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by rjsw 3y ago
> If I had to name one it would be the violinist Vanessa Mae Haven't heard any of her work, have skied with her though.
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by rjsw 3y ago
The first Smalltalk JIT was written for the 68020, so the NeXT hardware would have been suitable. EDIT: OTOH, The Tektronix AI Workstations had already been on sale for a while by that point and had not been all that successful. They ran Sm
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by rjsw 3y ago
There are C compilers targeted at Lisp Machines, one targeted at the JVM could use the same techniques to implement pointers.
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by rjsw 3y ago
Westinghouse has made nuclear submarine reactors. The UK small modular reactor project is being run by Rolls-Royce who make the equivalent submarine reactors. Both SMR projects seem to be about 10x the power output of a submarine reactor. I
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by rjsw 3y ago
Not really any conceptual difference between ASN.1 and something like Cap'n Proto.
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by rjsw 3y ago
I have a Quadra 950 with plenty of RAM and a 100baseT network card.
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by rjsw 3y ago
I wrote a networked hypertext system in 1985 but it used a binary "page" format to save bandwidth. The GUI used was GEM. Another road not taken could have been to define a rich text format in ASN.1 and build a browser on top of th
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by rjsw 3y ago
It probably hit just the right time in terms of available CPU power and network speed for a text-based format to get accepted.
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by rjsw 3y ago
There are plenty of boards that have one of the combined ARM & FPGA chips, Zynq (Xylinx/AMD) or Cyclone (Altera/Intel).
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by rjsw 3y ago
You can put any size of M.2 SSD you want into the Pinebook Pro. The RAM limit is down to the SoC itself, the next generation laptop would probably use a RK3588 which can address more RAM.
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by rjsw 3y ago
I run NetBSD on my Pinebook Pro, you are not restricted to specific Linux distributions.
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by rjsw 4y ago
In the UK, supermarkets have bins for recycling plastic bags. Not just shopping bags, plenty of plastic packaging is labelled "recycle at supermarket".
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by rjsw 4y ago
Seems sensible, wish they did that here so I didn't have to keep moving dirty bags between bins. I recycle correctly but one apartment in the block is being used as an AirBnB, every week there is random waste in every recycling bin.
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by rjsw 4y ago
There were 8 bit Ataris in the UK, still have a couple.
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by rjsw 4y ago
I had a Toshiba T3100, it had a gas plasma display [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toshiba_T3100
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by rjsw 4y ago
I'm just back home from a long vacation. My computer while I was away was my $250 Pinebook Pro, it worked fine for everything that I wanted to do, that included a fair bit of development work.
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by rjsw 4y ago
Royal Ordnance was privatized in 1987, most of the factories have closed now. The UK had problems sourcing enough ammunition for Iraq and Afghanistan.
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by rjsw 4y ago
There are dialects of French that don't use that numeral system, Swiss French uses septante, huitante, nonante for 70, 80, 90.
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by rjsw 4y ago
For one example, see Richard Feynman's children.
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by rjsw 4y ago
Andrews and Arnold doesn't do any filtering.
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by rjsw 4y ago
The IIfx, Quadra 900 & Quadra 950 each have two 6502 processors. They offload ADB processing (keyboard and mouse), the floppy disk and serial ports. MacOS uses all of them, NetBSD can use ADB offload.
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by rjsw 4y ago
Why? There was a RUSI article last year that looked at it. The one area that was in good shape was 5.56 production, the US "assault rifle" gun culture takes care of that. [1] https://rusi.org/explore-our-research&#
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by rjsw 4y ago
Transmeta was attractive to embedded HW developers because it had a PCI host controller built in, you didn't need a separate northbridge chip, the speed was less important.
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by rjsw 4y ago
Xscale didn't have a GPU built into the SoC.
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by rjsw 4y ago
It would be good if her Collabora email address could stay active, it is embedded in the Linux sources, it makes it a lot harder to get signoffs on changes if you need to lookup new email addresses for contributors. The Panfrost project doe
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by rjsw 4y ago
There can be customs checks at or near Schengen borders.
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by rjsw 4y ago
Because the hardware is available now. When somebody builds a RISC-V laptop people will start working on software for it. In any case, the GPU getting built into RISC-V SoCs is a PowerVR one, there is supposed to be an open-source driver be
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by rjsw 4y ago
Italians can't drive. Every other nation in Europe manages to keep the car between the white lines, Italians can't even manage it when parking.
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by rjsw 4y ago
An OEM kit to replace the engine in existing cars with an electric one and batteries would be good. There are plenty of TV programmes showing custom conversions of classic cars but we need something larger scale.
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by rjsw 4y ago
> nobody rows outside Oxford Cambridge and some other similarly elitist schools For the UK it is this.

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