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notorandit

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I have coded things you people wouldn't believe...
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notorandit··on Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's letter to staff about affair
> you deserve better from me

This sentence is laughable without resignation.

Jensen does not need to resign.

He needs to stop using AI for these letters. Big power requires big responsibility (cit. S.M.)

notorandit··on *sshole, or when are we going to get rid of C?
That bug was a programmers' bug.

No language would have prevented it to happen.

And even if it was a memory safety bug, that would have been a programmers' bug.

C has no issues with memory as it let's programmers do what they want.

notorandit··on Show HN: Run xv6-riscv(64Bit,MMU) with RP2350
From the repo:

This is a lightweight 64-bit RISC-V software emulator and bare-metal port designed to run xv6-riscv within the limited SRAM capacity of the RP2350 (Raspberry Pi Pico 2).

It emulates virtual memory based on the Sv39 MMU, a 16550 UART, CLINT, PLIC, and a VirtIO block device (for disk I/O) with a sector cache. This enables the full execution of user-mode processes, including a shell (sh) and various user utilities (such as ls and echo). ---

notorandit··on Show HN: Run xv6-riscv(64Bit,MMU) with RP2350
Pi Pico 2W is ARM+risc-v. Hazard3 is rv32 without s-mode.
notorandit··on 8088 Domination Post-Mortem
The mindboggling part is when you compare hardware constraints against software.
notorandit··on We know 15k websites are infected. how do we tell them?
Whois on domain and IP.
notorandit··on Introducing Kwi, a new KDE terminal emulator
Kwi uses 1 order of magnitude more RAM than Konsole. I will keep Konsole. We need to do more with less, not the other way around.
notorandit··on WTF Ubuntu?
Normal Ubuntu approach. Not news. I have personally got a bunch on 10+ year old bug tickets on Launchpad and only lately got a feedback like: "is this still relevant"?

Of course, if one hides a bug long enough it will eventually disappear or become irrelevant.

Yes, indeed, WTF Ubuntu?

notorandit··on Domain hacks with unusual Unicode characters (2018)
> Is this useful?

No, it is not, IMHO. When you create an "alias" you are adding "yet-another-confusion-opportunity" and "yet-another-failure-opportunity".

For no actual reason.

I for one would aim at lowering the complexity, not at making stuff more fancy.

notorandit··on Introducing Kwi, a new KDE terminal emulator
For kwi to win I would expect both more features and fewer computing resources (cpu, ram, gpu if any).

Imho, more features alone is not enough as it brings more complexity and lower maintainability.

notorandit··on Birdwatching rewires the brain and slows cognitive decline
Any activity that makes your brain working actively helps fighting that decline: crosswords, sudoku, you name it.

As opposed to watching tv series or just doing nothing.

notorandit··on Laptop Based on 6502 CPU
While not "portable" in the common modern sense, we also had:

Apple IIc (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_IIc)

and it's younger and final brother Apple IIc Plus (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_IIc_Plus)

notorandit··on Furifont, a Japanese font that shows furigana
> With the ligatures to adopt to pronunciation of words.

Maybe it is:

With the ligatures to adApt to pronunciation of words.

notorandit··on (De)Generative Art Clelia
Also math

https://www.rockini.name/math/

notorandit··on (De)Generative Art Clelia
Truly amazing stuff!
notorandit··on La Cueva BBS in Mexico in 1993 (session replay)
Sorry, my bad sight tricked me.
notorandit··on La Cueva BBS in Mexico in 1993 (session replay)
It's a rather weird combination of year, CPU and memory.

Z80 is (still) an 8-bit CPU with 16-bit addressing. It cannot access more than 64kiB at a time. The hardware and the software needed to overcome that limit was worth more than an 8088/8086 (or compatible CPU) with MS-DOS and Telix.

In 1993,the age of 80286 and 80386, 8088/8086 were considered low-low-end CPUs, let alone the Z80, even in Mexico.

Not pointing my finger, just stating some facts.

notorandit··on Diplodocus, Long Thought Exclusively American, Turns Up in Spain
According to latest executive order, Spain has been renamed "Spanish Peninsula of America". So Diplodocus keeps being exclusively American.
notorandit··on Why are European countries moving their gold out of North America?
Because it is theirs?

Would you keep your food or car in someone else's garage?

notorandit··on .name Termination
It's just money. Nothing else. Just money.
notorandit··on ISO/IEC DIS 26791-1 – The RISC-V instruction set manual
135 CHF > 0 CHF
notorandit··on More than half of adults in U.S. say they lack basic statistical understanding
Basic statistical?

I have seen too many parents (i am a teacher) lacking basic mathematical and geometrical understanding.

Let alone, statistics.

Schooling is broken, society is rotting, culture is dead.

notorandit··on France to ban unsolicited telemarketing calls
Useless. They tried already in Italy. Results? Unsolicited iphone calls from other EU country codes.
notorandit··on Aristotle quotes on virtue, knowledge, and happiness
Maybe, yes "maybe" Robert got inspiration from a guy who lived two thousands years earlier.
notorandit··on Aristotle quotes on virtue, knowledge, and happiness
If you ever wondered, those are among the things that made that single person standing out of the crowd od Humanity for more than two thousands years.<3
notorandit··on A missing underscore sent innocent man to prison for 18 months
This is not the first time I see people copy-typing text by hand instead of copy-pasting it.

I am not sure why they do that, but when I see a DevOps engineer doing it I have a chilling feel.

notorandit··on Harddrive Is Probably Full
If my plans is to have it all invested (or spent), then yes it is ok.
notorandit··on Harddrive Is Probably Full
... and It is ok.

I bought 16TB disk because I needed that much storage.

If I were using, say, only 10TB, I would be wasting 6TB.

I can expand my LVM as much as I can. But I definitely want my disk to be full. Same goes for my RAM.

And I want my CPU ide time to stay as close as possible to 0% and my load average as close as possible to my no. of CPUs.

Anything else would mean oversizing and overspending.

notorandit··on Map of the world's great castles and fortresses
Italy, like Germany, Austria and maybe a few more European countries host more than 5,000 "castles".
notorandit··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)
RV64 toy/hobby kernel. No compatibility aim but rather at efficiency and speed.
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