and Airbus work together on the CAD standards that they use to build their products.
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by rjsw 3y ago
UK altnets are spreading quite fast in areas that OpenReach (BT) hasn't upgraded yet, it is worth checking regularly what is happening in your area. I have 500/500, could have 900/900 for £5 more per month.
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by rjsw 3y ago
Segways are dangerous, just look what happened to the one time owner [1]. ITYM "segue". [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimi_Heselden
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by rjsw 3y ago
The main bit of STEP that I designed is how to model properties that depend on other property values, it doesn't get much use in CAD systems right now but there does seem some interest in getting it better used in the future. Another a
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by rjsw 3y ago
The subtext could be that emissions are down so it will be fine to "max out" North Sea oil production.
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by rjsw 3y ago
A refurbished Lenovo T495 is well within the price stated and feels fast enough to me.
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by rjsw 3y ago
The RK3588 does have PCIe.
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by rjsw 3y ago
As a prompt "An aircraft enough like a 737 that pilots don't need to recertify but with newer engines", what could go wrong?
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by rjsw 3y ago
Most programming language source is just text, how often does GitHub Copilot get things wrong when generating code fragments? There is an ISO directive to not use any of their standards when training an LLM, would be interested to know what
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by rjsw 3y ago
Do people really want train a LLM on CAD models treating them as text? I would be more interested in trying to work from the conceptual model behind the exchange file format.
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by rjsw 3y ago
People don't like LaTeX. I work on a family of ISO standards. Started off using LaTeX 30 years ago, then Microsoft Word, currenly using a custom XML workflow, starting to transition to AsciiDoc+AsciiMath.
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by rjsw 3y ago
GPU manufacturers stopped putting 2D functionality in their chips.
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by rjsw 3y ago
Participants in ISO standardization meetings are required to disclose any patents that they hold that may apply to whatever is being discussed.
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by rjsw 3y ago
There is more on the wikipedia page [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melrose_Place#GALA_Committee
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by rjsw 3y ago
The Pinebook and Pinebook Pro have 1080 screens and can have hardware video decoding support. I wrote 'can' because the drivers are still in staging for the mainline Linux kernel.
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by rjsw 3y ago
The test can be during the advert before the video that you want to watch.
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by rjsw 3y ago
Have you thought of running NetBSD on the SE/30 and debugging your hardware from that? You would have a modern network stack with source.
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by rjsw 3y ago
There is an argument that Karl Marx provided a guide for the aristocracy to work out the point that inequality would provoke a revolution then back off slightly from it.
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by rjsw 3y ago
I used the crystal radio that is one of the steps described in this [1] book a fair bit. My grandfather taught me how to make proper PCBs after this and built more complicated radios with him. [1] https://www.worldradiohistory.co
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by rjsw 3y ago
Linux on ARM SoCs with HW video decoders that are separate to the GPU can use the V4L2 API to avoid some copying. The decoder writes a frame to a buffer that the GPU can see then you use GL to get the GPU to merge it into the framebuffer.

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