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Crivens said:
Since this is the jokes thread - just check out who gave them their starting capital :D
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Yep, people connected to the same school (Stanford), of course. No joke. This is why schools push the power of alumni associations - sometimes you'll be surprised at who has the money, who likes your stuff, and who has the connections. You still gotta put in some thinking and effort on your part to make it all pan out, and you gotta be familiar with the playbook and what it takes to pull it all off, and to have an exit plan that doesn't leave donors and angel investors all pissed off. A lot of people don't think things through, just take the money, and disappear. A lot of projects that received the initial capital, they don't pan out for other reasons. Somebodyneeds to think things through, and have a business plan.
 
Crivens said:
I'll just drop this here...
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Besides I doubt everybody here remembers "Apocalypse Now", "Platoon", and "Full Metal Jacket" (>30 years old) this is real AI garbage you need more than just a couples of beers for.
Dude, do your kids have a sleep over at friends tonight?!
 
Oh I remember them, no worries. And my kids are indeed out tonight. But - do you have anything better? Then, please show.
 
You'd think some Russians with decent English language skills made that video... 😂 Flying on a broomstick like that... must be Baba Yaga's son...
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scottro said:
As the comments on the video said, it had a bit of unexpected dark poetry. Not quite what I'd call uplifting.
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Not really uplifting, indeed. What made me chuckle was things I thought when reading/watching Harry Potter and there are so many "and now reality comes and everything goes pear shaped" moments.
 
Maturin said:
Besides I doubt everybody here remembers "Apocalypse Now", "Platoon", and "Full Metal Jacket" (>30 years old) this is real AI garbage you need more than just a couples of beers for.
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This was all Apocalypse Now AFAICT. They even shouted out Conrad's Heart of Darkness. Great book.
 
Crivens said:
it might still be a good idea today.
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Please, do tell.
I only see a sense in that when a system had more than one RAM, or for whatever reasons the OS cannot address all physical RAM, but somehow the service providing the RAM disk can; maybe for hiding some kind of malware from virusscanners only checking common RAM periodically... - Anyway it have to be really special circumstances.
Otherwise placing swap into RAM to me is as useful as chaining a racing car to a rock. May only make the car faster if you drop the rock from a cliff. But I doubt that makes sense.
 
Maturin said:
Please, do tell.
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The Amiga had CPU boards available with their own RAM, which was faster accesable than the one on the Mainboard. So if you had the slower memory on the main board or RAM expansion boards mapped as a RAM Disc, you could swap the faster memory out and in to that. Today this might even make sense in placing maybe 1-4GB of memory on the CPU die and connect the rest by a memory bus that does not need the full throttle.

And dropping stones to sccelerate objects, trebuche do that since a loooong time :)
 
What do you get when you cross Rust-lang and R-lang?

1. Rusty computer
2. REST API
3. Python Socks
4. Mold

(only funny if you know why Mold is even relevant here).
 
blackbird9 said:
Please someone tell me this is a spoof and not real..!
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Sorry, but I can believe this is real.
candy cigarettes already had been critized to initiate kids to tobacco products a long time ago.
But you can blame tobacco and toys industry only limited for that.
Kids imitate what adults do, especially their parents. So for the same reason toy smart phones are produced, temporary tatoos, vapes and other crap is sold to kids.
If you don't want your kids to become smokers you better quit yourself first.
 
Maturin said:
If you don't want your kids to become smokers you better quit yourself first.
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This is very true, but there are people who would rather burn down the entire house and fortune, just in the name of making sure that somebody else does NOT impose their will on them, everything else be damned. That is normally stuff of Hollywood movies, but it is based on unfortunate real-life stories.
 
Maturin said:
To increase the access speed of your swap space place it into a RAM disk.
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I worked on a system that did this, in the 80s.

We had three IBM mainframes, one 370/168 that was only used for batch processing, one that was used for a realtime control system (that might have been a 3033), and a third 370/168 that was split between interactive use (TSO) and batch use. The interactive machine had about 500 terminals attached to (3277 and clones), and at peak times (weekdays 11am or 2pm), most terminals were in use. Due to the realtime control system using a lot of bizarre and older code, we could not use XA, so the interactive machine had only 16 MB of address space, and only that much memory. It was quickly found that at peak times, it was swapping rather badly, which made performance somewhat awful.

The solution was to not swap onto disks (we also had only 3350s, as the 3380 was infamously delayed), but instead buy a RAM disk. We managed to get a 144 MB RAM disk from some Japanese vendor (Hitachi? Fujitsu?) that was IBM channel compatible, and interactive performance was great again.

By the way: We had 500 users sharing a roughly 5 MIP machine with either 16 or 160 MB of RAM (depending on how you count), and interactive (CLI) performance was just fine. We edited code, used compilers and linkers, ran small programs, submitted and checked batch jobs, used it for e-mail, and ran interactive data analysis tools (about 50 terminals had Tektronix 4014 attached for graphics). One of the reasons this worked was that the CPU (the 5 MIP one) didn't have to deal with disk IO, tapes, terminal IO, keystrokes, or any of that, since that was done using channel processors. We also had a lot of disks attached (about 100 or 120), so there was lots of IO parallelism. Today, people insist of having a multi-gigahertz machine with gigabytes of memory for interactive work.
 
What company looks like a law firm, quacks like a law firm, maintains two crappy UNIX implementations, and now operates as its successor under a stupid-sounding and unimaginative name?

SCO/Xinuos!
 
RetroComputingCollector said:
What company looks like a law firm, quacks like a law firm, maintains two crappy UNIX implementations, and now operates as its successor under a stupid-sounding and unimaginative name?

SCO/Xinuos!
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Retro information, bordering on antiquation: That stuff is not developed any more, since 2016, and no longer for sale since 2023! Nobody's gonna bother with something that is out of date to such an extent. Maybe for history preservation purposes, but nothing commercial.
 
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