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Llama 2 LLM on DOS (2025)

yeokhengmeng.com
2 points·by userbinator·أول أمس·0 comments

IBM MCGA Gate Array Reverse Engineering

github.com
54 points·by userbinator·قبل 14 يومًا·8 comments

Armstrong Effect

en.wikipedia.org
49 points·by userbinator·قبل 20 يومًا·3 comments

Trusted Computing Frequently Asked Questions (2003)

cl.cam.ac.uk
19 points·by userbinator·الشهر الماضي·0 comments

Mystery Cpuid Bit

os2museum.com
39 points·by userbinator·قبل 3 أشهر·3 comments

Modern Generic SVGA driver for Windows 3.1

github.com
72 points·by userbinator·قبل 3 أشهر·19 comments

HD Audio Driver for Windows 98SE / Me

github.com
63 points·by userbinator·قبل 3 أشهر·8 comments

Bitfield Pitfalls

os2museum.com
2 points·by userbinator·قبل 4 أشهر·0 comments

POP instruction speed (Jeff Garzik; Linus Torvalds) (2004)

yarchive.net
3 points·by userbinator·قبل 4 أشهر·0 comments

30 Years of Decompilation and the Unsolved Structuring Problem: Part 1 (2024)

mahaloz.re
28 points·by userbinator·قبل 5 أشهر·1 comments

Visualizing the ARM64 Instruction Set (2024)

zyedidia.github.io
81 points·by userbinator·قبل 5 أشهر·18 comments

Delta single handle ball faucets (1963)

archive.org
60 points·by userbinator·قبل 6 أشهر·47 comments

Cracking DXP and SXD

os2museum.com
5 points·by userbinator·قبل 6 أشهر·0 comments

Frigidaire – A Fortress of Steel (1939) [video]

youtube.com
2 points·by userbinator·قبل 8 أشهر·0 comments

DOS's Last Stand on a modern ThinkPad: X13 Gen 1 with Intel i5-10310U (2024)

yeokhengmeng.com
8 points·by userbinator·قبل 8 أشهر·0 comments

LM8560, the eternal chip from the 1980 years

tycospages.com
135 points·by userbinator·قبل 8 أشهر·43 comments

The OS/2 Display Driver Zoo

os2museum.com
2 points·by userbinator·قبل 9 أشهر·0 comments

Smarta Tradition

en.wikipedia.org
1 points·by userbinator·قبل 9 أشهر·0 comments

Old Chips, New Glitches: The CGA/CRTC "Phantom" VSync (2023)

int10h.org
2 points·by userbinator·قبل 10 أشهر·0 comments

INapGPU: Text-mode graphics card, using only TTL gates

github.com
92 points·by userbinator·قبل 10 أشهر·15 comments

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userbinator
·قبل 39 دقيقة·discuss
Depends on the displacement and other factors. Huge engines in that power range like the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMD_710 are used in locomotives and other applications like power generation where they run 24/7 at 100% load.
userbinator
·قبل ساعة واحدة·discuss
They're still making that model today.
userbinator
·قبل ساعة واحدة·discuss
While fairly realistic in function, the Visible V8 is not a replica of a specific production engine, though it most resembles an early Cadillac or Studebaker V8.

...but that transmission definitely looks like the early 4-speed Hydramatic: http://www.1954advance-design.com/Hydra-Matic-rebuild/index....
userbinator
·قبل 24 ساعة·discuss
because they are learning what ice cream (and everything) is

If you feed a 4-year-old "frozen dairy dessert" and call it "ice cream", then you're technically also legally wrong.
userbinator
·قبل 24 ساعة·discuss
This reminds me of the similar fight over the term "milk": https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/02/almond-milk-can-keep...
userbinator
·أمس·discuss
Almost certainly regulations. Anything even vaguely medically-related tends to be very, very highly regulated.
userbinator
·أول أمس·discuss
The same side can also say "Woke environmentalist communists want to stop you from tuning your vehicles or rolling coal." That will probably get even more support, given what I've seen of the political leanings of farmers and RtR supporters in general.
userbinator
·أول أمس·discuss
Either that or a human that has started writing like an LLM, having been "trained" on LLM output itself by sufficient exposure.
userbinator
·أول أمس·discuss
This is the dream of corporate authoritarians everywhere. The dystopian nightmare we all warned about because we saw it coming. "Security" is the "think of the children" fearmongering of the current environment.

As one of our Founding Fathers put it: "Those who give up freedom for security deserve neither."

Remote Attestation: Just Say No.
userbinator
·قبل 3 أيام·discuss
It is probably just a brand, like many others, and based on a reference design from the OEM.

I have a small Tenda 5-port gigabit dumb switch. It uses the same switch chip as this TP-Link, just with different branding; even the "SG105" model number is the same:

https://goughlui.com/2022/02/27/unbox-teardown-tp-link-tl-sg...
userbinator
·قبل 3 أيام·discuss
Buses in America don't have seatbelts either. They're just so big and heavy relatively to cars that you're very unlikely to be seriously injured. (It does happen of course, and that usually makes the news.)
userbinator
·قبل 3 أيام·discuss
This is how you get many people to just keep the belts fastened permanently and not bother putting them around themselves.
userbinator
·قبل 3 أيام·discuss
I have a car from that era. The seatbelts feel like those in any other newer car I've been in, although perhaps a bit thicker.
userbinator
·قبل 3 أيام·discuss
It also has detected a 357 km/h (or around that) while driving in the city, possibly by random patterns from a shop's street window.

Unless you have one of the very few cars that can even approach that speed[1], it sounds like some software "engineer" most certainly did not understand the meaning of "sanity checking".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_production_car_speed_r...
userbinator
·قبل 3 أيام·discuss
It reminds me of an old article about how often self-driving cars would get rear-ended for abruptly braking on highway on-ramps because they thought there was an obstacle ahead, and naturally the cars behind it were all accelerating and the human drivers in them would never think of stopping as they saw clear road ahead. In many areas, doing a "brake check" is illegal.
userbinator
·قبل 3 أيام·discuss
Unless you're going to be staying within a small city with almost entirely short trips, you probably want a bigger and less primitive car from that era than a Beetle.
userbinator
·قبل 4 أيام·discuss
Orwell's idea of "wrongthink" is more relevant than ever.
userbinator
·قبل 5 أيام·discuss
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyrator#Simulated_inductor
userbinator
·قبل 5 أيام·discuss
Analog electronics is a topic that was widely covered in mid-century textbooks, but it's definitely become more of a specialist niche today.
userbinator
·قبل 5 أيام·discuss
I suspect it's because the protocol for driving those cartridges is known and others have used them:

https://spritesmods.com/?art=magicbrush

https://spritesmods.com/?art=inker