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Just to further back up your point when you look at the cost of US wars here: http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/money_huge.png

WW2 is head and shoulders above everything else.

Here is a modern implementation of the SuperH CPU for Linux:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVD1Yws__v0

I never torrent for ethical reasons, but I just jumped onto soap2day to check if they had something that I've been on the lookout for (Abacus: Small Enough to Jail) and they don't have it.

I came away thinking that it was impractical even in the long term after watching this:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=G-WO-z-QuWI

For GPU: AMD (but not _too_ cutting edge is the easy answer here). Any of the Radeon 6000 series will work well out of the box with recent open source kernels.

CPU wize Intel/AMD does not matter.

I was working at Palm (subcontracted end user support) when this project was announced.

The first thing my mind went to was 3D games because Palm had just announced that the next iteration of their chip would have a PowerVR based mobile capabilities and the teams at Sega had just finished a number of years making games with the Dreamcast (also PowerVR).

I never heard of these games, and a couple of years later Palm was pretty clearly irrelevant (although that did not stop me from acquiring a dead-end Treo 180g device).

I honestly don't think they could have pivoted to save themselves, everything about their interface was wedded to the stylus interface.

I looked into this option, but when I checked the FAQ of mrchromebox.tech it has the following:

Q: I want to buy a Chromebook to run Windows or Linux -- which should I buy?

A: Buying any modern (2017+) Chromebook with the intention of running Windows or Linux is a terrible idea, period. Most can't boot anything other than ChromeOS, and those that can run it poorly. Older models may fair better compatibility wise, but there are still lots of caveats, and it's not recommended to buy a Chromebook as a cheap Linux device. The days where Chromebooks ran Linux well ended with the 2015 models.

Also the "Supported Devices" part of the site suggests going here: https://wiki.galliumos.org/Hardware_Compatibility Which does not show anything working post 2019.

Am I missing something?

Does anyone know if there is any merit to his patent?

https://www.freepatentsonline.com/WO2013101261A1.html

They tried that, but the question is how do you write the law? In the end they settled on requiring that govt. departments use ISO standards to store docs (which at the time was only ODF).

Microsoft then tried to get their format ratified as an ISO standard. But everyone complained that their spec did not actually specify how to implement, instead it said things like "In accordance with output from Word 2007". So after a bit of back and forth MS realized that they did not want to _actually_ document what they were doing. The solution? Pack the committee with MS shills to vote yes on every proposal by MS. Urgh.

One of the negative flow on effects was that these new committee members only cared about voting for things that MS had instructed them to vote on - so other standards and issues stalled due to a lack of a quorum. It was super disappointing looking at this from the sidelines at the time.

Here is a link that explains a small part of the history: https://www.infoworld.com/article/2618153/how-microsoft-was-...

My best useless use of dd was in the Ubuntu 16.04 days.

I was at a satellite office with all windows PCs for the day, so used a live disk to get a decent environment to get things done. Only problem was that the DVD drive kept spinning down and every time I did something that was not cached it made me wait forever.

nohup + while loop + sleep 4s + raw dd read from CD for the win :)

EDIT: Reading this article it sounds like dd has no "special" ability to access the disk in a raw way. But surely that's what the nocache option is for...

Another great artist worth looking at (and the creator of Pixel Art Academy) is https://www.patreon.com/retro

On one hand I really appreciate the original meaning, it always seemed 'neat' to me.

However the reality is that it's modern meaning has changed. See here:

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/decimated

It's an interesting thought experiment though.

Who is harming the purchasers? Apple, or the hacker copying down a publicly available piece of information?

I was bitten by this.

While staying in the US I setup an Amazon account in 2010, and ordered a Kindle2 with 3G connectivity. It was fantastic! I could purchase books anywhere in the world - no WiFi!

At some point however the renewal of my US credit card did not get delivered to my Australian address and I kind of forgot about it for a while.

Last month I sorted out my credit card issues and went to buy a book, but could not - my Amazon account was locked. Support staff refused to fix it, apparently if you haven't logged in for over a year then they won't send you a password reset (I still control the associated email address!). The only option they presented to me was re-creating the account with the same email address. I lost all of my books and all of my wishlists :(

Would this fit the bill?

https://solvespace.com/index.pl

True, but that model was _very_ short lived.

As a general rule you make a good point, but in the case of djbdns there has been no need to patch for years.

See here: https://cr.yp.to/djbdns/guarantee.html

For anyone who want's something tiny, complete and secure check out djbdns. I use it for a 700 user org as a secondary DNS. Never goes above single digit CPU usage (on an AWS nano instance) and currently has 834 days of uptime.

One of my favorite pieces of software.

Here is my current favorite:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dVD1Yws__v0

(open source GPS!)

I have a very small/specific hack I would like applied that I'd be willing to pay for (changing hardcoded joystick button allocations for a 90's game)

Please send me an email if you have time (details in profile).

I have this exact same situation with my Youtube history. I used to be able to search it in Google's history search, but that only shows a subset of results.

If I want to really search for the title of a random video I saw 5 years ago the only option is to download a raw CSV of my history and use grep :(

I finally settled on the HyperX Cloud Flight S.

They have wireless charging, so whenever I put them down on my desk they are charging. I have a separate high quality mic on my desk so I don't have a dangly thing in my face.

I only use the headphones in the study or wandering around the house so it's the perfect solution for me. (I did need to tweak PulseAudio to lower the latency).

Come to Australia. Sadly we still have racism, but mostly directed towards people without good English skills.

How does it compare to Artemis?

Wizard's Bane (1989) is a fun take on that.

While this is true they are taking their time. Here is an article from 2017 that suggests they will have finished the transition to proof of stake by 2018:

https://www.crypto-news.net/what-does-ethereums-proof-of-sta...

Is your hack shared anywhere? I think I hit this bug last time played with my brother.

I feel exactly the same way.

I sometimes wonder what "or eligible to obtain the required authorizations" means. Does that just mean that SpaceX has to sponsor the clearance process for you?

I remember reading another thread where they were talking about one or two non-US people working there, it would be nice if they elaborated more on what the process is for foreigners and maybe had some profiles of non-US people in their employee gallery. Even confirmation from a SpaceX person here that they do have people like that would be nice :)

Sounds like a job for Jason Scott

Surely it would cool below the point where Co2 becomes solid (most of the atmosphere is Co2).

Imagine walking around on fields of Co2 :)