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"User requests are what computers are for," said Dumont. "Doing our business is what computers are for!" retorted Edward Dillinger....

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I know some higher stack GUI programmers hope the sun swallows the Earth before they have to deal with wlroot because programming for multiple different...

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True, it's a bad name for a project if nothing else because it's impossible to search for without additional context. But, at least it's not for product...

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The branding on the English version of the Loongson logo has an unfortunate connotation that I doubt occurred to those that came up with it... "Cored..."...

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Datacenters often use technologies not available on regular computers you can set on or under your desk. They're moving their IO next to their processors...

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If you're willing to come "fix" the API problem, you can dictate what "mutually incompatible" means, but for all practical purpos...

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This would be more relevant if over half the Java programs I use weren't still stuck on Java 8. One only recently updated to work with Java 17. The rest...

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Windows Server wasn't an impediment to migration. Technically, neither was HP-UX as it's a Unix-like with much more in common with Unices at the time...

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Opteron didn't kill Itanium. x86 in general (added: and x86_64 specifically but no individual product as such) did on the low end along with the people...

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Le sigh... 2 bits just isn't worth what it used to be......

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RE: the game in the article's picture X2: The Threat. Probably the second most frustrating X release I played. It annoyed me no end enemies could knock...

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Or at the very least open a feature request conversation in Postgres' community mailing list....

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Because RISC-V isn't compatible with x64 just like Itanium wasn't a viable alternative to people using x32 hardware. x32 emulation on Itanium was a joke...

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Well this cleared up a question I'd been silently asking since AVX10 was announced. It's not really new, just re-labeled to save face over the screw-ups...

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Not really that surprising for a developer's kit with hardware. Board development kits aren't cheap even for traditional evaluation boards, on the order...

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How easy is this to deploy compared to Nvidia's CUDA? Generally CUDA tends to "just work" for devs and end users unless you have a really screwy...

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Nah, "pmdomain" does indeed almost immediately expand to "power management" + domain in the computer hardware space. "GenPD"...

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The point with LMDE is what Canonical is doing with snap. You can't really have a viable desktop without a functional modern browser. Canonical is pushing...

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No, it's an entirely apt label because it's never been in the Linux mainstream tree before. It's existence outside the tree has limited its adoption and...

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It's also largely irrelevant as most people are going to look at USB4/TB4 prices, look at their personal wallet, then buy the USB 3 gear instead. Macs...