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721.
by shrubble 3y ago
The Hercules emulator allows you to run various OS/360 and later systems in emulation under Windows, Mac, Linux and most other Unixes also, in case you wanted to try it out yourself.
722.
by shrubble 3y ago
That is a widely held view among Unix nerds like me, at least.
723.
by shrubble 3y ago
Is the artwork a reference to the poem, Ozymandias?
724.
by shrubble 3y ago
You mean emailing .doc files around to co-workers, like what happened yesterday?
725.
by shrubble 3y ago
It was built 1976 to 1984. Given the extensive emigration of educated people since, does SA still retain enough people locally to be able to accomplish similar feats?
726.
by shrubble 3y ago
Google is like that really rich guy whose wife runs a boutique store that loses $10k per month. If the wife decides to change the way the store runs, it doesn't matter and doesn't materially change his financial position.
727.
by shrubble 3y ago
Is there any evidence that the best-fit portions of the market are getting saturated. There are plenty of places in the USA where an ICE vehicle is just a better fit, given usage patterns, lack of charging facilities etc.
728.
by shrubble 3y ago
Microsoft was the very first to cooperate with the PRISM program...see the 2nd image here https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/06/us-tech-giants...
729.
by shrubble 3y ago
I wonder if there is a correspondence to Sony's 1-bit DSD audio stream? Could hardware developed for this purpose be used for some part of the processing?
730.
by shrubble 3y ago
You might find this blog post of interest: https://worksinprogress.co/issue/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-am...
731.
by shrubble 3y ago
I didn't see anything about S-100 mentioned in the article - did I miss it?
732.
by shrubble 3y ago
The Cerebras-2 is at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center. Not sure if they ordered a 3.
733.
by shrubble 3y ago
I am researching whether to buy puts on AVGO (Broadcom, owner of VMware) since I believe their Vmware revenue will crater in 12 months or so. They took on 32 billion in debt to buy VMW also, which will tank their stock price, I think.
734.
by shrubble 3y ago
Is there anything good enough to substitute for a 1080p monitor for a lengthy period of time?
735.
by shrubble 3y ago
The EMTALA law may have been well-meaning but it has been abused by people who are there for non-ER care: https://www.cms.gov/medicare/regulations-guidance/legislatio... Even 20 years ago, I experienced this dire
736.
by shrubble 3y ago
A comment on a retrocomputing forum was along the lines of "the method to generate your own free-use unlimited time licenses on this old hardware has been around for a long time" (followed by a smiley face and "IANAL").
737.
by shrubble 3y ago
So they will give you everything for x64 but are cancelling the Alpha and Itanium versions. The purpose is to have more involvement on the x64 side. That is logical but they needed to word it better and also put the 'Free for x64'
738.
by shrubble 3y ago
Tensor is from mathematics and was popularized over a century ago.
739.
by shrubble 3y ago
They state that the chip was 50% cache memory, so possibly the speedup would come from a simple RISC plus the boost from cache. 1987 was SPARC v7 chips (v8 came out in 1990), which has 110K transistors or so depending on CPU. However the s
740.
by shrubble 3y ago
A 6-bit computer that could be used to learn about the very, very basics of computer function; designed by Claude Shannon.
741.
MiniVac 601 Educational Computer from Claude Shannon(oldcomputermuseum.com)
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by shrubble 3y ago
"Over the past couple of years, we’ve heard from customers that whiteboarding tools like FigJam by Figma, Lucidspark by Lucid, and Miro help them work better together. As these tools have grown more capable, offering advanced features
743.
by shrubble 3y ago
So here is a question: what would happen if this process faced a person who was specifically hostile to it? Could you "trick" the process by intensely thinking of, for instance, a yellow ball while viewing a cat picture, as one
744.
by shrubble 3y ago
Ivermectin has been tested against certain ticks as well: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34656045/
745.
by shrubble 3y ago
If you have an ATA like a Cisco SPA122 , Linksys or Polycom 302, then you should be able to get between 2400 and 14,400 baud speeds; you will have to try different speeds. Faxes routinely get 9600 and 14,400 speeds over these ATAs; it helps
746.
by shrubble 3y ago
Jack LaLanne, exercise guru and healthy-eating aficionado lived to 96. His brother Norman, who did none of the things his brother did to the same level, lived to either 96 or 97.
747.
by shrubble 3y ago
You don't even have the assurance that the RAM is ECC on cloud...
748.
by shrubble 3y ago
What actually happens is that criminals only enter a residence when they are sure no one is at home. You can compare rates between Britain and USA of 'thieves entering house while occupied'. From memory USA is 10% and Britain is o
749.
by shrubble 3y ago
If there is an always-on baseband processor that loads a binary blob or like the Pi, where the GPU actually manages the initialization and running the ARM CPU, then it's a no from me... without open source bootloaders we'll still
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by shrubble 3y ago
A guy I know at $currentjob would have agreed to the criticism, then created at least 2x Jira tickets to clean up the original and then the structure you mention.

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