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Llama 2 LLM on DOS (2025)

yeokhengmeng.com
2 points·by userbinator·Hôm kia·0 comments

IBM MCGA Gate Array Reverse Engineering

github.com
54 points·by userbinator·14 ngày trước·8 comments

Armstrong Effect

en.wikipedia.org
49 points·by userbinator·20 ngày trước·3 comments

Trusted Computing Frequently Asked Questions (2003)

cl.cam.ac.uk
19 points·by userbinator·tháng trước·0 comments

Mystery Cpuid Bit

os2museum.com
39 points·by userbinator·3 tháng trước·3 comments

Modern Generic SVGA driver for Windows 3.1

github.com
72 points·by userbinator·3 tháng trước·19 comments

HD Audio Driver for Windows 98SE / Me

github.com
63 points·by userbinator·3 tháng trước·8 comments

Bitfield Pitfalls

os2museum.com
2 points·by userbinator·4 tháng trước·0 comments

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

yarchive.net
3 points·by userbinator·4 tháng trước·0 comments

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

mahaloz.re
28 points·by userbinator·5 tháng trước·1 comments

Visualizing the ARM64 Instruction Set (2024)

zyedidia.github.io
81 points·by userbinator·5 tháng trước·18 comments

Delta single handle ball faucets (1963)

archive.org
60 points·by userbinator·6 tháng trước·47 comments

Cracking DXP and SXD

os2museum.com
5 points·by userbinator·6 tháng trước·0 comments

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

youtube.com
2 points·by userbinator·8 tháng trước·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 tháng trước·0 comments

LM8560, the eternal chip from the 1980 years

tycospages.com
135 points·by userbinator·8 tháng trước·43 comments

The OS/2 Display Driver Zoo

os2museum.com
2 points·by userbinator·9 tháng trước·0 comments

Smarta Tradition

en.wikipedia.org
1 points·by userbinator·9 tháng trước·0 comments

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

int10h.org
2 points·by userbinator·10 tháng trước·0 comments

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

github.com
92 points·by userbinator·10 tháng trước·15 comments

comments

userbinator
·44 phút trước·discuss
Why have a kW/Nm - HP/lbf setting, but no metric/US option for the bore and stroke?

Others here are suspicious of the numbers, but at least for the actual engine in my daily driver which I've dyno'd before, it seems reasonable with around 400HP and 450lbf for a 400ci NA V8.
userbinator
·3 giờ trước·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
·4 giờ trước·discuss
They're still making that model today.
userbinator
·4 giờ trước·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
·Hôm qua·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
·Hôm qua·discuss
This reminds me of the similar fight over the term "milk": https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/02/almond-milk-can-keep...
userbinator
·Hôm qua·discuss
Almost certainly regulations. Anything even vaguely medically-related tends to be very, very highly regulated.
userbinator
·Hôm kia·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
·Hôm kia·discuss
Either that or a human that has started writing like an LLM, having been "trained" on LLM output itself by sufficient exposure.
userbinator
·Hôm kia·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 ngày trước·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 ngày trước·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 ngày trước·discuss
This is how you get many people to just keep the belts fastened permanently and not bother putting them around themselves.
userbinator
·3 ngày trước·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 ngày trước·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 ngày trước·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 ngày trước·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 ngày trước·discuss
Orwell's idea of "wrongthink" is more relevant than ever.
userbinator
·5 ngày trước·discuss
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyrator#Simulated_inductor
userbinator
·5 ngày trước·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.