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You seem to be confusing baud and bits per second. Baud is symbols per second. Usually one symbol represents multiple bits. AFAIK in 56k modems one symbol corresponds up to 7 bits.

Those things always confuse me. I think 2400 baud modems were like 9600 bps? At least 56k modems were 8000 baud.

It's remarkable how a modern $50 SBC outperforms the old Core 2 Duo line.

No, it should be LOAD "$", 8

> music video that was included on the Windows 95 cd bonus folder when I think of this simulacra: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqL1BLzn3qc When I saw that video in 1995, I under…

When MC68030 (1986) was introduced, I remember reading how computers probably won't get much faster, because PCB signal integrity would not allow further improvements. People that time were not a…

I sometimes wonder what the alternate reality where semiconductor advances ended in the eighties would look like. We might have had to manage with just a few MB of RAM and efficient ARM cores running …

He's just trying to trick HN readers to join chess clubs.

Tesla uses lidar to train their models to generate depth data out of camera input. I don’t think they have any high definition maps.

Oops. Should not comment anything tired!

And 1945 was 35 years before 1990. Obvious, but feels somehow weird.

ADAS levels are not only about technical capability, but also about who takes responsibility.

I think the real issue was that Cybertruck required way more structural parts (body) than Tesla originally thought. It was originally supposed to have a load bearing exoskeleton.

I thought it was S 3 X Y C A R S Cybertruck, ATV (?), Roadster, Semi

I think 512 GB Mac Studio was M3 Ultra. Anyways, isn't a new Mac Studio due in a few months? It should be significantly faster as well. I just hope RAM prices don't ruin this...

Yeah. Except it's not even fixed function blocks, it's the 12 core VideoCore IV GPU running software that does the decoding. VideoCore is the real Raspberry Pi, the ARM block running Linux w…

Your mileage may vary. I remember 4 MB booting, but being absolutely useless. 8 MB was still swapping all the time, you couldn't really run much beyond some simple software. 12 MB was finally eno…

You needed at least 12 MB RAM to run Windows 95 smoothly. There were plenty of 8 MB systems that really really struggled. Even booting up was a swap fest. I remember immediately upgrading to 12 MB. 8 …

FreeRTOS is an odd one in that set.

My kids have been waiting for a Rayman sequel for over 10 years now. Is Rayman not profitable enough?

I wonder whether there are some prefixes that cause (some) CPUs to execute the instruction a lot slower.

Wasn't Tesla Model Y globally the most sold car in 2023 and 2024. And second most sold car in 2025 (Toyota RAV4 was the most sold model). Given that, objectively speaking I could not call Tesla i…

Most Android devices have hardware that's capable of rather interesting version of hardware sprites. Hardware real-time compositing with scaling and colorspace conversions.

A graphical object composited just in time in display scanning process. (Or in other words, a graphical object on screen that is not present in a framebuffer of any kind.)

> It's actually not great since Ethernet is over USB on the pi 4. Not true, you're thinking about earlier models.

K is for Kelvin, so probably not. kB or KiB, depending on intent.

ISDN (IDSL) was max 144 kbit/s. Two 64 kbit/s channels and one 16 kbit/s control channel all bundled together.

That might have pretty negative long time consequences. Nationalize a few companies and soon the corporates might relocate.

Definitely not working at all. It shows I've visited all around the world, lots of times. Nope. Just once, and from one location.

Neato XV-11 introduced lidar in 2010. Sadly they're no more.