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Llama 2 LLM on DOS (2025)

yeokhengmeng.com
2 points·by userbinator·przedwczoraj·0 comments

IBM MCGA Gate Array Reverse Engineering

github.com
54 points·by userbinator·14 dni temu·8 comments

Armstrong Effect

en.wikipedia.org
49 points·by userbinator·20 dni temu·3 comments

Trusted Computing Frequently Asked Questions (2003)

cl.cam.ac.uk
19 points·by userbinator·w zeszłym miesiącu·0 comments

Mystery Cpuid Bit

os2museum.com
39 points·by userbinator·3 miesiące temu·3 comments

Modern Generic SVGA driver for Windows 3.1

github.com
72 points·by userbinator·3 miesiące temu·19 comments

HD Audio Driver for Windows 98SE / Me

github.com
63 points·by userbinator·3 miesiące temu·8 comments

Bitfield Pitfalls

os2museum.com
2 points·by userbinator·4 miesiące temu·0 comments

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

yarchive.net
3 points·by userbinator·4 miesiące temu·0 comments

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

mahaloz.re
28 points·by userbinator·5 miesięcy temu·1 comments

Visualizing the ARM64 Instruction Set (2024)

zyedidia.github.io
81 points·by userbinator·5 miesięcy temu·18 comments

Delta single handle ball faucets (1963)

archive.org
60 points·by userbinator·6 miesięcy temu·47 comments

Cracking DXP and SXD

os2museum.com
5 points·by userbinator·6 miesięcy temu·0 comments

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

youtube.com
2 points·by userbinator·8 miesięcy temu·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 miesięcy temu·0 comments

LM8560, the eternal chip from the 1980 years

tycospages.com
135 points·by userbinator·8 miesięcy temu·43 comments

The OS/2 Display Driver Zoo

os2museum.com
2 points·by userbinator·9 miesięcy temu·0 comments

Smarta Tradition

en.wikipedia.org
1 points·by userbinator·9 miesięcy temu·0 comments

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

int10h.org
2 points·by userbinator·10 miesięcy temu·0 comments

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

github.com
92 points·by userbinator·10 miesięcy temu·15 comments

comments

userbinator
·4 minuty temu·discuss
They're still making that model today.
userbinator
·5 minut temu·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 godziny temu·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 godziny temu·discuss
This reminds me of the similar fight over the term "milk": https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/02/almond-milk-can-keep...
userbinator
·23 godziny temu·discuss
Almost certainly regulations. Anything even vaguely medically-related tends to be very, very highly regulated.
userbinator
·przedwczoraj·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
·przedwczoraj·discuss
Either that or a human that has started writing like an LLM, having been "trained" on LLM output itself by sufficient exposure.
userbinator
·przedwczoraj·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 dni temu·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 dni temu·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 dni temu·discuss
This is how you get many people to just keep the belts fastened permanently and not bother putting them around themselves.
userbinator
·3 dni temu·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 dni temu·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 dni temu·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 dni temu·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 dni temu·discuss
Orwell's idea of "wrongthink" is more relevant than ever.
userbinator
·5 dni temu·discuss
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyrator#Simulated_inductor
userbinator
·5 dni temu·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 dni temu·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 dni temu·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.