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Read the book first, in 2010 a UK man built one from scratch as best he could http://www.thetoasterproject.org/page2.htm https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1568989970/

If he were an American, that time would put your father in La Société Charly Miller: https://rusa.org/pages/CharlyMiller I had fun the whole time! Mentally I don't really suffer an…

Haha I just kept gallivanting around Paris afterwards, I spent 10 days in France and cumulatively slept maybe 30h total. I hadn't done much riding that summer because of a broken a…

My personal fastest 24 hour split was about 600km, while riding the first half of the Paris-Brest-Paris brevet in 2019. I had my first sleep after that in Brest and took much longe…

A programmer that doesn't make websites is like a glass artist that hasn't made bongs

Randomized admissions were the implicit thesis of the satire we get the word from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rise_of_the_Meritocracy

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Don't forget that Rome also has a wildly nonuniform interconnect between the core complexes, and the system integrator gets much less control over it than Intel's UPI links. When y…

Now Tayne, I can get into: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maAFcEU6atk

> And that if there are evidence or facts that overturns their current belief, they'll gladly accept it. There are no such equivalence in religion. It is explicitly the role of a P…

When done with video it looks like a real-world raytracing demo: https://www.stratusleds.com/aerial-leds

The /mysql/tmp/greetings.txt trick was cute but do kids these days not know about https://linux.die.net/man/1/wall ?

More reasonable VMMs use the word "hypercall" for these paravirtualized interfaces

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In a previous life I wrote code that only ran in Cygwin, it depended on a dummy networking driver to talk to the WinCE core of a sonogram machine. Running Windows VMs as kernels fo…

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https://www.nethack.org/v366/release.html

Meltdown goes much further back than that, potentially all the way to the Pentium Pro (1995) It was also independently implemented in POWER and ARM A75

5 years ago after a princess tea party I ended up with some tall silver tiaras full of sparkly gems, and I started wearing them on my bike helmets. A tiara fits perfectly into the …

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A1 is launched under ARM's new "Neoverse" branding that might help to distinguish this class of products from Raspberry Pi expectations: https://www.arm.com/company/news/2018/10/an…

Yes T2 performs quite admirably! If your CPU-bound workload doesn't use much memory, smaller sizes of T2 Unlimited can be a much better deal than C4. T3 gives you both threads of y…

Thanks for the reminder, ironically I put a lot of work into launching that platform!

The c5, m5, t3, c5d, m5d, z1d, r5, r5d, m5a, r5a, a1, c5n, p3dn instance families all use the Nitro Hypervisor, which is based on Linux KVM code but offloading a lot of functionali…