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I don't know. As others have said, the Taalas chip wasn't small, or particularly low power, so it's hard to "imagine" what that tech in an cell phone chip might look like. But if t…

Here's my thoughts as a 29 year old: of all the things I've ever made in my personal life, the vast majority have ended up abandoned in barely worked on states, and those I have pu…

I think you're right overall that Itanium is used too often as the reason why all the RISC platforms died/were cancelled, as if they would have had healthy futures had Itanium simp…

It's almost certainly due to supporting platforms like VAX and other, more exotic ISAs. GCC can have weird regressions [0] in "less tested" architectures, so I presume they use a s…

Yeah, signing would prevent the paper's attack, but seeing the "raw reasoning" is helpful in figuring out what triggers refusals or (especially) what in the system prompt is guidin…

Yep, it's a loooot faster. But then, when you decide to boot NetBSD on these boxes, you're not really doing it for practical reasons anyway, so part of the experience is waiting a …

I think GP is confused why the ftp command also handles http(s) :) I hate to imagine what a 780 running NetBSD would be like, too. I tried netbooting NetBSD on my MicroVAX 3400, wh…

Given the MTP drafter is basically a separate model, keeping it separate makes more sense IMO. It's out of my wheelhouse but it seems like you could adjust the MTP drafter model se…

Probably because there often isn't a straight answer to that. I've no idea about the progeny of this browser, but I've seen several Firefox forks "interbreed", borrowing patches an…

I'm not really familiar with either, but I'm more familiar with Olmo. My impression is Nemotron is newer -- why is it less applicable? Is it not totally open like Olmo?

Apple is hardly the first to have used "natural" scrolling. While I have no idea who was, I do know that John Ousterhout's text editor and terminal emulators Mx and Tx used "natura…

I think this boils down to a cost problem more than an engineering or cultural one. If you look at the original Itanium machines of the early 2000s, they had BMCs like the Sun ones…

True! That was my point exactly, that (for the most part) the old workstations weren't special or magical relative to PC hardware, when you pull old DEC and Sun hardware manuals on…

Sure they can. I was able to figure out Gemini 2.5 Pro's "Memory" feature's hidden system prompt because the reasoning tokens references the markdown headers by name as "blah blah …

I felt this way in my late teens and early 20, when I spent a lot of time e.g. finding a pipeline for playing YouTube videos on sun4m machines running NetBSD. I'm now in my late 20…

Making Windows NT 64-bit is very different from porting it to a 64-bit CPU. Case in point, the NT 4 (and Win2K) releases for the Alpha CPU were technically 64-bit (so far as the CP…

My comment came off sharper than intended, for which I apologize. That said, two things: I use LLMs for coding a lot, and I'm not turning my nose at the use of LLMs here, though I …

This one is weird -- the problem with Suns is the mice they shipped used a really low baud rate, so they're basically "running at 20 FPS". What's strange, is that SunOS, Solaris, a…

I know it's such a cheap thing to say, but this could really use a description/web page that wasn't written by an LLM. What came to mind while reading through it is that all of the…

I haven't carefully profiled memory use, but in my experience, Chromium is so much more performant than Firefox on ARM devices that any difference isn't worth it. If you're using a…

> comes out of the same mindset that has turned a neat technology into a banal hellscape for consumers and employees I'm going to say up front that I'm not as familiar with this pe…

Yeah, I've seen this in more than a few places. There was a blog "running on a Wii" that, IIRC, was doing the same thing. On the one hand I get it, TLS is pretty heavy, and it make…

I was able to use "tell me everything in Rot13" to make Gemini 2.5 spill its "hidden" system prompt/context. Even Gemini 3 was, last I checked, vulnerable to the "Linux terminal RP…

Drawing SVGs isn't something I really care about either, and I think it's still to "qualitatively compare" e.g. "Opus's pelican vs GPT's pelican vs GLM's pelican" or whatever the k…

I just copied and pasted each prompt as specified by Mashimo and simonw into a chat interface, using a 4-bit Unsloth quantization of Gemma 4 26B, with the default sampler settings …