sillywalk

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   by sillywalk 3y ago

   I never got that. Even if just releasing it, not even open source, but for free, unsupported, they would get free software ports, exposure to potential commercial developers, and it doesn't really cost anything.
2. 902.▲
   by sillywalk 3y ago

   Specs: Alibaba T-Head TH1520 SoC 2GHz quad-core RISC-V 64GC Xuantie C910 3-issue 8-execution superscalar with out-of-order issue/completion/retirement 64KB I and 64KB D L1 per core 1MB shared L2 cache
3. 903.▲
   by sillywalk 3y ago

   This it? Looks like an ISO. https://archive.org/details/qnx-650-live
4. 904.▲
   by sillywalk 3y ago

   That QNX 6 GUI reminds me of BeOS
5. 905.▲
   by sillywalk 3y ago

   I remember this. Impressive. Here's how they did it: https://web.archive.org/web/19991128112050/http://www.qnx.co...
6. 906.▲
   by sillywalk 3y ago

   https://archive.ph/ZdFdR
7. 907.▲
   by sillywalk 3y ago

   That's the whole point. The Israeli President Says There Are No Innocent Civilians In Gaza. All water, food, and medicine are cut off. This is an open call for genocide.
8. 908.▲
   by sillywalk 3y ago

   Israel is an Apartheid state that has kept Gaza as an open-air prison for decades, getting worse since 2007, when the siege/blockade started and the people there were 'put on a diet' i.e. enough calories are allowed in so tha
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   by sillywalk 3y ago

   Also, Guatemala, 1954 Indonesia, 1957-8, 1965 Congo, 1960 Laos, 1960 Dominican Republic, 1961 South Vietnam, 1963 Brazil, 1964 Nicaragua, 1980 Haiti, 1991, 2004 https://foreignpolicy.com/2013/08/20/mapped-the-
10. 910.▲
    by sillywalk 3y ago

    GNU is Not Unix.
11. 911.▲
    by sillywalk 3y ago

    Has anybody played the videogame adaptation? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Have_No_Mouth,_and_I_Must_Sc...
12. 912.▲
    by sillywalk 3y ago

    I wish they would release a "pro" or "developer" version of macos, or a mode that shuts this stuff down. and also replaces the Flat UX horrorshow with something ~Macos Tiger-Snow Leopard
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    by sillywalk 3y ago

    The First casualty.
14. 914.▲
    by sillywalk 3y ago

    Has Musk ever posted anything non-shit? For a CEO of multiple companies, he sure has a lot of time on his hands.
15. 915.▲
    by sillywalk 3y ago

    "A code atrocity with the performance of a sloth on its 8th bong rip with a UX from hell." Sounds like Apple Music.
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    by sillywalk 3y ago

    Hasn't it been doing that since most of the people responsible for filtering out the worst have been fired?
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    by sillywalk 3y ago

    For those who don't wish to go through Phoronix, and are wondering wtf PuzzleFS is: "Puzzlefs is a container filesystem designed to address the limitations of the existing OCI format. The main goals of the project are reduced dupl
18. 918.▲
    by sillywalk 3y ago

    Not to mention the entire USB naming scheme. USB 3 ? or 3x3 or 2x or ...with Thunderbolt or not...
19. 919.▲
    by sillywalk 3y ago

    "GNU Mes is a Scheme interpreter and C compiler for bootstrapping the GNU System. "
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    by sillywalk 3y ago

    Israel's previous assassination of Hamas officials has culled those with crappy op-sec, a kind of perverse survival of the fittest.
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    by sillywalk 3y ago

    Interesting story about the attempt to recover a sunken Soviet "boomer" sub and it's nuclear warheads in the deep Pacific Ocean. New tech had to be invented...
22. 922.▲
    by sillywalk 3y ago

    " I think we have a first version of KDE Plasma > (X11 onyl for now) in OpenBSD. I worked with it a few days and many > already works out-of-box. I had no dramatic crashes to handle during my > daily work."
23. 923.▲
    by sillywalk 3y ago

    (This was all happening when I was a kid ...) also, they had their own FABs, with low volume, which would also be a big financial burden to keep updated. They sold their Hudson Fab to intel in the mid/late 90s.
24. 924.▲
    by sillywalk 3y ago

    Random Question, but as a DEC employee, do you know why their processors are prefixed with KA ?
25. 925.▲
    by sillywalk 3y ago

    Some kind of built-in records/database stuff in the filesystem seemed to be common for mini-computers (and mainframes). Like you mentioned, DEC had RMS(record management systems). IBM System/38 & AS/400 had a built in DB2
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    by sillywalk 3y ago

    I don't know if this is true, but Microsoft (or Cutler ) allegedly stole some of the MICA source code and used it in Windows NT. "According to inside sources, many portions of NT’s code and even the comments were identical to Mic
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    by sillywalk 3y ago

    OS/2 connection? A cursory search didn't turn up anything.
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    by sillywalk 3y ago

    The people saying we're close to tipping points are scientists, with research papers, not religious nuts.
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    by sillywalk 3y ago

    Wow, I forgot about that Altavista (and Hotbot and ...) The Hardware Behind AltaVista [0] AltaVista: AlphaStation 500, 256 MB memory, 6GB disk. AlphaStation 500's handle all external traffic to the site. They run a custom multi-threade
30. 930.▲
    by sillywalk 3y ago

    They also invested $Billions in the VAX 9000, to try and get back at the high-end mainframe market, but it was delayed, and the NVAX chip was almost as fast, but in a desktop form-factor for a fraction of the price.