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by watersb 2y ago
A tiny Linux image along the lines of the Docker hosted base. It isn't trying to be a Docker or Alpine, it's just a tiny runnable image. I find it interesting and useful for running an x8_64 Linux under QEMU on my Kindle Fire tabl
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by watersb 2y ago
Intel has been thinking in detail about a streamlined x86 architecture that would ditch all of the cruft: 64-bit only, no memory segmentation, no real mode. https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/develop
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by watersb 2y ago
I have started to buy some technical books again, because the ebook version requires some insane locked down proprietary application to read, or causes the book to self destruct after a few months... No. I prefer ebooks for many reasons, an
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by watersb 2y ago
Much respect. There have been rough times, but the Reverend created a safe place to be for a while. It's hard to remember San Francisco during the AIDS epidemic. No cure, the disease often fatal, ravaged immune system succumbing to obs
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by watersb 2y ago
I once had the privilege of spending a day with Jim Gray, when he visited the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in New Mexico. At the time, he was interested in collecting as much astronomical data as possible, to create a unified model
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by watersb 2y ago
The violence of October 7 and Israel's subsequent razing of Gaza is abhorrent. Deciding you cannot support a company that directly provides tech to Israel, ok. But this is not a "Freedom of Expression" issue, or a First Amend
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by watersb 3y ago
Who here has attended a Tupperware Party? Bonus points if you've hosted one. I still miss Mom's lettuce crisper.
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by watersb 3y ago
Twirlip of the Mists agrees. https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/10039/what-is-the-...
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by watersb 3y ago
Excellent! FWIW, here's the link to troubleshooting vs code performance issues from the project's GitHub Wiki: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/wiki/Performance-Issues
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by watersb 3y ago
> I spent $200 to double to 8MB, and then another $200 to double to 16MB, and then finally, $200 to max out the RAM on my machine-- 32MB! Thank you. Now I feel a log better for dropping $700 on the 32MB of RAM when I built my first rig
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by watersb 3y ago
Optane products were sold as DIMMS with single-DIMM capacity as high as 512 GB. With an Intel memory controller that could make it look like DRAM. 512 GB. It was slower than conventional DRAM. But for AI models, Optane may have an advantage
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It saves on healthcare costs.
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by watersb 3y ago
I believe that modern x86 processors store decoded micro-ops in the I$ instruction cache. I always understood micro-ops to be fixed length. Sure, you have to decode the variable length instructions at some point. But that extra work, relati
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by watersb 3y ago
Apparently, not about duck racing. https://www.demingduckrace.com/
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by watersb 3y ago
A great Feature Request write-up for a GUI tool to manage WSL instances. Similar to the "Library" page for the macOS Parallels app, the management screen in QEMU, the starting page in VMWare Workstation, etc. Windows already has a
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by watersb 3y ago
As with humans and touchscreens, there are potential drawbacks — some familiar (“Participants in our study often emphasized the risk of their birds’ overuse, likening their screen time needs to those of children,” the paper reads); others
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by watersb 3y ago
https://xkcd.com/927/ :-)
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by watersb 3y ago
As ever, there's an XKCD for that: https://xkcd.com/2170/
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by watersb 3y ago
> 20 years ago... This paper caused me to go all in on evolutionary algorithms, and eventually burn out because I could never get any kind of promising result out of it. Wrong choice I guess! Wow. 36 years ago, I was super excited abou
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by watersb 3y ago
Always amuses me that the maximum icon size on macOS, 512 by 512 pixels, is larger than the original Mac display.
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by watersb 3y ago
Apple's ARM license may be an artifact of the shared history of the two companies. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arm_Holdings#Founding Development of the Newton handheld PDA led Apple to seek a capable, efficien
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by watersb 3y ago
Their astronomers and engineers at NAOJ are wonderful. They built (and paid for) the Atacama Compact Array, which forms the center of the ALMA radio-telescope and is part of the Event Horizon Telescope. https://public.nrao.edu&#x
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by watersb 3y ago
Mac app for web animation: Tumult Hype https://tumult.com/hype/ Resulting animation can be self-hosted on a web page. macOS-only, I believe.
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by watersb 3y ago
My platform hopping was very unusual... and not a business strategy. I had always been fascinated by the NeXT platform, and when it became available for (very expensive configurations of) 80486 PCs I had to try it. I did manage to get the d
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Apple App Store Features (non-Epic) Games and (healthcare) Epic App(imgur.com)
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by watersb 3y ago
The URL is a screenshot from my Mac, in the United States market, 1709874157 seconds after the Unix epoch: Fri Mar 8 05:02:37 AM UTC 2024 About 24 hours after Apple revoked the developer account for Epic Games, the landing page for the mac
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by watersb 3y ago
$2600 for the OS/2 2.0 SDK in 1990 That was a standard price structure for a platform SDK at the time. I purchased the NeXTStep SDK for $3000 in 1993, and I believe in 1995 I got the Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) subscription, whi
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CYBERDOG!
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by watersb 3y ago
> Multi-patterning: A method where multiple exposures are used to create smaller features. (Would like to know more) It might be better to start by considering ways to play with shadows cast by a single photolithography mask... The W
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by watersb 3y ago
And how often one of our five TV stations would be "Experiencing Technical Difficulties... Please Stand By".

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