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by vardump 9mo ago
You needed at least 12 MB RAM to run Windows 95 smoothly. There were plenty of 8 MB systems that really really struggled. Even booting up was a swap fest. I remember immediately upgrading to 12 MB. 8 MB was painful. Not all 386 class system
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by vardump 9mo ago
FreeRTOS is an odd one in that set.
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by vardump 9mo ago
My kids have been waiting for a Rayman sequel for over 10 years now. Is Rayman not profitable enough?
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by vardump 9mo ago
I wonder whether there are some prefixes that cause (some) CPUs to execute the instruction a lot slower.
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by vardump 9mo ago
Wasn't Tesla Model Y globally the most sold car in 2023 and 2024. And second most sold car in 2025 (Toyota RAV4 was the most sold model). Given that, objectively speaking I could not call Tesla irrelevant.
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by vardump 9mo ago
Most Android devices have hardware that's capable of rather interesting version of hardware sprites. Hardware real-time compositing with scaling and colorspace conversions.
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by vardump 9mo ago
A graphical object composited just in time in display scanning process. (Or in other words, a graphical object on screen that is not present in a framebuffer of any kind.)
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by vardump 9mo ago
> It's actually not great since Ethernet is over USB on the pi 4. Not true, you're thinking about earlier models.
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by vardump 9mo ago
K is for Kelvin, so probably not. kB or KiB, depending on intent.
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by vardump 9mo ago
ISDN (IDSL) was max 144 kbit/s. Two 64 kbit/s channels and one 16 kbit/s control channel all bundled together.
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by vardump 9mo ago
That might have pretty negative long time consequences. Nationalize a few companies and soon the corporates might relocate.
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by vardump 9mo ago
Definitely not working at all. It shows I've visited all around the world, lots of times. Nope. Just once, and from one location.
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by vardump 9mo ago
Neato XV-11 introduced lidar in 2010. Sadly they're no more.
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by vardump 9mo ago
You should be able to cache hot code and data in the SRAM. Although it'd significantly increase complexity.
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by vardump 9mo ago
At 8 MHz, a 68k can execute at most 2M instructions per second. So the answer is going to be yes, if this manages to execute one 68k instruction per ~200 cycles. I think executing an instruction is going to be closer to 20-50 cycles than 20
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by vardump 9mo ago
Agreed about the signal stalk. Correct me if I'm wrong, but the last I've seen the signal stalk is back in Teslas, at least in Model Y, but I believe in newer Model 3s as well. But "gear shifter"? It doesn't really
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by vardump 9mo ago
Playing Foldy Bird is not normal use.
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by vardump 9mo ago
What a great way to destroy a foldable phone.
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by vardump 9mo ago
Not surprised. Mouth represents a huge surface area and it's also pretty close to the heart. Infections in mouth area can spread quickly to our core organs.
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by vardump 9mo ago
The site has also an amazing night mode. Everyone should try it!
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by vardump 9mo ago
You can't render MOD songs to MIDI. Not even with modern AI. Obviously the MOD libraries outputted PCM to WinMM. That's the job of the MOD library. You're arguing with someone who was actually writing Windows (and DOS if it
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by vardump 9mo ago
No, the MOD file(s) (embedded in the .exe) were just played as is. There were a lot of MOD player libraries even back then and the CPU load was negligible. The players weighed less than 10 kilobytes.
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by vardump 9mo ago
I think most played Protracker, XM, S3M, IT, etc. modules , not MIDI. They typically used very short samples, a style which was called a 'chiptune', songs that were made sound like they came from some eighties microcomputer. More
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by vardump 9mo ago
I think you just made a lot of people aware of it. Although I doubt people care all that much, unlike you do. It's pretty insulting; as if people don't have agency and can't form their own opinions. No, it can only happen due
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by vardump 9mo ago
I think I’ve heard about NAFO being mentioned, but didn’t pay any attention to it. Thanks for the tip!
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by vardump 9mo ago
Hyper-power, seriously? Russia is not even a super power, it only has some nuclear weapons, that’s all. Just like India, Pakistan, France, Israel, etc. In all likelihood most Russia’s nuclear weapons aren’t even operable anymore.
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by vardump 9mo ago
Yes, if it's floating in space in a pressurized spaceship.
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by vardump 10mo ago
Only thing that surprised me was that GCC didn't manage to optimize it. I expected it to be able to do so.
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by vardump 10mo ago
No need to imagine, just listen to this: https://youtu.be/nhz3vHYX0E0 Ok, 8 SID chips, but it sounds amazing.
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by vardump 10mo ago
That's not true when the topic is operating system kernels.

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