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Lab Notes | Running NetBSD 10.1 on a 1998 Toshiba laptop

idatum.net

netbsd retrocomputing
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Perfect Desk

wordpress.com

Early in my computer related life – that means being 15+ years old – especially at...
Early in my computer related life – that means being 15+ years old – especially at parents house – I had a prefabricated desk with stand for monitor and for all other possible things. Printer on top. CD/DVD all over the place. Things like that. The Past Some time later my room needed complete ‘rework’ and I had some...

design freebsd
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ChatGPT search vs. Google: A deep dive analysis of 62 queries

searchengineland.com

ai
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Lua is so underrated

bearblog.dev

lua
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The Matrix Holiday Special 2024

matrix.org

Hi all, Once again we celebrate the end of another year with the traditional Matrix Holiday...
Hi all, Once again we celebrate the end of another year with the traditional Matrix Holiday Special! (see also 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016 and 2015 just in case you missed them). This year, it is an incredible relief to be able to sit down and write an update which is overwhelmingly positive - in ...

distributed
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The Unbearable Slowness of Being: Why do we live at 10 bits/s?

arxiv.org

cogsci
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USB-C head-to-head comparison

lumafield.com

Apple’s new iPhone 15 marks a disruptive departure from previous models. The 11-year reign of the...
Apple’s new iPhone 15 marks a disruptive departure from previous models. The 11-year reign of the Lightning cable is over, and the USB-C era has begun — leaving us wondering what sets one charger apart from another. Does Apple’s Thunderbolt 4 cable really warrant its $129 price tag? Or does a $5 cable get the job do...

hardware
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Accurate Timekeeping in a DAW - Billy Messenger

billydm.github.io

programming
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Can AI do maths yet? Thoughts from a mathematician.

wordpress.com

ai math
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One day with Zig, Raylib, and jj — Isaac Clayton

slightknack.dev

2024-12-25 Merry Christmas! Back from the mission, first semester at MIT is in the books! Now...
2024-12-25 Merry Christmas! Back from the mission, first semester at MIT is in the books! Now I am at home, with family, on a break from school. A couple days ago, I was telling my younger brother how cool Zig (the programming language) was. He was like, “if Zig is so cool, why don’t you … like, use it?” Oof. So I i...

games vcs zig
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Server-Sent Events (SSE) Are Underrated

igorstechnoclub.com

api web
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what's some of your favorite software? | Lobsters

lobste.rs

Merry Christmas, Lobsters! I’ve been spending lot of time complaining (in meat space) lately about crappy...
Merry Christmas, Lobsters! I’ve been spending lot of time complaining (in meat space) lately about crappy software I have to use, and I want to take a little time to focus instead on software that I quite like, seems well-made, and measurably makes my life better. Paprika - simple recipe management, grocery lists, and meal planning. Intuitive UI and well-thought-out flourishes make this app...

ask culture
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I Thought I Found a Bug… | OS/2 Museum

os2museum.com

So I was working on improving a DOS emulator, when I found that something seemingly trivial...
So I was working on improving a DOS emulator, when I found that something seemingly trivial wasn’t working right when COMMAND.COM was asked to do the following: echo AB> foo.txtecho CD>> foo.txt Instead of ABCD, foo.txt contained ABBC. I verified that yes, the right data was being passed to fwrite(), with the big ca...

historical
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Electronics Test Gear on the Cheap

wordpress.com

It is amazing to me how inexpensive electronics test gear has become, and yet these devices...
It is amazing to me how inexpensive electronics test gear has become, and yet these devices work well. Certainly they are good enough if you are just entering the hobby, and not sure you want to spend hundreds, if not thousands, on a piece of test equipment. Here are some inexpensive test equipment in order how impo...

hardware
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Gathering Data On TLS Power Draw Measurements

fratti.ch

Note: A previous version of this article was much more combative in tone. It has been...
Note: A previous version of this article was much more combative in tone. It has been edited in response to concerns that this detracts from the point being made, and the technical content. On Christmas Eve 2024, I got into an argument on the Lobste.rs IRC channel, in which a user insinuated that "unnecessary" TLS e...

hardware
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ncurses-rs has been archived | Lobsters

lobste.rs

Merry Christmas, folks. I’m just dropping a heads up that I have archived https://github.com/jeaye/ncurses-rs and will...
Merry Christmas, folks. I’m just dropping a heads up that I have archived https://github.com/jeaye/ncurses-rs and will not be developing it further. I first made ncurses-rs nearly 11 years ago and both Rust and its library ecosystem were incredibly different back then. Over the past decade, my attention has shifted to focus on other projects and ncurses-rs has received some love from the community to...

rust
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Into CPS, never to return

bernsteinbear.com

compilers lisp plt
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GitHub - facundoolano/software-papers: 📚 A curated list of papers for Software Engineers

github.com

compsci distributed programming
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The RISKS Digest, Volume 5 Issue 80

ncl.ac.uk

historical security
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Mind-blowing: PostgreSQL Meets ScyllaDB’s Lightning Speed and Monstrous Scalability

medium.com

When booking a hotel online, have you ever experienced getting a price change after selecting a...
When booking a hotel online, have you ever experienced getting a price change after selecting a hotel or a room, or it becomes sold out after you click it?Have you ever wondered, in such a fast-paced industry where price and availability change very rapidly and can vary each date, how OTAs, like we at tiket.com, man...

databases db migration high performance postgresql scalability
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Parables on the Power of Planning in AI: From Poker to Diplomacy: Noam Brown (OpenAI)

youtube.com

ai education video
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Fake Debugging II: The Race Condition Strikes Back

ankush.dev

debugging python
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38C3 lobste.rs meetup | Lobsters

lobste.rs

Yo, Last year there was some discussion on IRC about a lobste.rs meetup at Chaos Communication...
Yo, Last year there was some discussion on IRC about a lobste.rs meetup at Chaos Communication Congress. As there are multiple people from this community heading for congress I thought it would be nice to plan another meetup. I’ve looked at the self-organized sessions and there is a free spot in Saal 6, 22:00 - 23:00 Day 3. I’ve reserved (not published it) it...

event
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Dividing unsigned 8-bit numbers

0x80.pl

assembly c++programming
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