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by ruslan 4y ago
Strangely no one mentions IBM which holds half the global patents and has R&D labs almost in any country of the world.
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by ruslan 4y ago
"UNIX: A History and a Memoir" by B. Kernighan features both Unix creation and Bell Labs culture of its time. https://www.amazon.com/UNIX-History-Memoir-Brian-Kernighan/d...
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by ruslan 4y ago
Inkscape has a bug in dxf_outlines.py which gives endless 100% CPU load then you try to export your SVG to DXF with --ROBO=true (often used for laser cutting). This bug is there for almost a year and nobody cares to fix it, instead they are
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by ruslan 4y ago
I'm on 13.1-RELEASE. As for WiFi, I had to replace stock MediaTek wireless card with Intel Wireless 7265. Works great with iwm driver, can connect to 5Ghz WIFI in 11ac mode with speeds up to 54Mbps (measured transfer rate is 3.2Mbytes&
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by ruslan 4y ago
First, ChipID = 0x1638 was not supported (listed). Support for it was added in Linux DRM driver 5.7.19, but FreeBSD's drm-kmod lags far behind. The support has been added recently, but you have to manually clone drm-kmod from the repo,
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by ruslan 4y ago
I absolutely love FreeBSD! Recently I was able to make Xorg working with AMDGPU on FreeBSD 13.1 in accelerated mode (EGL) on my AMD Cezanne based laptop. It took devs only four months to fix an issue in xf86-video-amdgpu which made Xorg to
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by ruslan 5y ago
I switched to my own server. I have an old FreeBSD box at home for different purposes. It took me a couple of nights to set up roundcube, dovecot, sendmail, spamassassin and friends. I did it a couple of years ago and I do not regret a sing
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by ruslan 5y ago
We abandoned Cadence three years go in favor of KiCAD. We miss online DRC a lot, now with 6.0 this issue has to be solved.
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by ruslan 5y ago
Oh my... what a New Year/Christmas present from KiCAD team! Thank you all the developers!
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by ruslan 5y ago
And that in turn because of Erlang which is better Prolog now.
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by ruslan 5y ago
C++ as of '98 is ok. The rest is garbage.
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by ruslan 5y ago
Also screw all Python programmers, what a bunch of losers with their indenting rules and PEPs. Weirdos. Whenever you hear somone say Python is good or interesting, run.) I applaud this, standing.
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by ruslan 5y ago
I'll surely read ARMv4T specs when I will have a bit more free time, thanks :). But, ARM requires switching machine mode to select instruction set (you cannot mix Thumb with regular 32 bit), which kind of hints a selection of decoder t
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by ruslan 5y ago
Absolutely. If you can go with OSS only, than it's easy as a breeze. Yet if you depend on proprietary stuff like I do (CADs, Wine, etc), than it's a pain. I'm currently trying to switch office to ARM (RPi 4 and Baikal-M) and
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by ruslan 5y ago
It's same as x86_64 vs aarm64. If you feel comfortable with aarm64, switching to RV64 will go without a notice. Note, that switching to ARM from x86 is a pain, esp if you depend on proprietary software.
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by ruslan 5y ago
Speaking about RISC-V, no it is not. In RISC-V "C" all 16 instructions have their 32 bit counterparts. When front-end reads in an instruction word (32 bits) it extracts two 32 bit ops from it then feeds them serially to decoder. S
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by ruslan 5y ago
The press-release does not say anything about physical chip, but a licensable core that can be used to build SoCs. Here SiFive acts same way as ARM does - sells cores.
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by ruslan 5y ago
Using RPi 400 as a home PC in living room to read news, to watch videos, to listen music, etc. Using RPi 4 8GB as a desktop PC for office manager (LibreOffice) and for a couple of developers as a "terminal" to bigger dev system. T
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by ruslan 5y ago
Atari 130XE - manufactured in 1986, works till this day (with some SIO mod), brings joy to me and to my kids.
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by ruslan 5y ago
How about the good old principle "don't build around one customer" ? In long term Apple will twist their hands out. I don't think TSMC management is so dumb not to understand that, yet their shareholders may be.
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by ruslan 5y ago
The mailing system your are referring to is called UUCP (Unix to Unix copy protocol). It can use serial link or IP as a transport to transmit batches of tar-gzipped emails. Binaries were usually uuencoded in mail body (if you are on FreeBSD
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by ruslan 5y ago
OS/2 was sort of a must those days for PC geeks. Like Linux today, or even like FreeBSD.
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by ruslan 5y ago
57600 baud (V.92) to be precise.
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by ruslan 5y ago
Many Fidonet mailers, like Binkley or T-Mail supported Hydra which was novel multi-streaming bidirectional serial protocol. You could download several files while uploading your outbound mail at the same time. It was very useful for those
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by ruslan 5y ago
I used to run an 8-line BBS (Fidonet mail hub) on a single 486DX2-66 machine with 8MB of RAM under OS/2 2.11 back in 1993-97. I often played games or used C compiler at same time. This same machine also was a local LAN server (running
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by ruslan 5y ago
We had a couple of БК-0010 computers in a club back in late 80th which were also based on 1801ВМx chipset. Those were quite popular home computers in USSR. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronika_BK
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by ruslan 5y ago
And, by the way, federated servers use SSL/TLS as well. Of course server admins can do verything, like peer into your traffic or grab passwords from database, because they are admins!
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by ruslan 5y ago
I wonder why did they choose to investigate plain text connection to XMPP server instead of SSL or TLS ? As far as I recall there's "starttls" command on standard 5222 port, after that things get encrypted and all their tcpdu
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by ruslan 5y ago
Now it makes sense. Thank you!
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by ruslan 5y ago
I'm also confused by "larger area less capacitance" statement. Can someone please elaborate on this ? Why larger area around the gate is needed and how it lowers the parasitic capacitance which is main obstacle on the way to

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