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If you go far back enough "x86-64" was the original unbranded name. I wrote to AMD back at the time and they sent me a 5-volume set of programmer's reference manuals labelled x86-6…

There's a many, many post thread here https://forum.vcfed.org/index.php?threads/isa-usb-board.7697... where a lot of the discussion took place, both my efforts and some other devs …

I did a lot of work on a custom option ROM for the ISA USB card type you mention. It exposes an INT 13h interface, so systems that access discs through the BIOS will work (DOS, pro…

Discounted stamps do exist. Stamp collectors end up stuck with sheets and sheets of unpopular designs, and since the hobby (like many hobbies) has imploded, the dealers will pay le…

It's possible that the demands on the model are growing faster than it gets efficient though. A lot of the improvement in output quality/metrics come from more churning and passes.…

It seems like the FCC is a convenient source of rubber stamps for the administration.

Property values going up is only appealing if you own property. For renters, it means they're going to try to increase rents. For everyone, it presents a pressure on favourite loca…

What's interesting is that there's really nothing about a Win95 or Motif style theme that doesn't scale well. If you pair it with modern antialiased/high-DPI typography, it still l…

The Bank of England was issuing currency as late as the 1950s that wouldn't look out of place in the 1750s. It's interesting that they didn't rely more on state-of-the-art design a…

Personally, if you want to go the XT-IDE route, I'd consider getting a SD-IDE adapter to pair with it, like $10 from your preferred fountain of Rubbish From China. Some CF cards do…

3-D Secure has been a fiasco IMO. I can recall when we first tried 3DS in the US and it went over like a lead balloon. Let's jump out of the middle of checkout and go to a page whi…

It's disappointing that we still have terrible "press 9 buttons at the same time while reciting from the Necronomicon and plugging in and out the device" recovery stories. Put the …

The keyboard enthusiasts got to "personalized hardware" pretty early, so there might be some lessons there. There's a whole continuum from "Buy an off the shelf unit" to "here's a …

I always hoped we could make "cinematic universe" for really enormous refactorings.

I'm not sure if a bigger population would really justify more jet manufacturers. Outside of general aviation (hobbyists/business jets), the potential buyers for jet aircraft are go…

I think we can even skip the "that may be targeted by the US government" clause. The whole "hosted AI" business feels like like a huge violation of corporate norms on confidentiali…

I think, to a degree, ergonomics are a complete package and sound can be part of it. I tend to err on the side of loud-click switches (Alps/Matias, buckling spring, Gateron Melodic…

If you use a machine with an ISA slot, you can get a card with a chip called CH375 or CH376, which deploys a USB flash drive like a normal hard disc with either a loadable driver o…

> Outside of coding, almost every business case for AI doesn’t need above human intelligence, it doesn’t even need human intelligence, or half a human intelligence, a business can …

There's also another side of it: there's a legitimate case for places where we don't need high quality creativity. We have a world of clip art and stock photos. A lot of this is no…

For some of us, we found digital "third spaces". In a way, when we're arguing on HN, or the kids on Discord, are using it largely as a community centre on their screen. It clearly …

Isn't the solution just to take the market out of real estate? At the individual-homeowner level, a lot of NIMBYism, HOA activity, and other toxic activity is grounded in "I have $…

We lost this war when we got bamboozled into putting the V-Chip into televisions. The obvious tradeoff was that we should have been able to have all forms of offensive and pornogra…

I'd suspect one of the big constraints was that you had to support basic VGA: 640x480 at 16 bold colours on a cheap CRT. With that palette, using white/black/dark grey/light grey f…

I can't quite understand the "fixing small errors is easier when just talking to Claude" flow. I tried having it write some tests today. It got very close to what I want, but picke…