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by zorked 10mo ago
Nice, but NES emulator is one of the most written pet projects anywhere, which makes it considerably less impressive.
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by zorked 10mo ago
And it works great for my languages. I really like it.
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by zorked 10mo ago
China and Switzerland seem to do fine with trains.
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by zorked 10mo ago
I think the disc release GP is talking about had files in DjVu format.
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by zorked 10mo ago
The document includes musings about a PC version of Sega Channel. So, kind of like Steam, but in 1996.
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by zorked 10mo ago
> This, along with the fact that salaries are absurdly low, shows a lack of interest by the Brazilian government, people, and industry, in the development of science in this country. No, it shows that the country is poor - the desire to
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by zorked 10mo ago
Thanks for fixing imaginary memory safety issues in /bin/cat...
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by zorked 10mo ago
$1B, how many hours of runway does that buy.
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by zorked 11mo ago
I use Unifi Policy Based Routing to watch a streaming service from my home country. It is so easy to setup and works so well.
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by zorked 11mo ago
You can create the concept of a legal VPN (tracking inside the tunnel) and keep that legal, though. Businesses will not mind.
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by zorked 11mo ago
It still creates a class of haves and have-nots which prevents forming a community. Plus you buy a version of it, and then someone else is on another version, and you don't have the same features, and the tiny community is fragmented.
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by zorked 11mo ago
Cisco did not go bust.
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by zorked 11mo ago
This industry has a history of forming cartels. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DRAM_price_fixing_scandal
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by zorked 11mo ago
Dotcom companies were basically stuff like pets.com, not things considered strategic with de-facto government backing.
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by zorked 11mo ago
This isn't even a great argument at a literal level. Nowadays nobody cares about Xerox and their business is selling printers, DEC was bought by Compaq which was bought by HP. Apple is important today because of phones, and itself was
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by zorked 11mo ago
How is it open if you have to pay for the unbranded version? I'm confused.
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by zorked 11mo ago
Never heard about the brown suit. But I heard about the drone strikes.
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by zorked 11mo ago
You will forget the bad movies, remember the good movies, and describe the 2010s as a great era.
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by zorked 11mo ago
The Bourbaki group was reponsible for the Mathématiques modernes movement which intended to reform basic education on rigorous math. This may be the world's best documented educational failure in history. It was tried in several countr
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by zorked 11mo ago
No, Linux is made of legends that never die.
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by zorked 11mo ago
It's a more stable unit than US dollars.
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by zorked 11mo ago
You are arguing for rigor, not for its didactics. Those are different. > had you, you would have instantly known how to do numerical differentiation and understand the limits, pitfalls, and other subjects like FEM No, you wouldn't.
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by zorked 11mo ago
Rigorous = a pain in the ass to learn from, but you gain imaginary points for the pain.
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by zorked 11mo ago
Typically in Microsoft redistributables there are terms in the license that says they can only be licensed for use with a Windows license.
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by zorked 11mo ago
I think people don't realize how inadequate the Unix security model is.
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by zorked 11mo ago
Perhaps the LLM was smart enough to understand that no humans were actually at risk in your convoluted scenario and it chose not be a dick.
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by zorked 11mo ago
In which situation did a LLM save one million lives? Or worse, was able to but failed to do so?
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by zorked 11mo ago
Are people who know of or remember Half Life even a significant fraction of the market anymore? At this point it's like releasing a new Fred Astaire musical. A new episode of The Lone Ranger.
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by zorked 11mo ago
> I don't see "soldered" anywhere, so I guess maybe they'll be switchable Unfortunately that's quite a logical jump...
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by zorked 1y ago
This article does not work due to many protections that were added since then, not only in compilers but also the kernel and CPUs. If you want to follow along, download a Slackware 3.0 ISO.

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