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Re:VSCode's SSH Agent Is Bananas (2025) on Thursday September 24, 2026 @02:32AM (#49826986)
To use mosh vscode would have to do OCR because mosh transmits images of the terminal
Re:Tim King, AmigaDOS developer, has died on Wednesday August 12, 2026 @09:11PM (#49280675)
I'm guessing they just removed LoadWB from their startup-sequence
Re:macOS Container Machines on Wednesday June 10, 2026 @02:56AM (#48472471)
Bad legacy apps like Xilinx ISE
Re:macOS Container Machines on Wednesday June 10, 2026 @02:54AM (#48472443)
> filesystem mounting

How is this different to bind mounts

Re:Chuwi Minibook X: the netbook we deserve on Monday June 01, 2026 @03:55AM (#48353831)
Can it use an external display under Linux?
> More interesting is what happened next: an institute in Sofia was reportedly tasked with decapping the ICs, lifting the netlists under a microscope, and reproducing them with socialist lithography

Given that (afaik) the Apple II logic would have all been jelly bean logic or otherwise off the shelf parts did they really reverse engineer ICs?

Except you have to run Tahoe
With a PATA-SATA bridge support for CHS is up to the BIOS / OS

With a USB adapter though it's up to the adapter itself to support that which they generally don't do

Re:Amiga Unix (Amix) on Sunday February 01, 2026 @11:09PM (#46852299)
Hyperion charge money for the OS and don't pay the developers at all, if anyone is greedy it's them
Re:M8SBC-486 (Homebrew 486 computer) on Sunday January 18, 2026 @12:57PM (#46670221)
I'm guessing the Spartan II was used because it is compatible with 5V IO
Re:Is Proton leaving Switzerland? on Friday December 19, 2025 @05:05PM (#46331523)
They were tapping fiber links between datacenters
Re:The end of the kernel Rust experiment on Tuesday December 09, 2025 @10:55PM (#46213905)
Most software development these days is JS/Typescript slop, popular doesn't equal better
It's because they're ramping up for the midterms
Re:Trial by jury is a right that needs protecting on Tuesday December 02, 2025 @04:29PM (#46127112)
And the UK marches further into authoritarianism

Now they'll fast-track you to jail for social media posts

Get a second opinion
Re:M5 MacBook Pro on Wednesday October 15, 2025 @10:20PM (#45600767)
M1 Pro has 200GB/s memory bandwidth vs M5's 153
Especially since you could just use the serial port
Re:Signal threatens to leave Europe if Chat Control is accepted on Thursday October 02, 2025 @03:02PM (#45453930)
All the politicians are using it
> What is performative about this?

Re-architecting and changing your tech stack because you don't like the CEO of <company> is not going to change anything in the middle east

Imagine the world we'd live in if productivity wasn't wasted of performative bs
Re:Electron-based apps cause system-wide lag on macOS 26 Tahoe on Saturday September 27, 2025 @05:26PM (#45399448)
The thousands of "apps" wouldn't all be using this private api if they weren't electron junk
The endgame is to kill independent media
Re:iPhone Air on Tuesday September 09, 2025 @11:49PM (#45193017)
Unless you're a pro photographer who really cares about the camera improvements in the last couple of years?
Re:GNU cross-tools: musl-cross 313.3M on Monday August 25, 2025 @03:00AM (#45011078)
> Why have any glibc?

Maybe they want dns resolution to work properly

Re:SystemD Service Hardening on Tuesday August 19, 2025 @12:05AM (#44948162)
Systemd won because RedHat pushed it and made it a dependency of Gnome
Re:Build durable workflows with Postgres on Saturday August 09, 2025 @04:27PM (#44849884)
Just got roped into setting up an on prem temporal cluster myself :(

What causes the need for massive database clusters? Now I'm worried this is going to fall apart on us in a very big way

Re:M5 MacBook Pro No Longer Coming in 2025 on Friday August 08, 2025 @07:21PM (#44842706)
As long as you don't want to plug in any screens
Re:Donkey Kong Country 2 and Open Bus on Monday June 30, 2025 @07:58PM (#44429212)
Yeah I've been using Claude to review a bunch of m68k asm that I've been working on and it's been helpful at catching silly mistakes like using a direct address instead of an immediate value, clobbering registers, incorrect branches etc.

Of course if you just blindly ask it to write asm it will occasionally invent new instructions or address modes but it's very good at reviewing and making adjustments

We Aussies have many ways to use it as a compliment

Sick cunt, Mad cunt, Good cunt Etc

Re:Bill Atkinson has died on Sunday June 08, 2025 @04:06PM (#44219198)
> Turns out the competition had done the most stupid thing and built a read buffer

This isn't really stupid though as explained in the pdf

> Paradise had stuck a read FIFO between display memory and the video output stage of the VGA, allowing the video output to read ahead, so that when the CPU wanted to access display memory, pixels could come from the FIFO while the CPU was serviced immediately. That did indeed help performance--but not as much as Tom’s write FIFO.

VRAM accesses are contended, so during the visual display period the VGA circuitry has priority. CPU accesses result in wait states - a FIFO between the VRAM and the VGA means less contention and more cycles for CPU accesses

Why improve read performance though? Games accessing VRAM I presume would be 99% write. Perhaps it was to improve performance in GUIs like Windows?

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