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Based on the ~10x performance gain from disabling access timestamps in VxWorks' HRFS, I'd guess it does. I have no idea if that's common or rare.

You'd need your OS to support, and be configured to use, a disk mounting option that disables file access timestamps, otherwise reads ARE writes.

Exactly. Sony/Playstation can lose their right to issue further licenses, but the existing licenses should be honoured. As that's apparently not baked into the existing contracts, …

On desktop it keeps adding forced pauses to scrolling, of varying sizes, and you need to scroll down a between 1 and 10 pages worth to begin scrolling again. It might "work" just f…

I compile and run utilities on my Mac all the time, and I've never spent a penny on dev tools or unlocks. Yes, there's a fee to get access to the App Store, but almost nobody on th…

The Locked Tomb series: - Gideon the Ninth - Harrow the Ninth - Nona the Ninth Liked the first Locked Tomb, didn't really enjoy the remainder of the series. The Witch King (from th…

I'd argue that 68K is simpler to learn and use. You get a similar instruction set, but 32-bit registers, many of them. It's even got a relocatable stack so it can handle threading …

Just noticed you also support scroll to zoom, and it works at a decent speed.

Pinch zoom is the preferred method, it just needs to zoom at a usable (much faster) pace. I have no idea what input events zooming generates. Perhaps an option in the URL could be …

Neat project. Minor usability note, zooming by pinch on a MacBook trackpad is painfully slow.

Perhaps someone at Microsoft threatened physical harm to a Google engineer if they didn't remove the videos... and they caved into their demands rather than reporting the threat, o…

Typically "Cost Of Living" increases target roughly inflation. They don't really keep up though, due to taxes. If you've got a decent tech job in Canada your marginal tax rate will…

> 4. M1 has over 600 reorder buffer registers… it’s significantly larger than competitors. And? Are you saying neither Intel nor AMD engineers were able to determine that this was …

I got stuck on Catan for a while too, as I assumed it was like most games and didn't use names. At some point I just moved on, and solved the next word, Chess, in like 2 seconds. T…

I was actually alive then, and the painfulness of the white background was real physical eye-strain pain. I was alive for both amber and green screens too. Please don't suggest peo…

Paper and paper-like writing surfaces were non-white for a long time before we got bleached white paper. We haven't yet had a glowing-white paper. Traditional-normal for computing …

Mac likely did use this scheme, and yes, copied it from Xerox. However neither Macs nor Xerox had mainstream use. I'd only actually seen 3 Macs in the wild before their switch to I…

Dark mode was the traditional normal. From early green or amber text on black mono displays. Grey on black DOS text mode. Light Blue on Dark Blue C-64. Apple 2's grey/white (I don'…

I'm not the original poster, but I ran into something similar late in Win 7 (Win 8 was in beta at the time). We had some painting software, and we used open-MP to work on each scan…

To add to this, I'll try to give an idea of how much zoom (or focal length really) you'd need to get a picture with detail. I took photos of both Jupiter and Saturn w/ a Canon R7 a…

> On an LC-3, the address space is exactly 64KiB. There is no concept of missing memory, all addresses are assumed to exist, no memory detection is needed or possible, and memory m…

Your tractor doesn't (I would hope) contain your banking details and all your emails, contacts, browsing history, photos, etc. It deserves to be treated as the tool that it is. App…

While the AI focus these days is on LLMs, AFAICT, the NPUs and GPU accelerators are just generically fast MUL, and MAD machines with varying precisions, which should help any AI, a…

On iPhone, if I take a picture of a plant or animal, it identifies it for me. It's not 100% by any means, but it's useful enough. I've figured out what were baby plants I wanted vs…

Lets just call it JPEG 40 to avoid any confusion.