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Posted on 20-10-17, 03:35 in I have yet to have never seen it all.
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Posted by tomman
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24806089

The ultimate solution for your shitty Electron crapps: HTML/JS silicon.
"Hardware is cheap, making efficient software is not!"


(Disclaimer: not an actual product... but then, that would be an "interesting" application for FPGAs in CPUs? Suddenly Intel+Altera/AMD+Xilinx starts making sense, if only in a extremely wretched, twisted evil way)


If it WAS an actual product, I could only reply "everything old is new again."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal_MicroEngine
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/RTX2010

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Posted on 20-10-21, 03:53 in Mozilla, *sigh*
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"global" is another good one. Pretty much anything except primary.


And yeah, I feel like there's a bit of kneejerk me-too replacement. Words can have diffrent meanings in diffrent contexts.

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And I stand by my prior claim that we should be replacing "slave" with "maid" instead of "master" with "primary"

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Posted on 20-10-26, 04:04 in Games You Played Today REVENGEANCE
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Kinda surprised there's not a "render the entire game using RTX ray-tracing" version of Doom yet. Be way cooler than Quake II.

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Posted on 20-10-26, 10:03 in Games You Played Today REVENGEANCE
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I get very confused in Descent-em-ups.

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Posted on 20-10-27, 09:43 in Games You Played Today REVENGEANCE
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First on my good ole' 386SX-40 (Real Hardwareâ„¢ FTW!). It runs like ass, but it's still quite playable (what it hurts the most is not the anemic CPU, but the severe lack of RAM as my SX only has 6 megs of it, and since my DOS-fu never was strong, it implies running on Win95 which means "Welcome to Thrash City". I'm quite surprised modern PATA drives still talk CHS, but not SATA drives behind a bridge!), and thanks to my legit AWE32, it sounds glorious... even on headphones.

Sounds like you need FASTDOOM!

https://github.com/viti95/FastDoom

Optimized for speed on 386 and 486 processors with limited RAM.

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Posted on 20-10-31, 04:21 in Misc. software
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I would say "Fuck Netfix" too, but sadly they got into the anime production market too! (case in point: Little Witch Academia)

I don't THINK Netflix funded any part of the production of LWA TV. They sure aren't listed in the credits outside of regional distribution.
They slap the "Netflix Originals" logo onto any content they have exclusive streaming rights to, it doesn't mean they played any part in the program's development.

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Posted on 20-10-31, 04:28 in Games You Played Today REVENGEANCE
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... and oh boy, I didn't knew that DOS games and PCI audio really don't mix!...

Oooooooooooooooooh yeah.

Why in the hell am I dangerously stepping into audiophile territory just for Doom!?!??!?

Because it is DOOM!


Almost interesting fact: aside of Solitaire and Minesweeper, my first PC videogame (when I actually got a PC at home, back in 1998) was actually Doom 2, which was setup by the guy that gave me my first computer lessons.

I don't actually KNOW what my first DOS/Windows game was. We built a 486 back in 1994, I think(the Pentium Math Bug was all over the news).
It was probably a shareware demo off a "billion games on a CD" disk.
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I remember thinking Doom(shareware) was "cheating" by shooting me in the back, it "wasn't fair" that I could be attacked from places outside my view, and scrolling shooters were inherently better because you could "see everything". (Contra Dude was WAY more badass than Doom Guy.)



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Posted on 20-11-01, 20:56 in Games You Played Today REVENGEANCE
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First videogame: unknowable.
One of my earliest memories is riding home in the back seat of the car next to a brand-new Vectrex(doubtless bought on clearance), and the 99/4a is older than that. Also, arcade machines in the grocery store, pizza place, and Sears(Sears had a mini-arcade with a Space Invaders pinball, and I don't know why I remember that pinball so vividly).

My first console game is... PROBABLY Minestorm on the Vectrex. Relatives had Ataris(one had a 5200, which is now mine decades later), but I was probably too young to be trusted with them.

I have known video games longer than I have known me. That's... something.

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Posted on 20-11-04, 12:41 in U.S. 2020 Election
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It is less of a circus than I expected right now, but that is damning with faint praise.


I'm excited that there is, at this moment, a credible path to neither asshole getting enough electoral votes, though! If it does, it'll be the first time it goes to Congress since 1825!
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And THAT opens a fun-but-unlikely scenario: the House selects a president and the Senate selects the opposing vice-president, for the most dysfunctional White House since the early 1800s!

This is the most excited I've been since the Biden nomination ruined any chance of having a not-shitty president.

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Posted on 20-11-05, 00:15 in U.S. 2020 Election
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And now it doesn't look like it can go to Congress. Oh well, one more disappointment in this circus of a year.

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Posted on 20-11-05, 08:01 in U.S. 2020 Election
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American election is baffling: votes, electoral votes, media making crazy predictions the entire time the process is on going and acting like they know the outcome...


The media is the part that's craziest about it. And the media has an interest in making it as much of a circus as possible.
The rest of it makes sense if you understand one thing: The states elect the president, not the people.


Each state gets a number of votes equal to their representation in Congress, and each state's residents select who their state is going to vote for. (This is not required by the constitution, but it is how all fifty states have chosen to implement the process).
Ideally, states would distribute their votes based on how their respective populations voted, but only two states do this(Nebraska and Maine).

There is not, in fact, a national election of the president. There are fifty preview elections occurring more or less simultaneously.


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There's several reasons for it to be set up the way it is.
Some are still relevant today, such as ensuring the interests of all citizens are represented instead of just the ones in densely-populated states(though the winner-take-all approach most states use in distributing electoral votes damages that intent somewhat).
Some of those reasons are historical and don't make much sense anymore. The United States was conceived as similar to the European Union, where the states had a great deal of autonomy. The federal government greatly expanded its power during the Great Depression through use of a legal loophole*, so the idea that the states are voting for the president of the union doesn't really sound right anymore because the federal government is deeply involved in the daily lives of everyone.


The reasons for there being an electoral college made up exclusively of people who are not members of Congress instead of just having Congress vote eludes me, though if I had to guess I'd say it is to prevent members of Congress from voting for themselves disproportionately.






*Among the powers delegated to the federal government is the exclusive authority to regulate interstate commerce. The federal government takes the stance that everything affects interstate commerce, so they can pass any law they want. The argument is rarely tested, and the few times it has been challenged have seen mixed results.

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Kernel 5.8 just landed on Buster through the magic of backports:

- It fixes the 2D fuckery on R600, so I'm back to having a non-broken desktop, yay~ Still need to test UVD and stuff UVD works as long as you give up DPM, and it seems next Debian stable would no longer ship with broken video on your Radeon AGP retroboxes.

- It also breaks the nVidia blob because everybody at both fronts are a bunch of anti-user assholes, of course. The fix? Install the DKMS package from Testing - despite the obvious warning, it works fine, and it incorporates the much-needed 5.8 build fixes.
Yay!

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Posted on 20-11-07, 03:13 in Internet numbers bragging thread
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Welcome back to what passes for civilization these days.

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Posted on 20-11-09, 01:52 in I have yet to have never seen it all.
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https://youtu.be/dtIT-jr1hmQ

That time Alex Trebek hosted Wheel of Fortune, while Pat Sajak and Vanna White played.

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Posted on 20-11-10, 21:33 in Computer Hardware News
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you do need to proactively enroll in the program...

Yes. The program offering free ink for life that killed everyone two years later.

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Posted on 20-11-11, 01:21 in Computer Hardware News
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they even managed to kill the chip on the cyan toner, TWICE! (It's always the cyan cartridge for some reason!)


I blame Dr. Wily.


We've got a pair of Kodak inkjets. They've been well-behaved every time we've asked anything of them, and the ink's been this side of reasonably-priced.
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This is probably why Kodak shut the entire printer division down. Can't turn mad profit doing honest business.

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Posted on 20-11-14, 02:04 in Misc. software
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Seamonkey is Mozilla, tke product Firefox is forked from. It mostly still uses the Mozilla interface, which is mostly the Netscape 4 interface. They are very conservative in what shit gets rejiggered.

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Posted on 20-11-17, 15:20 in I have yet to have never seen it all.
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"The value of these planes lies in their scrap, stripping them down and breaking them up. Some enterprising person will buy the 747s for a song and do just that."

This makes me really sad.

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Posted on 20-11-17, 23:54 in I have yet to have never seen it all.
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In other news, to complete an horrible 2020 in aviation, the 737 MAX is about to be cleared to go back to the skies. $DEITY help us all...

Oh lord...

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Posted on 20-11-19, 12:06 in Mozilla, *sigh*
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Master/maido is objectively better than master/slave in every way that matters. I don't know why this is even a debate.

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