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I have coded things you people wouldn't believe...
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notorandit··on La Cueva BBS in Mexico in 1993 (session replay)
Sorry, my bad sight tricked me.
notorandit··on La Cueva BBS in Mexico in 1993 (session replay)
It's a rather weird combination of year, CPU and memory.

Z80 is (still) an 8-bit CPU with 16-bit addressing. It cannot access more than 64kiB at a time. The hardware and the software needed to overcome that limit was worth more than an 8088/8086 (or compatible CPU) with MS-DOS and Telix.

In 1993,the age of 80286 and 80386, 8088/8086 were considered low-low-end CPUs, let alone the Z80, even in Mexico.

Not pointing my finger, just stating some facts.

notorandit··on Diplodocus, Long Thought Exclusively American, Turns Up in Spain
According to latest executive order, Spain has been renamed "Spanish Peninsula of America". So Diplodocus keeps being exclusively American.
notorandit··on Why are European countries moving their gold out of North America?
Because it is theirs?

Would you keep your food or car in someone else's garage?

notorandit··on .name Termination
It's just money. Nothing else. Just money.
notorandit··on ISO/IEC DIS 26791-1 – The RISC-V instruction set manual
135 CHF > 0 CHF
notorandit··on More than half of adults in U.S. say they lack basic statistical understanding
Basic statistical?

I have seen too many parents (i am a teacher) lacking basic mathematical and geometrical understanding.

Let alone, statistics.

Schooling is broken, society is rotting, culture is dead.

notorandit··on France to ban unsolicited telemarketing calls
Useless. They tried already in Italy. Results? Unsolicited iphone calls from other EU country codes.
notorandit··on Aristotle quotes on virtue, knowledge, and happiness
Maybe, yes "maybe" Robert got inspiration from a guy who lived two thousands years earlier.
notorandit··on Aristotle quotes on virtue, knowledge, and happiness
If you ever wondered, those are among the things that made that single person standing out of the crowd od Humanity for more than two thousands years.<3
notorandit··on A missing underscore sent innocent man to prison for 18 months
This is not the first time I see people copy-typing text by hand instead of copy-pasting it.

I am not sure why they do that, but when I see a DevOps engineer doing it I have a chilling feel.

notorandit··on Harddrive Is Probably Full
If my plans is to have it all invested (or spent), then yes it is ok.
notorandit··on Harddrive Is Probably Full
... and It is ok.

I bought 16TB disk because I needed that much storage.

If I were using, say, only 10TB, I would be wasting 6TB.

I can expand my LVM as much as I can. But I definitely want my disk to be full. Same goes for my RAM.

And I want my CPU ide time to stay as close as possible to 0% and my load average as close as possible to my no. of CPUs.

Anything else would mean oversizing and overspending.

notorandit··on Map of the world's great castles and fortresses
Italy, like Germany, Austria and maybe a few more European countries host more than 5,000 "castles".
notorandit··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)
RV64 toy/hobby kernel. No compatibility aim but rather at efficiency and speed.
notorandit··on Machine
Discuss? This is xkcd, nothing to discuss. Just kudos.
notorandit··on Lineageos Updates
Finally, a new post in their blog.
notorandit··on Efficient C++ Programming for Modern 64-bit CPUs: Chapter 4/part 2
C++ CPUs?
notorandit··on The time the x86 emulator team found code so bad they fixed it during emulation
Who has been validating that approach to solve their own optimization target?
notorandit··on The time the x86 emulator team found code so bad they fixed it during emulation
Which optimizer replaces a 64k loop with 64k instructions?

Ah, yes. Microsoft's!

notorandit··on The time the x86 emulator team found code so bad they fixed it during emulation
> they fixed it during emulation

It means the fix was applied to run during the emulation loop execution, not that the fix was found and applied while the emulation loop was running.

Which would have made it an emulation code escape.

notorandit··on Why SpaceX 2040 Revenue FCST $4.3T in highly unlikely
Please, correct the typo in the title!
notorandit··on Love systemd timers
> In 2026 there are more modern options available

More modern doesn't mean any better or more powerful.

I for one hate this need for going "more modern" without having clear and factual advantages.

notorandit··on The two oldest printing presses
youtu.be is not a Belgian website!
notorandit··on United Airlines 767 returns to Newark after Bluetooth name sparks alert
And, of course, terrorist manual states that any weapon needs to be labelled as such.
notorandit··on United Airlines 767 returns to Newark after Bluetooth name sparks alert
Flight policies have always been very weird.

I remember I was not allowed to use a laptop with a CD or DVD attached.

Now you have internet on board.

notorandit··on Codex just found a "workaround" of not having sudo on my PC
sudo can work non-interactively via settings in sudoers and sudoers.d . I am not sure about run0, but I would bet it has something similar.

Using docker for such a task seems to me overly over-engineered. Or maybe I need more context there.

notorandit··on Matrix Multiplications on GPUs Run Faster When Given “Predictable” Data (2024)
It's the algorithm, not the GPU!
notorandit··on Why is Vivado 2026.1 dropping Linux support for free tier?
Money. It is always money. It has always been money. It will always be money.
notorandit··on Show HN: Rmux – A programmable terminal multiplexer with a Playwright-style SDK
Scriptable terminal multiplexer?

Interesting portable scripting thingy. But it would only work with portable tools, not just everything. Especially with Windows tools.

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