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In the next decade, AI will be gutting every industry associated with hollywood other than nvidia and tmsc.

Death by a thousand cuts. First the tech community screamed about memory leaks, so they bolted ARC (automatic resource counting) into Cocoa since unlike C++, Objective-C had no RAI…

The unique_ptr destructor is called on scope exit, and there are times you want this earlier before other critical code.

X512 is an amazing treasure in the Haiku community. Other than nVidia hardware accelerated drivers, he ported Haiku to RiscV, got sound through HDMI and DisplayPort working, he got…

Oh god, what monstrocity have we created?!? All this complexity follows unique_ptr and copy constructor madness. Anything with pointers with ownership should never be copied - peri…

With mmu, every app has its own 32bit address space, and the mmu “maps” the app space to physical space. Legacy apps get shared address space, while newer apps get isolated space. …

BeOS/Haiku uses datatypes natively

You also got a battery backed clock with the 512kb memory upgrade :)

To support protected memory, you need an MMU, and the base 68000 did not ship with an MMU, however the 68020 and later did. The Amiga 3000 onwards should have defaulted to MMU and …

NSA is west …

I wish it was 20-30 minutes. Try 2-3 hours.

Yet the average software engineer hasn’t heard or Carl Hewitt, Joe Armstrong, has never programmed in an Actor Programming model, and dont even know what it is.

The thing about custom engines is that by the time it supports all the features you need, you’ve worked your mindset into optimal engine usage, so you end up being more performant …

The rushed clinical trials were only done with 122 people and a control group. During the very short trial, 1 person died in the first group, 2 in the other. The “conclusion” was i…

Doormen keep vagrants away and prevent dirty things from accumulating in front of the venue. Plus the social benefits of interaction. It is a cost but offers not immediately obviou…

Mate, you have to revise your stance on Russia, more people are imprisoned annually in the UK for speaking than people in Russia in a decade. The UK banned RT while you can access …

Today I asked Gemini to extract a table from an PDF appendix and create C++ data table with its contents. After 15 or so iterations with corrections and new mistakes, it eventually…

This is insane. So I need to work 5 years on site in Germany as a contractor being paid by foreign parent company, why should the company be liable to be registered and pay taxes i…

New platforms were 68000, old platforms with legacy code just wanted access to more memory, so 8086 segments allowed 64kb chunks. A hack only usable by folks that still wanted to r…

My mistake. I remember reading the C= book “on the edge” and there was a chapter about how 3 chip designers at motorola couldnt get management to pursue low cost version of 6800, s…

While I’m on alternative histories, if Jack Tramiel didn’t piss off Chuck Peddle, it would be MOS/C= in Intels pisition today.

The 6809 (and its clone the 6502) would also be strong contendors. And if Motorola were 6 months faster with the successor 68000 compared to Intels 8086, the IBM PC would be 68000 …

The driver switched to lower mipmapped texture and got caught. There is a ton of that out there for popular benchmark ready games. Run pro drivers instead of adrenaline to run gene…

Half the compute and reduce memory by factor of x4 and in a decade we’ll have double the performance we have now. I do old school embedded, the amount of desktop bloat is insane. A…

Find an itch, then scratch it. If many people have the same itch and can use your solution, you win. Simple as that.