sillywalk

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by sillywalk 5y ago
I believe because the original AS/400 hardware used a proprietary CPU (Called IPMI ?) and proprietary RAM that had extra space for tag bits. When the AS/400 was moved to POWER processors, IBM added extensions for OS/400 call
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by sillywalk 5y ago
Unfortunately, none of them suck billions of tons of CO2 out of the atmosphere, which is now required to actually have a future. Also, slides? Why not just one page.
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by sillywalk 5y ago
You don't need to tell them, they can figure it out themselves.
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by sillywalk 5y ago
This. The Bluetooth menu icon used to change if a device was connected. Also devices under the Bluetooth menu used to say connected, and not just turn a light-blue shade.
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by sillywalk 5y ago
Even the best case scenarios for the future are looking increasingly grim. Some people might not want to bring a child into a dystopian nightmare.
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by sillywalk 6y ago
THIS. I still have to think when I look at the control center on my phone, uh.. moon == Do not disturb, and is it on or not?? The faux-3d let you know. I also wish there was text under the controls. I've resorted to turning on some of
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by sillywalk 6y ago
From the website, it looks like development stopped in 2016. I read some of the papers on Minix3, and the Loris storage stack. From the bits I understood, it looks pretty interesting.
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by sillywalk 6y ago
Beating/gassing/terrorizing peaceful protesters en-masse, is THE POINT. Especially when so many cop unions are totally unaccountable, and run by cowardly authoritarian sadists. Brown shirts for Trump. Who are the rioters? The cops
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by sillywalk 6y ago
That sad fact is that backing murderous dictators was and is standard policy, not just in Indonesia, and not just during the Cold War.
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by sillywalk 6y ago
I find Techno-Utopianism vaguely amusing. We are currently residing on a better "Worldship" than we could ever engineer, and we've been knowingly destroying our life support systems in the face of ever-growing warnings from s
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by sillywalk 7y ago
"Someone once wrote: Hell is the impossibility of Reason." I kind of wish the press didn't report on his 'press briefings'. Why even bother sending people to listen to his incoherent babble?
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by sillywalk 7y ago
I'd have to say my favorite problem with the ship is that it has to stop flight operations if the new arresting gear needs repairing, and if one catapult needs repairs, it cannot be independently shut-down, all four need to be turned o
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by sillywalk 7y ago
Incredibly, but not surprisingly, they've already built 450+ aircraft, but I believe just started Operational Evaluation & Testing in December 2018. When more flaws are found, the aircraft will need retrofits. Same thing goes for t
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by sillywalk 7y ago
I believe the O2's chipset was actually called CRM. The 1st gen Visual Workstations had a different chipset called 'Cobalt', but also had a Unified Memory Architecture.