chjara

chjara, 6 months ago to random

>PC-98
>released in 1982
>CPU is 8086
>there is actually nothing remotely related to "98" to warrant that name

chjara, 3 months ago to random

1. there is a conflict in a region
2. look 100 years back
3. it's the brits

chjara, 6 months ago to random

how long until astronomers get to the Reallly Realllllly Big Telescope Like Damn It's Really Big

chjara, 2 days ago to random

oh no i got the youtube a/b testing shitty interface

chjara, 6 months ago to random

when i wrote this the "launching intellij idea" thing was a joke because while it was due to doing something with IDEA that made everything OOM IDEA itself was fine. i just launched IDEA and Xwayland instantly crashed

RE: https://akko.wtf/objects/040e2bcb-a999-4c72-bd4a-3880a3ea9e82

chjara, 6 months ago to random

even java has now pattern matching on types + sealed classes so it has essentially tagged unions

chjara, 6 months ago to random

it really makes sense only three companies are making decent x86 chips. although i suppose the towering mountain of very enforced patents doesn't help

chjara, 2 months ago to random

chemtrails are such an absurd conspiracy theory it's not like the US would on several occasions covertly spray pathogenic bacteria and carcinogenic tracers over major population centers causing several deaths and serious infections
(to be clear chemtrails are actually absurd but the kernel of truth there is certainly Something)

chjara, 6 months ago to random

aarch64 is so weird

chjara, 6 months ago to random

if the 8086 is so good where's 8087- oh. 8088? damn. 8089? even that??

chjara, 6 months ago to random

reading an article on the microarchitectural details of haswell, which my main machine uses (well, broadwell). article is from 2012. Damn

chjara, 1 month ago to random

IEEE is the noise you make when you see how much they want you to pay for a PDF

chjara, 6 months ago to random

>French wizzard Fabrice Bellard

completely valid way to introduce bellard

chjara, 6 months ago to random

old keys that are basically just a lever are weird when mostly used to modern keys with actual bitting but also i've watched enough LPL to know that it ultimately doesn't matter

chjara, 6 months ago to random

i don't want catgirls for domestic ownership i want catgirls for combat purposes

chjara, 2 months ago to random

huh, early ethernet actually used coax cables before switching to flimsy twisted pair phone connectors (which work just as well somehow)

chjara, 6 months ago to random

oh huh, GPL-style copyleft that disallows linking with incompatible licenses is actually invalid in the EU

chjara, 6 months ago to random

"wayland is bloat" people when they look at the X specification

chjara, 5 months ago to random

70 years of compiling computer programs, there are still no usable build systems

chjara, 6 months ago to random

if 60s-70s NASA and USSR space program collaborated instead of all that cold war stuff we'd be interstellar by now

chjara, 6 months ago to random

i should organize my PDF folder most of the files have just numeric names

chjara, 14 days ago to random

so there's /srs and /j, but also /hj, therefore this can be expanded to a spectrum of joking such as /0.65j

chjara, 3 days ago to random

uh huh

chjara, 6 months ago to random

those emulator handheld things are cool but also can there be something that's like a bit more interesting than just an ARM system running linux

chjara, 2 days ago to random