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by rjsw 4y ago
Not really workstation-class graphics.
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by rjsw 4y ago
I think there will be statistics for the performance of Russian helicopters against western MANPADS from Afghanistan during the 80s. I'm not expecting that the MANPADS will have got worse since then.
873.
by rjsw 4y ago
The point was the OS, that is what let you run workstation software of the time. Being able to add a lot (for the time) of RAM was important too, your A310 doesn't seem to be able to have 16MB. EDIT: This is a thread about UNIX.
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by rjsw 4y ago
Not sure that is completely true. People working in construction or hospitality are probably happy for now that there are fewer people competing with them for jobs.
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by rjsw 4y ago
Your Nazi Tribute Band seems a pretty good copy of the original.
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by rjsw 4y ago
Green bins for food waste don't work if you have Airbnb nearby.
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by rjsw 4y ago
Which version of UNIX did your A310 run?
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by rjsw 4y ago
One technical solution could be to have a platform that lets people think they have posted controversial stuff that can be seen by others but not actually make it visible. People who have been shadowbanned here still waste their time postin
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by rjsw 4y ago
Network offload has been available in low-cost controllers for a long time, TLS isn't common though. It could be better if network controllers just had a documented local CPU, then the firmware could be extended over time to add new fe
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by rjsw 4y ago
The Common Lisp bindings to X11 [1] don't use C libraries. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLX_(Common_Lisp)
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by rjsw 4y ago
Apparently, a comment on the TSR-2 [1] was that it was too heavy. The problem was that the manufacturer misinterpreted this and instead of just going away and designing a smaller aircraft they spent a lot of money trying to make the existin
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by rjsw 4y ago
The one Grisham book that I have read felt like the author had not done enough research. It was set mostly in Europe and contained a lot of minor details that were wrong.
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by rjsw 4y ago
Mine predated the TIGA standard, it is a NEC card. I ported GNU binutils to it then wrote some 34010 assembler functions for X11 to call to do basic 2D graphics operations.
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by rjsw 4y ago
My PC from 1987 was competitive with any workstation of the time but a lot cheaper. A 386DX-25 with 16MB RAM, a TMS34010 GPU and ESDI disks.
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by rjsw 4y ago
I watched one PHB manage out one of the best junior engineers just because they expected young people to switch jobs often.
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by rjsw 4y ago
I got the feeling that the GP post meant a MMU that protected GPU threads from each other, not just an IOMMU between GPU and CPU.
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by rjsw 4y ago
I'm happy with my Quartz64.
888.
by rjsw 4y ago
It is also deliberately different to exchange files used for mechanical CAD, even though it uses the same syntax.
889.
by rjsw 4y ago
There are several pages that mention her on Andy Hertzfeld's website [1], one page written by her. [1] https://www.folklore.org/ProjectView.py?project=Macintosh&ch...
890.
by rjsw 4y ago
AirBnB isn't paying me to clean up after the "guests" that use my apartment block.
891.
by rjsw 4y ago
I think Booking.com expanding into camping would work fine in Europe, most campsites are busineses with a defined set of facilities that they offer.
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by rjsw 4y ago
It would be nice if they made it easier to build at all.
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by rjsw 4y ago
My bridge between professional programming and hobby electronics was FPGAs.
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by rjsw 4y ago
There were not the numbers of MPs to be able to form a coalition with Labour, a better solution could have been to just support the Tories with a confidence and supply [1] agreement. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Co
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by rjsw 4y ago
What part of "Mine runs NetBSD/cats" was unclear.
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by rjsw 4y ago
Languages that start out without printf or format end up adding it later.
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by rjsw 4y ago
I have an ARM-based desktop PC next to me right now. It contains an ATX motherboard [1] with a StrongARM SA110 CPU, NVIDIA NV1 graphics card, PCI network card, ATA hard disk. Mine runs NetBSD/cats. [1] http://www.simtec.co.u
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by rjsw 4y ago
> Did these guy just travel in groups looking for a state to hire them? In the case of Swiss ones, yes [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_mercenaries
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by rjsw 4y ago
Intel has "hard" ARM cores in their FPGAs, as does AMD (Xilinx).
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by rjsw 4y ago
I'm working with Boeing people on a project, having their email system randomly fail to deliver incoming messages doesn't help.

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