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Llama 2 LLM on DOS (2025)

yeokhengmeng.com
2 points·by userbinator·2 days ago·0 comments

IBM MCGA Gate Array Reverse Engineering

github.com
54 points·by userbinator·14 days ago·8 comments

Armstrong Effect

en.wikipedia.org
49 points·by userbinator·20 days ago·3 comments

Trusted Computing Frequently Asked Questions (2003)

cl.cam.ac.uk
19 points·by userbinator·last month·0 comments

Mystery Cpuid Bit

os2museum.com
39 points·by userbinator·3 months ago·3 comments

Modern Generic SVGA driver for Windows 3.1

github.com
72 points·by userbinator·3 months ago·19 comments

HD Audio Driver for Windows 98SE / Me

github.com
63 points·by userbinator·3 months ago·8 comments

Bitfield Pitfalls

os2museum.com
2 points·by userbinator·4 months ago·0 comments

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

yarchive.net
3 points·by userbinator·4 months ago·0 comments

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

mahaloz.re
28 points·by userbinator·5 months ago·1 comments

Visualizing the ARM64 Instruction Set (2024)

zyedidia.github.io
81 points·by userbinator·5 months ago·18 comments

Delta single handle ball faucets (1963)

archive.org
60 points·by userbinator·6 months ago·47 comments

Cracking DXP and SXD

os2museum.com
5 points·by userbinator·6 months ago·0 comments

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

youtube.com
2 points·by userbinator·8 months ago·0 comments

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

yeokhengmeng.com
8 points·by userbinator·8 months ago·0 comments

LM8560, the eternal chip from the 1980 years

tycospages.com
135 points·by userbinator·8 months ago·43 comments

The OS/2 Display Driver Zoo

os2museum.com
2 points·by userbinator·9 months ago·0 comments

Smarta Tradition

en.wikipedia.org
1 points·by userbinator·9 months ago·0 comments

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

int10h.org
2 points·by userbinator·10 months ago·0 comments

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

github.com
92 points·by userbinator·10 months ago·15 comments

comments

userbinator
·9 minutes ago·discuss
They're still making that model today.
userbinator
·9 minutes ago·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
·23 hours ago·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
·23 hours ago·discuss
This reminds me of the similar fight over the term "milk": https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/02/almond-milk-can-keep...
userbinator
·23 hours ago·discuss
Almost certainly regulations. Anything even vaguely medically-related tends to be very, very highly regulated.
userbinator
·2 days ago·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
·2 days ago·discuss
Either that or a human that has started writing like an LLM, having been "trained" on LLM output itself by sufficient exposure.
userbinator
·2 days ago·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
·3 days ago·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
·3 days ago·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
·3 days ago·discuss
This is how you get many people to just keep the belts fastened permanently and not bother putting them around themselves.
userbinator
·3 days ago·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
·3 days ago·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
·3 days ago·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
·3 days ago·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
·4 days ago·discuss
Orwell's idea of "wrongthink" is more relevant than ever.
userbinator
·5 days ago·discuss
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyrator#Simulated_inductor
userbinator
·5 days ago·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
·5 days ago·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
userbinator
·5 days ago·discuss
Even small bird strikes are usually a non-event, as the engines are designed to withstand them (there's a very well-known YouTube video of frozen chickens being fired into one, and those are already a lot bigger and harder than most birds they'll encounter.) It's the big ones that make the news.