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by somat 2y ago
The fun part about freedos is that it feels like a very modern dos environment. A lot of what you would call quality of life features compared to the last MS dos. I have always wondered why you could not have a 64-bit native dos, The answer
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by somat 2y ago
Complicating the issue is that this was also an early generation of chiplet so there are two levels of bga. motherboard to processing unit and processing unit to chip_actual. the latter commonly are referred to as "bumps" to disti
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by somat 2y ago
So your solution to the the insanity that is the threading model was to reinvent the process model in it... I don't intend to be mean, I just think the idea of independent execution in a shared memory environment is fundamentally flawe
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by somat 2y ago
I am getting them on openbsd, I assumed it was going to be some sort of certificate issue, I was going to update, but with these recent reports of Mozilla getting ready to turn full bore into a ad company, I might just wait until after Marc
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by somat 2y ago
Wasn't core wars a game (well a game if you find programing in assembly fun) https://corewars.org/
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by somat 2y ago
I always wonder, how do you prove your proof is correct? is it turtles all the way down? Another way to phrase it is, how do you prove your formal verification is verifying the correct thing? from one point of view a proof is a program that
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by somat 2y ago
The threat vector is not that you don't trust the program, pledge/unveil is completely unsuitable for that. but that you worry the program will be compromised while it is running. so the observation is that programs tend to have a
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by somat 2y ago
But openbsd does have a code of conduct. you can find it here. https://www.openbsd.org/mail.html#Netiquette
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by somat 2y ago
the largest pyramid on the planet. https://www.southernfriedscience.com/alberta-canada-is-the-p...
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by somat 2y ago
A similar thing I heard about the amish, is that it is not that they are anti technology, it is that they Don't want technology they can't control, basically if unable to make from raw materials they don't want it. Now I don&
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by somat 2y ago
We(by which I mean a person who knows how to ride a bike) do understand how to ride a bike. The problem in communicating that is a riding a bike is a skilled act. that is you cant get good at riding a bike by reading about it, and it is ver
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by somat 2y ago
I use that with mutt to view html formatted email. here is the 30 second tutorial. In .mailcap include the line text/html; lynx -dump -width=78 %s | sed 's/^ //'; copiousoutput; needsterminal; nametempl
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by somat 2y ago
I would generalize it to a compiler produces some sort of artifact that is intended to later be used directly, while for an interpreter the whole mechanism(source to execution) is intended to be used directly. The same tool can often be use
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by somat 2y ago
> I’ve heard that Torvalds build Git in 5 days And it shows. I am joking of course, git is pretty great, well half-joking, what is it about linux that it attracts such terrible interfaces. git vs hg, iptables vs pf. there is a lot of tec
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by somat 2y ago
It is also the case that the first 80% of a projects functionality goes really quickly. Especially when you are interested and highly motivated about the project. That remaining 20% though. That is a long tail, it tends to be a huge slog th
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by somat 2y ago
On openbsd it's cd /sys/arch/$(machine)/conf cp GENERIC CUSTOM vi CUSTOM # make your changes config CUSTOM cd ../compile/CUSTOM make https://www.openbsd.org/
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by somat 2y ago
The daves garage youtube has an episode where he documents the pitfalls of compiling 2bsd for a PDP-11/83. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBFeM-sa2YY basically it is an art on a memory constrained system. What I found
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by somat 2y ago
backblaze(or any large storage provider) is never going to recover data from a failed storage drive. Their whole value proposition is that they are designed so they don't need to. In fact if I remember correctly, backblaze does not eve
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by somat 2y ago
Which is why you always present your patent as if it were a mechanical machine. Then in court you need to prove how their mechanism of instructions for a general purpose solver(software) is the same as your patent mechanism. This is sort of
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by somat 2y ago
Sort of like the saying. 90% of the job takes 90% of the time. The remaining 10% takes the other 90% of the time.
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by somat 2y ago
This I feel is a fair complaint, I have seen it many times but I have to admit I am not a visual designer so I do not really understand it. Allow me to enumerate. rgb is a larger color space than cmyk, that is to say the colors that cmyk ca
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by somat 2y ago
yes, there is also a "cat" executable that is being looked at. In this case it is probably harmless, but I am not sure why they have no source for it. someone suggested it came from gvim. A proposal in the attached issue suggests
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by somat 2y ago
Some context into the importance of reduction gears from the battleship New Jersey channel. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hw-d6ymgA_c (Westinghouse Leasing Reduction Gears to Navy Ships: Fact or Fiction?) https:/&#x
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by somat 2y ago
This is largely the reason I gave up on rich text editors in favor of a plain text source and some sort of rich text compiler. There is an absolutely mind boggling amount of programming work that goes into making a WYSIWYG word processor. a
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by somat 2y ago
Yes it is, it's the PRC(West Taiwan) that is not China. Realistically, I get your point and you are correct, but also wanted to point out how politically tricky the whole situation is. Hell, depending on how you define successor states
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by somat 2y ago
The funny thing is that a typical horse probably has closer to 2 or 3 horsepower and a big chonkin draft horse up to 4 or 5 times. James Watt just picked the smallest possible value of horse when defining the unit so he could sell more stea
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by somat 2y ago
No idea. megacli was always a weird program you had to sort sneak on the server however you could fit it. it got renamed to cmdtool at some point(I think because intel were shipping lsi cards). Honestly I am fairly happy we no longer use ha
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by somat 2y ago
Personally, I dislike gnu style double dash and actively despise the double dash equals variant( --arg=value ). I just think it adds a lot of unnecessary noise to the command line. And after a bit of shower thinking, you know that alone tim
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by somat 2y ago
That is my case, same name as my father(no Jr however), so the family called me by my middle name, Which you get used to, to the point where I won't recognize it if called by given name. It is a bit confusing as I have to be mindful to
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by somat 2y ago
It is not that DC has more losses. it is that transforming DC voltage is non-trivial. With AC you just need a couple of magnetically coupled inductors, no moving parts, easy to build, efficient, reliable. With DC this does not work, you nee

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