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by st_goliath 3mo ago
Yep. I remember a similar story as GP described from a friend back in 2008. The site he was working on that wasn't linked to yet was suddenly indexed after he checked out what it looked like in the fancy new "Chrome" browser
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by st_goliath 3mo ago
> The next hard drive was an order of magnitude larger than the old one, and so on. Ah yes, the good old "old PC" folder that you would find on pretty much every Windows PC that used to have another "old PC" folder in
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by st_goliath 3mo ago
On the 'help' page, the Cray-like machine from the film Sneakers is listed under "Honourable mentions": https://www.starringthecomputer.com/help.html From the site: > The following films do not appear
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Thomas Salme(en.wikipedia.org)
15 points by st_goliath 3mo ago|0 comments
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by st_goliath 4mo ago
> 8086 Segmented Memory Was a Good Idea. Yet the article goes about the most ass backward way of explaining 8086 segments and constructs a convoluted mental picture of dividing memory into overlapping chunks. It's really, really s
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by st_goliath 4mo ago
"Windows for WorkCubes" Michael MJD did a video on this recently, showing off necessary modifications on a vanilla GameCube and the installation procedures: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESV3Qib8eJI
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by st_goliath 4mo ago
They announced it, they haven't released anything yet. There is not a single real photograph of an actual device on the site. There's a wait list where you can sign up for eventual pre-orders, with an offer that they'll a
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by st_goliath 4mo ago
This project has a website that was previously posted on HN[1], I (unsuccessfully) tried to boot it on an actual 486 machine[2], as the site boasts about supporting that. The version of the SYSLINUX bootloader that it uses had a bug in the
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by st_goliath 4mo ago
This is really confusing brand/product combination. Who is it trying to appeal to? I'm pretty sure the people who have fond memories of growing up with a C64 or watching ToS are of an entirely different generation than those with
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by st_goliath 4mo ago
> He kept going. > He is still shipping. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/schiffen#Etymology_2 :-P
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by st_goliath 4mo ago
> GPU driver packages are already a huge collection of workarounds for bad game engine coding. And of course, browser engines also do the same things for certain websites: https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/blob&#
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TrustZone Intermezzo: Broken OP-Tee Memory Isolation on i.MX 8M(sigma-star.at)
1 points by st_goliath 4mo ago|0 comments
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Shouting in the Datacenter (2008) [video](youtube.com)
3 points by st_goliath 4mo ago|0 comments
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by st_goliath 4mo ago
In October of 2013, Ross Scott did a review of Test Driver III in one of the early "Ross' Game Dungeon" episodes[1]. IIRC in the video, he mentioned that he's fascinated by game maps to the degree of a slight obsession,
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by st_goliath 4mo ago
> Do you think terrorists are really going to name their Bluetooth speaker "bomb"? The bomb aboard Pan Am Flight 103 (the Lockerbie bombing) was hidden inside a Toshiba 'BomBeat' RT-SF16 radio.
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by st_goliath 4mo ago
> I would not be surprised if people are murdered at some point to reap the payout of some related bet. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borussia_Dortmund_team_bus_bom...
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by st_goliath 5mo ago
I wonder how many of those are actually still out there. According to Wikipedia, Intel kept making replacement parts (386 and 486) until September 2007, but personally, I have never come across one in actual use . My own career in this f
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by st_goliath 5mo ago
Here's the actual mailing list post: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wi+JvcuKF2NaD_rGiYrwkR6rx... Actual context: Linux 7.1-rc4 release, Linus remarked on a specific documentation change. The Register somehow t
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by st_goliath 5mo ago
> LLMs actually makes retrocomputing a lot more "fun" because you can slop out things that would take way too long to do by hand for pure art and exploration. Doesn't that kind of completely miss the entire point of the ho
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by st_goliath 5mo ago
> ...powered through emulation under a modern CI server... I have a 486 PC sitting in my living room. For shits and giggles, I've cobbled together a FAT12 boot loader that runs a program directly off a floppy and played around from
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by st_goliath 5mo ago
> de facto unenforceable regulations I guess you have never encountered the anger and wrath of a retiree who's into ham radio and has the regulatory office on speed dial.
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The Long Road To Windows 95 [video](youtube.com)
2 points by st_goliath 5mo ago|0 comments
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by st_goliath 5mo ago
This is why lab exercises are important. I remember first building some actual TTL circuits on bread board, I learned very quickly that this whole digital stuff is a lot uglier and messier than on paper or in the simulator. With sharp rise
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Registries Considered Harmful(words.filippo.io)
1 points by st_goliath 5mo ago|0 comments
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Old Computers Sucked(oldcomputerssucked.com)
7 points by st_goliath 6mo ago|0 comments
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Building a Homebrew Computer Like it's 1995 [video](youtube.com)
2 points by st_goliath 6mo ago|0 comments
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by st_goliath 6mo ago
> driving an alcoholic beverage is not legal Not sure, probably isn't street legal. But for the curious, it has been done before: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Fqpp-IAXF0&t=25s
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by st_goliath 6mo ago
Oh, this is just the usual Microsoft Stockholm syndrome. I've been witnessing this for over 20 years now and have been told that it has been a thing for much longer than that. "No, we can't switch to OpenOffice you weird Open
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by st_goliath 6mo ago
> sudo systemctl enable [email protected] :-) Let me guess, ".*@.*\..*"?
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by st_goliath 6mo ago
Yes, the underlying S3 texture compression algorithm was patented in the US in the late 90s. The last, relevant patent expired in 2018[1] Direct3D called its variants DXTn, later rename to BCn. From what I recall, Microsoft had some sort of

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