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Curious: are these cores (ao486, z386) technically illegal because of Intel/AMD licensing/copyright/etc? Or has everything relevant expired? Surely the patents have but not sure wh…

It’s a time-honored tradition to compare your upcoming product to the competition’s old news. That said, looks like an impressive core and complete CPU built with it. Would love to…

I was thinking someone must have fixed a bug in the simulation (in which we live) between when the old results were generated and now. Only 1/2 :-)

This! I took “rec games” as one of my PE classes in high school. This involved bowling, among other things. A highlight of this was the time I bowled a 24… However, as the class ne…

100% this. In the end, I just don’t care about the answer that much.

Do you drive often, then? :-)

Emulating Alpha on x86_64 is definitely not a thing the Alpha designers foresaw. :-)

You are my comedy hero, tremon. This is the joke I was looking for and failed to find.

While absolutely and sadly true, something tells me that rogue banana drivers are not the ones most likely to be killed in a traffic stop. Besides, his family would surely win the …

I’m not quite old enough to have grown up with the PDP-11. They were gone from university (or at least the parts I had access to) by the time I arrived. But I did see exactly one i…

Came here hoping for an AMA.

I’ve walked off with a few of my employer’s pens over the years. Is this really so different?

Big takeaway for me is that the reentry and “landing” of Ship looked great . For the first time, it felt like they’re really on the path to achieving upper stage reuse. That was al…

I’ve been told by someone who was in the service that when smoking was no longer allowed on submarines, it made a huge difference in the cleanliness of machinery and thus how much …

When I encounter new terms, I look them up. Just like any other new word. Been doing it since I was a kid with a dictionary. Now, it’s too easy not to. There is literally no excuse…

Or every time it comes back up!

Was briefly surprised to see IBM open-sourcing OS/2 after all these years. Alas, this appears to be some AI widget.

With enough sauce, the end result won’t even taste like chewing on a rock. :-)

Not sure why this is being downvoted, but it’s absolutely correct. For most of the history of computing, people were happy that it worked at all. Being concerned about energy effic…

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I guess “purge 17% of the code” is not the correct answer?

My friends and I have been deriving much amusement from the comms issues. We can fly people around the moon, talk with them, send back high res video, but talk to the boat that’s c…

As a person who refuses to use “free” cloud products, and won’t even consider Office on Windows, I’m a big fan of LibreOffice. I’ve donated a few times over the years but probably …

Absolutely! Think of the many new ways to display advertising that are being neglected while we foolishly launch people and things into space.

Strapped to one of the boosters?