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by rzzzt 2y ago
I misunderstood that bit from the Jon Peddie article, the PS1's GPU was indeed a Graphics Processing Unit. Found this hardware overview in one of the Wikipedia sources to confirm: https://archive.org/details/nextge
512.
by rzzzt 2y ago
But do you press Ctrl/Cmd + C three times or more to make sure it takes effect?
513.
by rzzzt 2y ago
IBM's PGA card had an additional 8088 dedicated to graphics primitives: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professional_Graphics_Controll...
514.
by rzzzt 2y ago
The article said it resolved to "Geometry Processing Unit" at that time.
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by rzzzt 2y ago
There is a SIGGRAPH Pioneers panel where participants talk about the history of the GPU (you can find the full talk on YouTube, this is a summary article): https://www.jonpeddie.com/news/gpus-how-did-we-get-here/
516.
by rzzzt 2y ago
Most of the small-"c" cloud services are that way. Less novelty, more "don't need to figure out how to configure DRBD just right, then let the burden of maintaining it fall on my shoulders".
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by rzzzt 2y ago
I don't remember in which browser I saw this, Chrome or Firefox, but when a block of text suddenly becomes a bit more animated (eg. moves around in a div) you could see it change from Windows' native font rendering method to Direc
518.
by rzzzt 2y ago
Spacelog renders the mission transcripts like a social network feed: https://apollo11.spacelog.org/04:04:18:04/#log-line-361084
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by rzzzt 2y ago
One option would be to employ a two-phase commit mechanism that keeps track of all "sub-transactions" and considers a global transaction to be completed when all datastores report back that they are very, very certain that they ca
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by rzzzt 2y ago
Let's say I want to use the model outlined in the "File Storage" example. I set up and populate my permission DB accordingly with file permissions, organization and group assignments, etc. I also have an index filled with met
521.
by rzzzt 2y ago
Both the Makefile as well as the source file were linked from the article, ld's "-e" flag is used to set a custom entry point to "__libc_main".
522.
by rzzzt 2y ago
It's a brand name now, they also sell grease.
523.
by rzzzt 2y ago
You can set up a network connection over USB (intended for tethered operation).
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by rzzzt 2y ago
.NET and C# appeared to counter the proliferation of Java after J++ has been sidelined in court: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_J%2B%2B#Sun's_litigatio...
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by rzzzt 2y ago
There is also some tiny pipelining at play: the 6502 needs to access (read or write) memory on every clock cycle. A 2-cycle instruction reads the opcode on the first and the actual work is done on the second. This leaves the second cycle&#x
526.
by rzzzt 2y ago
"Turn the Ship Around!" is another good book I hear (but did not read): https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16158601-turn-the-ship-a...
527.
by rzzzt 2y ago
There is a story floating around of a repairman who accidentally exposed themselves to the substance while repairing a 60s modular synthesizer: https://cdm.link/2019/05/a-buchla-synth-repair-turned-into-a... (some
528.
by rzzzt 2y ago
You could drag the short title bar with a modifier key to move it from the leftmost position, and non-overlapping title bars would snap together to form tabs.
529.
by rzzzt 2y ago
"the student was enlightened" = the student thought "master is worse than useless when it comes to giving advice, I shall not bother him with further questions"
530.
by rzzzt 2y ago
It looks like the "vnc-version" Dockerfiles will set up an Xvnc server and direct QEMU's output to it, and you can connect to that using a VNC client. The standard version sets up X11 forwarding over SSH and/or you can p
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by rzzzt 2y ago
The description says this happened in 2023 June-to-November-ish in Kazakhstan. It sounds like this was a smaller version of Turkmenistan's crater: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darvaza_gas_crater
532.
by rzzzt 2y ago
Lajos Kossuth held a speech in Turin in 1890 and the wax cylinder crew jumped on the opportunity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Voice_of_Lajos_Kossuth.og...
533.
by rzzzt 2y ago
I thought it's going to be the one tuned to 52 Hz.
534.
by rzzzt 2y ago
I keep a daily log but tend do skip updating it at the most intense times, ie. when it would be the most helpful to take notes...
535.
by rzzzt 2y ago
It still does if you turn on autoscroll and allow the pattern to shift slowly.
536.
by rzzzt 2y ago
Cockos' JSFX: https://www.cockos.com/jsfx/
537.
by rzzzt 2y ago
Use of Ethernet in real-time systems. Packet loss, collision rate, jitter is """good enough""" so it became an acceptable replacement of eg. ATM.
538.
by rzzzt 2y ago
MP4 containers also support multiple video tracks.
539.
by rzzzt 2y ago
"Hey Vsauce, Michael here." https://youtu.be/TN25ghkfgQA
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by rzzzt 2y ago
NAT-PMP maybe? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NAT_Port_Mapping_Protocol

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