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I don't know about you, but I have trouble seeing other life forms in a room that is pitch black.

It is surprising to me that it is in the visible range.

I did not remember that from when I used to use colinux.

The colinux home page also says:

To cooperatively share hardware with the host operating system, coLinux does not access I/O devices directly. Instead, it interfaces with emulated devices provided by the coLinux drivers in the host OS. For example, a regular file in Windows can be used as a block device in coLinux. All real hardware interrupts are transparently forwarded to the host OS, so this way the host OS's control of the real hardware is not being disturbed and thus it continues to run smoothly.

So just like UML, colinux hooks int 80h (or sysenter) and forwards the request to windows. Thus while it may make use of direct access to the MMU, most devices iirc are virtualized.

IIRC, colinux is similar to user mode Linux, which boots a kernel in userland. That is, the kernel runs under windows as an application rather than alongside it.

I wanted to like viewmax, but I think Digital Research was short-sighted. They intended it to compete with dosshell.exe, but the real competitor was windows. I was excited to get to play with GEM, but I had no way to write programs for it.

The only time that is not after midnight is midnight.

I had this experience back when the glass on CRTs was curved and monitors started shipping with knobs to adjust the curvature of the image. I had used a curved-glass CRT (curved the opposite way of today's curved monitors) for so long that nothing looked quite right after that until LCDs came into the picture (pun intended).

Can you elaborate on what it means for a model to "lose its mind"? I tried what you suggested and the response seemed reasonable-ish, for an unreasonable question.

I have no idea how things are done today but in the opengl 1.x era multiple textures would sometimes be stored in a single image, so to get a different texture you would pick different texture coords.

Sounds like this framework is comparable in size to the original Rails, which clocked in at under 1000 lines of code (microdot is 765 lines per the article).

I don't know if the original Rails would have run on mruby though (if it had existed at the time), and Rails certainly did a lot of things the author of microdot would have considered "dark magic".

I don't remember that episode. But it does not surprise me that the Cardassians would build that feature into their station.

They do need to not be slow though, which is why I usually stick with -Og.

How do you write half a line of code?

All I know about wordstar is 1) my dad used it on his kaypro luggable, and 2) I know the wordstar key commands from using Turbo C. How does wordstar compare to wordperfect 4.2 (which was my first hands-on experience with a word processor)?

Is it still possible to buy smaller SD cards in bulk, maybe 8mb or 16mb? The smallest I could find was 128mb for about the same price as a 2gb card.

While I like the idea of physically separate cards for each game, at $10 per card it seems economically limiting.

ELKS can still run on systems without an mmu (though not microcontrollers afaik).

I'm hoping the in the future there will be an LLM that can somehow map text back to its source. Current LLMs can kinda pull it off if you ask them, but afaik they aren't trained specially for this task.

I've seen gcc+ld use a large amount of disk (dozens of GB) during LTO.

Very impressive! I had wondered where that MB manip came from. No surprise at all that it was you. :)

What I got from looking at that comparison is that runit starts a separate supervisor process for each process started. I like the cleaner process tree of nitro, but I wonder what the tradeoffs are for each.

The 404 links are truly bizarre. Nearly every link to github.com seems to be 404. That seems like something that should be trivial for a tool to verify.

When we think of computers Er think of solid state digital computers. But the first fuel injected vehicles were mechanical computers. I suspect it's still very possible to do the same today, but not practical to design.

Also I'm trying to think of what role the computer plays in emissions other than ensuring stoichiometry.

Interesting. I tried to follow the discussion in the linked thread, and the only takeaway I got was "something to do with RCU". What id the simplified explanation?

Why lynx and not w3m or links?

Having used sqlmodel recently for a project, I was underimpressed. Documentation was sparse, I found myself going to the source code to figure out how to solve problems I ran into, and I ended up dropping into sqlalchemy a lot more than I wanted. I think the idea is sound, but the code is hard to follow, and there are a lot of missing common cases.

Which existing framework is better?

Even if you had the machine, it is not enough.

What was magical about that coding environment is that you could go to the store and pick up a computing magazine and type in a game. Then you could play it and tweak it as you wanted. I have no idea what the equivalent would be today; the cost analogue I can think of is watching Mario maker or Minecraft videos and then implementing what you learn in your own world or level.

And a.out format often saves disk space over elf, despite duplicating code across executables.

Yes, 4o can be quite wordy, but the voice chat model is much more brief. The voice chat model also is more than just text-to-speech; it correctly uses intonation to signify meaning.

I saw that back in the day with icq. Two roommates in my dorm preferred to use text chat rather than engage in conversation.