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Desqview was an awesome early way to get online in one .. or even 4 .. sessions, and still be able connect to the local machine in another couple of sessions. It was truly great.

But if you look closely you can see this editor/compiler/references thing is reviving. Its just, the kids are telling the AI to edit/compile/reference.

> Is this really "good enough" for a triode?

Let us not overlook that its also a lot of energy. Its not a matter of "good enough", I think in this case - more "can I?" ..

Also, a price increase like this can be used to address over-subscription/under-utilization .. there will be a lot of dormant chaff blown off by this, or in other words the provisioning demand will also be adjusted by this aggressive price change, imho.

No, your comment is not LLM generated. Or, at least, I hope it isn't.

I agree with you, I also enjoy reading it, and admire the method as well as the result in this case.

FUSE is immensely useful, also. Its the front-/back- door to a lot of things. There's only a few steps left to a tiny crypto-stack, hosted on top of it ..

Indeed, the glibc test suite .. plus a suite of BPF scripts for instrumenting .. can provide a great deal of information about how things are running in a target OS .. if you give a process its own filesystem and then rig up a bpf console with some hot gnuplot, you can get some very significant details, at the i/o level, about the heuristics of an application, library, user-space module/plugin, etc...

It used to be you had to wade through massive logs though, if you don't get things quite tweaked - but in the AI/ML agent sense of things these days, just describe what you need, FUSE the right nodes, and run the bpf scripts, yo ..

Nerds were commoditized by Hollywood, who exploited the rising digital era to develop stereotypical caricatures which could be easily pigeon-holed, and thus controlled.

They were compelled to do this, because nerds ate Hollywoods' lunch.

Just look at the show, Big Bang Theory. A heinous exposition of nerd culture which derides and degrades nerd'ism and aligns it with the neo-fascist Ayn Rand'ian ideology being propagated by Hollywoods' culture class in order to promulgate division and derision.

The Wests' copycat culture, not really able to develop culture of its own, simply picked up the baton and ran with it.

Now, gullible impressionable generations assume - courtesy of incessant mass-media groupthink - that its necessary to be a misanthropic asshole if you want to sound clever.

>Stunning, and amazing to consider that these were painted by firelight/flaming torch.

I could imagine the coals, not quite so much flame any more, soft and still in the windless depths, casting a warm glow for eyes to adjust in sanctity, so that the hands could find the lines in the mind and put them out on the wall.

Just a fantastic moment in time, echoing on throughout history.

I feel the same sort of floating disconnected-ness when I am out back in the desert of Western Australia, and come across a rock shelter with paintings and obvious signs of working by human hands.

Its just such a humbling thing, to look at a piece of art that is 10's of thousands of years old, and realize that a human was once there, making it, just so that some day, a human would be there, looking at it.

What it would be to have a way to talk to these old humans and let them know just how inspiring their work turned out to be...

Would that we could have the same impact on humans a thousand years from now, ten thousand years from now. Hello, Future Human.

No. This is a disgusting attitude.

Make peace, assholes.

sigh .. and SGI would've been the ones to make the killer laptop which morphed into a slick metal pocket dependency for billions ...

So, what problems does it solve? In this case, it gives the Z80 an amazing co-processor that will push the Z80 itself, into the stratosphere of modern connectivity.

The RP2350 can be used with older, 8-bit computers, to really open up the world to them.

It is the ultimate upgrade/accessory co-processor, for Z80, 6502, 68000-based retro- computing/alternative-platform based designs and so on..

Oh, for a retro-computing nerd, the RP2350 has solved so, so many problems!

The biggest bug-bear for retro computers is: storage (and also connectivity).

For example, in my retro collection I have machines where the RP2350 has given these 8-bit computers access to as much as 32 gigabytes of storage - and in many cases that is many, many, many times of a multiple too much space, even if you put everything that was ever written for the 8-bit computer, on the SD card.

However, if you have ever hacked on a retro computer, you will know that storage is everything, and having everything that was ever released/made available for any particular platform one might curate, is simply a delight.

The RP2350 has opened that vista wide.

One thing in BP v6's favor is the RP2350 - which can be put into operation as a "data-cap analyser for GPIO" - true - but it can also be programmed for use as a full protocol tap for embedded projects which will also integrate the RP2350, or something like it, in an embedded design.

The ESP32 is great - I will get a couple for my toolbox, sitting alongside my own ancient Bus Pirate and things - but the RP2350 is a bit more BOM-friendly, imho. All of these things can be used to bring-up an embedded system - I'd really want to use the BP v6 to bring up an embedded system with an IO package I could emulate/integrate with the RP2350 on both sides of the design ..

I understand .. but its not 'mostly a product shell' and distribution framework, there are a lot of things JUCE brings to the table that might've been useful in this context, such as being able to host plugins and adjudicate resources (shared memory primitives, extremely easy parameter setup and management across DSP and MIDI frames, easy integration of common codebases into both DAW and standalone versions, etc.) that are generally good for DSP .. you're not obliged to use JUCE's DSP incidentally, I have my own synth project based on JUCE with both ARM and x86 SIMD implemented side-by-side .. JUCE' primary value is as a runtime environment, which I guess you are more interested in setting up, yourself, and I get that, so yeah ..