nizmow

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by nizmow 9d ago
I think that’s the point.
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by nizmow 12d ago
The biggest thing for me was just being brave enough to go for it and give it a try, and then learning how to undo your mistakes. Re-do things you’re not happy with with braid, reflow things with flux, etc. I’ve torn vias out of old valuabl
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by nizmow 1mo ago
I love this, but feedback to the author: the combination of a quirky font and quirky colours make this incredibly hard to read.
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by nizmow 1mo ago
A lot more than I thought! I wonder if that’s _requires_ FPU or can use an FPU.
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by nizmow 1mo ago
How many DOS games used an FPU though? I can only think of one.
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by nizmow 1mo ago
Sadly, neither. VGA has two completely different pixel clocks and wiring that up in MiSTer is pretty difficult.
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by nizmow 1mo ago
It’s a neat core, but z386 is where the action is right now ( https://github.com/nand2mario/z386_MiSTer ). Interestingly this core doesn’t output a proper analogue signal. I always wondered why until I recently tried to
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by nizmow 1mo ago
Quake was a DOS game.
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by nizmow 1mo ago
This was actually just how CDDA music tracks worked in almost all CD games in the late 90s. :)
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by nizmow 1mo ago
The context for that is in Gruber’s original post, I believe.
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by nizmow 2mo ago
Kind of a pointless nitpick, but you’d have been very lucky to own a 386 in 87-88, the 486 wouldn’t be mainstream until 1992 or so.
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by nizmow 1y ago
A TNT was from the late 90s. In 2006 512MB consumer GPUs were common.
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by nizmow 1y ago
Who hurt you?
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by nizmow 1y ago
I suspect this will become increasingly common with companies that allow remote work. Atlassian is a large Australian tech employer that is full remote, and this is definitely the case there - performance reviews twice yearly and a very hig
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by nizmow 3y ago
Doom didn’t even use the Windows networking stack. You just chose IPX from the multiplayer setup menu.
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by nizmow 3y ago
Anecdata: in Sydney, Australia, 5G on Telstra is incredibly fast (I get more than 1 gigabit at my apartment, but more typical / busier cells seem to be between 300-500Mb), and my experience using it mostly just for web browsing is it’s
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by nizmow 4y ago
You're wrong. Everywhere I've worked the general pattern is to build using Windows/Linux and deploy entirely on Linux (or Docker).
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by nizmow 4y ago
Quite unnecessary. I’d almost suspect you’re not actually European.
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by nizmow 5y ago
What on earth do people do besides eating at home from a rotating set of straightforward recipes? Honestly curious. I’m the main cook in my home and we do eat out every other week, but who has time for that much experimentation?
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by nizmow 5y ago
FaceTime is also free, and Telegram’s audio and video quality is vastly inferior.
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by nizmow 5y ago
On the other hand, the only real reason you’d want to run AIX is because you had to, because you had the hardware and there was no other option.
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by nizmow 5y ago
How do you install Java? First thing you'd do is download the JDK. Is the JDK a language? No, it's not.
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by nizmow 5y ago
This is probably more of a Windows problem than a .NET/C# problem, but it's a very real problem.
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by nizmow 6y ago
Typically though, FAANGs still solve their problems with boring technologies.
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by nizmow 6y ago
Murdoch’s News Corp.
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by nizmow 6y ago
I've recently started a job in a very complex business domain, but sadly they're using NoSQL for everything. I've known for a while about the technical tradeoffs of NoSQL, but until now I'd never experienced that the lac
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by nizmow 6y ago
Strangely enough, they did exactly as suggested when batteries started wearing out on iPhones (unable to reliably provide the voltage at full drain for peak performance) and you're the exact kind of person who jumped on them for planne
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New Qt Releases Might Now Be Restricted to Paying Customers for 12 Months(phoronix.com)
6 points by nizmow 6y ago|1 comments
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by nizmow 7y ago
How do you remote into Paperspace instances? Is there a custom client that performs well? Every few months I'll tinker with setting up a Linux desktop in some generic cloud provider, but the lack of good remote desktop X solutions is a
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by nizmow 7y ago
Follow up: yes, you're all correct, but sometimes things in an organisation aren't perfect and I've been in many situations where the database is the bottleneck with little power to change it. Now that I think about it, it&#x

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