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by rwmj 3d ago
For compilers yes, but if you look at the 8086 demoscene where presumably most things are hand-coded, 8087 instructions allow incredible code compression. eg https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=78045
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by rwmj 3d ago
I remember getting a 80387 (coprocessor for the 80386) and POVRAY renders going from running for days to still many minutes but you could sit and watch it.
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by rwmj 3d ago
Knowing how to go from whatever is fresh today in the garden to a meal is a cooking skill, yes. And how to preserve gluts of fruit, also a skill.
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by rwmj 3d ago
Shush there! Don't ask any difficult questions!
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by rwmj 3d ago
In a very narrow sense it may be true that Nvidia expects to make some multiple of the money invested (unlikely to be 100x but whatever). But you can't talk about that without talking about the wider economy. If the wider economy, an
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by rwmj 3d ago
I haven't been schooled in farming, but my understanding of food has greatly increased since we started growing our own vegetables.
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by rwmj 3d ago
We know that use of AI has a negative result for students: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/09/08/students-who-dont-use-ai-...
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by rwmj 3d ago
That doesn't change that programs doing this can be shady (or very useful).
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by rwmj 4d ago
You mean the closed source code that Red Hat acquired when we bought Qumranet for $100 million, then open sourced, maintained at a loss for many years, and is now (still) open source and available to everyone to use as they wish?
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by rwmj 4d ago
Yes, Red Hat dropped SPICE support quite some time ago. Apparently in RHEL 8.3: https://access.redhat.com/solutions/5414901 It's definitely not part of any current Red Hat product. See my other reply for why th
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by rwmj 4d ago
Not enough people want to pay for VDI basically, certainly compared to how much it costs to maintain it. SPICE at the time that we abandoned it "only" supported 2D and video compression, which is complicated enough, but everyone
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by rwmj 4d ago
GTA in real life.
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by rwmj 5d ago
I'm a Fedora developer and I can assure you that Fedora's behaviour when it runs out of memory is still terrible.
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by rwmj 5d ago
All I want is the oomkiller to always kill firefox. Somehow that's very difficult to achieve.
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by rwmj 5d ago
Next up: Hard working romance scammers out of work after police shut down operations.
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by rwmj 5d ago
One good thing is that we've extended UK residency and a path to citizenship to anyone who was born in Hong Kong before the handover (so everyone over about 30 y.o). It's pretty much the extent of what the UK could do under the c
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by rwmj 5d ago
So in other words, they're not withdrawing the toothbrush from sale.
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by rwmj 5d ago
I can find no other news sites corroborating this article. However I can find plenty of places still selling the toothbrush. It seems like nonsense.
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by rwmj 5d ago
> than the monkeys I sometimes work with who commit way too much code, or just plain commit the wrong code We've managed to emulate this behaviour in silicon now.
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by rwmj 6d ago
"I assure you I'm not, officer. Honestly. I've only had a few ales."
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by rwmj 6d ago
> it would not be until 1904 that driving licences and vehicle registration numbers were introduced A fun fact is that for many years, to get a driving license you just had to apply at the Post Office. There was no test at all. My g
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by rwmj 7d ago
https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/08/30/platforms/
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by rwmj 8d ago
We're running a migration from VMware to Red Hat Openshift Virt for one customer right now which is over 150,000 VMs. That's a big one, but five figure number of VMs is very typical. I gave a 5 min lightning talk about this a cou
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by rwmj 9d ago
VMware are shipping VDDK to backup vendors directly (and only to backup vendors).
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by rwmj 9d ago
The problem is how you access the disks that are sitting on a VMware server. VDDK allows you to connect and read them (in raw format, in fact) at a reasonable speed, and also understands sparseness and change block tracking.
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Australians will be able to switch off social media algorithms(bbc.co.uk)
9 points by rwmj 9d ago|1 comments
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by rwmj 10d ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_chart is even better if you want to just know about the subject. The Viking Mars Lander had an early colour chart (three times over, for some reason) as shown in this NASA photo: ht
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by rwmj 13d ago
I think this says more about how the cookies security model is stupid. They should always have been scoped to the single, exact name they were set from and nothing else. Websites would have had to be designed a bit more thoughtfully.
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by rwmj 13d ago
Arrest them, take away their cars. Repeat until they do "give a shit".
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by rwmj 13d ago
From the article: > The introduction in 2011 of “zone 30” areas on a limited number of residential streets and along school routes resulted in a 30% reduction in fatalities and serious injuries This benefits everyone.

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