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by frik 9y ago
Exactly, emulator are good for archiving. It allows on to play decades old games. Even some museums use emulators. Yuzu Switch emulator is made by devs of a 3DS emulator Crita: https://citra-emu.org 3DS is unique with its 3D dis
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by frik 9y ago
That's the related list of completed tallest building: http://www.skyscrapercenter.com/buildings?list=tallest100-co... At the moment Shanghai (China) is the cities with most sky scrappers in the world.
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by frik 9y ago
Win 7 is basically Vista Service Pack 1. Several minor things like the slow-as-hell copy-routine of Vista got reverted back to almost XP level-speed with Win7. Unfortunately the Advanced Search dialog of Vista got removed in Win7. Most Vist
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by frik 9y ago
Yes, we need a many-core CPU. Then every program can run on a core. And we can use MPI, CILK, etc to run parallel programs. Each CPU could run its own small operating system, or using a micro kernel OS. Writing algorithms in parallel manner
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by frik 9y ago
From a safety point of view, I take a 747 or A380 any day or a (now defunct Trijet) to a twin engine 777 or A350. Guess were flying hours over the open sea (Atlantic) is safer because of redundancy, the more engines the more can go out and
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by frik 9y ago
UTF-16 is one of these ill-fated developments that curse some languages & platforms (WinNT incl Win10, WinAPI32, Java, Flash, JS, Python 3) to his day. compareTo uses 0x19, which means doing the “equal each” (aka string compariso
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by frik 9y ago
As I understand the microcode updates get installed by Linux distros and Windows by updates. Microcodes are loaded by the CPU at every boot. The question is, how can one check if the CPU already got the microcode update? Can a OS running in
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by frik 9y ago
Okay, so how can we deactivate ASM.js and WebAssembly? (in the light of Meltdown and Spectre) The config in Chrome is broken, WebAssembly cannot be deactivated anymore with chrome://flags/#enable-webassembly , setting it to &
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by frik 9y ago
Thanks for the confirmation and inside info! Yesterday we only guessed it https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16069740 based on ARM CPU list, the RPi 1-3 CPUs ARM11, Cortex-A7, Cortex-A53 aren't in the list. Af
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by frik 9y ago
The last thing we need in hindsight to Meltdown and Spectre is running untrusted binaries in the browser aka WebAssembly. Btw deactivating WebAssembly support in Chrome 63 (up-to-date) doesn't work anymore!! chrome://flag
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by frik 9y ago
> mini VMs for every process using CPU ring protection Yes. We should really start to learn from history, MULTICS operating system had already 16 CPU ring support back in the early 1970s. MULTICS is the mother of UNIX, its smaller child.
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by frik 9y ago
It does not affect Raspberry Pi devices to my knowledge. Please provide source for your claims! The CPUs in Raspberry Pi 1-3 are not affected. ARM11, Cortex-A7, Cortex-A5 Raspberry Pi 2 v1 use a Broadcom BCM2836 SoC with a 900 MHz 32
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by frik 9y ago
Intel should now recall the affected CPUs and ship new fixed CPUs without Intel "ME" for Management Engine, another well known open flaw. In the end, hardware and software devs in the 1970s were right. Operating systems like MULTI
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by frik 9y ago
Typical for HN, the article got hidden. It's well known YC alumni have some additional HN mod permissions and Docker is YC S10 (Summer 2010 batch of YCombinator).
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by frik 9y ago
This shadow rate-limiting is so disgusting. The user doesn't know about it, she writes a comment or submit a news and sees a info message "slow down" which makes no sense at all (2 comments per day displays it, yah). A rough
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by frik 9y ago
I cannot upvote you enough, it's true. A380 is in its own league, super comfortable, super low noise. No 747, 777 or 787 can match the comfort. They are noisier, or have downsides.
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by frik 9y ago
3DMax, Maya, SketchUp, FreeCAD, SolidEdge, SolidWorks, CREO, CATIA, etc all have a traditional Win95 style UI with menu bar, toolbar and/or ribbonbar. Only Blender is the ugly swan, that still has this inhouse-style homegrown UI from t
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by frik 9y ago
I succeeded in installing the discontinued "Windows Live Photo Gallery" on Win7, despite M$ efforts to burn down all old pre-Win10 tents. On Win both Picasa (also discontinued), Lightroom (non-cloud also discontinued), and various
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by frik 9y ago
I may try out VLC 3 again. I had moved to MPC-BE (Media player classic home cinema black edition) due its superior UI and 4K hardware support and dual-device audio-output (PC 5.1 speaker plus over HDMI to TV). And MPC-BE allows one to quick
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by frik 9y ago
I am all for video-on-demand, as long it's free. So YouTube, Twitch, etc are great value. In case I need to spend money, I prefer to own the thing I pay for. So Blu-ray/DVD/CDs discs for me. The gathered video/music can
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by frik 9y ago
Are there plans to add sane UI idioms to Blender? 3DMax, Maya, 4DStudio, SketchUp, FreeCAD, ...basically all other 3D tools nowadays (since Win95 btw) have common UI with normal menu bar and common shortcuts and mouse-control. Blender is st
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by frik 9y ago
> AMD does not have this restriction But AMD/ATI cards are heavily bought by crypto miners, so it's almost impossible to buy one, even at an insanely high prize. And NVidia cards are compatible with all games made between 2000
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by frik 9y ago
NYT websites looks ugly on iPad. Doesn't someone test changes these days? All photos of the article have a white 50% transparent rectangle over them, make the photos look like really washed out. Fix your site...
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by frik 9y ago
Yes, and rather ironic that the maker of scanners, all-in-one printers, and backup solutions is incapable of preserving its company history by not even scan or take photos of its museum inventory.
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by frik 9y ago
SoundForge and Vegas used to be great software tools in the 1990s and early 2000s. Unfortunately you had to sell them. Thanks anyway for your story. Recently Sony sold them to Magix from Germany. Unfortunately the software is lagging behind
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by frik 9y ago
Why every insightful news gets hidden on HN? Has HN been run over by corporate guys? Only their news are left, and many other news stories per day that got many upvotes and/or comments get hidden from the frontpage very quickly.
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by frik 9y ago
How is the performance, how good does it scale horizontal/vertical? Could it be used as a replacement to Kafka message queue/ring? (me is still looking for a Kafka-like piece coded in Go)
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by frik 9y ago
Chrome is not the standard, BUT WebKit is! About 90% of all users worldwide use a WebKit(/Blink/KHTML) based browser on all platforms (and mobile is a lot bigger than desktop). Firefox/Servo, M$ IE/Edge, Dillo, Link, etc
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by frik 9y ago
I like the 3D animation movies of Pixir with non-realistic rendering (especially from 1990s, 2000s). Though like many I dislike the CGI movies that started with the first Transformer movie (with blue screen action) and now with the dozens o
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by frik 9y ago
Yes true. What I meant: Safari 5.1 (Win32 version, discontinued) comes with several MacOSX user mode libraries ported to Win32 DLLs. Older iTunes and QuickTime (like 5 years ago) came with MaxOSX libraries ported to Windows too - at least f

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