Narishma

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by Narishma 4d ago
Title should be "Your C compiler can undo your security checks".
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by Narishma 5d ago
It doesn't say anywhere in that document that you can downvote posts.
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by Narishma 5d ago
Linux and the software running on it are generally very bad at handling out-of-memory situations.
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by Narishma 5d ago
How many points?
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by Narishma 8d ago
Why bother with people then, if the AI is going to do their work.
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by Narishma 19d ago
> I think a lot of the value of a total rewrite in C is that it is a buildable executable that should be runable on virtually any system That may be true in general, but in this particular instance the rewrite requires a 64-bit system wi
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by Narishma 25d ago
What do you mean?
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by Narishma 27d ago
No, they probably mean tiny libraries.
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by Narishma 27d ago
Where do you see the low contrast?
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by Narishma 27d ago
This is a much more substantial changelog than I was expecting for something that is often presented as a deprecated project.
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by Narishma 28d ago
OP wasn't talking about code but aesthetics.
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by Narishma 28d ago
Most likely because of AI slop.
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by Narishma 1mo ago
64, not 640.
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by Narishma 1mo ago
Yes, memory was the main issue. The PC launched with 64KB of RAM. Technically there was a model with 16KB of RAM and no disk drive but I don't think they produced or sold many of those.
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by Narishma 1mo ago
It probably looked much less neon bright on the displays of the time. Same for Windows 2.0.
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by Narishma 1mo ago
Because 'good' is rather subjective when it comes to ISAs.
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by Narishma 1mo ago
MIPS has switched to RISC-V.
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A third world engineer responds to “RISC-V: They should have known better”(rvembedded.com)
625 points by Narishma 1mo ago|333 comments
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by Narishma 1mo ago
Why is that funny?
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by Narishma 1mo ago
Mid 90s rather than early 2000s.
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by Narishma 1mo ago
The law just entered into effect today.
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by Narishma 1mo ago
Not sure what you mean. The equivalent on the internet is probably spam and scam emails and they're also typically blocked by your email provider.
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by Narishma 1mo ago
Your IP address doesn't automatically correspond to your city, even without a VPN.
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by Narishma 1mo ago
4GB is completely fine in Windows 7.
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by Narishma 1mo ago
If the system requirements for those games are low and your host machine fast, your best bet is probably something like 86Box.
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by Narishma 1mo ago
> Hand-written real-mode 8086. No C, no linker, no runtime library. More like hand-prompted...
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by Narishma 1mo ago
Because code is invisible to the end user while art is right in their face.
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by Narishma 1mo ago
Yes.
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by Narishma 2mo ago
Yes, I think the only somewhat big distro that still has x86 support is Gentoo.
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by Narishma 2mo ago
Atom.

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