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The 80386 is the most important CPU Intel ever produced. It confirmed the importance of the x86 line and sparked a computing revolution. And yet it almost never saw the light of day. This is the history of the 386 and why it was such a landmark.
The teeth are not the only problem
Git can “trace the evolution” of a specific method, showing you logs of how it has changed over time.
These technologies have developed a lot since 2008. Should we be any more optimistic about their potential to power Britain?
In the fall of 1976 I started as a Freshman at SUNY Stony Brook intending to major in Math and Computer Science. I took Honors Calculus I a...
Gentoo’s process for removing packages from the main gentoo package repository is designed to make me aware of it and give me time to react, and I really appreciate that.
(This is a guest post by Bhavik Mehta) On March 16, 2023, a paper by Campos, Griffiths, Morris, and Sahasrabudhe appeared on the arXiv, announcing an exponential improvement to the upper bound on R…
Editor’s Note: This article ends on a cliffhanger. The next part goes out in a week. I will start with an honest admission. I didn’t set out to write about the world’s first app store. I set out to write about Brother printers. But doing my research,
Imagine you are in an interview and you get asked "can you implement bubble sort"...and you answer...
Addressing a very common question: do-it-as-you-go or follow the dependency graph?
The Highs and Lows: A Year in Review
Everything seems to be USB-C powered nowadays - I need more power on my workbench!
My Thursday CppCon talk is now online. Note: There’s already a Reddit thread for it, so if you want to comment on the video I suggest you use that thread instead of creating a new one. At Cpp…
Use these rules to avoid boring your audience
The de-make no one asked for. Play on itch.io I love a good set of limitations and on my way to making games with miasma and wind I’ve stopped off at the Game & Watch tier. LCD. Why. I played a lot of LCD games when I was a kid. They were mostly terrible. Before the Gameboy existed, mostly terrible in your pocket was…
It’s been a while since my last blog post, but I believe it’s better to post late than never, so here I am!
When writing in public, there is a common idea that you should make it accessible. This is a left over from mass media.
Researchers show LLMs respond with improved performance when prompted with emotional context
You made me create a wooden Game Boy shell. Yes, you made me do it. After I got myself a CNC machine a while back I just made a wooden Game Boy cartridge to get to know the machine, but social media wanted more. So, I made a Game Boy out of walnut wood. Click the image to see the video on youtube.com. You can see the…
Dunfield Development Services
A blog dedicated to helping Science Fiction authors create and discuss worlds where a realistic setting can still serve the fiction.
A reminder of how good we have it as software developers, or perhaps how hard it is for everyone else.
I rewrote my personal website using basic libraries and the flexibility is incredible.
A look at some of the factors determining the performance of new M3 chips compared to the M1 and M2 versions, and how not to compare them.
The Pixel 8 hardware ( Tensor G3 ) supports the ARM Memory Tagging Extension (MTE) , and software support is available both in Android userspace and the Linux kernel. This feature is a powerful defense against linear buffer overflows and many types of use-after-free flaws. I’m extremely happy to see this hardware…
If you are interested in truth, be it in the form of scientific knowledge or artistic beauty, there is no way around Immanuel Kant’s ‘Critique of Pure Reason’. In this book Kant asked the simple…
Young liberals are abandoning it — and other groups are too comfortable with tit-for-tat hypocrisy
Cloudflare's R2 is an undiscovered gem and is redefining the economics of data storage
