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Author here for your obscure Pentium questions...
Just moved back to ABQ from Shiprock last month, after 8 years. Not every day you see Shiprock featured in an HN post!
Author here for your obscure Pentium questions...
(I applaud others for resisting such cringe, but I just couldn't help myself.)
That's some serious...multithreading! (I applaud others for resisting such cringe, but I just couldn't help myself.)
That's some serious...multithreading! (I applaud others for resisting such cringe, but I just couldn't help myself.)
I’ve long considered “hard tech” (semiconductors, high end manufacturing, aerospace, etc) to be the embodiment of our culture, because it’s not something you can just start doing, it takes generations of improvement to make anything worthwhile.
It is a great indicator of progress and decline, like how the quality of crockery dropped in the roman empire showed how their economics hampered their skills.
Maybe computing is one of the big hurdles that shows the overall capabilities of economies and on a much more broad scale, species. Like wrap drives in Star Trek.
Are there automatic looms the way there are CNC machines so that you can get a custom design on?
Speaking as an artist and a programmer, has it ever struck you how utterly low it is to sit in a room making things? You are interacting with little speck of dead stuff. Staring, unmoving, practically dead yourself. Playing with a little dream. There's something deeply wrong with that. Spiritually wrong even. Sometimes I reflect and feel shame at my wastefulness.