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Delphi 1 on Win 3.11 and 4MB RAM. Long long time ago.

jankotekon An optimization to help code compilation times on big CPUs

Maybe there is a good reason for that.

There are already dozens of alternatives to GNU Make. Linux already did something similar with Git.

jankotekon An Economist’s Guide to Potty Training

Start much much earlier on 6 month old. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/7-months-old-potty-train-her/

jankotekon Tesla remotely removed autopilot features from used Tesla without notice

Tesla is kind of hostile to second hand market. No spare parts , no service history info, unauthorized repair disables charging etc.. Basically Apple mentality.

Car with a good maintenance should last 20 years. Not like a phone that gets thrown away every 5 years.

jankotekon Simple text editor has over 15k monthly users

Does it run on DOS?

jankotekon Google tracks individual users per Chrome installation ID

There is a Chromium fork that does that already.

jankotekon AMD Threadripper 3990X 64-Core beats dual Xeon Platinum 8280 in benchmark leak

I have 2600k under water cooling for 8 years, uptime is probably 25%.

jankotekon NetBSD 9.0 Coming Soon with Arm64, Updated ZFS, HW-Accelerated Virtualization

Could you elaborate on hw support? In my experience Linux has much better support for old obscure hardware. Some things got drivers for WinXP, maybe Win 7, but not in 10. Windows can not even boot up on some older x86 processors. And windows on ARM...

jankotekon “Google Drive” would like to receive keystrokes from any application

XWin app can listen to all keystrokes in system. This was fixed in Wayland.

jankotekon Verlan: French slang that inverses words

Pin and P.I.N. (spelled out) are two different words in reality.

jankotekon ThinkPad Mods, Done Right

There is viable market (it has customers). But I would say it is just nostalgia. Some people even say it is not real ThinkPad unless it was made by IBM (pre 2006).

jankotekon Artificial intelligence will do what we ask, and that's a problem

I think authors do not understand basic rules of Asimovs universe.

Robotics laws are unbreakable limits hardwired into every positronic brains. On top of those you can put some other programming (servant, mining machine, space ship...). It is not possible to create brain without those rules.

Asimov universe explores machine learning, autonomous weapons, humanity etc using those principles.

New proposed laws are just tautology, "do what people want". No limits, no orders...

What should machine do if no people are around? Just sit idle?

What if majority behaves in "wrong" way (vote extremist politician)?

I would expect some other laws, for example there should be always an option for people to opt-out or leave country.

jankotekon To Build Truly Intelligent Machines, Teach Them Cause and Effect (2018)

I think you are underestimating early humans. Friction creates heat, fire is heat...

jankotekon SQLite Is Serverless

I think better name (and coined since 1990ies) is embedded db engine. MySQL, Firebird (InterBase) etc can also be linked into binary and run in the same process, without any type of sockets.

jankotekon Laptop OEMs – make a proper high-end AMD laptop

> Ultramobile, slim, and desktop replacements

No! I want proper thick modular 17" desktop replacement with 256GB RAM. Platform that would replace old Thinkpads.

jankotekon AMD’s 64-Core Threadripper 3990X, only $3990 Coming February 7th

7 years ago it was doable to build similar desktop at similar price from refurbished server (4x6core Opteron CPU, 128GB DDR2 ECC RAM). It took about 1KW and was loud, but great complement for performance testing.

BTW I seen 64GB DDR4 sticks on amazon...

jankotekon One-quarter of the world’s pigs died in a year due to swine fever in China

Clickbaitish title, most pigs are slaughtered before reaching one year of age.

jankotekon Debian votes for Proposal B, “Systemd but we support exploring alternatives”

Some people love systemd. Finally you can reliably manage system daemons, WinNT had this 20 years ago.

jankotekon Typing inside of the default WSL terminal feels amazing (2018)

Long time ago we used RXVT because XTerm and ATerm were both too slow

jankotekon ZedRipper: A 16-core Z80 laptop

not really, for example context menus in Xorg are modal windows, it would be very hard to show two menus at the same time

jankotekon Steve Jobs: Out for Revenge (1989)

unix (posix) is dead, linux killed it

jankotekon Cairo Desktop Environment

Back in 2003 I used Litestep. It was scriptable modular windows shell. It had integration with IMs (Miranda), mail, weather, voice control... Sometimes I feel like technology is evolving backwards.

jankotekon Say it's 1962, you're lucky enough to be a programmer working with an IBM 7090

My father used similar punch cards at his works way into 80ties (socialist country). Every shopping list in my childhood was written on those

jankotekon Improving CLIs with isatty

Exactly, this is not an improvement, but makes it worse.

jankotekon How can you know what news is real?

Eating junk food is not healthy...

jankotekon Microsoft's “Love” of Linux

Wine is actually more compatible with older apps than Win32 implementation in Win10. Better alternative would be to extend Wine.

jankotekon Farewell, Cortana

Windows Server 2016 (Desktop Experience). Choosing this option is useful when a GUI is required; for example, to provide backward compatibility for an application that cannot be run on a Server Core installation. All server roles and features are supported. This configuration is the equivalent of Server Graphical Shell on Windows Server 2012 R2.

Maybe he wants GUI experience, like Win NT

jankotekon AMD Ryzen 9 3950X Review

It was good complement for light laptop.

jankotekon AMD Ryzen 9 3950X Review

I had 24 core workstation 5 years ago for price of this single chip. Refurbished server...

jankotekon Explaining 4K 60Hz Video Through USB-C Hub

I use display-link dongle as port of USB-C docking station. It plugs and unplugs well, but driver uses a lot of cpu and there is no graphic acceleration. Not sure if would handl 4k video. Great for IDE.