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Narishma

3,960karma·2,385submissions·April 7, 2013
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MIPS has switched to RISC-V.
2h ago·view thread
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Why is that funny?
1d ago·view thread
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Mid 90s rather than early 2000s.
4d ago·view thread
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The law just entered into effect today.
5d ago·view thread
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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.
5d ago·view thread
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Your IP address doesn't automatically correspond to your city, even without a VPN.
6d ago·view thread
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4GB is completely fine in Windows 7.
6d ago·view thread
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If the system requirements for those games are low and your host machine fast, your best bet is probably something like 86Box.
7d ago·view thread
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> Hand-written real-mode 8086. No C, no linker, no runtime library. More like hand-prompted...
7d ago·view thread
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Because code is invisible to the end user while art is right in their face.
8d ago·view thread
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Yes.
9d ago·view thread
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Yes, I think the only somewhat big distro that still has x86 support is Gentoo.
14d ago·view thread
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Atom.
14d ago·view thread
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OpenBSD removed the Bluetooth support they had due to security reasons.
14d ago·view thread
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Both are needed for different use cases. That they overlap for some use cases doesn't make them redundant.
14d ago·view thread
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NetBSD even supports installing from floppies on old systems if you don´t have a CD-ROM drive.
14d ago·view thread
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I´m using NetBSD on a couple of x86 machines now that Linux distros have mostly dropped support for them.
14d ago·view thread
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> gcc(1) - updated to 12.5.0. Anyone know why they are still on such an old version? The latest version is 16.1.
14d ago·view thread
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Putting a '>' would make it look like it's a quote from the article, which it isn't.
17d ago·view thread
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Even if they wanted to forbid that, how would they even detect it?
21d ago·view thread
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The blog post did mention license laundering, which is one of the copyright issues with LLMs.
24d ago·view thread
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As it should.
27d ago·view thread
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Zswap is better than ZRAM for this use case. ZRAM is only really interesting in situations where you don't want any swap to disk, like when running on an SD card or something.
29d ago·view thread
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Mint is too big for something like this. You should go for something lighter weight like Alpine or NetBSD.
29d ago·view thread
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> When you have a dialog window too big for the screen, you can Alt+Space to open the system menu, then activate the Move menu item, then you can use arrow keys to move the window around, even with…
29d ago·view thread
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I'm not sure about their methodology. They looked at the global chart, but did they take into account that the Steam Machine isn't available everywhere? It's also a single point in time…
29d ago·view thread
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> It's true the AAA devs don't optimize much but my point is that Microsoft don't decide that you have to buy a new PC every five years and there are a bunch of new games coming out …
1mo ago·view thread
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No, it's a more powerful version.
1mo ago·view thread