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by sillywalk 7mo ago
From Raymond Chen's Old New Thing: How did the Windows 95 user interface code get brought to the Windows NT code base? https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20251028-00/?p=11...
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by sillywalk 8mo ago
Raymond Chen has more on this: What were the MS-DOS programs that Windows used the progman.exe stock icons for? https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20250506-00/?p=11... What were the intended uses of those
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by sillywalk 8mo ago
It looks like the FPGA that monitors/controls the redundant/lockstep CPUs might be radiation tolerant. From [0]: "..the critical FPGA which is always on for the duration of the mission, the radiation tolerant ProASIC3 is ch
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by sillywalk 8mo ago
There was a good book[0] about where that came from. Big business and religious leaders joined forced to fight the New Deal. [0] One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America Kevin M. Kruse https://www.g
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by sillywalk 8mo ago
> Snow Leopard was incredibly buggy on release More on that here: The myth and reality of Mac OS X Snow Leopard (November 13 2023) https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/2023/11/5.html
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by sillywalk 8mo ago
Finder has always been pretty garbage. Which view will the finder show this folder in? I never know, because it's always inconsistent. Another bug, I'd been running the beta macos Sequoia 15.7.4, and if I'd search for all the
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by sillywalk 8mo ago
I just had to add more, because I remember they used DEC Alpha systems at some point. " Alphas for design stations serving 5 animators and one animation assistant (housekeeping and slate specialist). Most of these stations run Lightwav
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by sillywalk 8mo ago
I agree with you, and with the OP title, Apple is withholding updates in this (and other cases). The little blurb I quoted is sort of an excuse for some other updates.
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by sillywalk 8mo ago
Doesn't look like it. It looks like it's only iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max, iPhone XR https://support.apple.com/en-us/126347
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by sillywalk 8mo ago
I like the design of that generation of Sun Servers. Also, for some reason it bothers me that it's titled SPARC not UltraSPARC :)
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by sillywalk 8mo ago
This has been policy for years. I just can't make myself upgrade to Tahoe. From [0]: "Because of dependency on architecture and system changes to any current version of Apple operating systems (for example, macOS 26, iOS 26, and s
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by sillywalk 8mo ago
They moved their password monitoring service from Java to Swift. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44172166 https://www.swift.org/blog/swift-at-apple-migrating-the-pass...
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by sillywalk 8mo ago
Not The Onion. It's worse, because I think that Karp might actually believe that.
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by sillywalk 8mo ago
There are a ton of old ads / brochures at 1000bit[0]. It's interesting to see stuff from when I was a kid / teen. [0] https://www.1000bit.it/ad/bro/brochures.asp
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by sillywalk 8mo ago
Link to the actual presentation: https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/7FZXHF-updates_on_gnu...
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by sillywalk 8mo ago
Interesting. https://micropythonos.com/ https://github.com/MicroPythonOS/MicroPythonOS https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/9GGXNF-micropythonos-...
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by sillywalk 8mo ago
The last 2 generations of IBM Z CPUs have "AI" inference acceleration built in. One of the use-cases was real-time credit-card fraud detection. IBM also has a PCIe add-in card for AI called Spyre, that's also available for PO
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by sillywalk 8mo ago
I'm still not sure what the use case is for these types of things. Why not just use your phone?
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by sillywalk 9mo ago
> Transformers and turbines of any significance are not off the shelf parts and can have lead times of years Bloomberg had a decent article[0] about transformers and their lead time. They're currently a bottleneck on building. It wa
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by sillywalk 9mo ago
"Artists, writers, and creators of all kinds are banding together with a simple message: Stealing our work is not innovation. It's not progress. It's theft - plain and simple." I agree. I wonder: have the / will the
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by sillywalk 9mo ago
I was expecting this to be about Yellow Print Dots[0], but it's about the print management software keeping copies of printed documents. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printer_tracking_dots
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by sillywalk 9mo ago
I dislike the use of the term 'target'. It's a storm, it'll affect people, it's not 'targeting' anybody.
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by sillywalk 9mo ago
"Verizon was previously required to unlock phones automatically after 60 days due to restrictions imposed on its spectrum licenses and merger conditions that helped Verizon obtain approval of its purchase of TracFone. But an update app
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by sillywalk 9mo ago
What is Plan 9? (9front.org) 183 points by AlexeyBrin 2 days ago | flag | hide | past | favorite | 124 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46667675 ( The successor to Plan 9 was Inferno ) https://en.wi
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by sillywalk 9mo ago
More info: System/370 capability in a desktop computer https://bitsavers.org/pdf/ibm/IBM_Systems_Journal/233/ibmsj2... A performance evaluation of the IBM 370/XT personal computer https:/
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by sillywalk 9mo ago
"Trump has often boasted about ending eight wars, styling himself as "the president of peace" and therefore deserving of the Nobel honour but those claims have been exaggerated. The latest conflict he claims to have ended was
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by sillywalk 9mo ago
Whenever this gets mentioned, it's always pointed out that in Idocracy, President Camacho finds the smartest person in the world to actually fix the problems.
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by sillywalk 9mo ago
> he held the record of "most dropped bombs by any US president". Disregarding WW2, I'd assume LBJ or Nixon holds that record.
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by sillywalk 9mo ago
Nitpick: AS/400/i aren't mainframes, they're "mid-range" in IBM speak, or the last of the "minicomputers", a totally separate line from IBM 360/70/90/Z.
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by sillywalk 9mo ago
I am. I had to do the enable beta workaround to get the (apparently) last security fix. I "updated" to 26 on my iPad. It's slower. It's ugly as hell. It's worse in every respect for me, even after enabling accessibi

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