st_goliath

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by st_goliath 8mo ago
Have you tested this on an actual 486? Sadly, it does not seem to boot on my 486 DX2, I even stuffed 32M of RAM into the machine (8*4M, maximum the mainboard supports), more than the recommended 20M. I have copied the floppy image from the
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Microsoft Wine Guide(winworldpc.com)
2 points by st_goliath 9mo ago|1 comments
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by st_goliath 9mo ago
You might be thinking of ar , the classic Unix ARchive that is used for static libraries? The format used by `ar` is a quite simple, somewhat like tar, with files glued together, a short header in between and no index. Early Unix eventuall
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by st_goliath 9mo ago
Yes, one can only hope Ken Shirriff eventually happens to come across one of those models, but I guess they are probably very rare these days. Besides the multiplication, the 386 had quite a number of teething problems[1], including occasio
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1961 Goldsboro B-52 crash(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by st_goliath 9mo ago|0 comments
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by st_goliath 9mo ago
Fun little tidbit: The 0x40-0x4f range used for the REX prefix actually clashes with the single-byte encodings for increment/decrement. When AMD designed the 64 bit extension, they had run out of available single-byte opcodes to use as
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by st_goliath 9mo ago
If you have JavaScript enabled, that is. JWZ at least does the redirect on the server side. The following is pulled in from ` https://soc.me/assets/js/turnBack.js `: const undesirables = [ "news.yco
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by st_goliath 9mo ago
> Thought for 37s > ... > Ah - that makes sense, that's why it's on fire oh how very relatable, I've had similar moments. I knew about SEDs (smoke emitting diodes) and LERs (light emitting resistors), but what do you
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by st_goliath 9mo ago
> how to exceed the normal limits on Linux kernel modules. Uh, what limits? I'm not aware of anything that would stop your module, once probed, from reaching around the back of the kernel and futzing around in the internals of ano
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by st_goliath 9mo ago
A lovely video from a Shenzhen factory, mass producing disposable vapes, in case someone's interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WohEiRvn2Dg+ Most likely a promotional from the looks of it. I myself stumbled over
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AI-generated police report states Utah officer was turned into a frog(upi.com)
5 points by st_goliath 9mo ago|1 comments
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by st_goliath 9mo ago
The icon is supposed to represent one of those waving cat figurines: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maneki-neko It has some long tradition placing those visibly on the podium. As the story goes, the idea is that you can
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by st_goliath 10mo ago
That literally is quick access, it does the same thing in both cases, trying to get rid of the linear scan and having to plow through data unnecessarily. If the archive is on a hard disk, the program reads the directory at the end and the
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by st_goliath 10mo ago
> ... a partial download would be totally useless ... no, not totally . The directory at the end of the archive points backwards to local headers, which in turn include all the necessary information, e.g. the compressed size inside the
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by st_goliath 10mo ago
> rodent controlled surveillance drones See also: WWII era, pigeon-controlled guided bomb: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Pigeon
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by st_goliath 10mo ago
Much smaller than that, some might even say a utility box is overkill: https://old.reddit.com/r/techsupportgore/comments/nvwcuh/the...
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by st_goliath 11mo ago
You can use `git format-patch` to export a range of commits from your local git tree as a set of patches. You can then use `git send-email` to send that patch set out to the appropriate mailing list and maintainers (or just do it in one ste
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PicoIDE – An open IDE/ATAPI drive emulator(picoide.com)
186 points by st_goliath 11mo ago|46 comments
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Encoding x86 Instructions(www-user.tu-chemnitz.de)
106 points by st_goliath 1y ago|39 comments
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How programs get run: ELF binaries (2015)(lwn.net)
141 points by st_goliath 1y ago|11 comments
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by st_goliath 1y ago
Now that's funny. The irony here is that, besides German (native), I do speak some HSK4-ish Mandarin as a 3rd language. A few years ago, a single line Chinese comment next to a blob of magic hex values did help me figure out a bug in
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by st_goliath 1y ago
> ... don't require absurdly bloated development environments. Outside hobbies, I've been mostly away from this field for little over a decade by now. Is it still that bad? I remember back then, every single professional electr
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IPv9 (China)(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by st_goliath 1y ago|0 comments
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by st_goliath 1y ago
> I didn’t care about the 1,000 words a single person wrote about their trip abroad. There was no way to interact with it? I wonder, have you ever read a novel? Hundreds of pages a single person wrote about a story that happened (usual
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Realtime Linux Beyond Preempt_rt: Xenomai's Dual-Kernel Approach [video](youtube.com)
2 points by st_goliath 1y ago|0 comments
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Steve Jobs and NeXT Part 2: The Long Road to Mac OS X [video](youtube.com)
9 points by st_goliath 1y ago|2 comments
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A fork for the time-zone database? (2021)(lwn.net)
2 points by st_goliath 1y ago|0 comments
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Attempting to Build a Radio to Receive Pictures from Space Like It's 1994 [video](youtube.com)
1 points by st_goliath 1y ago|0 comments
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by st_goliath 1y ago
There are `asprintf` and `vasprintf` (takes a va_list argument). Those allocate a sufficiently sized buffer that can be released with `free`. Yes, it's a GNU extension, but it's also supported by various BSDs [1][2][3], and yes, M
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by st_goliath 1y ago
> This is a thing I've seen a bunch of times recently ... > ... in the comments everyone ignores the content and argues about the headline. Surely you must be new to Hacker News…

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