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by tech2 9y ago
Was this the OS that they were planning on replacing segments of AmigaDOS with to avoid needing to rewrite a modern kernel?
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by tech2 9y ago
Bringing back the Haast Eagle would perhaps be more entertaining.
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by tech2 9y ago
Every time I see headlines like these (likewise regarding Mac OS etc.) I'm left wondering if people realise where the software for these platforms come from. Without Mac OS there'd be no iOS apps (or at least, many fewer). And wit
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by tech2 9y ago
Or, for the slightly more insane approach we (and by that I mean people in my organisation prior to my arrival) decided that XSLT was the right tool to transform XML to Python. XML to XML sounds like a walk in the park after that. :)
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by tech2 9y ago
Large-scale low-cost metal 3D printing. We're _very_ close and it could be a game changer for a number of industries since the price for one unit is very close to the mass-production per-unit cost. It could allow custom-fit application
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by tech2 9y ago
Screen refresh rate (rate that each image is replaced) is a lot different to the frequency of the PWM applied to the backlight. If the backlight were pulsing at 60Hz people would be _very_ upset.
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by tech2 9y ago
And, just because I'm in a golfing mood: def gen_stats_tech2(dataset_python): start = time.time() totals = defaultdict(lambda: (0, 0, 0.0)) for product_id, order_id, quantity, price in dataset_python:
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by tech2 9y ago
Who doesn't like a good pointless optimisation day? In the same vein (and because what else was I going to do with my Sunday morning?) I ran yours under 3.x and came up with radim/iclaudiusx at ~430x, eesmith at ~600x, tech2 at ~8
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by tech2 10y ago
You may fulfill both roles, customer and product, but I think that would make you a bit of a rarity. They can upset you as a product and support you as a customer at the same time.
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by tech2 10y ago
So long as the trade-off doesn't upset too many, they may still end up ahead.
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by tech2 10y ago
Maybe, but like anything else there will be a calculation performed to determine how much it pisses people off as opposed to how much they might make by having people be suckered into^W^Wrejoin the fold. It's like Ford in the 70's
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by tech2 10y ago
You're not the customer, you're the product.
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by tech2 10y ago
Except that new apple applications have to come from Apple users. If the devs aren't happy with what's available, that means fewer applications. Fewer applications means fewer users, fewer users means a less attractive base for de
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by tech2 10y ago
Now there's an editor I haven't heard about in MANY years :)
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by tech2 10y ago
In-office, the II seemed like a battleship. I bought a 6MP second-hand at a university IT sale and that thing kept trucking for _years_ afterward. I'd still have it now if I hadn't moved countries.
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by tech2 10y ago
Rover has had its own failures though. Poor electrical build quality in a lot of older stuff (much like many British cars of the past, sadly. Never look behind the dash of a mini). The Rover 214Si for example had a _very_ common failure res
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by tech2 10y ago
I was looking at the Pro-ject Carbon a while back but couldn't quite stretch to the price, beautiful bits of kit.
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by tech2 10y ago
Opti brand zippers are also very good (like, on the same level as YKK). Not sure why they don't get as much good press.
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by tech2 10y ago
Built-in colour management is really quite well done. Corner-to-corner evenness in illumination, true 10bit per colour. You pay for the privilege though. Beyond the features they're also very nicely built. Really not cheap though (for
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by tech2 10y ago
The Faber Castell Alpha-matic pencil. Auto-feed, good cut-metal grip. I found this in a field in the early 90's, it still writes wonderfully, the feed mechanism is amazing. It's a device that's so perfectly fit-for-purpose. I
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by tech2 10y ago
I loved my 2000, but the 3000 was a step above (aside for the godawful choice of RAM chips). I loved the scissor-switch design on the keyboard switches though. These days you should get hold of an A600 and Vampire II - http://www
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by tech2 10y ago
I just disassembled my MX518 to clean around (and under) the mousewheel. This is a mouse I've carried with me from NZ to the UK, I've owned it since 2005 and it's still going strong. _Such_ a good mouse.
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by tech2 10y ago
The price for that 160k is horrifying though, esp. if the requirement is bursty rather than continuous.
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by tech2 10y ago
So long as you skip over the costs if you want any kind of performance (you need to configure a "number of accesses per time period" with costs scaling alarmingly the higher you go)
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by tech2 10y ago
That's a nice step in the right direction, thanks for bringing it to my attention. It does mean a fair bit of rewriting though which is mostly what my initial comment was trying to get across, it's a different world over there :)
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by tech2 10y ago
It took too long to go superscalar, pipelining was a bit of an afterthought, they _should_ have done more with the Apple contract. Because they didn't this meant Apple moved on to PowerPC and the bottom fell out of the 68k market. It&#
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by tech2 10y ago
"Better", but similar, would be to move to OS with the Object Capability model. Applications don't get access-by-default with security bolted on afterward, they get access to the objects they're initially granted and no
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by tech2 10y ago
Likewise, but mine was when I was first learning Linux in the mid 90's I'd written a script to clean out /tmp (since it wasn't a virtual fs back then) at boot. Problem is that it hadn't successfully changed to &#x2
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by tech2 10y ago
I'm interested in the possible security improvements in the change which didn't seem to be mentioned at all. Is all this data already in an NX area, or was it somehow already protected via some other means?
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by tech2 10y ago
Many systems (hell, even my almost ten year old mid-range Sony TV) have options to adjust audio offset. I'm surprised something like a projector or AV Amp wouldn't.

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