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I sure hope it finally supports MPU-401 style intelligent mode!

50 years also roughly aligns with the development of chemical birth control.

Butlerian Jihad.

Oh great, now I have to shut down my 3270 and go play New Vegas.

Yes! I use it to control both the amperage and temperature of a kiln.

EUV is hard, but isn't part of the reason why only ASML can make those machines because of the CRADA they have with DOE as a member of the EUV LLC? I believe this agreement was why…

Stanford. I didn't complete public higher education when I was younger, so I've been filling in some of the blanks through independent study lately. So far I've really clicked with…

I agree. I'm not even sure I understand defending AWS here from a purely capitalist perspective. When a large company gives thanks to a open source developer they are encouraging t…

I worked at a financial institution during a migration from one core system to another. I was their "Administrator of Legacy Systems." At the time I thought that the "legacy" was t…

This seems to confirm what I'd read earlier, which is that they're cutting the TBW durability rating in half for this generation. I don't have PCIE 4 at this point, so I'm consider…

Came for a discussion of OS/2, stayed for the comparison of Ken Thompson to E. E. Cummings.

It's interesting to learn more about the history here. When UO came out and used the shards concept I just assumed it was a callback to 1988's Ultima 5 and the shards of Mondain's …

Same here! I remember taking a saved game file, backing it up and then earning some gold. Comparing the two roughly told me where the saved game kept its gold. Then I made that num…

You seem like you may know what you're doing. Would you mind sharing who your DNS provider is? Do you pay for recursive service? I don't trust my ISP, so I'd prefer not to use thei…