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by spijdar 6mo ago
Wow. I get that "how well can it make SVGs" isn't the (or a) gold standard for how useful a model is or isn't, but the fact the Gemma 4 26B A4B I'm running locally can blow it out of the water doesn't give me h
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by spijdar 6mo ago
I think this PR is awesome, and I can totally see myself playing around with this at some point. Being able to create DOS executables of SDL projects is just ... cool! But I do wonder about the practicality. This would, I presume (never don
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by spijdar 6mo ago
What's a good resource going over the architecture of Windows 3.x and 9x? I know bits and pieces, like that it has a "VM Monitor", and there's support for this sort of thing, though the details are all over the place. Mo
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by spijdar 6mo ago
This isn't the sort of thing I'm personally interested in -- I've been playing with incorporating LLMs into my work lately, but with the caveat that the harness software has to be relatively simple and the models have to be l
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by spijdar 6mo ago
Wait until you read about the version they released for ARM, briefly! It had a dynamic recompiler which would produced ARM64 ELF libraries from Windows PE executables, allowing x86_64 MSSQL to run on ARM Linux! They ditched that once Rosett
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by spijdar 6mo ago
The same question could be poised of art in general. I know that response would (and probably should) ruffle peoples' figurative feathers, but I think it's worth considering. A lot of art isn't "necessary for society&quo
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by spijdar 6mo ago
I'm going to "partially" side with the author on this one, but with a big caveat: a lot of displays simply don't get dark enough to make light mode palatable, especially in low light conditions. With high quality displ
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by spijdar 6mo ago
Oh, this is something I'm going to have to try. Excellent work! I have to ask, since people who'd know will probably be here, what's the "ten thousand foot view" of Oberon today ? I'm aware of the lineage from
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by spijdar 6mo ago
Yes, you're right! I'm just dolt who's never checked what a .kext on OS X actually is. I had been under the impression that DriverKit drivers were quite a different beast, but they're really not. Here's the layout o
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by spijdar 6mo ago
IOKit was actually built from the ground up for OS X! NeXT had a different driver model called DriverKit. I've never coded against either, but my understanding was they're pretty different beasts. (I could be wrong) That said, ind
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by spijdar 6mo ago
It's worth mentioning that "Gemini Nano 4" is going to be Gemma 4, and presumably when it becomes the default Nano model, it should improve performance quite a bit. (It's currently available for testing in Android's
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by spijdar 6mo ago
Realistically, a lot of people do this for porn. In my experience, though, it's necessary to do anything security related. Interestingly, the big models have fewer refusals for me when I ask e.g. "in <X> situation, how do yo
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by spijdar 6mo ago
No? Isn't the article about Codex, which is roughly equivalent to "Gemini CLI" and Google's Antigravity? Google's subscriptions include quotas for both of those, albeit the $20 monthly "Pro" plan has had i
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AICore Developer Preview Supports Gemma 4 on Pixel TPUs(android-developers.googleblog.com)
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by spijdar 7mo ago
Ah, handy! Though it can't always be true, at least for manual configuration ;-) I have two VPSes with v6 addresses (the others don't have it configured...), and both only have LL and their permanent Internet addresses. My under
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by spijdar 7mo ago
That's why I specified if one was using a static v6 network. There are several reasons why this might not be true, from ipv6 CGNAT like what cell providers do, to ISP rotation, to randomization in your own network, to NATing from the p
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by spijdar 7mo ago
> your external IPv4 address rarely changes Bad generalization. I'm sure policy about this differs a lot, but my consumer ISP definitely reassigns my home's v4 address periodically. I don't track it closely, but it seems t
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by spijdar 7mo ago
I'm sure this is true, and that there will always be a (likely disproportionately) loud group of complainers, many of whom will forget about their complaints. I haven't really publicly complained about Tahoe before, and I don&#x27
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by spijdar 7mo ago
This is a fantastic way of putting it. When I was 20, I preordered a pixel 2 after watching the launch presentation from my university library. One of the "bonuses" for doing so was Google's new headset you put your phone i
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by spijdar 7mo ago
What this doesn't really address to me is why DR-DOS. That documentation uses a lot of flowery language to say nothing or close to nothing. I'm too young to have used DR-DOS in anger (so I may be missing some key feature), but i
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by spijdar 7mo ago
Big endian MIPS, no less! At least initially.
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by spijdar 7mo ago
Funny, most of what you described sums up the Alpha architecture. 8KB pages + huge pages and, initially, only word-addressable memory, no byte access. (Of course, it only took a few years for this to be rectified with the byte-word extensio
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by spijdar 7mo ago
I was saying that NetBSD works on those older systems, while it either has no support (64-bit POWER) or spotty support (modern ARM) on more modern platforms. I've got netbooting set up for all of them, and it's "useful"
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by spijdar 7mo ago
Yeah, NetBSD's support for modern hardware isn't amazing compared to Linux. I love it (and run my personal web server on it!), but the portability thing feels like a meme from the 4.4BSD days, where it ran on basically every works
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by spijdar 8mo ago
To add to this: I can appreciate the significance of GNU, especially in early Linux distributions, but the position of "GNU was the real OS, Linux was just the kernel" is also deceptive, IMO. Sure, a lot of the userspace was GNU,
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by spijdar 8mo ago
For that matter, the "second" version of UNIX ran on a PDP-11/20 with no memory protection or MMU, and there were a few versions after intended to run on similar hardware (LSX, MINI-UNIX). The PDP-11's MMU option was clo
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by spijdar 8mo ago
Yeah, I probably went too far in saying it's just the userland, but I'll insist it's more complicated than saying it was based on 4.4BSD-Lite2. I haven't done a proper deep dive yet, but I can tell that it wasn't st
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by spijdar 8mo ago
More succinctly: - Darwin has no direct BSD ancestor. Unlike {Net,Free,Open}BSD and the more obscure ones (Bitrig, anyone?) there was never a point in time where it directly "connects" to the BSD lineage. The other BSDs all can tr
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by spijdar 8mo ago
"Nonsense" is a strong word ;-) Here's a contrarian-squared take: in reality, the question "Is macOS a BSD" is malformed. It makes some sens, but is more confusing than it's worth. Yes, NeXT was built on Mach,
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by spijdar 8mo ago
Every version of NeXT is actually catalogued and can be run in the browser at: https://infinitemac.org/ I'm pretty sure the CERN WorldWideWeb application is also included in the "bonus software" HDD, but I&#x

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