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by someperson 5mo ago
Whilst i386 hardware continues to exist, modern Linux kernels should continue to support it.
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by someperson 5mo ago
Philosophically opposed. I'd like to see indefinite support powered through emulation under a modern CI server hardware with rigorous automated test-suites, with maintenance potentially supported in part with AI. But someone else shoul
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by someperson 5mo ago
I'm heartened that recent Linux kernels in 2026 can still target i386 systems! Between i486, i586 and i686 there's been a steady drumbeat of Linux distros and kernel itself deprecating support
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by someperson 5mo ago
Yes, it's called an escrow
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by someperson 5mo ago
Maybe they should have an escrow like Financial Times is available on NewsBank service with a 30 day escrow
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by someperson 5mo ago
I like to imagine it's returning a 500 error response asking you to email rhonda@ubuntu.com
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by someperson 6mo ago
The hard part of building a nuclear bomb is not designing a device to shoot two pieces of weapons-grade uranium together at high speeds using eg gunpowder. It's enriching and maintaining the stockpile of weapons-grade uranium that&#x2
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by someperson 6mo ago
They thought Vegas was at it's limit years ago, but no they found efficiency upon efficiency.
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by someperson 6mo ago
There a lot of desirable areas in a country and a fixed amount of people. The equilibrium between demand and supply has the supply curve impacted by a whole host of policy choices. Eg housing is impacted by cost of permitting, regulations,
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by someperson 6mo ago
It means that everybody copies Apple. Just like 3.5mm headphone jacks and MicroSD card expandable storage. They're hard to find even on lower end devices any more, despite more ports being a premium/pro feature in other market seg
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by someperson 6mo ago
> 1.2bn people escaped penury in those 25 years, bringing the global poverty rate down from 43% to 13% (using today’s poverty line). Economic growth did nearly all the work. A booming China accounted for about two-thirds of the decline;
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by someperson 6mo ago
The FBI created the purportedly encrypted "AN0M" messaging app [1] as part of a sting operation running between 2018-2021 used to catch drug-traffickers. Creating a fake app that people believe is secure or anonymous is an easier
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by someperson 6mo ago
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47651360
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by someperson 6mo ago
$294 million in funding raised by Rec Room until now. Hopefully somebody buys the app for pennies on the dollar and keeps it running with a more sustainable financing model.
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Rec Room announces upcoming shutdown(blog.recroom.com)
7 points by someperson 6mo ago|2 comments
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by someperson 7mo ago
Physics of jumping off vehicles is really fun and great
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by someperson 7mo ago
Nintendo Switch Online has insanely easy-to-use netplay for retrogames between consoles that were formerly locked to a single console.
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by someperson 7mo ago
Owning multiple Nintendo Switch consoles and have multiple people in the household using the Nintendo Switch Online subscription (the family pack) to play couch split screen type games magical. Far better experience than traditional emulati
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by someperson 7mo ago
Are you sure she is in the US legally? It sounds like she may have been thinking her EAD document expiry date constitutes a legal right to stay in the country (confusing expiry dates and documents is pretty common in the byzantine US immigr
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by someperson 7mo ago
This article is pretty bad, since ICE did not respond for comment it didn't even give an independent immigration lawyer's analysis on what happened. It seems like the woman may have incorrectly thought Employment Authorization Doc
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by someperson 7mo ago
GitHub has been unreliable since before AI. Though it's definitely gotten far worse. Seemingly the decline started with the Microsoft acquisition in 2018, and subsequent "unlimited private repository" change in 2019 (to match
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by someperson 7mo ago
Epic is 40% owned by Chinese conglomerate Tencent, which is publicly traded.
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by someperson 7mo ago
The Marvel Cinematic Universe is no longer "producing at quadruple the old pace". That peaked around 2022.
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by someperson 7mo ago
You don't need to watch the live-action version that's ideally difficult to distinguish between a real-actor version. But I'm sure it will eventually be available for those that want it.
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by someperson 7mo ago
A cartoon is cool but a continuation using original actors where possible and recast versions WITH ai video generation is something that can also happen in the future too. In theory it can be close to the real actors continuing it in early
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by someperson 7mo ago
> Triforce games can support two types of cards for saving: Magnetic Cards (magcards) and Integrated Circuit (IC) cards. Magcards are cheaper, fragile, and can only survive so many writes before failing. They have the added bonus of havi
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by someperson 7mo ago
I think the lede is somewhat being buried here. Dolphin is bringing back support for the Triforce arcade cabinet that was jointly developed by Nintendo, Sega and Namco that was dropped by Dolphin in 2016. Notably games includes F-Zero AX (n
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by someperson 7mo ago
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47313787
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by someperson 7mo ago
GitHub pull request comments not being threaded is really cumbersome. I've had to copy and paste the comment into a new thread to reply to them. Would also love commit message level comments. I miss that from Gerrit.
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by someperson 7mo ago
Just like with GPUs and Bitcoin they'll be a flood of old hardware on the market eventually.

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