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It’s a neat core, but z386 is where the action is right now ( https://github.com/nand2mario/z386_MiSTer ). Interestingly this core doesn’t output a proper analogue signal. I always…

Quake was a DOS game.

This was actually just how CDDA music tracks worked in almost all CD games in the late 90s. :)

The context for that is in Gruber’s original post, I believe.

Kind of a pointless nitpick, but you’d have been very lucky to own a 386 in 87-88, the 486 wouldn’t be mainstream until 1992 or so.

A TNT was from the late 90s. In 2006 512MB consumer GPUs were common.

Who hurt you?

I suspect this will become increasingly common with companies that allow remote work. Atlassian is a large Australian tech employer that is full remote, and this is definitely the …

Doom didn’t even use the Windows networking stack. You just chose IPX from the multiplayer setup menu.

Anecdata: in Sydney, Australia, 5G on Telstra is incredibly fast (I get more than 1 gigabit at my apartment, but more typical / busier cells seem to be between 300-500Mb), and my e…

You're wrong. Everywhere I've worked the general pattern is to build using Windows/Linux and deploy entirely on Linux (or Docker).

Quite unnecessary. I’d almost suspect you’re not actually European.

What on earth do people do besides eating at home from a rotating set of straightforward recipes? Honestly curious. I’m the main cook in my home and we do eat out every other week,…

FaceTime is also free, and Telegram’s audio and video quality is vastly inferior.

On the other hand, the only real reason you’d want to run AIX is because you had to, because you had the hardware and there was no other option.

How do you install Java? First thing you'd do is download the JDK. Is the JDK a language? No, it's not.

This is probably more of a Windows problem than a .NET/C# problem, but it's a very real problem.

Typically though, FAANGs still solve their problems with boring technologies.

Murdoch’s News Corp.

I've recently started a job in a very complex business domain, but sadly they're using NoSQL for everything. I've known for a while about the technical tradeoffs of NoSQL, but unti…

Strangely enough, they did exactly as suggested when batteries started wearing out on iPhones (unable to reliably provide the voltage at full drain for peak performance) and you're…

How do you remote into Paperspace instances? Is there a custom client that performs well? Every few months I'll tinker with setting up a Linux desktop in some generic cloud provide…

Follow up: yes, you're all correct, but sometimes things in an organisation aren't perfect and I've been in many situations where the database is the bottleneck with little power t…

One thing this article doesn't mention is that in many cases databases scale poorly, and only vertically. You can throw a bunch of domain logic in complex SQL queries and see signi…