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New comment by rjsw in "How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs"

rjsw — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 16:24:52 +0000

The level of border controls hasn't changed, only the technology used to implement it.

New comment by rjsw in "How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs"

rjsw — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 15:04:09 +0000

The new EU regulation on Digital Product Passports may have similar effects on small businesses.

I was expecting that they would build the "passport" on top of existing design standards but that doesn't seem to be the case, the recent webinar on it doesn't go into much detail though.

New comment by rjsw in "How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs"

rjsw — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 14:41:04 +0000

People don't want complete integration.

If I go into the Carrefour in Sallanches (FR) then I will buy a completely different set of products to those that I would buy in the Carrefour in Aosta (IT), the two are 80km apart, I have shopped in both multiple times.

I don't think the supermarket example really maps across to the subject of the linked article.

New comment by rjsw in "How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs"

rjsw — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 14:04:05 +0000

There are ALDI stores in France, I don't know which ALDI without looking it up. Carrefour has stores in Italy and Spain.

New comment by rjsw in "Over 5,200 Ebola cases recorded in Congo"

rjsw — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 09:58:49 +0000

Before COVID, I had thought that bushmeat [1] could be the route that spread Ebola to Europe, people smuggle it in their luggage.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bushmeat

New comment by rjsw in "Why aren't my two Cortex-A9 cores cache coherent?"

rjsw — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 13:28:34 +0000

In the equivalent AMD/Xilinx parts (Zynq), you connect up all the hard IP macros using the FPGA fabric.

New comment by rjsw in "Why aren't my two Cortex-A9 cores cache coherent?"

rjsw — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 13:07:02 +0000

The article doesn't mention anything about what FPGA image is loaded into the thing.

My guess would be that you can choose how to connect the CPU cores to the cache controller, you might want to run the CPUs independently.

New comment by rjsw in "What Happens When the Cost of Intelligence Drops 100x"

rjsw — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 15:25:38 +0000

Douglas Adams captured this in "Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency", a VCR watches TV for you and an Electric Monk believes things for you to save you the effort of doing it yourself.

New comment by rjsw in "CIA funding helped keep NeXT afloat in the 80s"

rjsw — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 22:22:56 +0000

The TMS 34010 was also available at that time and could support high resolution screens and accelerated graphics, the article states that it was an Intel graphics card though.

New comment by rjsw in "CIA funding helped keep NeXT afloat in the 80s"

rjsw — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 17:02:02 +0000

Is your idea that NeXT machines had more sharp edges than other computers so would make it easier to collect blood?

New comment by rjsw in "Clamiga: Common Lisp for the Amiga"

rjsw — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 12:20:35 +0000

From reading the linked page, they both compile to bytecode not native instructions.

There are open source Common Lisp systems for the OG Macintosh that compile to native instructions that could probably be ported to AmigaOS.

Cambridge Lisp contained a native code compiler and was available on AmigaOS.

New comment by rjsw in "Ruby 4.0 Universal RCE Deserialization Gadget Chain"

rjsw — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 13:01:28 +0000

I have to use several gems that download and compile C sources from github at install time.

New comment by rjsw in "Steel Bank Common Lisp version 2.6.7"

rjsw — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 19:26:44 +0000

I use Common Lisp at work.

New comment by rjsw in "AMD Ryzen 7 7700X3D Review: 3D V-Cache Gaming Performance for Less"

rjsw — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 15:17:30 +0000

Other countries have computer shops too.

The one where I bought the components for my current desktop has those CPUs listed, the 7800X3D is only £5 more than the 7700X3D.

New comment by rjsw in "The Psychology of Software Teams"

rjsw — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 11:51:02 +0000

Not just first-year. I don't think psychologists ever lose their urge to perform experiments on any people they meet.

New comment by rjsw in "Firefox 153.0 Beta"

rjsw — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 15:25:37 +0000

Does it work with the DRM stuff that can be in a PDF?

I have a PDF that I can't view at all.

New comment by rjsw in "HMD Touch 4G"

rjsw — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 11:03:30 +0000

Some of HMD's KaiOS phones can be hotspots too, I have a 6300 4G that I use for that.

New comment by rjsw in "HMD Touch 4G"

rjsw — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 22:07:53 +0000

The linked page says that it can be a hotspot.

New comment by rjsw in "HMD Touch 4G"

rjsw — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 22:06:33 +0000

WhatsApp has reduced the number of platforms that they support, they had a KaiOS app but disabled it last year.

New comment by rjsw in "HMD Touch 4G"

rjsw — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 19:10:35 +0000

There looks to be an express chat app for iPhone and Android as well.