rjsw

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   by rjsw 3y ago

   Royal Navy carriers had homing beacons to help their aircraft find the carrier again. The beacon rotated once a minute, the pilots synchronized their watches to the beacon before taking off, when they heard the signal through their headphon
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   by rjsw 3y ago

   I got 500Mb/s symmetrical fibre installed last month. Not seeing much faster transfer rates from individual servers, I'm guessing most do some traffic shaping. Edit: mistyped G instead of M.
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   by rjsw 3y ago

   Or people just haven't tried hard enough to find a politically correct explaination. I think slavery itself could be one cause of it. Restricting the freedom to pick a partner of one group compared with other nearby groups seems likely
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   by rjsw 3y ago

   The examples of Materials Science and Archeology are both looking for patterns.
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   by rjsw 3y ago

   Feature phones are still a thing, they can't use e-sims.
6. 666.▲
   by rjsw 3y ago

   I think a better upgrade would be a 16GB RK3588 board in the same case.
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   by rjsw 3y ago

   The reviewed machine has more RAM than a Pinebook Pro but the user experience doesn't sound to be nearly as good. I recently went on a work trip with my Pinebook Pro as my only computer, everything worked fine.
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   by rjsw 3y ago

   The choice for my fibre ISP is between static IPv4 or carrier-grade NAT. Both options get IPv6.
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   by rjsw 3y ago

   Pine64 makes several products that don't overlap with Purism ones.
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    by rjsw 3y ago

    The Swiss limit seems about right to me, their autoroutes have more hills and bends than those in the surrounding countries.
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    by rjsw 3y ago

    Go makes syscalls directly, it doesn't call through the system libc. This does cause support problems on at least NetBSD, don't know what happens on FreeBSD or OpenBSD. The NetBSD backwards compatibility mechanism is to not change
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    by rjsw 3y ago

    This is a Linux problem not a SBCL one. You could move your SBCL binary between different versions of a BSD variant.
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    by rjsw 3y ago

    Maybe read a bit about AM and Eurisko first, that will give an idea of how Cyc was expected to get used.
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    by rjsw 3y ago

    Not answering your question but Bialetti make an adaptor plate that lets you use an aluminium moka pot on an induction hob, I have one, it works well.
15. 675.▲
    by rjsw 3y ago

    NetBSD currently contains an older version of this driver, from Linux 5.6. Checking just now it comes to 2.2M loc. Running the same test on the Linux 6.4 source tree, does give me the reported 5M loc. Maybe the figures you quote exclude thi
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    by rjsw 3y ago

    Not read the article but the files in the Linux tree have been generated once by AMD.
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    by rjsw 3y ago

    I have a few people in my killfile so that I don't see messages from them but don't get much spam in the comp.* groups that I read. The threading and only seeing new messages is a lot better in my Usenet client than any web forum
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    by rjsw 3y ago

    My high school biology teacher did research on the slime on the skin of trout. He said that he didn't finish the PhD but ate well during it.
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    by rjsw 3y ago

    Doing the reverse, getting the native NetBSD bootloader to load a multiboot kernel, wasn't particularly hard, it worked first time.
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    by rjsw 3y ago

    SBCL can use futexes directly.
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    by rjsw 3y ago

    I am a NetBSD developer, I know exactly what it runs on. The 68k systems are all 32 bit, the supported PDAs can run Linux as well.
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    by rjsw 3y ago

    NetBSD doesn't have any support for running without a MMU, so by definition you can only port it to things designed to be able to run UNIX.
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    by rjsw 3y ago

    I have been told that 7zip handles long pathnames better than the zip functionality built in to Windows.
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    by rjsw 3y ago

    This isn't true everywhere in the UK. Neither Openreach nor City Fibre have laid fibre in my area of a big city, the only date given for when they will do it is sometime before 2026. A dedicated fibre internet company has cabled my str
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    by rjsw 3y ago

    > The article doesn't mention why the C900 was cancelled My guess would be that it was caused by Commodore and Atari swapping senior people.
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    by rjsw 3y ago

    WebRTC can use hardware offload for video decoding, at least in Firefox.
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    by rjsw 3y ago

    One interesting one is ET++ [1]. From memory, it shared some ideas with MacApp. [1] https://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/c_plus_plus/li...
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    by rjsw 3y ago

    Using 'halt' or 'reboot' won't run all the scripts needed to shut down cleanly, the correct command to use is 'shutdown -r now'.
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    by rjsw 3y ago

    The author is unaware of, or has ignored, Mobile IP [1]. There are implementation of it available. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_IP
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    by rjsw 3y ago

    Plenty of networks that use PPPoE over base network technology to connect to a "virtual" ISP implement at least mini jumbo frames. If you can set the MTU of the hardware to 1508 then the PPPoE connection runs at 1500.