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vi should be a kernel-level system call, tunable with sysctls. For agentic management.

From the "Apple II (original)" Wikipedia article: "The original retail price of the computer with 4 KiB of RAM was US$1,298 (equivalent to $6,900 in 2025)[21] and with the maximum …

I don't think it's you. Over its course the Internet and Web took over just about all communications, including culturally anchoring things like TV, radio, and newspapers. The take…

The words "trail on mouse" instantly reminded me of the Windows mouse trails, that's what I was expecting going into the article. But honestly, I really liked whatever you call thi…

No empathy. If you want to merely appear skilled instead of actually being skilled, and use false artifacts of skill to reap rewards, you deserve very harsh judgement.

The Famicombox is interesting. The article has a minor error - the unit houses up to 15 games, not 16. There is an internal cartridge slot for the menu ROM, but it's not a game. Al…

I booted this and played with this in VMWare. Played a bit of Snake. I couldn't figure out Wolf3d and the videoplayer didn't play the test video. I'm not too familiar with Lisp (al…

A random thing I'm remembering, but can't remember where or when I read it: - Clocks started becoming a big deal when factory/shift work started being a thing in the early days of …

Not technically theft unless the public library no longer has the books. Selling something and saying you created it when you didn't is a different five-letter word: fraud. Putting…

We're long beyond the era of Google Search as a means for "discover new stuff" or to surface the best information on a given topic. Before the 2020s LLMs, spammers were getting the…

> Would this work on other platforms, I wonder? Or would they just freak out? Someone else can give it a try on the Commodore 64 or something. I don't remember seeing this on Commo…

TV makers would have to collude with every ISP for that to be worth depending on. Not to say it couldn't happen - but it wouldn't be a backdoor thing, it'd be very up front. All th…

I haven't seen any open WiFi networks around me in years. I don't think it's a thing anymore; it's definitely not something a TV company can rely on.

That would require the Roku to specifically be set up to act as a router. You can't just connect to a random device that's not specifically a router/AP and use its internet connect…

> Just imagine, if the rumours are true and Apple's 'foldable' phone costs 2500€ or more - who is going to buys this? Phones are a bad example in the US at least-not sure how it wo…

Plex/Jellyfin is for those without a home theater. I typically listen/watch media on my phone or old iPad, or sometimes a laptop. Since Jellyfin works through the browser it covers…

Looks like they all use Starlink and no one uses the FCC-subsidized fiber. Starlink is nice, but I'd still want the option to switch to an alternate provider if Starlink suddenly r…

> In contrast, p-bits flip between 0 or 1 with a tunable probability. Isn't this basically an ADC (except the tunable probability isn't an input voltage)? Is this kinda-sorta a new…

IANAL but I bet that: - If the license terms include a section on termination, and termination is done in accordance with the license terms, it's fine legally. - Licenses can be tr…

Then the button should say "Buy Revocable License." Inevitably people will ask what that means. That will lead to a FAQ on the company's site somewhere, and various videos on the s…

Calling the registry a database makes it seem better engineered than it really is. Running queries on the registry like SQLite? Nope. The Windows registry internally from what I've…

Most of the Windows CE phones of that era (pre-Windows Phone 7) were also basically "rooted" - i.e. you could install any .CAB and there was nothing stopping you. But Linux is a re…

From the article: "Elop oversaw the 2011 launch of a Linux-based smartphone, the Nokia N9. The N9 ran on a distribution of Linux called MeeGo. Reviewers at the time praised the new…

Consumers and gamers are already alienated. If the price of RAM keeps going up I'm not sure much technology will actually be here to stay. What's the point of AI "art" anyway if ev…

See also: https://www.nesdev.org/wiki/NTSC_video