I’m not sure Gates ever had a “personality cult”. In the 90s during his heyday he was pretty much reviled even by Windows users. He built his empire by swallowing everyone else around him that was doing anything even a little bit innovative. He wasn’t really the “visionary artist/engineer” type like those others. Just a random rich nerd who won the technology monopoly game.
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Shit was built for completely different hardware
It’s still PC architecture. May not be 64 bit, but there’s nothing stopping a modern x86-64 processor from directly running software made for an IBM PC from the 1980s without a VM or emulation. Backwards compatibility on PC is amazing. Drivers are a different story.
With dedicated consoles, the hardware is often bespoke and completely changes with each iteration of the console. In order to remain backwards compatible, emulation is required to recreate the previous environment so older games will run. That or they literally just stuff a miniature subsystem of the old console into the new one.
I’ll be over here making sure they still got a sliver of Mosaic in their logs.
If you’re on NES, turn the controller 45 degrees to the right. You’re welcome.
Those who “try to pull up the drawbridge,” he said, undermine the security that has led to decades of prosperity.
Those decades of security and power were brought to you by the atom bomb and being the only one left standing after WW2. It’s time to learn to coexist with others who have caught up on a level playing field. We’re going to become a regular irrelevant country again, deal with it. It kills these people when they imagine themselves not being able to police and manipulate the world.
But even if the sanctions work, what are we trying to block?
The US is trying to kneecap China before they become a superpower on par with themselves.
I have to get up early in the morning and go to a job and pay rent and bills now and it sucks…just let me keep the stickers please.
Uboot? No thanks, I prefer a paper tape loader attached to my serial port.
I like KDE cause it has a cute dragon. GNOME is a stinky foot.
You ever have a crazy intense epic dream and come up with this awesome new idea that you think will change the world, and after a minute or two of being awake and coming to your senses, you realize how utterly idiotic you sound? There’s going to be a lot of that.
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“The Homer” IRL.
But it was republicans that named it that.
Isn’t there some kind of diminishing returns on this, where it starts to make more sense to offload things to a GPU or something instead of piling on ever more CPU cores? There has to be a lot of inefficiencies in that many interconnects.
No. You can figure it out.
I really want to try out Github Copilot for C++ on VS Code for Linux here shortly. From what I read, it could be VERY useful for what I do.
I don’t mind a second brain helping me out with programming.