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by spijdar 6y ago
Depends on who you ask, I think. I'm not into Amiga stuff or that knowledgeable, but I understand AROS is essentially Amiga 3 implemented on x86/ARM/PPC/M68K. However, it's not seen as being "Amiga" becaus
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by spijdar 6y ago
Malicious applications and internet malware weren't raging problems in the late 90s, but they were known and predicted dangers. You really don't need "user accounts" per se, but a way to restrict process privileges, of w
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by spijdar 6y ago
AFAIK the original releases of OS X by default did not require a login and simply booted to desktop, same as Win 9x/XP. The distinction is these systems, even if they would never ask you for a password or allow you to forgo a password
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by spijdar 6y ago
I'm not sure I'd use as strong language as "mutually exclusive", but to the point: when was the last time you used gold to buy your lunch? Get groceries? Pay for an Uber? Tip someone? I'm sure someone out there insi
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by spijdar 6y ago
> there's a reason we're not still using BeOS today for example (Haiku aside). You're blaming BeOS's failure on the BeBox? Every release of BeOS that was marked as a "full release" (as opposed to a developer
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by spijdar 6y ago
Computers being "commodities of commodities" is kind of a recent phenomenon. For a while, the norm was to do exactly what Apple is doing. It was much more common to design and market your own custom processor or, at the least, cus
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by spijdar 6y ago
Hence it being demonized by one half of Christianity, I imagine. Accusations of syncretism and heresy and magic and mysticism and other things that make/made the Catholic (and Catholic off-shoots e.g. protestantism) side of Christianit
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by spijdar 6y ago
> But isn't it just uses an LLVM codegen, same as Swift or clang? It's more complicated than that. I've been involved in a project (bootstrapping little-endian 32 bit PowerPC on linux) which needed a rust port. I didn&#x27
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by spijdar 6y ago
Neither possibility really makes more "sense" than the other. And it's effectively impossible to prove experimentally -- in a "many branching worlds" universe, you could never conclusively prove or disprove its exis
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by spijdar 6y ago
Given that novelWriter itself is GPL licensed, I doubt this is the problem. More likely it was a choice to avoid needing pandoc as a dependency, either explicitly (bundled or integrated in the code somehow) or implicitly (calling to the sys
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by spijdar 6y ago
> (And that's assuming they're not doing something like, well, what NovelWriter does, saving individual chapters and perhaps even individual scenes as independent files.) This is totally unrelated to the gist of this thread,
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by spijdar 6y ago
> You’ll never see it translated as “sons of God” in a book translated by Jews. Do the 70 Jewish authors of the Septuagint not count? In the LXX, it clearly reads "οἱ υἱοὶ τοῦ Θεοῦ", "the sons of God". The LXX precede
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by spijdar 6y ago
It's great that the built in ports cover all your needs, but my experience with laptops has been more complicated. You use a projector as an example of a use for your HDMI port. In my limited experience doing presentations, I've r
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by spijdar 6y ago
Looking briefly at ebay, the 5500 XT goes for around 250-300 USD, while the WX2100 goes for around 50-70 USD. And the 5500 XT has a TDP of 130 watts, vs 25 watts for the WX2100. The WX2100 is also smaller, and doesn't require additiona
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by spijdar 6y ago
You can't win every fight. In this case, they're (intentionally or not) making a trade-off between being easier for governments to censor, and easier for Amazon to censor. I guess in their case, the many governments in the world a
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by spijdar 6y ago
There are other uses, too. AMD makes low profile (?) radeon pro cards like the WX2100 which are smaller and have lower power requirements than their consumer offerings. I got a used one off eBay for my tower, mostly because I wanted somethi
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by spijdar 6y ago
This is really lovely. I wasn't aware you could even theoretically strip SIMH down to run on such a constrained target. What I love about this is it isn't overengineered , nor is it trivial or easy. It's a pleasant amount of
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by spijdar 6y ago
The last time I tried playing with older PowerPC Macs, I didn't have much luck with any of the BSDs. Linux's hardware support is just much better there.
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by spijdar 6y ago
As nix23 alluded to, there's two sides to this. FreeBSD will run on the G5, but the real target of this port is newer POWER8 and POWER9 hardware, which is much more widely available than older IBM POWER gear, is modern, and is the fast
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by spijdar 6y ago
Well first of all I was wrong -- the PDP7 did have syscalls, I'm just bad at reading PDP7 assembly and missed the dispatcher. Curiously, it looks like the sequence is entirely different, although there could be some magic that makes th
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by spijdar 6y ago
This is exactly why some people (including me) prefer this idiom -- right click down to make a context menu appear, nudge the mouse over a few pixels to select e.g. the back button, mouse-up and there you go.
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by spijdar 6y ago
So, a few things. 4.2BSD was targeting VAX, which is most assuredly a 32 bit machine. Further, the common denominator you're seeing goes back much, much further than BSD itself. Behold! "Version 1" of UNIX, written in just 14
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by spijdar 6y ago
I don't have a mac anymore, but a few months back I was using crossover on catalina, and can confirm that the DX11 translation works well. I can believe that even on Rosetta it'd still work surprisingly well.
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by spijdar 6y ago
The creators of plan9 are not involved in 9front, and I don't think they were ever involved with 9legacy, unless I've missed something. I believe 9front's (rather colorful) user manual pointedly remarks that the original au
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by spijdar 6y ago
> I bet both Intel and AMD aren't exactly in love with x86 at the moment This has been the case for, eh, decades now? To me it's almost a joke how many times Intel has tried to replace ia32 with a modernized replacement and mis
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by spijdar 6y ago
While I'm not sure I'd call it "bad", the webcams on even the 2019 MBPs (last I've personally tried) were kind of overwhelmingly mediocre. The front and rear cameras on basically all the android phones I've use
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by spijdar 6y ago
Interestingly, I've seen some internal Apple stuff get sent upstream to LLVM. One example is ILP32 support for AArch64, which is apparently used in the Apple Watch. It looks like all of Apple's modern SoCs are 64 bit only , and i
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by spijdar 6y ago
That's fair. I guess I meant more that "network" of related sites and interests, of which I just kind of mentally group together as "cat-v", for better or worse.
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by spijdar 6y ago
Exactly. It's why (I think) they haven't really spoken "publicly" about either directly, no listing on the "Software that rocks/sucks" pages, nor on cat-v or any related sites. Both approaches are pretty c
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by spijdar 6y ago
I think it's fair to say that these problems shouldn't be blamed on individuals, but systemic failure. In my imagination, someone should have seen this at some point. The system should have had safeguards to ensure that, regardles

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