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You should be able to cache hot code and data in the SRAM. Although it'd significantly increase complexity.

At 8 MHz, a 68k can execute at most 2M instructions per second. So the answer is going to be yes, if this manages to execute one 68k instruction per ~200 cycles. I think executing an instruction is go…

Agreed about the signal stalk. Correct me if I'm wrong, but the last I've seen the signal stalk is back in Teslas, at least in Model Y, but I believe in newer Model 3s as well. But "gea…

Playing Foldy Bird is not normal use.

What a great way to destroy a foldable phone.

Not surprised. Mouth represents a huge surface area and it's also pretty close to the heart. Infections in mouth area can spread quickly to our core organs.

The site has also an amazing night mode. Everyone should try it!

You can't render MOD songs to MIDI. Not even with modern AI. Obviously the MOD libraries outputted PCM to WinMM. That's the job of the MOD library. You're arguing with someone who was…

No, the MOD file(s) (embedded in the .exe) were just played as is. There were a lot of MOD player libraries even back then and the CPU load was negligible. The players weighed less than 10 kilobytes.

I think most played Protracker, XM, S3M, IT, etc. modules , not MIDI. They typically used very short samples, a style which was called a 'chiptune', songs that were made sound like they cam…

I think you just made a lot of people aware of it. Although I doubt people care all that much, unlike you do. It's pretty insulting; as if people don't have agency and can't form their …

I think I’ve heard about NAFO being mentioned, but didn’t pay any attention to it. Thanks for the tip!

Hyper-power, seriously? Russia is not even a super power, it only has some nuclear weapons, that’s all. Just like India, Pakistan, France, Israel, etc. In all likelihood most Russia’s nuclear weapons …

Yes, if it's floating in space in a pressurized spaceship.

Only thing that surprised me was that GCC didn't manage to optimize it. I expected it to be able to do so.

No need to imagine, just listen to this: https://youtu.be/nhz3vHYX0E0 Ok, 8 SID chips, but it sounds amazing.

That's not true when the topic is operating system kernels.

Macbook trackpad is weird. On the other hand, it's excellent for most desktop tasks. But I just can't play almost any mouse-requiring game with it.

I meant narrowly only about IA64. There is sure some lessons learned value.

Pretty surprising. So IA64 registers were 65 bit, with the extra bit describing whether the register contains garbage or not. If NaT (Not a Thing) is set, the register contents are invalid and that ca…

Pretty clear SpaceX could have sent something to Mars for about 10 years, had they so wanted.

Starlink will soon be (probably already is) 4G/5G capable. I'd be surprised if Kuiper won't get the same capability.

Can you give an example of a lower latency satellite service?

> Plus Blue Origin has beat SpaceX to Mars What about that Tesla that regularly crosses Mars orbit? Ok, it's not on Mars, but it was just about calculating an orbit. They could have smashed it…

These effects used to be much worse in the nineties, often even if you had a fancy sound card. Electrical noise is significantly reduced now.

Rather 89% PC players have an SSD. For the console players much less. People (read: hordes of kids) are still using PS3, PS4, etc.

Well, Samsung chose for example to stop supporting micro SD cards. Samsung just keeps chasing Apple, so I don't see any point to buy their phones anymore. The only unique selling point Samsung ha…

Ok, I guess we'll need to wait until Tesla removes the safety drivers to see the whole truth.

A cosmonaut (or an astronaut) really should know better.

IIRC, Tesla's safety record is about 30% worse than Waymo. The gap has been closing rapidly. It's not that long time ago Tesla made an order of magnitude more mistakes than Waymo.