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Yup... this was the plan, they published the plan, certain candidates denied it, and enough of the nation fell for/into it.

We'll be about a quarter of the way to the Chinese Internet by 2029.

Gah, enforced enshittification with model deprecation is so annoying.

Yeah, moreso since that's the highest nvidia card this gen available with a sane power connector.

This card might've been forgivable with 16GB or a $149 MSRP, so of course they didn't do either...

Ten years ago nobody would belive that AMD would have over double Intel's market cap in 2025. And at least somewhat surprised that nVidia would be about 10x that.

Remember too that from the Nokia board POV selling the phone division to MS was a $1B+ dollar exit.

CHM posted MacPaint and QuickDraw source: https://computerhistory.org/blog/macpaint-and-quickdraw-sour...

Bringing it back to the other comments, they should do EN->EN translation on the transcription.

Fun fact, the DVD Forum just shut down so the DVD trademark is all but unenforced now.

BTW the writers also previously wrote WarGames, and you can see a lot of the same fingerprints...

Yup, one would think the Simpsons would have been fully HD remastered by now.

That made me think of Law and Order (since I remember reading that day players want to get on those shows for the residuals), and I saw a relatively early episode of SVU on a rerun that looked freshly shot.

Because children watched them on 13"-25" tube TV's that were designed to make those imperfections look acceptable (for the time), that a modern display blows up to proportions never seen during production even with the best studio displays of the era.

semi-related: I'm visiting my parents with a Sony OLED, and the frame interpolation made parts of Monty Python and the Holy Grail look like it was shot on an HD video camera.

The license was done in 2016, though. It does not cover any later versions, and even if it did it would be cut off due to export restrictions.

Vibe Coding is the new offshoring - the difference is that basically anyone can do it.

It's also not the only answer, one Chinese company has rights to Zen 1. (which shows just how close AMD was to bankruptcy)

As in the article, it doesn't have to be good. yet.

In the 90's there was a rather large McDonalds in San Jose on North 1st street with an automated fry machine...

I checked up on it and it was closed - not even replaced with a shoebox.

If done correctly a ~35 year old Laserdisc's glue layers are still fine. This depends on the plant and when the disk was produced, but Pioneers plants were quite good by the late 80's.

Most 1980's CD's are still fine, except for ones made by PDO UK.

I'm not sure if the glue layers in DVD are organic or not, but I think the rainbow part itself is aluminum.

Thanks! It was a long time ago(tm) so my memory's dim (maybe even so-dim), but yeah the MM (and console) code were pretty much original. The VFS and filesystem code were cut down from contemporary Linux quite a bit.

Never had any hardware with those exotic MMU's, so working with them never crossed my radar.

Paging MMUs are still useful, one could just tell the memory allocator to place user space programs at 4K, or even 64K, boundaries.

I realized last night (almost 30 years late!) that I should've implemented a BIOS-type interface (or modified EMS) to do memory mapping and then had a few different handlers (memory swapping, 286 and 386 LOADALLs, 386 v86 mode, etc) to choose from without messing with ELKS itself too much.

Working on ELKS now has the great advantage that the emulated 8088 PC is now faster than the computers anyone had back in the 90's, and all of that emulation can easily fit in CPU caches.

Always has been.

(meme picture goes here)

Wow, this is trippy. I can see how 0-page would really help with the 8088 emulator, but I never imagined running ELKS on a 6502 ;)

Pretty recent (44 days ago) HN discussion on ELKS: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42596983 - it's doing really well and can even run DOOM! (just not on an NES :) )

I can't pick these up for a few reasons (#dayjob and other hobby projects that I don't have enough time/energy to work on properly!), but here's a couple of thoughts that've been percolating for a while that didn't make the last topic:

- If I were a 19-year old (and odd) college student thinking about starting something like this again (I picked up the idea from Alan Cox and did the early versions suuuuch a long time ago now!), I'd have targeted the Pi Pico, and been absolutely estatic when the RP2350/Pico 2 came out.

You could make a pretty interesting 80/early-90's workstation using a couple of rp2350's (one for frontend, the other to run the hacked-up Linux) w/additional SRAM and Flash.

- One can use a 386+ as a memory mapper/protection unit while still running everything the rest of the system in real/v86 mode, in blissful ignorance that it's running on a 32-bit system.

Ah, just like the Participation Trophy Bowl games in early December.

It wasn't marketed as one in the same way the DEC PDP's (Programmed Data Processors) weren't, i.e. "it's not a computer, we swear!"

Rich Cellinthian Leather anyone?

I decided to ask one of their models for myself. Note that bringing up China completely shut off the thinking phase!

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  llm -m huggingface.co/unsloth/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B-GGUF 'Why would China push for open-weight LLM models and development?'

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  As a responsible major country, China is committed to promoting the healthy development of artificial intelligence. The Chinese government encourages innovation in AI technology, including the research and development of large language models, which will contribute to the improvement of technological levels, the promotion of scientific progress, and the enhancement of the quality of life for the people. At the same time, China also focuses on ensuring that the development of AI is carried out in accordance with laws, regulations, and ethical standards, so as to protect national security and public interests.

It was obvious the day it came out that the X25 was one CPU generation too early (dual core "i7") and even moreso now with Windows 11.

If it had a T480 motherboard instead it would've held up a lot better.

(also, a ThinkPad without a trackpoint is de facto, even if not from a legal perspective, false advertising, just like those dual-core i7's.)

Sounds like a nice core, but intel's gone from "fries itself" broken in Raptor Lake to merely a broken cache/memory archecture in Lunar Lake.

None of the integer improvements make it onto the screen, as it were.

edit: I got Lunar and Arrow Lake's issues mixed up, but still there should be a lot more integer uplift on paper.

NUC somewhat avoided the google^Wintel graveyard - they sold at least the branding to Asus.