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New comment by egil in "I built a Game Boy emulator in F#"

egil — Fri, 01 May 2026 07:26:21 +0000

... while live streaming actually earns the money :-P

New comment by egil in "Arm wants a bigger slice of the chip business"

egil — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 12:18:13 +0000

They have the ServerReady compliance program for servers[0], but not for the plethora of SoC boards out there.

[0] https://developer.arm.com/community/arm-community-blogs/b/ar...

New comment by egil in "Valve reveals it’s the architect behind a push to bring Windows games to Arm"

egil — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 09:40:30 +0000

They are a significant actor in the market, and as a non-pc-gamer I am glad that their business goals align with Linux users. I don't believe that they do it out of kindness, but that's actually a good thing for a long term investment.

New comment by egil in "Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel?"

egil — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 06:49:59 +0000

Fun fact: The Norwegian wine monopoly is rolling out exactly this to prevent scalpers buying up new releases. Each online release will require a signup in advance with a verified account.

New comment by egil in "Mandelbrot in x86 Assembly by Claude"

egil — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 09:41:45 +0000

Maybe it would have generated with floats if it was prompted for a generator in x87 assembly? It did originate as an extension to x86 on a separate chip, so it could explain the AI sticking to integers.

New comment by egil in "Microsoft Bob: Microsoft's biggest flop of the 1990s"

egil — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 08:49:23 +0000

My father installed it on our family mac. I somehow discovered that by quickly rebooting twice, it would start the usual Finder shell instead, albeit in English instead of the configured Norwegian. Fun times.

New comment by egil in "Wordpress.org Login: "I am not affiliated with WP Engine in any way""

egil — Wed, 09 Oct 2024 18:06:37 +0000

When Google contribute to open source, they often do it to scratch their own itch. That's how most open source organizations works. What Automattic wants from WPE as laid outs in their term sheet is to dictate what WPE contributes and audit their accounting. Not exactly on the same playing field as other corporate contributions to open source projects. Not to mention the non-forking clause.

Maybe setting up a proper independent governance of the WordPress project would encourage more independent contributions.

New comment by egil in "The unintentional dystopian beauty of oil rigs"

egil — Thu, 27 Apr 2023 12:03:28 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condeep

New comment by egil in "Toyota plug-in hybrids to offer 124-mile electric-only range"

egil — Wed, 12 Apr 2023 10:01:53 +0000

Not to mention the required maintenance of said parts.

New comment by egil in "On commercial forks FOSS projects"

egil — Sat, 18 Dec 2021 12:19:14 +0000

It's also quite prominently displayed on https://streamlabs.com/

New comment by egil in "Weird architectures weren't supported to begin with"

egil — Sun, 28 Feb 2021 21:22:58 +0000

But why would the code quality suck if features or maintenance of supported systems was prioritized ahead of arcane architectures? Time is a limited resource, so why should extreme portability be considered the holy grail?

New comment by egil in "AArch64 Boards and Perception"

egil — Wed, 24 Feb 2021 21:47:43 +0000

Imho the most important part of the x86 standardization is the IBM pc platform. Arm boards doesn't have an equivalent platform to standardize on, so everybody does their own thing.

New comment by egil in "Cosmopolitan Libc: build-once run-anywhere C library"

egil — Mon, 28 Dec 2020 13:49:28 +0000

I guess it's a ROI issue. Low effort answers to many easy questions gets you many points, while novel questions which requires thorough understanding is high effort and few points.

New comment by egil in "AirPods Max"

egil — Tue, 08 Dec 2020 13:49:39 +0000

> AirPods Max require Apple devices running iOS 14.3 or later, iPadOS 14.3 or later, macOS Big Sur 11.1 or later, watchOS 7.2 or later, or tvOS 14.3 or later.

Not even standard bluetooth.

New comment by egil in "Stupid solutions: Live server push without JS"

egil — Tue, 29 Sep 2020 08:58:53 +0000

mjpeg is a normal, albeit very simple video stream. While you could certainly squeeze the counter in less bytes by using a more advanced codec with interframe coding, it would be overkill for this poc.

New comment by egil in "Bottlerocket, an open source Linux distribution built to run containers"

egil — Wed, 02 Sep 2020 08:44:50 +0000

Qubes is for end user desktop/laptop usage, not service hosting.

New comment by egil in "Lego IKEA Bygglek – First Look"

egil — Fri, 28 Aug 2020 12:18:17 +0000

Such as the Lack Rack :) https://wiki.eth0.nl/index.php/LackRack

New comment by egil in "ARM Mac Impact on Intel"

egil — Mon, 22 Jun 2020 08:24:58 +0000

Like Meltdown and Spectre?

New comment by egil in "A “bike platform” that temporarily swaps one car parking space for ten bicycles"

egil — Thu, 11 Jul 2019 06:25:58 +0000

The vietnamese way aligns nicely with nature. It might not matter much if you are legally right if you get maimed in a traffic accident.

New comment by egil in "Fighting climate change may be cheaper and more beneficial than we think"

egil — Wed, 10 Jul 2019 12:56:40 +0000

We still need an incentive to invent today to gain the necessary technology for tomorrow.